6 Months at LHC! (Before and after pics)

**Aurantia** · January 31st, 2011, 09:05 PM

This is a repost as the original thread was accidentally deleted. (I made a double post and a helpful mod attempted to merge the two, then follow my instructions to delete one of the threads but it ended up wiping both out of existence... sorry to those that already commented!)

January is my 6th month at LHC. I took the time to take a decent hair photo the other night and was amazed at what I saw!

I joined LHC in June when I was desperate to save my hair from what I later learned was a protein disaster: for months no matter what I tried my hair continued to get worse and worse. If I had not found LHC when I did, I might have cut everything off believing my hair was beyond recovery. Thanks to this wonderful, supportive, informative community I now know more about my hair and what works for it (and why!) than I ever have, and my mane is almost as beautiful as it once was as a young girl.

As you can see by the below pictures, my length has now surpassed my starting point of BSL in June, despite a large chop to APL in July! I could not be more thrilled with the progress.

Thank you all for your continued support, helpful advice, and inspiring photos!

[Photos removed for privacy reasons]

**Cailie** · January 31st, 2011, 09:08 PM

One word : wow !!!
Lovely texture, great hemline, much improvement !

**Aurantia** · January 31st, 2011, 09:13 PM

Thanks so much, Callie!

It took a lot of trial and error to finally get successful results, but it was worth the work! I'm still amazed that the second picture is really my hair.

**Cailie** · January 31st, 2011, 09:20 PM

6 months is nothing ! you are so lucky to have had such amazing results so fast !
(but your hair looked quite healthy too to start with)

At this rythm, it will be amaaaazing in 1 year from now !

**Lexy** · January 31st, 2011, 09:28 PM

I helped!!!!

Your hair is beautiful, by the way! I love the waves.

**Rocket22** · January 31st, 2011, 09:35 PM

Wow is right! your hair was great before and after is simply amazing! what fantastic progress, you should be thrilled!

**Aurantia** · January 31st, 2011, 10:38 PM

Thanks again, Lexy!

For the thread help and the compliments.

Rocket22, I blame the low quality of photos for "smoothing over" the damage in the first photo: what you can't see is the choppy layers, endless splits and dry, dry ends. It was a mess to behold and worse to touch. Anyone who has experienced protein overkill can attest to the negative affect it can have on your hair: I had been overloading it for a year at this point.

Now I am proud to say that my hair feels as nice as it looks. Thank you for the praise!

**Phexlyn** · February 1st, 2011, 01:07 AM

Congrats, that's some awesome growth! I love your wavies

**Ishje** · February 1st, 2011, 01:53 AM

your hair looks great! much thicker! very nice!

**Aurantia** · February 3rd, 2011, 07:54 AM

Phexlyn, aren't they pretty? I was fussing over them for ages after the photo was taken -- I'd never had such lovely braid waves before.

Ishje, I didn't know that the thickness of my hair had increased until the side by side comparison. Less shampooing = less shedding and apparently a greater circumference!