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davisbr88
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Why would you trim an inch every month? That's 2 month's worth of growth.
Did you mean a half inch every 2 months?
Nonie
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Myjourney2009, you're preaching to the choir telling me what stylists do. I lost 5+ inches when a stylist gave me a trim and went from SL to TWA. So my question to people is IF PEOPLE KNOW that STYLISTS TRIM TOO MUCH, why in the name of all that is sane are stylists even in the trimming equation of your hair??? You are like the third person who's told me that stylists trim too much so that's why this schedule makes no sense. Who asked any of you to go to them for a trim? Do what I did: stop trusting stylists (strangers) with trimming your hair and take matters into your own hands.
@ the bold. I don't know how regularly you relax but if you will then switch to cutting half an inch two times a month, you'll be doing worse than the average SHS. Cutting that much means cutting a whole inch a month. That's cutting more than the normal growth rate 1/2 an inch a month, so you may find you're going backward since you'll be cutting not just what you grew that month, but in your second cut you'd be cutting the previous month's growth. Not a good plan IMO.
Nonie
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@mischka, who's trying to convince anyone to trim their hair? If you're talking about me coz I'm an advocate for regular dusting, then you've got the wrong end of the stick. I explain things to help clarify things that folks don't understand or when I see it necessary. The assumption that trimming thwarts growth is misinformation that I cannot sleep well w/o correcting. Hence my long explanations of how it works. Feel free to do what I do in church "Test all the preacher says and decide according to whatever gauge what is true and what is false and separate the chaff from the good stuff, keeping the good". That's what I do. Which is why I don't do half the things folks do on the forum. *shrug*
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Myjourney2009
Ready to be APL
Why would you trim an inch every month? That's 2 month's worth of growth.
Did you mean a half inch every 2 months?
OOOPPPSS!!! I meant 2x a YEAR at minimum
Also you are correct on stylist that trim too much.
Where I go, Supercuts, I tell her 1/2 inch and thats what she trims. I have been going to her for a while now and she is the only one I trust.
Most of us cant cut our own hair when it is shorter than APL, this is why we depend on stylist to trim, I know I cant. Once long enough AND I am free from my layers I will trim on my own. Mainly to keep my money not because the cutter does a shabby job.
Nonie
Well-Known Member
Myjourney2009
Thanks for clarifying the 2x a year trims. Had many of us clutching pearls.
@ the above: While shape isn't important to me which might explain why I've been comfortable cutting my own hair even before I got to SL, I do believe that even if I were relaxed, I'd still cut my hair. I'd put it in really small sections braids or clips, and then do what I do now which is snip the same amount from the ends of each of those sections. It would not change my overall cut if I did it this way. I may do it in front of a mirror till I'm comfy with just feeling.
What I do now is put my kinky hair in twists and then just snip off the same amount from all the ends of all twists. I just stretch the end and snip off what I deem to be close to 1/4 from how it feels in my fingers or I may look in the mirror. First trim since I decided to get serious about trimming was 8 weeks ago, so today is the day for my second one if I'm to stick to a regular trimming schedule.
Myjourney2009
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Bluetopia
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Aireen
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Nonie goes hard in the paint! A woman after my own heart lol
Again, was thinking the same thing! Leave it to Nonie to break out the pictures and in depth analysis to prove her point. I ain't mad.
Mrs. Verde
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virtuenow
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Without reading the rest of the posts, sounds like your friend is in the wrong profession. It also sounds like she has a nasty clientale, which probably says something about her...Her advice about not co-washing makes no sense....unless you are reporting it wrong then your friend is the exact reason why many of the women here DONT GO TO STYLISTS PERIOD.
Conditioners have cleaning agents and alow you to retain moisture and, in turn, length. If someones hair still smells after co-washing then they didn't do it right--but to advise against it altogether calls into question her techniques and motives.
Also, the trimming advice is just asinine. That is the reason there are so many bald headed black women running around to day-- or women who have been the same length for YEARS. If you are taking care of your hair, there is no way in the world that you should have to trim that often.
My advice to anyone reading this post reinforces, learn to DIY: DO IT YOURSELF!
Conditioners have cleaning agents and alow you to retain moisture and, in turn, length. If someones hair still smells after co-washing then they didn't do it right--but to advise against it altogether calls into question her techniques and motives.
Also, the trimming advice is just asinine. That is the reason there are so many bald headed black women running around to day-- or women who have been the same length for YEARS. If you are taking care of your hair, there is no way in the world that you should have to trim that often.
My advice to anyone reading this post reinforces, learn to DIY: DO IT YOURSELF!
Embyra
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urgh im soooo tired of hearing about this trimming like its a rule
Im sure i have read nonie mention more than once she leaves her hair bare after the condition wash routine etc i on the other end use oils on a regular basis yes regular oiling for my hair protects my ends
peoples hair routines strand thickness etc will also effect how OFTEN they need to trim like its a one size fits all its NOT
some people with thin hair are probably more likely going to have to trim more often than someone on the other end of the hair spectrum as THEIR strands show less wear and tear than others
what works for some isnt always needed for others
the same way i dont listen to people on how to grow long hair when they have never seen waistlength in their life ..goes in the same bin as stylist telling me about trimming
Im sure i have read nonie mention more than once she leaves her hair bare after the condition wash routine etc i on the other end use oils on a regular basis yes regular oiling for my hair protects my ends
peoples hair routines strand thickness etc will also effect how OFTEN they need to trim like its a one size fits all its NOT
some people with thin hair are probably more likely going to have to trim more often than someone on the other end of the hair spectrum as THEIR strands show less wear and tear than others
what works for some isnt always needed for others
the same way i dont listen to people on how to grow long hair when they have never seen waistlength in their life ..goes in the same bin as stylist telling me about trimming
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Country gal
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Why did I think you meant hair chunking.
Nonie
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^^ 
@coconut Tell us how you really feel!
And that's the thing: different strokes for different folks. And if a stylist omits that point (like the OP's did talmbout cutting a huge chunk), I've appointed myself clarifier so folks don't go thinking like I did that they can just do what you and other LHCFers might be able to get away with--just because someone told them it had to be an inch trim.
Lucky for those like me, I was the guinea pig who discovered that not trimming 6-8 weeks is why my hair never seemed to grow...and even tested it when my hair had grown and saw that it was detrimental to my hair not to trim that regularly. I just take care to trim a dust of my hair.
BTW, do what I do: you see from reading the OP or a few post in that thread that it's a topic that rubs you the wrong way, you save yourself the headache of reading further or even honoring the thread with your comment by moving on to better and more interesting things. It's very liberating and not at all tiring.
@coconut Tell us how you really feel! And that's the thing: different strokes for different folks. And if a stylist omits that point (like the OP's did talmbout cutting a huge chunk), I've appointed myself clarifier so folks don't go thinking like I did that they can just do what you and other LHCFers might be able to get away with--just because someone told them it had to be an inch trim.
Lucky for those like me, I was the guinea pig who discovered that not trimming 6-8 weeks is why my hair never seemed to grow...and even tested it when my hair had grown and saw that it was detrimental to my hair not to trim that regularly. I just take care to trim a dust of my hair.
BTW, do what I do: you see from reading the OP or a few post in that thread that it's a topic that rubs you the wrong way, you save yourself the headache of reading further or even honoring the thread with your comment by moving on to better and more interesting things. It's very liberating and not at all tiring.
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Curlybeauty
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That is so ignorant. @cocosweet, that's why you should not trust anyone to do your trims. Learn to do them yourself.
You know my story of trusting someone to do a trim, right? This is what I had in January 2007 when straightened:
And this is what is was like not straightened in Jan 2007:
And this is what I ended up with after I let a stylist trim my hair Feb 2007
if a stylist snipped all my hair off, I would cut her face off 
Maybe not all of that, but I would leave there with some charges against me
virtuenow
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Thats exactly what I thought (highlights)! Otherwise I would've never come in this thread. Its insulting to see someone on here giving advice on how to make "our" hair (which smells bad) smell "good", As if the women here don't already know how to "clean" our own hair...The most basic thing in hair care. And then she had the nerve to break out a list-- most of which had nothing to do with cleaning the hair. what does trimming hair have to do with smelly hair????? I saw it last night and thought I wouldn't stoop to that low level and respond, but I had to come back.
LushLox
Well-Known Member
Because thanks really was not enough.
Let the stylist dem carrying on talking, this is why round here they fast going out of business...
Embyra
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Aireen
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Oh and will CONTINUE to go out of business if they keep up with the stank attitudes.
Myjourney2009
Ready to be APL
Curlybeauty
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Nonie
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@Curlybeauty, you have me cracking up . No I'm not light-skinned and I wasn't crying then. I actually didn't realize how much she'd cut off till a couple of days later and I probably took that pic a day after I got over the shock. 
You see, I went to her to learn how to shingle hands on. She had other ideas and decided to do finger coils. I'd never heard of them so I just sat there like a dummy while she twirled my hair into what I consider the ugliest do I ever sported. When she gave me the trim I wasn't by a mirror and why I didn't worry is I had been led to believe she loves to help women of color grow long hair, so surely she was an LHCFer trained, right? Wrong! Anyway when she was finished with my hair, I thought it was a joke coz it looked like poop. She assured me that the coils would drop and I'd have bouncy coils in a couple of days. My hair still looked like poop two days later
Don't I^^ look like someone who's lost her darn mind and who sits in a corner rocking back and forth twirling her hair probably after picking her nose in the midst of mumbling incoherent things?
So yeah, I only discovered how much hair I had left when I untwirled my hair to prevent it from loc'ing.
. No I'm not light-skinned and I wasn't crying then. I actually didn't realize how much she'd cut off till a couple of days later and I probably took that pic a day after I got over the shock. You see, I went to her to learn how to shingle hands on. She had other ideas and decided to do finger coils. I'd never heard of them so I just sat there like a dummy while she twirled my hair into what I consider the ugliest do I ever sported. When she gave me the trim I wasn't by a mirror and why I didn't worry is I had been led to believe she loves to help women of color grow long hair, so surely she was an LHCFer trained, right? Wrong! Anyway when she was finished with my hair, I thought it was a joke coz it looked like poop. She assured me that the coils would drop and I'd have bouncy coils in a couple of days. My hair still looked like poop two days later
Don't I^^ look like someone who's lost her darn mind and who sits in a corner rocking back and forth twirling her hair probably after picking her nose in the midst of mumbling incoherent things?
So yeah, I only discovered how much hair I had left when I untwirled my hair to prevent it from loc'ing.
gcchick_07
New Member
someone should put a direct link from this thread ---------> to the "why don't people respect those who went to cosmetology school" thread.
CurlsBazillion
Well-Known Member
Throughout this whole thread, you've stated to wash hair at least once a week. There are ladies that do wash their hair once a week. I'll be damned though if I only wash my bum once a week.
Damn u said that one right there, I missed that!!!ahahah
Is it petty that I wanna get my hair done at a salon JUST to prove them wrong? that their services actually hinder my hair's health
curlyninjagirl
New Member
I give these tips the side-eye just cuz it came from a stylist. They tend to know a good amount about styling and very little about hair care.
Case in point, the last stylist I came in contact with--at a party, not at a salon. I don't do salons!--advised me that a texturizer would be much better for my hair's health than leaving it natural.
Case in point, the last stylist I came in contact with--at a party, not at a salon. I don't do salons!
--advised me that a texturizer would be much better for my hair's health than leaving it natural. 
bravenewgirl87
New Member
Damn. Y'all are being way too harsh. I don't think there's a conspiracy on CurleeDST's part to deliberate keep black women "bald-headed." She's been a member for MANY years and never utters a nasty word, has always given great advice and these were not her opinions but the opinions of her friend, a stylist.
I do know what you mean about co-washing build-up stinking to high heavens. Conditioner is not always the best agent to get out grease and can make dirty hair worse, hence the need to clarify every now and again.
I do know what you mean about co-washing build-up stinking to high heavens. Conditioner is not always the best agent to get out grease and can make dirty hair worse, hence the need to clarify every now and again.
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