How much thinner should the bottom of your hair be than the top?

[celiabug]

is it possible that your ends could be at thick as your roots?

 

[southerncitygirl]

i guess that could be the case celiabug but i'm not really sure. density of your overall hair and each individual strand would play a part in this i suppose. another factor would be keeping your ends protected.

 

[venusfly]

The ends are oldest and the older the hair the more wear and tear it's been through. If you protect your ends and trim as needed or even dust your ends can remain thick.

I know that most people don't want to hear about trimming while they are trying to grow their hair long. And yes, bBabying your ends goes a long way to keep them thick. But trims is mostly what maintains thickness - you cut off raggeddy old damged ends. If you don't want to trim now once you reach your goal length and start trimming to maintain ends your hair can be uniformly thick root to ends.

 

[lamaria211]

My hair is pretty thick root to tip makes it hard to put it in braids and buns

 

[SmileyNY]

They can look similar.... But the roots will always be thicker than the ends simply because of the growth cycle of hair. Even a head that experiences very little breakage will have strands of differing lengths.

The only way I could see the ends being just as thick temporarily is if someone evenly trims a significant amount of hair.

 

[sharifeh]

is it possible that your ends could be at thick as your roots?

yeah it's possible

i've seen this very rarely with really long hair though

 

[SherylsTresses]

They can look similar.... But the roots will always be thicker than the ends simply because of the growth cycle of hair. Even a head that experiences very little breakage will have strands of differing lengths.

The only way I could see the ends being just as thick temporarily is if someone evenly trims a significant amount of hair.

Yes. I was thinking the shedding cycle would play a role in thickness towards the ends. But as another poster implied, differing ends may not be visible so thickness would appear full from roots to ends.

 

[karenjoe]

yeah it's possible

i've seen this very rarely with really long hair though

yea you can.
you have to trim the ends constantly!! ( every 6 weeks at least)

 

[Flawlis1]

I've seen it mostly on Non African American females....or those of a mixed background.

 

[Carrie A]

Yes. Nonie has some pics of her thickness from root to tip. Regular trimming plus breakage prevention is the key. I'll be working on this for 2013.

 

[blackeyes31626]

Yes. Nonie has some pics of her thickness from root to tip. Regular trimming plus breakage prevention is the key. I'll be working on this for 2013.

Nonie
Where? I wanna see too.

 

[manter26]

After the first time I BC'd my hair was like that. I had no idea how to handle my natural hair so I wore wigs exclusively. Now, I try to get my hair cut blunt once or twice a year .

 

[Nonie]

@Nonie
Where? I wanna see too.

@blackeyes31626 it's nothing to write home about but you can see the difference regular dusting makes for me in the pics below (and this is with me being so careless as not to moisturize my hair or seal or protective style).

OK a year of dusting every 6-8 weeks took me from one inch to about 5-6 inches of hair that was full from base to ends:

A year later of doing the same, I was at 9-11 inches of also nice thick ends:

Then for just 4 months (16 weeks) after this second photo was taken, I tried to adopt the no-trimming idea I found on LHCF and in that time my hair looked like this:

I had to cut off 2 inches or so to get it to where it looked like I'm used to as you can see in the second sets of pics below:

Clearly not dusting regularly cost me length when my 6-8 week dusting had allowed me to retain well. If I hadn't cut off those 2 inches, those thin ends would have broken off anyway coz they aren't strong enough to withstand even the slightest manipulation. It was this "natural trimming" aka breakage that was the reason for me never getting past SL for over 30 years of my life. Split ends would tear away leaving thin weak ends that would break off on their own. By dusting early before splits are visible, I don't give them a chance to get to ^^that stage where breakage is inevitable.

And so I returned to my regular dusting. And it's been working well for me: coz my hair still has fullness I'm happy about from base to ends:

 

[Poohbear]

I believe its possible if you do not flat iron your hair a lot. I say this because I used to have ends as thick as my roots before I started flat ironing. When I started flat ironing, I would do it about once a month. Right now, I've been avoiding the flat iron. I'm hoping to one day have ends as thick as my roots again, especially in the front of my hair.

Sent via Android LHCF App

 

[jerseygurl]

My hair is thick from roots to ends and it makes it hard for me to do a good blowdry job.