Where were you at before you came to LHCF?

[InsertCleverNameHere]

What stage of your haircare were you at when you came here. Just curious...

 

[divine]

once again
everywhere.....
From having my hair middle of my back, to it falling all out,cutting it, then growing natural, then relaxing, to cutting off again, to now growing out natural.
A long two years for me.....

 

[Carlie]

Before I came to LHCF, I was almost BSL but had cut it off to shoulder length due to extensive heat damage. I then decided to grow it back healthily and I stumbled upon this site not too long after that.

 

[dontspeakdefeat]

I was trying to grow my hair longer. I could never really get it more than a couple of inches past my shoulders.

 

[KinksnCurlz]

i was looking for hair products... LOL and i found another site that kept mentioning this site and her i am. hairwise, i was shoulderlength.

 

[cutebajangirl]

I was shoulder length, and like CH I use to read another site that mentioned here (the infamous coconut and milk relaxing method)and hopped on over.

 

[jainygirl]

I was looking for styles /images/graemlins/smile.gif.

 

[FlowerHair]

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Carlie said:
Before I came to LHCF, I was almost BSL but had cut it off to shoulder length due to extensive heat damage. I then decided to grow it back healthily and I stumbled upon this site not too long after that.

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Me too, but my hair was damaged from hair colors, not heat.

 

[BlkHoneyLuv2U]

I was doing nothing. Not caring for my hair at all. It was to easy to go out and get braids, weaves andd phony ponies and such.

I knew nothing about protein or conditioner treatments. Never read a product lable. My hair before LHCF, was just touching the top of my ears, now its grazing the bottom of my neck. I've gained this growth since August 2003. My goal, just below my shoulders.


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[dreemssold]

The first two apply to me, but I selected number 1. I want bra strap and my hair has never grown to brastrap, but when I came here, I was also trying to recover from my BC that I had to get after a permanent dye + micros weakened my hair /images/graemlins/nono.gif.

 

[Poohbear]

I voted, "Your hair had never grown to the lengths you wanted."

My hair has always been in pretty good condition; I just wanted longer hair. Relaxers, blowdryers, or not using certain products did not prevent me from growing my hair hair out. I think the main thing that prevent me from retaining hair length was using curling irons almost everyday. Now that I don't use them anymore, my hair has loved me for it. When I saw this forum, I was amazed at the hair lengths of the FOTM's. So I jumped on board! /images/graemlins/grin.gif

Great thread ReaLuvsAOxymoron! /images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Tami]

to lazy to care for my hair and always wondering why it wouldn't grow. I had just cut about 5 inches and was searching for techniques and I lucked up on LHCF 5 days later !

 

[Nice]

I loved reading about hair care and I loved hair products so one day I did a search on the internet "hair care for women of color" and stumbled on this site. That was a year and a half ago!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I felt like I found a secret treasure or something

 

[Angelicus]

My hair was already healthy (thank you Motowngirl.com), but it was shoulder length. I wanted to get it as long as possible.

 

[carletta]

my hair would grow and then break off as it grew! I got tired of wearing weaves and whatnot tryin to grow out my hair. So, I turned to the internet to get info on growing afroamerican hair, and WHAM HERE I AM ! /images/graemlins/clap.gif I also came upon the "Hair Lady" site too! THANKS TO YOU LADIES I'M ON MY WAY /images/graemlins/kiss.gif

 

[ChasingBliss]

I was battling brittle ends and looking for solutions online.

 

[Sharpened]

I had decided to stop neglecting my hair when I saw my very first shaft split. I have had long hair a few times before and I want to see if I could go past BSL with natural hair. LHCF was one of the ones that stuck out due to format and content.

 

[skegeesmb]

I was a member at a caucasian hair growing site. I was tired of always getting "sorry but I can't answer that question" so I wanted to be with women of color who had long hair, instead of being around caucasian women growing their hair out. I wanted some inspiration.

 

[dannie]

I had just discovered CW and overall my hair was healthy. I just like to talk about hair. I was shoulder length. I found Robin's site and then I stumbled here.

 

[Isis]

I was so tired and frustrated with hair breakage and thinning hair from using my hot comb, curling iron and blow dryer on my relaxed hair! /images/graemlins/nono.gif I didn't know any other way. After praying for a solution, I soon discovered the hair boards and then LHCF. /images/graemlins/angel.gif

 

[SandySea]

I have been on a roller coaster ride since I started wearing perms again in 2000. Over time I just got used to the cycle of growing my hair, having damage, and cutting it off. I have always been a little hair obsessed, but I didn't know how to piece my hair knowledge together into a recipe for good hair growth. Now I will not settle for constant damage and regrowth. Hopefully my Sept. cut will be the last real cut until I decide to try another hair style. I want the hair that all my family members love to remind me that I once had (they always do that just when I think my hair is looking good). /images/graemlins/tongue.giferplexed:

 

[Falon]

My hair was at it's longest in 2001 nearly bra strap and I acheived that by having a very good Dominican stylist who was not scissor happy. Unfortunately she didn't tell me how to do my hair w/o her and I stayed away for a few weeks and she left w/o leaving a forwarding address...I started seeing another woman at the same salon. Well, long story short not all Domincan's can do hair! My hair started breaking left and right from the excessive heat so I decided to transition. I did that but I didn't know how to take care of natural hair either! So I was still losing hair from not knowing how to comb...condition...or moisturize my type 4 hair. /images/graemlins/frown.gif

I went back to a relaxer at another Dominican salon in 2003 and within months I was right back where I started! Hair breaking off she was doing excessive trims etc.

I found this site and Ms. Howse's by typing in black hair care in google. I was really looking for a good salon but I found you guys instead and I thank the Lord for that! If I hadn't I would still be going through hair hell.

 

[MizAvalon]

My hair was very healthy, but was hovering around bra-strap for the longest and I couldn't figure out what I was doing wrong. DUH! I was getting it trimmed too often. The SECOND I stopped doing that, my hair took off.

 

[Tru_Mind]

I was trying to get my hair back to the condition it was as a child before relaxers.

 

[Puddles]

none of the above for me. I was transitioning from a wave nouveau to a relaxer. I got tired of getting it done every month. The whole process is too long. My hair was long...25" when pressed(4" past bra clasp).....18" when it was curly.

 

[inthepink]

I was trying to keep my hair from breaking more than it already had due to a bad relaxer. My hair was almost waist length when this disaster happened.

 

[Peachtree]

I was looking for hair care tips for maintenance.

 

[candibaby]

I chose the first one.

My hair was healthy and at the top of my brastrap. Then I met this evil SHS who chopped my hair from there to my ears at the end of September 2003. She kept chopping my hair off until March of 2004, when I joined LHCF, realized what she was doing, how she lied to me about the condition of my hair, and ultimately quit going to her. Now I've grown my hair to past my shoulders and have a new stylist who is both an advocate for healthy AND natural hair.

 

[CICI24]

I came here from longhairlovers,but prior to that I was in glued in weaves for 6 years. My hair was gone, the longest part of my hair was barely an inch and the rest was shorter than that. I grew it 4 inches from bra strap March of this year, then I cut it into an above shoulder length bob. I am now a few inches past shoulder length.

Cici

 

[MelsWifey]

My hair had never grown past my shoulders and to be honest I was never interested in it doing so. I never even entertained the thought because there was not even an idea in my head that I would ever have long hair. Basically, I thought that short hair was my destiny and I had never questioned other wise.

To make a long story short, I was pregnant, thought I was having a girl, wanted to know how to properly care for her hair, stumbled across another board that always spoke of LHCF...and the rest is history.