Hey ladies,
Just wanted to update on the conclusion of the challenge. I grew out about 4 inches of hair. The longest part was touching the top of my boob. APL on a 6ft tall woman is like BSL on everyone else. The part of my hair that broke off in my crown, which led to this challenge is now about ear length. Despite knowing better, I stopped doing the necessary maintenance on my braids for the last 3 mos. of the challenge. I lost a lot of hair due to matting and immediately cut back to my shoulders to even it out a bit and get rid of the rest of this bad texlax. It was well worth it, but no pics.
I did my braids back to back for the entire year. I think this is fine, but I really should have gotten a trim in between because I had a lot of splits.
So, next year, I will be stick more closely to the regimen and come back to this thread when I get tired.