Hi ladies. Just checking in. Congrats to all the ladies who have hit the target. My hair has been in braids for almost a month now. I've been too busy to really do much with hair so the braids are a godsend. I have NO CLUE what's going on under these braids, Lord help me. I'll find out next month.
Update>
Okay so I took out the braids. I'm no where near BSL, in fact I'm kinda back to APL. How did this happen?
I believe the braider trimmed my hair along with the braids. How do I know? I remember posting in one of the threads that I was grazing BSL but had this W thing going, and I was hoping to hit BSL and then trim off the W. After the girl braided my hair we had this back and forth thing about her trimming the ends of the hair. She assured me she was only going to trim a little off the ends of the braids. "Your hair can't be this long all the way to the ends of the braids," she said. I finally let her 1, because she's a friend 2, because the braids looked really long and I figured my hair couldn't be
that long. I guess I was wrong because when it came time to take them down, I realized my hair was the same length as most of the braids.
SO after a 17week stretch (6 weeks in the braids), I relaxed today and my hair is shorter than when I braided. Go figure. My confirmation that she cut my hair is this: the W is gone. My ends are pretty even now.
I'm not really mad. I've been at this hair thing long enough to know that barring (sp) any health issues, hair grows, and I no longer need a trim.
Congrats to all the ladies who hit the mark. And thank you all for the support we've given each other in this thread.