BSL to WSL How long?

[Qurlyqt]

I guess there are many factors that would determine how long it takes - growth rate, height/ distance from Point A to Point B, trimming/cutting schedule, retention, etc. Right now, I'm 4" from WL and if the Growth Fairy shines on me (and I avoid the scissors), I should make it there by the end of next year. We'll see...

 

[4bslbound]

I assumed you were taller because of your modeling photos. My hair doesn't grow very fast either.

Unfortunately I'm not that tall...5'4''-5'5'' (164 cm). My hair just doesn't grow that quickly!

Are you measuring your hair when stretched or natural? Of course if its natural it will take longer (and of course is longer than it looks)

 

[sj73]

Girl, I knew NOTHING about haircare!

My mother is white with very straight long hair and when I was a child she used to wash my hair and my sisters once a week with whatever shampoo and conditoner happened to be on sale and then pull it back tight into one or two braids with vaseline. She brushed and rebraided our hair everyday adding more vaseline. By the end of the week our hair was so greasy and dirty, it was a nightmare having it washed.

I "discovered" curling irons and flar irons when I was about 12 and my mother was glad to let me take over my own haircare. I fried the hell out of my hair, sometimes I would dip the hairbrush in a cup of water and then brush my hair wet, tearing through the tangles. Then I curled the wet hair and heard it sizzle! I slicked it all down with vaseline after I was done.

I literally burned whole patches of hair off. I had so many short burned sections on my head it wasn't even funny. My hair always had a "burned" smell.

I "taught" my sister who is two years younger how to "do" her hair with the curling iron and grease too. We both thought we were so cute! Then she decided using a curling iron or flat iron took to much time and she showed me how to use the reular iron! We left so much grease on the iron one night that when our father plugged it in the morning he had a fit. We had to buy a new iron for clothes and my sister kept the old one for her hair.

You just brought back some memories of the crazy things I did to my hair when I was a teenager too. I remember having a burnt film on my curling iron from all of the spritz I put in my hair BEFORE curling it!!!