Blackbird77
Well-Known Member
Last night I was talking to a white friend of mine. She has shoulder length fine hair. She was telling me that she has never had hair longer than the length she currently wears. And she also told me something else - that she was wearing extensions! I had heard some ladies on this board mention that white women sometimes admit to having problems growing long hair but this is the first time I've actually encountered that. At the end of the conversation she resolved herself to having fine, shoulder-length hair by saying, "Well, it's just hair." In other words, there are so many other things that could have gone wrong in her life besides that. And I thought to myself that I'd been spending the last 8-9 years obsessing about growing BSL or MBL hair and wearing phony ponies to the point of never really enjoying my own hair.
My hair appears to be between APL and BSL when stretched but flat-ironed looks not much longer than between SL and BSL. It seems very disappointing to be doing all that hard work with no real results because my hair is very fine and split ends are the devil. So it seems that no matter what I do, I keep getting cheated out of length. Before I talked to my friend I had already resolved to wearing braids off and on so that I can keep my hands out of my hair and perhaps not concentrate on it so much. I guess I'm going to have to do a leave-it-alone challenge as well as the bootcamp 2008 challenge. I figure if a white girl is struggling with the same thing I'm going through and has very straight not-curling-up-with-humidity-hair and still has a problem growing it long, then I'm going to have to be a little more patient and revise the way I comb my hair. I think I'll go back to not combing it at all or not combing it all the way through to the ends. I always thought that the straighter the hair, the less of a problem breakage would be when combing it. I guess I was wrong.erplexed
My hair appears to be between APL and BSL when stretched but flat-ironed looks not much longer than between SL and BSL. It seems very disappointing to be doing all that hard work with no real results because my hair is very fine and split ends are the devil. So it seems that no matter what I do, I keep getting cheated out of length. Before I talked to my friend I had already resolved to wearing braids off and on so that I can keep my hands out of my hair and perhaps not concentrate on it so much. I guess I'm going to have to do a leave-it-alone challenge as well as the bootcamp 2008 challenge. I figure if a white girl is struggling with the same thing I'm going through and has very straight not-curling-up-with-humidity-hair and still has a problem growing it long, then I'm going to have to be a little more patient and revise the way I comb my hair. I think I'll go back to not combing it at all or not combing it all the way through to the ends. I always thought that the straighter the hair, the less of a problem breakage would be when combing it. I guess I was wrong.erplexed