Has anyone gone from BC to BSL; SL to WSL in 1 year or less? Please share tips!

Have You had megagrowth in one year or less?

  • Yes and I'm loving it!

    Votes: 39 10.6%

  • No, hasn't happened for me!

    Votes: 329 89.4%
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    368
I guess it all depends on the person and how fast their hair grows

I started to do the math and if I shaved my hair bald the day after my last relaxer (12/1/06) then started to count from that day forward... almost 2 yrs later I'm APL and probably about 2 inches from BSL. So I think that yeah you can go from BC to APL in 2 yrs or less but waist length its kind of a big stretch.

I did the BC last year when I had close to 6 inches of natural hair. I'm close to 12 inches now. Again anything is possible, but to be on the safe side I guess I can predict to be waist length sometime in 2010.
 
anything is possible i suppose, but it takes yrs for most people to achieve their ultimate goals so i say just enjoy your hair at every stage and you'll be at your ultimate length before you know it
 
i think anything is possible. there are so many things we do now, as humans that would have been laughed at as impossible even 30 - 40 yrs ago - lets not even go back 100yrs. what ever the mind of man(or woman) can conceive and believe he can achieve. i really believe this, even as applied to hair. my hair grows in spurts, so it wont grow for 2 mths then it will spurt and grow 3 inches, no kidding, within a few weeks. no growth aids, always took multis vita when i remember to take them. but no effort or thinking about it... so if it could do it those few weeks then the follicles are capable and i think, if i knew how, i could spark them to do it more. i really believe this applies to everything in life, not just hair though. set your goal - and dont give up until it's done - even if you dont know how, the how will come. even if it took you a yr to figure out how to grow your hair that fast - that year would be well spent in my humble opinion. nothing, and i mean nothng is impossible. everytime some one breaks a barrier - then those barriers get broken all over the world. think about the fastest runners - 30yrs ago, who would have thunk it?
 
cocoberry10 said:
Hey Ladies:

All these MN threads and MTG/sulphur threads have inspired me that even if I BC, I can be back to BSL in one year or less.

Some ladies are reporting one inch in as little as a week-3 weeks! If this is the truth (I trust that people on here are honest:yep:), then you could literally grow from BC to WSL in one year or less. I've been transitioning for almost one year, so I definitely want to grow to that length soon.

Please share your regimens on here
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All I can say is I have 1/2" growth in 3 weeks, I dyed my hair on the 11th, to the roots and now 3 weeks later I have 1/2" new growth. Maybe at the end of the 4th week I'll have 5/8" - 3/4" of new growth. That's pretty average right? Well I wonder if my hair would grow faster if I used MT, or Monistat or something, but I'm too lazy to go looking for Monistat, and I'm too cheap to purchase MT since I have about $500+ worth of products that I need to use first........

I've started back at the gym, I'm drinking more water, and I'm trying to eat healthier, maybe next month I'll get that 1" of growth.

I think its all about retaining length. If a person can get 12" in a year.....how much are they gonna retain?? if they get 6" in a year, how much of that are they gonna retain??
 
redRiot said:
Perhaps if you were a man...

Seriously, I have many male friends whose hair grows at crazy rates. I have one in particular with curly red hair, and he'll shave his head...about 6-8 months later he'll be back at SL stretched. He complains about how fast his hair grows.:wallbash:
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My ex grew his hair from NONE to Dreads pass his shoulders in a year. I don't know how many inches that was....but that's PROGRESS.
 
I think that SL to WSL can be possible if the following conditions are met:

1) SL is 12 inches for them. (isn't that how it is in that one growth diagram?)
3) They gain an inch a month.
3) They retain all that growth.

If those conditions are met, someone will go from 12 inches to 24 inches, SL to WSL, in a year. I guess it is possible but your regimen and diet would have to be on point for that to happen.

ETA: I really need to start checking the dates before I add a reply.
 
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I'm going to try this. I usually get well over an inch a month with MT and Ovation so I'm going to see if I can grow and retain 12 or more inches to make BSL by December. We'll see.
 
I still consider myself a newbie, however I just came to the realization that it will take me at least two years to have the results that I want. Between learning whats good for your hair, what your hair actually responds well to and how to retain and manage your new growth and sometimes texture it takes some real time and committment. I wish everyone the patience to see it through if thats their goal.
 
luxe.li. said:
My ex grew his hair from NONE to Dreads pass his shoulders in a year. I don't know how many inches that was....but that's PROGRESS.
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Its misleading though. Dreads dont shed, so all the hair that we comb out, dreads retain. As that hair moves down the length of the loc and gets caught up its adding to the length of the overall hair.
 
Tootuff said:
I don't think that's possible.
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its possible I've chopped my hair too short to fit in a ponytail and grew it well past my bra strap in less than a year twice as an adult. I don't know about the growth aids part but I cut my hair in a short twa right before my brothers wedding and by the same time the next year it had grown all the way back. I took hair and nails vit and calcium and thats about it.
 
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mommy2kaela said:
its possible I've chopped my hair too short to fit in a ponytail and grew it well past my bra strap in less than a year twice as an adult. I don't know about the growth aids part but I cut my hair in a short twa right before my brothers wedding and by the same time the next year it had grown all the way back. I took hair and nails vit and calcium and thats about it.
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forgot to mention, I cowashed every single day, clarified and all I used on my hair was cond nothing else because I wore it down and curly every day until it grew back. I retained all growth, my hair doesn't break, I usually lose whole strands but rarely do my ends break off.
 
mommy2kaela said:
forgot to mention, I cowashed every single day, clarified and all I used on my hair was cond nothing else because I wore it down and curly every day until it grew back. I retained all growth, my hair doesn't break, I usually lose whole strands but rarely do my ends break off.
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well the million dollar question then becomes: how tall are you? :look:


ETA: actually I just did the calculations & it is possible. Even on someone who's 5'9" like myself, NL(bottom)-BSL is only 12 inches....

very interesting...
 
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Lexib said:
well the million dollar question then becomes: how tall are you? :look:


ETA: actually I just did the calculations & it is possible. Even on someone who's 5'9" like myself, NL(bottom)-BSL is only 12 inches....

very interesting...
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I am 5'8" and I have a very long torso most of my shirts try to mid drift.
 
Well, in my view you should hope for the best but expect the worst when it comes to this particular question. Nothing worse than an unrealistic expectation!

I'm not personally going to put pressure on myself. I'm just going to keep doing what I'm doing and be conscious of what works and what doesn't. The only thing you can bank on is consistent good practice and time.
 
To me SL to WL is possible in one year if someone gained and retained an inch a month. If someone is full SL, they're hair should 12 inches long. WL is at 24 inches, so sounds possible to me. Actually, I think TBL might be at 24, so a person might not even need the full 12, maybe just 8 or 9.
 
I think it's possible. It all depends on the person hair. I have a black friend who cut her hair to neck length and in 6 months her hair grew to BSL. Her hair naturally grows fast and all she does is wash it twice a week, keep it in a bun and get a trim every other month.

So it's possible.
 
i just did the big chop and i only have maybe 2 inches of hair. im almost certain i can make it to almost apl in one year but i doubt bsl in less than 2 years. and im short without a long neck or torso so....
 
I'll just share my experience here briefly, AFTER I found a regimen that would work for my hair, and stuck to it, it took me 2 and a half years to go from neck length to BSL. You learn not to obsess over your hair, to enjoy all the stages in between, and not put emphasis on growth speed but retaining what you have. With that said, I don't think that you should, in general, plan on more than 6" a year. If you get more, then that's icing. Growing hair is a many-years process, learn to enjoy your hair during that process and you won't be so focused on getting to your goal faster.
 
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