I think LHCF was heaven-sent for me.
I recently have been suffering some breakage, and was doing an internet search to look for a fotki page of a stylist who used to have really good tips that I'd followed in the past. For some reason I couldn't find her page (which I could have sworn I'd bookmarked), using the same search terms that I always used when I wanted to find it. So I gave up and started searching for advice about my breakage, which lead me to a thread here. I signed up, and started browsing posts, and immediately thought "this is great". And I was impressed by how nice and supportive all the ladies here seemed to be. But it took me a couple days to figure out how to become a subscribing member (I was being lazy, I looked for a link but silly me didn't bother reading the second part of the welcome info on the left side of the page). When I did figure it out and saw I had to pay $5, I initially though it "why in the world do you have to pay to post on a message board?", b/c I'd never seen anyone charge before. A half a day later, I thought, "this is ridiculous, it's just $5", and it will obviously be beneficial. Then I told myself to stop being silly and pay the damn $5 ... Best $5 I've ever spent
. Incidentally, a few day after I joined LHCF, I decided I still really wanted to find that Fotki page I'd been looking for, and I found it with no problem ... which is why I say finding LHCF was divine intervention for me!
Honestly, I don't know how I'd never stumbled across it before, the only forum my search results ever hit for years was blackhaircaremedia. Everyday since I've found this site, I've wished that I'd found this back when I was in college. Better yet, I wish I'd grown up knowing how to take care of my hair all along. For so long it's been extremely difficult to find information about our hair. Thank goodness for the internet!
Ok, so that I know that was kinda long, and I was rambling a little, but that's just how much I love LHCF already!