How do you measure your new growth?

[Ms. Plain Jane]

Whenever there's a post about stretching relaxers, someone mentions that they have XYZ amount of new growth. How do you measure your new growth? The way that I can think of to accurately measure your new growth is to take a strand that has fallen out and measure from where the bulb ends to where the curl pattern becomes more straight.

Am I correct?

How do you measure your new growth?

 

[wheezy807]

good question, i wanna know too.

 

[Dayjoy]

Honestly, I just take a ruler and place it on my scalp, stretch out some hair and measure at the line of demarcation. I thought this is what everyone does.

 

[SouthernTease]

Honestly, I just take a ruler and place it on my scalp, stretch out some hair and measure at the line of demarcation. I thought this is what everyone does.

This is how I do it too. I measure it in different places too.
ie: front, middle, back.

 

[msjones]

I usually just eyeball it and guess.

 

[Ms. Plain Jane]

I usually just eyeball it and guess.

Do you ever worry that your guesstimation is inaccurate? Or does that not really matter?

 

[cherriamber]

I just use a tape measure

 

[MissCapricornCutie]

Tape measure seems to be the easiest or in a pinch, I'll use my thumb & index finger then measure that with a ruler.

 

[***Toy-Pisces***]

I use a tape measure or ruler and stretch my hair. iuse the line of demarcation as a guide.

 

[tschizum]

If i can't find my ruler I use my fingers, 2 fingers width equals an inch for me. (yes I have big man hands), lol

 

[aurora3140]

Hi ladies! I've also wondered how to properly measure NG. Are you ladies stretching the hair before measuring or are you leaving it shrunken? For example, if you said that your hair has growth an inch, would you mean after it's stretched, or would you mean an inch unstretched?

 

[HoneyA]

I use a tape measure or ruler and stretch my hair. iuse the line of demarcation as a guide.

This is what I do. Quite easy and accurate as far as I can tell. I usually check after my retouches.

 

[Neroli]

I usually just eyeball it and guess.

That's what I do . . .