I didn't anticipate this being a progress thread but here it goes. I should have changed the title but oh well.
My hair is not by any means long, so don't get excited.
This was in Feb. 08 when I first subscribed to LHCF. My hair had been a variation of this cut for about 10 years. I did a google search because my hair stylist kept complaining about my hair being so dry and I was starting to get breakage because of it. I found this site and the rest is history. At this point I had no intentions of growing my hair.
In August 08 after a few months on this site I decided that I wanted to grow my hair out and that i would start getting serious about it. This was my hair at that point. It was at this point that I started texlaxing.
From August 08-March 09 I wore half wigs daily. I texlaxed about three times during this time period. I started noticing the vast difference between my texlaxed and bone straight hair so I trimmed about 3-4 inches during this time. Here's the half wig I wore most often.
I went to the salon and got a cut in April. No pics of that visit but this was my hair in May.
This was July. But it didn't last long. I went to the salon in August and she cut more of my raggedy ends off. I was several weeks post in this pic. Actually I was several weeks post in most of these pics.
Again, no pics of the salon trip. I don't know why I didn't take pics.
Which leads me to today. I decided to do a Caruso set and take pics. Here are a few of those pics. I'm 9 weeks post.
Then I thought about the pics I took last November and I wanted to do a comparison. So here they are.
Even though I cut so much of my hair this past year and a half I can still see growth.
So now I'm done with the excessive cutting and I'm focusing on retention. I'm excited for what 2010 will bring.
My hair is not by any means long, so don't get excited.
This was in Feb. 08 when I first subscribed to LHCF. My hair had been a variation of this cut for about 10 years. I did a google search because my hair stylist kept complaining about my hair being so dry and I was starting to get breakage because of it. I found this site and the rest is history. At this point I had no intentions of growing my hair.
In August 08 after a few months on this site I decided that I wanted to grow my hair out and that i would start getting serious about it. This was my hair at that point. It was at this point that I started texlaxing.
From August 08-March 09 I wore half wigs daily. I texlaxed about three times during this time period. I started noticing the vast difference between my texlaxed and bone straight hair so I trimmed about 3-4 inches during this time. Here's the half wig I wore most often.
I went to the salon and got a cut in April. No pics of that visit but this was my hair in May.
This was July. But it didn't last long. I went to the salon in August and she cut more of my raggedy ends off. I was several weeks post in this pic. Actually I was several weeks post in most of these pics.
Again, no pics of the salon trip. I don't know why I didn't take pics.
Which leads me to today. I decided to do a Caruso set and take pics. Here are a few of those pics. I'm 9 weeks post.
Then I thought about the pics I took last November and I wanted to do a comparison. So here they are.
Even though I cut so much of my hair this past year and a half I can still see growth.
So now I'm done with the excessive cutting and I'm focusing on retention. I'm excited for what 2010 will bring.
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I need a secret Santa.
that is some wonderful progress. I want to be where you are by the end of this year.
