Your hair is beautiful, if my hair looked like yours disappointed would NOT be the word to describe it!!!
. i know its my fault though. ive switched stylists and had the WRONG person trim my hair one too many times. im going to invest in my own nice pair of trimming scissors and continue the regimen im on. look on the bright side , you have another year to correct any mistakes you made before
i feel exactly like you
Your hair is beautiful, if my hair looked like yours disappointed would NOT be the word to describe it
Oh..and self-relax with ORS Lye mixed with oil practically every 8-10 weeks. protein treatment every relaxer.
Thanks ladies! You are all right! I have a lot to be thankful for in that I did not have any setbacks this past year, I have evened it up some, and I did not track how much I was cutting.
i do need one of those t-shirts to mark off my growth. i am going to make one because when i do trim, i trim a little at a time (so i think) but it does add up over time apparently to the tune of 5 inches in a year. that's how much growth i think i get in a year.
so no, the scissors are not my friend...especially when i saw a split end today. i thought my gosh with all my cutting you would think every strand would be perfectly blunt and not split.
i am also grateful that it was all my own doing! not one scissor happy stylist put a shear to my hair all year. it was just me...
thanks all for the nice words and happy growing y'all!
I was like I don't want my ends trimmed, and she was just like, "I need to even them up a bit. I'm not cutting much." When I was under the dryer, I looked at the floor and the 5-6 inches I had worked so hard on this entire year were on the floor. I almost cried. I have been depressed the whole day. 
erplexed
You are lucky that you didn't have to deal with scissor happy stylists. I never realized their wrath until I fell victim to one today. I had just gotten from getting my relaxer washed out and next thing I know she was snipping my ends!! What horror!!
All I can say to you is don't worry. Just make sure you only get trims when you want them and not just because some uneducated stylist THINKS you need them. I only get trims once a year because the way I look at it, after I reach my goals, I'm going to even it up anyway. But I want to do it on my own time.
"man her hair is pretty, I would looove for my hair to look like that one day."
I also thought I'd come back to say...**steps onto soap box**:
In the beginning...when I first came here I remember seeing ladies who had healthy shoulder to armpit length hair and thinking
Fast forward and my hair does look like that and then some. But Oooh No, staring at positively ridiculous, gorgeous, thick, shiny, waist length hair every day has made me a full blown hair anorexic. It's never enough, and probably won't be until I'm sitting on it.
I just had to take a step back from the computer and realize that I have made tremendous progress, and my hair is the healthiest it's ever been and for that I am thankful. And also I cannot track my progress based on someone elses. It's gonna grow at it's own nappy pace.
**Flips my "long for a black girl" hair and steps off box***
Love your post though and couldn't agree more. Believe it or not, I haven't made that much progress in terms of length either but my hair has definitely grown in the back and is much healthier. People are always telling me that my hair has grown and looks nice, but I'm always like, "What?? It's still short compared to so many other heads of hair!!" I guess I'm a hair anorexic also. If I ever get hair to my waist, I'd probably still be up on here complaining that my hair "just won't grow."
..but i will pop a pill once in a blue moon. i'll check out the silica. thanks!
