Is this an inch???

[NaturalBlackGurl]

Hey ladies!

I'm just starting to document my hair growth for the first time. I took a starting pic of my hair on November 30th:

I started back on my second semester of college today, so I flat ironed my hair last night and I took this picture this morning before class.

I was really hoping to gain an inch, I'm not sure exactly how much growth I had but my hair does seem longer than it did a month ago. My goal is to be BSL by December 2012

 

[ChristmasCarol]

It's hard to tell because you are leaning forward/slightly bent over in the second pic. The best way is to measure your strands from root to tip in several places, notate the place and measurement, and then compare a month later.

 

[MsDee14]

Not sure if that's an inch, but you are a lot closer to your bra-strap than in the first pic.
Nice progress!

 

[NaturalBlackGurl]

It's hard to tell because you are leaning forward/slightly bent over in the second pic. The best way is to measure your strands from root to tip in several places, notate the place and measurement, and then compare a month later.

thank you! yea i'm really bad at measuring my hair I might just invest in one of those hair growth shirts with the measurements in the back. But I can tell that my hair has gotten noticeably longer, I just don't know exactly how much lol

 

[Nonie]

NaturalBlackGurl, no one can answer that question better than you. An inch looks different depending on how far it is from our view and so without having a scale to use, there's no way we can tell from a photo what a distance is.

What's more, your hair appears to be wavy in the first photo which means how far it really reaches is not really being seen and it appears super straight in the second pic making it an unfair comparison. The photos are also not the same size so that further complicates matters. (This is why people get those T-shirts with lines at one-inch intervals and use them to gauge growth by inches if inches matter that much). Otherwise you can see you were close to APL and are now touching APL from the lines I drew:

But if you really care so much about that number, then after getting the photos to be about the same size as I tried to^^, the next best thing you can do is find a scale you can use in the photo (like the height of your camera). Your cam vertical height seems to be twice the distance between the two white lines, so if your cam is 2 inches high, then you're looking at an inch increase in hair length. If it's not, well, you've achieved HALF whatever the height of your camera is. (Again, not 100% accurate but a good enough approximation.)

If you don't want to make a shirt with lines placed an inch apart (coz washing that T-shirt could change the spacing ) Then you could just have a shirt you wear just for this purpose only (so you keep it clean and don't need to wash), and have someone mark on it the point where you hair reaches today on it with permanent marker. Then a few months later repeat this procedure. You'll then have two lines you can measure to see how far apart they are and thus how much progress you made. Otherwise asking people to tell you distance from photo is like asking people to tell you what a roach is thinking.