I have tried fifty ways to take a picture of this ONE GRAY HAIR in my head and I cannot do it. So...instead of a picture, I pulled out my ruler because I thought it would be important to MT users to know what is going on with the growth.
I put MT on the length of my hair every time I wash, and I DC like a mad woman. I'm so serious about the DCing BC I use protein so much. Since I can't put it on my scalp every couple of days like some women do, I was hoping that the weekly MT from the scalp to the end of my hair and one time per week on my scalp would have the same benefit.
Well....(and I am SICK that I cannot get a pic of this), I pulled out a gray hair Jan 17th. I wanted to see how fast it would grow back. Unfortunately, I forgot that I pulled it out until this morning after I dropped our daughter off at her bus stop. I looked in the mirror and noticed this long gray hair. "Long" is relative. When I got home, I measured it, and it is 1.6 inches long.
So....from January 17th to March 1st, I got a little more than an inch and a half in growth in one gray hair!!!
That proves to me definitively that MT does promote faster hair growth and that our main issue is retention. It also proves to me that putting it on the scalp is not the only way to get good growth, because I was very concerned about this.
Mind you: Since around Jan 17th, I have been leaving the MT on the length of my hair for about an hour and have been massaging it into my scalp really well before rinsing out. AF cramps are OFF THE CHAIN because of the parabens, and I think I will cut back a little this month in the week prior to AF starting...but other than that, I am really happy.
I am seeing growth, mad thickness, health...all the stuff we want to see in our hair. Mostly though...NO BREAKAGE!!! Every now and then, I get a couple of shed hairs, but those make me happy. I am not worried. I'd rather shed than break any day!
Who else is checking in with growth/thickness?
(Now, all I have to do is re-grow my temples, which genetically get thinner around my age in our family.....
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Happy Month of March to us all! I probably should have posted this somewhere else. Going off to search for the March MT/OCT thread..)
cj