Luscious Healthy Ends Challenge 2024

[GettingKinky]

I posted this in the 2025 thread but just to finish out 2024 I wanted to post it here too

 

[Chicoro]

Here is my year end photo. My ends are doing well. I think bunning is helping so I’m going to keep it up. My beginning photo isn’t great. My stylist didn’t do a very straight blowout.
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Look at your hair on the left side of your photo. The hair is not as straight in the 2024 photo but it is LAYERED and layered unevenly. Your 2025 photo has your ends ALL the same length with thick full ends.

In the crown area, your hair has grown about six (6) inches. Your hair that was already the longest in 2024 has dropped in length between 2 to 4 inches, and I'm being conservative. More importantly than the length gain is that YOUR personal




Hair Growing Pattern has been REVEALED!

• Your hair gains length from the crown
• and catches up to the bulk of your hair.
• Then, your hair drops to another length.
• It waits.
• Then the crown drops in length,
• the bulk drops in length
• and the hair waits.
• Repeat.

That's some invaluable information your hair has shared and that your photos are showing. Now, it's up to you to optimize and maximize the length retention of this growth pattern.

 

[GettingKinky]

@Chicoro you are so incredibly observant. This may be my pattern, but my stylist in addition to being inconsistent in how straight she gets my hair is also inconsistent in how she cuts it.

Sometimes she does a 0 degree cut which makes all the hair the same length (by removing the least from the crown and the most from the nape) and sometimes she does 90 degree cuts which makes the hair more layered.

As I slowly figure this all out I now know what to ask her to do. I have to remember to tell her that I don’t want layers. I want 0 zero degree trim each time.

 

[Chicoro]

@Chicoro you are so incredibly observant. This may be my pattern, but my stylist in addition to being inconsistent in how straight she gets my hair is also inconsistent in how she cuts it.

Sometimes she does a 0 degree cut which makes all the hair the same length (by removing the least from the crown and the most from the nape) and sometimes she does 90 degree cuts which makes the hair more layered.

As I slowly figure this all out I now know what to ask her to do. I have to remember to tell her that I don’t want layers. I want 0 zero degree trim each time.

Let me go back and look at your entire series of photos in the Grow Long thread 2024.

 

[Chicoro]

@GettingKinky
I'm not sure I agree with the assessment that your stylist is inconsistent. I think that she is a professional and I believe there is logic behind her process as to what she is doing. It just may not be intuitive to the outside observer. Have you asked her why she does 0 and other times she cuts at 90 degrees?

 

[Chicoro]

@GettingKinky
I'm not sure I agree with the assessment that your stylist is inconsistent. I think that she is a professional and I believe there is logic behind her process as to what she is doing. It just may not be intuitive to the outside observer. Have you asked her why she does 0 and other times she cuts at 90 degrees?

@GettingKinky

I went back and looked at the photos in the Grow Long 2025 thread. It looks like to me she is maintaining your hair in a shape. The question is, did you specify you wanted her to keep it in a certain shape or do you leave her to make that decision as to how it should be trimmed?

 

[Chicoro]

@GettingKinky It also looks like she is not trimming but keeping the hair cut at a certain length. Your hair is gaining length INSPITE of this it seems.

 

[Chicoro]

I suggest you take the photo you have for January 2025 and give her a visual of what you have and what you expect and what you want going forward. No more cuts, and length.

 

[Chicoro]

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[Chicoro]

Yes!!!

This thread actually got to 1,000 posts! I am surprised because it was around 960 or so at the end of the year.

 

[GettingKinky]

@GettingKinky
I'm not sure I agree with the assessment that your stylist is inconsistent. I think that she is a professional and I believe there is logic behind her process as to what she is doing. It just may not be intuitive to the outside observer. Have you asked her why she does 0 and other times she cuts at 90 degrees?

I haven’t asked her why. I just noticed that this time she asked if I wanted layers. When I said no she did a 0 degree cut. Other times she doesn’t ask and sometimes she does 90 and sometimes she does 0

I should ask her how/why she makes that decision.