Bnster
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WARNING THIS IS LENGTHY AND I HOPE YOU ENJOY, PICS, PICS, PICS!
2 years I have been a part of LHCF. Wow how time has flown with my hair now flowing down my back.
Well okay I am not MBL, but I am claiming APL and it does flows on my back.
Can I ever be satisfied I am craving for more length. Truly I love my new look with my hair flow past my shoulders. Let you in on a secret I am not totally satisfied I want it longer it doesn’t look long enough and APL is just a little disappointing. Yet this is not stopping my parade because my hard work paid off and I am pleasantly surprised family are coming to me for advice. I hope my cousins joins me here on LHCF, I do want some friends online.
So what is my story, how did I get here? So here is a little of my hairstory-
The straw that broke the camel back came at year end of Dec’08 on a cold and stormy night ...
I was in the hairdresser seat all excited for my touch up, so I put my hair in my hairdresser trusting hands. Now I am sitting there knowing I had a broken/eaten up spot that should not be a surprise to him since it was there the last time and he my HS had the balls and the nerve to say so loudly in his jokingly ill manners ways "Girl what happen back there, someone ate it up...". He was loud people, loud and there were other customers, I am trying to look pretty, well put together and comments like that being broadcasted, what the heck was that. I hated everything spurting out of his very mouth.
Now I dreaded the HS chair. So that's what sparked me onto my hair journey to improve the health of my hair, his hated comments made me feel so a shame of my hair an ill reflection on me. If I don't like something well I need to do something about it and he was no help in the matter. My gears got ticking and my questions started rolling and needed answers in why couldn’t the back of my hair grow, why was it damaged, and what could I do about it? It wasn’t about length back then it was about healthy hair. Now it is about both.
So in Jan 09 I say I started my HHJ where I found YouTube searching for answers and then onto this wonderful site LHCF, which fed me to my heart’s content. I learned I can grow my 4a/4b hair long and healthy if I cared it and that's what I focused on throughout this journey. Within the two years I went from NL broken hair at the back to healthy SL and currently at APL Jan 2011. I too had my battles with a SHS that kept my growth on slow progress (basically chopped off my progress – ugh especially in '09!). Chop, chop, chop seeing all my efforts and good money cast and trampled upon his shop floor without a care, I was the one that cared, he didn’t, he was about evening up my hair and fancy haircuts. Somewhere last year I put a stop to his scissor hands, it was the last time I needed to wipe my tears and finally opened my eyes that I needed to stand up to this SHS bully and direct him to my needs and not his ideas for my hair. Since then I have been able to see my growth to a somewhat satisfaction. You ladies instilled that fight in me and I so thank you for that. So my heartfelt thanks to you all and here are some of my delayed pics.
Oh my poor NAPE, I am still working on it, included pics because it is part of my hair journey. The last time I saw it started to grow was when I was using MT and MN. This year I will revisit those items.
FIRST THE HOT MESS
Jan 2009 - NL
Good cut - One thing about my HS he can cut real nice short hairstyles.
HE CUT SO NO ONE COULD TELL IT WAS BREAKAGE - JUST ANOTHER HAIRSTYLE - BREAKAGE SHOWN BELOW - HE IS A VERY GOOD STYLIST
AUG 2009 - LHCF (@ 4 MONTHS IN)
MY AWFUL NAPE - UGH
JAN 2010 - SL (SLOW PROGRESS - MANY CUTS)
APR 2010 - NAPE WAS GROWING WITH MT & MN - I WAS QUITE PLEASED
Note - I think I was using it for 3 months or so, then stop since I found it drying and irritated me. Though It WORKED. I AM GOING BACK TO THAT!
AUG 2010
NOW THE DRUM ROLL PLEASE....... 2011
JAN 2011 - APL !!!
AH YOU CAN SEE MY SHS DIDN'T GET HIS HANDS ON MY HAIR - HE MUST BE CRYING A
, BUT WHO CARES THIS IS MY HEAD OF HAIR. IT WILL BE CUT AND I DON'T SEE ANY SPLIT ENDS SO HERE GOES.
ENDS CURLED A LITTLE
AH MY POOR NAPE
WET
NG 12 WEEKS POST RELAXER
Boy this took a lot of work to post this thread! I really appreciate you ladies more when you take your time to post your updates!
ETA: OH I LOVE MY HAIR. hehehe
: OOPS MEANT 12 WEEKS NOT MONTHS. CORRECTED. THAT WAS FUNNY.
NOW SOME FUN SHOTS, ENJOY!
2 years I have been a part of LHCF. Wow how time has flown with my hair now flowing down my back.
Well okay I am not MBL, but I am claiming APL and it does flows on my back.
Can I ever be satisfied I am craving for more length. Truly I love my new look with my hair flow past my shoulders. Let you in on a secret I am not totally satisfied I want it longer it doesn’t look long enough and APL is just a little disappointing. Yet this is not stopping my parade because my hard work paid off and I am pleasantly surprised family are coming to me for advice. I hope my cousins joins me here on LHCF, I do want some friends online.So what is my story, how did I get here? So here is a little of my hairstory-
The straw that broke the camel back came at year end of Dec’08 on a cold and stormy night ...
I was in the hairdresser seat all excited for my touch up, so I put my hair in my hairdresser trusting hands. Now I am sitting there knowing I had a broken/eaten up spot that should not be a surprise to him since it was there the last time and he my HS had the balls and the nerve to say so loudly in his jokingly ill manners ways "Girl what happen back there, someone ate it up...". He was loud people, loud and there were other customers, I am trying to look pretty, well put together and comments like that being broadcasted, what the heck was that. I hated everything spurting out of his very mouth.
Now I dreaded the HS chair. So that's what sparked me onto my hair journey to improve the health of my hair, his hated comments made me feel so a shame of my hair an ill reflection on me. If I don't like something well I need to do something about it and he was no help in the matter. My gears got ticking and my questions started rolling and needed answers in why couldn’t the back of my hair grow, why was it damaged, and what could I do about it? It wasn’t about length back then it was about healthy hair. Now it is about both.So in Jan 09 I say I started my HHJ where I found YouTube searching for answers and then onto this wonderful site LHCF, which fed me to my heart’s content. I learned I can grow my 4a/4b hair long and healthy if I cared it and that's what I focused on throughout this journey. Within the two years I went from NL broken hair at the back to healthy SL and currently at APL Jan 2011. I too had my battles with a SHS that kept my growth on slow progress (basically chopped off my progress – ugh especially in '09!). Chop, chop, chop seeing all my efforts and good money cast and trampled upon his shop floor without a care, I was the one that cared, he didn’t, he was about evening up my hair and fancy haircuts. Somewhere last year I put a stop to his scissor hands, it was the last time I needed to wipe my tears and finally opened my eyes that I needed to stand up to this SHS bully and direct him to my needs and not his ideas for my hair. Since then I have been able to see my growth to a somewhat satisfaction. You ladies instilled that fight in me and I so thank you for that. So my heartfelt thanks to you all and here are some of my delayed pics.
Oh my poor NAPE, I am still working on it, included pics because it is part of my hair journey. The last time I saw it started to grow was when I was using MT and MN. This year I will revisit those items.
FIRST THE HOT MESS
Jan 2009 - NL
Good cut - One thing about my HS he can cut real nice short hairstyles.
HE CUT SO NO ONE COULD TELL IT WAS BREAKAGE - JUST ANOTHER HAIRSTYLE - BREAKAGE SHOWN BELOW - HE IS A VERY GOOD STYLIST
AUG 2009 - LHCF (@ 4 MONTHS IN)
MY AWFUL NAPE - UGH
JAN 2010 - SL (SLOW PROGRESS - MANY CUTS)
APR 2010 - NAPE WAS GROWING WITH MT & MN - I WAS QUITE PLEASED
Note - I think I was using it for 3 months or so, then stop since I found it drying and irritated me. Though It WORKED. I AM GOING BACK TO THAT!
AUG 2010
NOW THE DRUM ROLL PLEASE....... 2011
JAN 2011 - APL !!!
AH YOU CAN SEE MY SHS DIDN'T GET HIS HANDS ON MY HAIR - HE MUST BE CRYING A
, BUT WHO CARES THIS IS MY HEAD OF HAIR. IT WILL BE CUT AND I DON'T SEE ANY SPLIT ENDS SO HERE GOES.
ENDS CURLED A LITTLE
AH MY POOR NAPE
WET
NG 12 WEEKS POST RELAXER
Boy this took a lot of work to post this thread! I really appreciate you ladies more when you take your time to post your updates!
ETA: OH I LOVE MY HAIR. hehehe
: OOPS MEANT 12 WEEKS NOT MONTHS. CORRECTED. THAT WAS FUNNY.
NOW SOME FUN SHOTS, ENJOY!
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Keep up the good work.
