UmSumayyah
Well-Known Member
No longer bald..... (Or: \"The Road to Recovery\")
Some of you may remember that after a very bad relaxer a year ago, (Overlapped all the way to the ends by a clearly incompetent stylist at JCP /images/graemlins/wallbash.gif) I cut my hair several times, the last time hacking it off to ear-length.
This meant going from below shoulder length hair (a few inches away from bra-strap), which I had never before achieved in my life /images/graemlins/wallbash.gif to ear. I was quite hair-depressed, and dropped off the hairboard almost completely. I kept my too-short-for-a-ponytail hair cornrowed (no extensions), only taking it out once every 2-3 weeks to comb and wash (although I did condition-wash it in braids).
No hot oil, no deep conditioning, nothing special. It was too upsetting to handle or think about so I kept it almost constantly covered, even in the house.
When I hacked it all off it was July and I was almost due for a touch-up, but I let touchup time come and go because I just couldn't handle it.
I touched up a few days ago and WOW! My hair is already hanging a little below chin-length! I no longer feel bald!
I'm back reading the hairboard and back to my deep-conditionings and all that good stuff. I can make it back to my former length and beyond. I know I can!
Even after a HUUUUGE setback, I did it. To anyone with setbacks, my hair is growing back and yours is too!
I can't tell you how overjoyed I was at the sight of my hair getting long. It was like I gained 3 inches in 20 minutes.
"Hope is kindled."
Some of you may remember that after a very bad relaxer a year ago, (Overlapped all the way to the ends by a clearly incompetent stylist at JCP /images/graemlins/wallbash.gif) I cut my hair several times, the last time hacking it off to ear-length.
This meant going from below shoulder length hair (a few inches away from bra-strap), which I had never before achieved in my life /images/graemlins/wallbash.gif to ear. I was quite hair-depressed, and dropped off the hairboard almost completely. I kept my too-short-for-a-ponytail hair cornrowed (no extensions), only taking it out once every 2-3 weeks to comb and wash (although I did condition-wash it in braids).
No hot oil, no deep conditioning, nothing special. It was too upsetting to handle or think about so I kept it almost constantly covered, even in the house.
When I hacked it all off it was July and I was almost due for a touch-up, but I let touchup time come and go because I just couldn't handle it.
I touched up a few days ago and WOW! My hair is already hanging a little below chin-length! I no longer feel bald!
I'm back reading the hairboard and back to my deep-conditionings and all that good stuff. I can make it back to my former length and beyond. I know I can!
Even after a HUUUUGE setback, I did it. To anyone with setbacks, my hair is growing back and yours is too!
I can't tell you how overjoyed I was at the sight of my hair getting long. It was like I gained 3 inches in 20 minutes.
"Hope is kindled."
(And that's even though I have trimmed/cut my hair here and there between when this thread started and today.)
