alima
New Member
Hi everyone. Sorry in advance for all of the pictures. I've been lurking on here since June and finally decided to join a week ago. I've learned so much about hair in only two months that I kick myself every time I think about all the dumb things I did to it in the past. I'm finally on the right track and have never been happier with my hair (except when it was longer). Here are a bunch of pictures with little descriptions. My two major setbacks happened in college. The first was abusing the flat iron during my freshman year of college
. And the second was being lazy during my sophomore year. Warning: Some of these pictures are the most random ones ever and please excuse outfits, facial expressions, and weird backgrounds
erplexed Feel free to post any questions =)
June 2006: 16th birthday. Not a great picture but notice how long my hair was.
November 2006: Sigh my goal curly hair length.
May 2007: Senior pictures. Again not a great pictures but shows my length (taken on the same day)
January 2008: Hair was its healthiest my Senior year of high school. 07-08.
June 2008: High school graduation
September 2008: First month of college. Already addicted to flat irons. My hair was still pretty healthy though.
October 2008: This was Halloween of my freshman year. You can see the damage from using crappy flat irons, not using heat protectants, and mistreating my hair. I wish I had a picture that showed my ends. They were fried!
March 2009: Close up of my curls before ever putting any keratin, color, or highlights
May 2009: Curls again.
June 2009: Professional hair cut and first time getting highlights. I have tons of pictures from that day if you guys want to see more, let me know. I really liked it but not on me. It made me look old.
July 2009: Picture of my curls. The highlights didn’t affect my curl pattern. The cut did make my hair more bouncy because I had gotten rid of all the damage I had done to it my freshman year of high school. I HATED the hair cut on curly hair though.
July 2009: I just love how shiny my hair looks =) Close up of my hair with highlights. My mom blow dried it with a round brush and put each section in pin curls after drying to make it bouncy
November 2009: Loved how my hair looked in pictures these 3 days but it was a mess in person. The back was all tangled and matted. My hair is really fine and I don’t have a lot of it. This was like 3-5th day hair. Since I toss and turn so much in my sleep, it was “teased” to be this big.![Lachen :lachen: :lachen:](/smilies/lachen70.gif)
January 2010: A few days before Brazilian Keratin.
January 2010: Brazilian Keratin results. Had lot of ends cut off. Although I stopped flat ironing my hair, I was really lazy with it and would throw it up in a bun and leave it for a week at a time. Although bunning is good, I wasn’t moisturizing at all. Hair would always break off.
January 2010: Blowdried with round brush right after washing out the Brazilian keratin after 3 days of torture.
January 2010: Hair about 2-3 weeks after Brazilian Keratin Treatment. I think this is like 2nd day hair.
March 2010: (lol don’t mind the tired boyfriend) I don’t have many pictures of my curls after my Brazilian Keratin because I didn’t like how it made my hair look. I suspect that the one used on me had formaldehyde and it straightened my hair too much. As you can see in this picture, it looks like I did a braidout but this was a wash and go. Although my curls looked pretty after the keratin. They became more wave like and had less volume which I don’t like. It took a lot of messing with my hair to get it to look like this and it looked gross without the headband.
May 2010: Rollerset. Had a few layers added on top.
June 2010: Wash and go. Two different days.
July 2010: Rollerset
July 2010: My mom did the Brazilian keratin at my house. It came out great. I discovered I had a W going on in the back which I have now been working hard to fix. But I was surprised how much my hair grew from the last time I did it in January. This picture was after I had cut about an inch of ends off. I think I made my length check shirt too big because when I made it my hair was on the first line so please ignore the discrepancies on where my hair lands.
Well thanks for looking at my post. I'm so happy I joined and can post things on the boards. I learn so much while still having fun. Sorry the pictures are all over the place. I didn't start documenting my hair until recently. Most of these pictures were on facebook. Only reason why I know when they were taken.![Grin :grin: :grin:](/smilies/grin.gif)
![Wallbash :wallbash: :wallbash:](/smilies/wallbash.gif)
![n1383150187_30015018_9420.jpg](http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i76/sweet0612/Hair/n1383150187_30015018_9420.jpg)
June 2006: 16th birthday. Not a great picture but notice how long my hair was.
![n1383150187_30015022_122.jpg](http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i76/sweet0612/Hair/n1383150187_30015022_122.jpg)
November 2006: Sigh my goal curly hair length.
![l_edb546a9ee100a6372cb759ff2e0ea38.jpg](http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i76/sweet0612/Hair/l_edb546a9ee100a6372cb759ff2e0ea38.jpg)
May 2007: Senior pictures. Again not a great pictures but shows my length (taken on the same day)
![n1383150187_30097349_4177.jpg](http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i76/sweet0612/Hair/n1383150187_30097349_4177.jpg)
January 2008: Hair was its healthiest my Senior year of high school. 07-08.
![n1383150187_30115540_1529.jpg](http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i76/sweet0612/Hair/n1383150187_30115540_1529.jpg)
June 2008: High school graduation
![n1383150187_30098218_1043.jpg](http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i76/sweet0612/Hair/n1383150187_30098218_1043.jpg)
September 2008: First month of college. Already addicted to flat irons. My hair was still pretty healthy though.
![n631880678_1096545_2178.jpg](http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i76/sweet0612/Hair/n631880678_1096545_2178.jpg)
October 2008: This was Halloween of my freshman year. You can see the damage from using crappy flat irons, not using heat protectants, and mistreating my hair. I wish I had a picture that showed my ends. They were fried!
![IMG_3714-2.jpg](http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i76/sweet0612/Hair/IMG_3714-2.jpg)
March 2009: Close up of my curls before ever putting any keratin, color, or highlights
![3301_1071567874431_1383150187_30232658_4386721_n.jpg](http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i76/sweet0612/Hair/3301_1071567874431_1383150187_30232658_4386721_n.jpg)
May 2009: Curls again.
![4699_1086528128428_1383150187_30274253_4854226_n.jpg](http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i76/sweet0612/Hair/4699_1086528128428_1383150187_30274253_4854226_n.jpg)
![4699_1086528048426_1383150187_30274251_6709957_n.jpg](http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i76/sweet0612/Hair/4699_1086528048426_1383150187_30274251_6709957_n.jpg)
![4699_1086528208430_1383150187_30274255_295071_n.jpg](http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i76/sweet0612/Hair/4699_1086528208430_1383150187_30274255_295071_n.jpg)
June 2009: Professional hair cut and first time getting highlights. I have tons of pictures from that day if you guys want to see more, let me know. I really liked it but not on me. It made me look old.
![IMG_4145.jpg](http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i76/sweet0612/Hair/IMG_4145.jpg)
July 2009: Picture of my curls. The highlights didn’t affect my curl pattern. The cut did make my hair more bouncy because I had gotten rid of all the damage I had done to it my freshman year of high school. I HATED the hair cut on curly hair though.
![IMG_4202.jpg](http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i76/sweet0612/Hair/IMG_4202.jpg)
July 2009: I just love how shiny my hair looks =) Close up of my hair with highlights. My mom blow dried it with a round brush and put each section in pin curls after drying to make it bouncy
![13656_1179423690759_1383150187_30514483_3595987_n.jpg](http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i76/sweet0612/Hair/13656_1179423690759_1383150187_30514483_3595987_n.jpg)
![13656_1179463011742_1383150187_30514507_7028555_n.jpg](http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i76/sweet0612/Hair/13656_1179463011742_1383150187_30514507_7028555_n.jpg)
![13656_1181148733884_1383150187_30517841_7877407_n.jpg](http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i76/sweet0612/Hair/13656_1181148733884_1383150187_30517841_7877407_n.jpg)
November 2009: Loved how my hair looked in pictures these 3 days but it was a mess in person. The back was all tangled and matted. My hair is really fine and I don’t have a lot of it. This was like 3-5th day hair. Since I toss and turn so much in my sleep, it was “teased” to be this big.
![Lachen :lachen: :lachen:](/smilies/lachen70.gif)
![17168_1209049191378_1383150187_30580690_586912_n.jpg](http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i76/sweet0612/Hair/17168_1209049191378_1383150187_30580690_586912_n.jpg)
January 2010: A few days before Brazilian Keratin.
![17168_1211968984371_1383150187_30587826_7831116_n.jpg](http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i76/sweet0612/Hair/17168_1211968984371_1383150187_30587826_7831116_n.jpg)
![17168_1211969544385_1383150187_30587827_7123767_n.jpg](http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i76/sweet0612/Hair/17168_1211969544385_1383150187_30587827_7123767_n.jpg)
January 2010: Brazilian Keratin results. Had lot of ends cut off. Although I stopped flat ironing my hair, I was really lazy with it and would throw it up in a bun and leave it for a week at a time. Although bunning is good, I wasn’t moisturizing at all. Hair would always break off.
![17168_1215343548733_1383150187_30593870_368130_n.jpg](http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i76/sweet0612/Hair/17168_1215343548733_1383150187_30593870_368130_n.jpg)
![17168_1215343628735_1383150187_30593871_5625408_n.jpg](http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i76/sweet0612/Hair/17168_1215343628735_1383150187_30593871_5625408_n.jpg)
![17168_1215343748738_1383150187_30593874_7050157_n.jpg](http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i76/sweet0612/Hair/17168_1215343748738_1383150187_30593874_7050157_n.jpg)
January 2010: Blowdried with round brush right after washing out the Brazilian keratin after 3 days of torture.
![IMG_0188.jpg](http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i76/sweet0612/Hair/IMG_0188.jpg)
January 2010: Hair about 2-3 weeks after Brazilian Keratin Treatment. I think this is like 2nd day hair.
![23542_1270352883932_1383150187_30700238_3149118_n.jpg](http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i76/sweet0612/Hair/23542_1270352883932_1383150187_30700238_3149118_n.jpg)
March 2010: (lol don’t mind the tired boyfriend) I don’t have many pictures of my curls after my Brazilian Keratin because I didn’t like how it made my hair look. I suspect that the one used on me had formaldehyde and it straightened my hair too much. As you can see in this picture, it looks like I did a braidout but this was a wash and go. Although my curls looked pretty after the keratin. They became more wave like and had less volume which I don’t like. It took a lot of messing with my hair to get it to look like this and it looked gross without the headband.
![31024_1309031810881_1383150187_30783657_4223171_n.jpg](http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i76/sweet0612/Hair/31024_1309031810881_1383150187_30783657_4223171_n.jpg)
May 2010: Rollerset. Had a few layers added on top.
![31974_1327757039000_1383150187_30835066_3690303_n.jpg](http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i76/sweet0612/Hair/31974_1327757039000_1383150187_30835066_3690303_n.jpg)
![June2010.jpg](http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i76/sweet0612/Hair/June2010.jpg)
June 2010: Wash and go. Two different days.
![35605_1340175509454_1383150187_30867548_4964599_n.jpg](http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i76/sweet0612/Hair/35605_1340175509454_1383150187_30867548_4964599_n.jpg)
![June2010straight.jpg](http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i76/sweet0612/Hair/June2010straight.jpg)
July 2010: Rollerset
![35102_1368093767393_1383150187_30935320_1968550_n.jpg](http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i76/sweet0612/Hair/35102_1368093767393_1383150187_30935320_1968550_n.jpg)
![37889_1368101927597_1383150187_30935339_6009911_n.jpg](http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i76/sweet0612/Hair/37889_1368101927597_1383150187_30935339_6009911_n.jpg)
![39760_1387348688754_1383150187_30985065_674927_n.jpg](http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i76/sweet0612/Hair/39760_1387348688754_1383150187_30985065_674927_n.jpg)
![IMG_0746.jpg](http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i76/sweet0612/Hair/IMG_0746.jpg)
July 2010: My mom did the Brazilian keratin at my house. It came out great. I discovered I had a W going on in the back which I have now been working hard to fix. But I was surprised how much my hair grew from the last time I did it in January. This picture was after I had cut about an inch of ends off. I think I made my length check shirt too big because when I made it my hair was on the first line so please ignore the discrepancies on where my hair lands.
Well thanks for looking at my post. I'm so happy I joined and can post things on the boards. I learn so much while still having fun. Sorry the pictures are all over the place. I didn't start documenting my hair until recently. Most of these pictures were on facebook. Only reason why I know when they were taken.
![Grin :grin: :grin:](/smilies/grin.gif)
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