Nice & Wavy
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Bumping this thread for all the newbies to be encouraged!!!
Share Your Pics From Then Till Now!
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hairdrama:{
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I'm soooooooooooooooooooooo loving this thread..........AWESOME progress everyone 
Kellum
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Here are mine. It will be my one year anniversary April 16th of next month. I am excited to do my touch up and see where my hair will be.
Starting pic 4/16/2009, texlax touch up, flat iron and trim 1" past APL
Texlax touch up, roller set, and silk wrap. Not an exact measurement of length since my roots were lifted and ends were curled.
12/13/09 Texlax touch up
12/17/09 flat iron, trim (ends were jacked up from not trimming in 8 months
)
First flat iron of the year 3/6/2010 at 12 weeks post. My roots are still puffy but it was good enough.
Blow dried hair pic from this weekend 3/13/2010, 13 weeks post.
That's all folks. I will post more pics in April with my anniversary
Starting pic 4/16/2009, texlax touch up, flat iron and trim 1" past APL
Texlax touch up, roller set, and silk wrap. Not an exact measurement of length since my roots were lifted and ends were curled.
12/13/09 Texlax touch up
12/17/09 flat iron, trim (ends were jacked up from not trimming in 8 months
)
First flat iron of the year 3/6/2010 at 12 weeks post. My roots are still puffy but it was good enough.
Blow dried hair pic from this weekend 3/13/2010, 13 weeks post.
That's all folks. I will post more pics in April with my anniversary
Aug 2002 - 16 years old; Had to BC after losing my hair from self-relaxing; I was desperate. (silly me).
Jun 2004 - 18 years old; Still had no clue how to take care of my hair. I bleached it more than once, relaxed, dyed it, then had to re-cut my hair to get rid of the dyed ends; repeat over the course of almost 2 years. I experimented with a lot of short hairstyles and went from blonde to bright red.
Feb 2007 - 20 years old; I finally got rid of using chemicals altogether back in '06 and decided to be on the grow. I did mini-cuts to get rid of the relaxed, dyed & damaged ends. This is the year I started to flat iron my natural hair. This is when I realized that I didn't need to get a relaxer to get the straight look. I was hooked on flat-ironing now; not really a good thing though.
July 2009 - 23 years old; This was a month before I joined LHCF. My hair was curled a bit so the length you see here is misleading, but I believe I was BSB/BSL. However, because of the constant use of heat (more than 3x a montherplexed), I kept cutting about an inch all around almost every month or so due to split and dried ends, so my hair would never grow past BSB. I was frustrated and eventually discovered LHCF.
Jan 2010 - This is 5 months into joining LHCF. I have cut down my heat usage TREMENDOUSLY and am learning how to protect and style my natural hair better. I am especially happy that I now know how to handle my curls during wash days. I feel that washing your hair is so important in keeping your scalp clean and stimulated. Also, I think that finding the right routine and sticking to it is key. Currently, I hope to be full waist-length end of this year and I have NEVER been WL in my entire life!
The End.
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Ebony Majesty
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beans4reezy
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This thread os drool worthy. Thanks for the inspiration ladies!
stelladata
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wow great progress, here's mine.
I don't have specific dates, sorry but my timeline is from jan 2007- feb 2010 so far.The pictures are pretty big, and a lot.. sorry
nm... took the last two out, they are just way too big.
I don't have specific dates, sorry but my timeline is from jan 2007- feb 2010 so far.The pictures are pretty big, and a lot.. sorry
nm... took the last two out, they are just way too big.
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RosesBlack
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I love this thread thank you ladies.
I love this thread thank you ladies.
stelladata
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cdawnlewis
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wow great progress, here's mine.
I don't have specific dates, sorry but my timeline is from jan 2007- feb 2010 so far.The pictures are pretty big, and a lot.. sorry
nm... took the last two out, they are just way too big.
Wow! Great progress! What's your regimine? Your length now is what I want to be...I have about 2 inches till Waist Length but I want full waist length by this summer...
biancaelyse
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biancaelyse
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testing......
ProjectWLhair
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Sorry in advance that these pics are ginormas.
Fall 2006 (right after my big chop)
May 2007
Fall 2008
August 2009
December 2009
February 2010
March 2010
??? I plan to straighten my hair next Friday and will come back with the most recent pics.
(Sigh)
Ur hair is just soooo beautiful!! 
ProjectWLhair
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Ur hair is 
stelladata
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thank you!!
Honestly I'm not as strict about a regime as I was when I was natural.. which is one of the reasons I am here, I feel as though I could have more progress than I am gaining now, but' i've kinda slacked off a lot. But as an update for anyone who is interested in knowing.
1. I wash my hair at least twice a week.
2. My second wash is usually on the weekends, and includes DCs. Initially I was using amla powder for my DCs but unfortunately i've run out and now incorporated Henna into my regime (which I hate, but I also hate wasting product so i'm improvising), I can honestly say, that I will be stocking up on some amla when i run out because my hair loves & grows w/ it.
3. I straighten my hair at least twice a month... sometimes three. But I find that the more heat I use, the more my ends suffer. So most of the time, you'll find my hair in a sleeked back bun.
Note: I kinda alternate e.g week 1-straight week 2-bun week 3-straight week-4 bun ... it doesnt always happen like that because sometimes I am so lazy that I go a while month with buns.
Side notes:
- I moisturize with (if I am bunning that wk) coconut oil.
I still have some left over products from when I was natural, so I use those as well - The only product I use in my hair when straightening (after washing/conditioning/DCing my hair) is biosilk silk therapy (@costco for apx.8.99) And I use it very sparingly .. because a little dot goes a long way!
- I own and love my 7 row denman brush, and swear by it.
- I air-dry my hair and probably use my diffuser once ever 2 months ( i havent used since dec 09 lmao ).
- I own a micro fiber towel.I dry up in less than an hr as opposed to 2 plus hrs when i was natural.
- I do my own perms, and I'm glad I do because my ends are currently suffering because of how strong my first perm was (mizani)... straight hair is nice but i'm really not in a rush to achieve bone straight hair, I like body, flyaways and a little bit of frizz.
- Though my flat iron's temp is at 450 I do only one pass on each section I part. And probably 2 or 3 passes on my roots, depending on what the weather is like.
- I wrap or protect my hair w/ a silk scarf or bonnet every night.My pillow covers/sheets are also silk
It might seem like a lot but in all reality I sound lazy compared to what I was doing when I was natural, and most of that laziness is because I am a few inches from my goal, which is hip length.. But hopefully joining LHCF will give me more inspiration since I see so many beautiful heads on here, I feel like actually 'tlc'ing my hair again lmao.
trendsetta25
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naturalmanenyc
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Update 3/18/10 at the bottom
First BKT 4/23/09 and a second minichop of the relaxed hair.
On my way back to BSL, but with natural hair.
my curly hair 3/18/10
BKT
I hope to reach BSL by March 2011.
First BKT 4/23/09 and a second minichop of the relaxed hair.
On my way back to BSL, but with natural hair.
my curly hair 3/18/10
BKT
I hope to reach BSL by March 2011.
stelladata
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GreenD
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wow great progress, here's mine.
I don't have specific dates, sorry but my timeline is from jan 2007- feb 2010 so far.The pictures are pretty big, and a lot.. sorry
nm... took the last two out, they are just way too big.
I'm glad you posted pics as I was trying to make due with your pikistrip!!
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stelladata
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lol yeah you can't really see much on it. But at least you can make out the twa ahahah
GreenD
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lol yeah you can't really see much on it. But at least you can make out the twa ahahah
So did/do you PS to get to your current length? I know you mentioned bunning, but was that your PS from 2007 to now?
Go0dGirl08
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Beautiful everyone just beautiful!
stelladata
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what does PS mean?
I couldnt bun in 07, lol that was when I did the big chop, I think I had 2inches of hair
but towards the end of 08 heading into early 09 I could pack my hair into some type of bun. But I wore a lot of hats in the winter, sometimes with my satin bonnet underneath.. i know... ghetto.. but at the time I was taking classes so i never had to take my hat off. But I would do a lot of protective styles, like twists, buns, and hiding my hair. Protective styles really do work when it comes to length retention, but you have to know when your edges are suffering. Also, I was a vitamin addict...well kinda. lmao, I faithfully took (if i can remember) GNC women's ultra mega vitamins, there were a few others too like biotin briefly, but i broke out badly from that, even though i saw results. Another thing that some people might have done on LHCF which caught on for me was carrot juice, and you'd be surprised what carrot juice does for you in the long run. Some days I didn't even have to fake the shine. When I did that big chop, length and growth was a 24 hr job for me, I had a consistent routine except for brief cycles of experimentations here and there but, I kept firm to vitamin intake, water, exercise and hair boards!! I've pretty much slacked off since then, but the rest of what i've mentioned so far is what I've been doing lately which, needs improvement.Oh, and amla, i've been faithfully using amla powder since (apx) late 07. It was one of the reasons my curls popped and it's very moisturizing. I don't think i'll be giving that up anytime soon, even though I've got a perm now
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