Waist Length 2013

nakialovesshoes said:
SUNSHINE BABY Believe in miracles. I'm 6 inches away from WL but I'm still claiming it for 12/31/13! Are you using any growth aids?
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nakialovesshoes, yes i am currently using Liquid Gold hair growth oil sealing and moisturising, though not religiously. Also i stay trying to take my spirulina and other vitamins. I need to go back to my weaves religiously because it has helped me the most since being natural. If i can maintain that for the rest of the year i guarantee i will get close to WL and if the heavens choose to surprise me i may actually be able to claim full WL not just close to it.

hhg sister
 
SUNSHINE BABY said:
@nakialovesshoes, yes i am currently using Liquid Gold hair growth oil sealing and moisturising, though not religiously. Also i stay trying to take my spirulina and other vitamins. I need to go back to my weaves religiously because it has helped me the most since being natural. If i can maintain that for the rest of the year i guarantee i will get close to WL and if the heavens choose to surprise me i may actually be able to claim full WL not just close to it.

hhg sister
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SUNSHINE BABY

If you can guarantee close to WL, you may as well believe you can hit WL. Expect an extra growth spurt or something. What's the worse that can happen? You'll get close to WL. You can do it! Seriously. Expect it. :yep:
 
Yes yes y'all! And ya don't stop! Second quarter of the year....lets push it!!

Even tho some have seemed to reach a plateau in their journey...realize you have come a loooooong way from the beginning!:yep: This challenge has been going since 2011 and i just wanna thank all of you for makin it happen!

Reflect on all the mini milestones you have made throughout the challenge...whether its the ability to make a ponytail, reaching BSL or already reaching WL...appreciate the blessing u have accumulated.

Lets not give up now. Its crunch time. :D
 
SmilingElephant said:
I think its claimable tho...:look:

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EPIC!!!
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Lookin GOOD sis!!! Maaaan I WISH my hair would hang like that after a wash. It has some hang at first and then just starts to shrink like it wanna say

"you didn't see anything..." :look::lol::look:

So for now I'm just sticking to my stretched length. I'm hoping to make WL by the end of the year too! But your curls look beautiful, keep on growing it!
 
Mskraizy said:
Lookin GOOD sis!!! Maaaan I WISH my hair would hang like that after a wash. It has some hang at first and then just starts to shrink like it wanna say

"you didn't see anything..." :look::lol::look:

So for now I'm just sticking to my stretched length. I'm hoping to make WL by the end of the year too! But your curls look beautiful, keep on growing it!
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Thanks sis! Mskraizy! Lol @ "u didn't see anything!" :Lol: its so weird to me tho bc im used to my hair still shrinking up to my neck....but then i started keeping it in buns pretty much everyday. And just this week i decided to wear it out or in a ponytail and i felt it dangling on my back and i was like...WHAT ON EARTH??!:dizzy:

So ive been feeling really vain this week...looking at it and swinging it in the bathroom mirror at work, turning my head a little faster when someone is trying to get my attention, sitting at my desk with my hand behind my back feeling my curls. Im a mess :rofl:!

I swear it feels like just yesterday i BC'd!! Wow!
 
Had a dream that I went to a beautician and she gave me a relaxer and cut my hair to neck length. It was more like a nightmare lol.
 
SmilingElephant said:
Thanks sis! Mskraizy! Lol @ "u didn't see anything!" :Lol: its so weird to me tho bc im used to my hair still shrinking up to my neck....but then i started keeping it in buns pretty much everyday. And just this week i decided to wear it out or in a ponytail and i felt it dangling on my back and i was like...WHAT ON EARTH??!:dizzy:

So ive been feeling really vain this week...looking at it and swinging it in the bathroom mirror at work, turning my head a little faster when someone is trying to get my attention, sitting at my desk with my hand behind my back feeling my curls. Im a mess :rofl:!

I swear it feels like just yesterday i BC'd!! Wow!
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Rotfl @you fluttering around, turning your head all fast. Lol
 
SmilingElephant said:
Thanks sis! Mskraizy! Lol @ "u didn't see anything!" :Lol: its so weird to me tho bc im used to my hair still shrinking up to my neck....but then i started keeping it in buns pretty much everyday. And just this week i decided to wear it out or in a ponytail and i felt it dangling on my back and i was like...WHAT ON EARTH??!:dizzy:

So ive been feeling really vain this week...looking at it and swinging it in the bathroom mirror at work, turning my head a little faster when someone is trying to get my attention, sitting at my desk with my hand behind my back feeling my curls. Im a mess :rofl:!

I swear it feels like just yesterday i BC'd!! Wow!
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SmilingElephant I know you are. lol I never think my hair is growing like that because my hair is so thin. but when I co wash and I feel it so far down my back I be like man. my buns are so tiny lol I feel like I have little girls hair.

You know what I find so funny? you know how everyone get so caught up on caucasian hair? well now that I have learned so much about hair their hair is not all that great either.. they are doing the same as us trying to get their hair to grow long and thick. They are still flat ironing their hair and damaging it. the only heads that look healthy is curly heads and Italians. now I love the Indian's hair it is so thick and long. but I am not talking about them I am talking about our typical Americans, there is really not much to their hair at all but yet America wanted us to think so.

well I am not focusing on the length of my hair because I don't want to be disappointed and I know it will be longer than it was last yr if it keeps this up and I am protective styling right now because I am not liking how my curls are coming out plus I lay around more than I did last summer so keeping it in 3 plaits and pinned up is much easier and neater than trying out twist. something I use to do back in 2011 I think it was and I looked at the pics from then and my plaits are much longer. lol
 
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you know SmilingElephant you said that we have been in this challenge since 2011 but remember we opened it up 11/2010 so it has been over a full 2 yrs at this point and to me that is such a great reward that we have come so far. I remember when I was saying look how many views we have lol. so when we finish it will have been a 3 yr challenge because we agreed to take it to the end of 2013 wow
 
Shadiyah...yes Mama...i promise u if everybody took a field trip to the Long Hair Community...then everyone would see how white ppl also struggle with their hair and getting it to grow and it can be said that hair is hair. The only struggle that is really different is that there is a social issue with kinky hair....and it is different than the social issue that both black ppl and white ppl with curly hair have. However i was feeling some type of way the other nite when my friend and another random girl started talking about natural hair. They have 4a/b hair. I wanted to talk about hair too....but bc im in the 3's its as tho im discounted. The other girl gave me this look :look:....i was like fudge it...im off to get me another drank and enjoy my second round of Kevin Hart.

Alriiiight....lets riiiide! :rofl:

And i remember there being a thread similar to this one...i think it was BC to Waistlength or something like that that i believe started in 2010. I didnt think to make this thread until the end of 2011 because i big chopped earlier that year and thats what inspired me to do it.
 
SmilingElephant said:
Shadiyah...yes Mama...i promise u if everybody took a field trip to the Long Hair Community...then everyone would see how white ppl also struggle with their hair and getting it to grow and it can be said that hair is hair. The only struggle that is really different is that there is a social issue with kinky hair....and it is different than the social issue that both black ppl and white ppl with curly hair have. However i was feeling some type of way the other nite when my friend and another random girl started talking about natural hair. They have 4a/b hair. I wanted to talk about hair too....but bc im in the 3's its as tho im discounted. The other girl gave me this look :look:....i was like fudge it...im off to get me another drank and enjoy my second round of Kevin Hart.

Alriiiight....lets riiiide! :rofl:

And i remember there being a thread similar to this one...i think it was BC to Waistlength or something like that that i believe started in 2010. I didnt think to make this thread until the end of 2011 because i big chopped earlier that year and thats what inspired me to do it.
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SmilingElephant girl I know that is a typo when I just told you that you started this thread 11/2010. lol
http://www.longhaircareforum.com/showthread.php?t=479554&highlight=bc+to+waist+length
this is the thread you are talking about lol . I was like that too. I was too late for that one. a yr too late
 
So after this weekend i'm meant to be taking part in a heat free summer which I am so excited for.
So excited in fact that I couldn't resist doing a wash and go today!
I love it, although its annoying that my fringe/ bangs don't ever curl. Its always been soooo loose.

I styled it with some bobby pins and this is the result. I love it!

It was veyr hard to get a photo of it though, my curls are very defined but you can't tell in this photo :( Other than my bangs which dont seem to know what they're doing.

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SUNSHINE BABY

About what NJoy said...not tryna get religious on y'all...not religious but this pertains to her "expectation" post regarding your journey to waist length

"Speak those things that be not as though they were..."
 
I've been staring at my last length check for a week or so now with incredulity and asking myself...could I make WL this year!? Since my new motto is "Why Not?!", here it goes, I'm joining! Yay! Hopefully I'll be at least scratching WL by New Years Eve with the right discipline and diligence. Here is my starting pic
 
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Just admiring all of this beautiful hair. I'm MBL but have some WL strands (uneven hemline, perhaps lead hairs, right? :giggle:). I never aspired to reach WL but now that I'm here, it's tempting. I will deep cut my hair back to an even MBL for a thicker hemline appearance. Perhaps WL 2014 is a realistic goal for me. *back to lurking I go*
 
Cheering you ladies on... I'll most likely hit WL this yr... Although I'm not part of this challenge.... Will post pictures if I do..
 
Hey ladies, coming at you with some comparison pics today :)
The older pics were taken in Decemer 2012 and recent ones were a few days ago (July 2013)
So there's a 7 months difference :)
 

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After a trim I'm still an inch past MBL and about 2 inches from scrapping WL.
I'm still working on my back rolls but they are an improvement from 3 months ago :-)
 

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This hair journey and my emotions are like the weather....all of a sudden, I've decided that I am loving my hair. I'm 11 weeks post and I have a good amount of ng that I love playing in. And even if I don't make wl by the end of this year I'll be close enough for HL at the end of the following year (I think).
But really, my hair is getting long enough that I find myself having to pull out hair still attached to my head from my mouth as I'm eating:look: I have to be mindful of my hair when putting on my bra or any top. I've also closed my hair in the car door and didn't realize until I went to turn my head...trust me that one had me giddy:giggle: So today, I truly LOVE my hair:yep:
 
mayoo girl that hair of yours have me over here drooling.

NowIAmNappy your hair is getting really long lol you are almost there.

I have not done anything to my hair except keep it in these 3 plaits and it has been really easy to hide it away since I have 3 of my grandsons here with me for the summer and I am sitting here thinking what have I gotten myself into.
 
So...in spite of all the emotions im feeling down here in Otown Florida about the Zimmerman verdict....i cried all nite...u.o.e.n.o it.

I fell asleep and dreamed i had whip length hair. I was watching myself standing at the bathroom sink, in the mirror...and i was stretching a clump of my curls and it stretched all the way to whip length :love: i cant wait to see how long its gotten by the end of the year!
 
I know its still early. But if anyone starts a wl 2014, tag me por favor. I think i might be able to make that one lol

By the way, lovely hair ladies. Hating from afar, hating from afar lol
 
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