Yeah. My mom grew my hair when i was longer and tought me things like wash every 2 weeks, grease daily (with regular grease and pink lotion), hot oil treatments, trim, dont relax the ends, and leave it alone either in twists/braids or in a ponytail and my hair was always long when she did it
Then when i started doing it, it broke off to about neck (which i still thought was a decent length) and i thought i knew alot about hair and to me it was just up to doing what she said to a T and finding the right hair products to make it grow.
I always asked people with long hair (To me was a healthy little bit longer than SL) what they did to their hair, i was convinced their was some "secret" they werent telling me, that they were mixed, or a stylist that really knew how to grow hair that i needed to have, I was also really consumed with how to get the wrap look to your hair....I couldnt understand why my hair didnt look like a wrap after i washed it and blowdried or airdried. Had no knowledge of anything besides a brush and never thought about how you set and style hair and that hair grows from the top not the ends.
I was searching for hairgrowing vitamins and prenatal pills because someone told me that when i was 16/17, then i found exotic allure vitamins, cathy howse...then hair forums. I was so amazed that their was actuall hair info online that i was missing out on and that black women could actually grow hair.