Why are you doing this?

[thebelleofelle]

I've decided to write a paper on hair!! Exciting I know! I come to you asking why are you on your HHJ??? Honestly, what influences if any made you decided to get healthy and/or longer hair.






This is going to be an amazing essay

 

[shasha8685]

Initially, I just wanted to stop the massive massive breakage I was experiencing. I knew that amount of breakage isn't natural so I wanted to fix it.

Once I saw that other women were able to grow their hair out to great lengths, I wanted to see if I could do it too. If anything, my hair journey has been an experiment to prove to myself (and those around me) that AA women can have long healthy hair.

 

[BeautifulRoots]

I started my hair journey after some bad salon visits and some friends that just could not handle my hair with the care that I wanted. Up until college, I had people style my hair for me. Many times, people would complain of its thickness, telling me I should relax or texturize. (nothing wrong with relaxers if that works for you, I just didn't want one at the time) After a friend of mine told me she would not do my hair anymore until I relaxed, I decided to take hair care practices in my own hands.

Did some google searches, found some hair forums, eventually found LHCF and that's when my DIY hair journey began. I've learned so much about how to care for my hair and techniques that work for me. I'm way happier with my hair these days.

 

[nakialovesshoes]

Yes, I'm shallow & I know it. My reason is just plain & simple vanity!

 

[LaughingOctopus]

I was tired of the constant damage, and accepting the so called "common knowlegde" about black hair.

 

[hair4today]

This is a good question. Initially I wanted to learn good haircare practices so that I could do my dd's hair. She has a thick head of hair and I was clueless..lol. With LHCF's help her hair thrived and is now tailbone length after 4 years of care. My hair on the other hand was a mess after a botched texlax by my stylist. I quit relaxers cold turkey over a year ago and applied the same practices to my hair and wow what a difference. My hair is healthy strong and growing. Knowing the damages caused by relaxers I hope my daughter chooses to remain a natural when she is old enough to make her own choices and I want to be a role model and lead by example.

 

[mzteaze]

Two major reasons - anger at a stylist (who I thought was a friend) and unemployment (to a lesser degree). I wore a weave for a very long time (8+ years) in part because my stylist reinforced the thought that I had a busy lifestyle and couldn't care for my hair. I was raised to leave my hair styling to my stylist who I saw regularly. But, unemployment raised up and I had to let the weave go. Out it came and I got a new hair cut to celebrate and start over. However, what she nor the haircut couldn't hide was the BALD spots on my head (there were three). I was appalled. Looking back, she always brushed my questions about my hair health or minimized the problems. So yeah, I was sad then angry. At that point I read the hair boards off and on for a while.

A trip to Hair Club sparked my interest in regrowing my hair. I hooked on to the hair boards and started researching how to get my hair to grow to the length I used wear in a weave. Nearly a year into my hair journey - I am nearly close to achieving my hair goal. This made my HHJ worth the hard work.

 

[Austro-Afrikana]

I just wanted long hair.

 

[Anakinsmomma]

My hair has thinned dramatically in the past year and I couldn't let my bad practices slide anymore. I also wanted some info for my transition to being natural...


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[Curlykale]

I think long hair suits me. At the same time, I don't want this choice to depend 100% on somebody or something that is not me (products, stylists, product reformulations, prices, casualty) and I always want to know what I am doing, why and how... Otherwise I get frustrated, especially if I am putting some kind of effort into something, and especially if instead of creating solutions I am creating problems (lol yes my hair was a mess).

 

[ScorpioBeauty09]

When I started posting regularly almost a year ago I just wanted longer hair. In HS and partially in college I was frustrated/depressed because no matter what I did I couldn't retain length. But now my hair journey's become as much about taking care of all my other hair issues as much as retaining length. I've learned so much about my hair here. In growing it out and discovering what my hair likes (and doesn't like) I've just fallen in love with my hair!

 

[hothair]

I've always been into looking after myself, I found this site through a friend that gave me her half bottle of MTG and it grew my hair out that summer. When I came on here and saw the health and length of various ladies I decided I wanted some too.

I have no objection to hair extensions in fact amongst friends was well known for having the newest techniques. As I'm able to leave my house unselfconciously with no make up I wished the same for my hair. Extensions had to be just another cosmetic not a neccessity for me to look the way I like.

Great idea- good luck with your paper!

 

[lovegymnasts]

I started because I wanted to learn how to take care of my natural hair and the only place I found this knowledge was on the internet.
Now, I want to grow my hair until it can't grow no more.

 

[carameldimples]

I started looking because of my DD's. Last year I saw my little cousin's daughter was around MBL at 3 and my daughters where SL and APL so I figured I must be doing something wrong . I was determined to find out how to grow hair and stumbled on LHCF after google searches. Once I saw regimens and techniques I couldn't help but to get started myself. I had always "thought" I had long hair until I came to this board, LOL, I've always atleast been beyond SL, close to APL so you know IRL around my way that was long, now at BSL and some MBL pieces ( I need a trim so bad) my family and friends are in awe and constantly asking hair advice questions. My one year hairniversary is late August/early Sept. its amazing how time flies and the progress you can make with all the wealth of information on hair boards. Thanks LHCF, Hairlista and Youtube

 

[ChristmasCarol]

A couple years ago, on my 40th Birthday, I decided to cut my hair really short, cuz I was tired of CBL hair. But, while searching the internet for cute styles, I stumbled upon LHCF and decided to grow it out much longer and see if I liked it. Whaddayaknow, I like longer hair better - I don't know what I was thinking back then - must have been a mid-life crisis!

 

[ThickRoot]

Initially, I just wanted to stop the massive massive breakage I was experiencing. I knew that amount of breakage isn't natural so I wanted to fix it.

Once I saw that other women were able to grow their hair out to great lengths, I wanted to see if I could do it too. If anything, my hair journey has been an experiment to prove to myself (and those around me) that AA women can have long healthy hair.

Everything you said!

 

[nakialovesshoes]

Okay I kinda felt bad about my previous answer. I've been on a HHJ long before I ever found LHCF. One day I met a 4B in the airport & she had healthy WL hair. Unfortunately at the time, I didn't know any type 4s that had hair longer than BSL.

She introduced me to the Wanakee way (PSing, moisturizing/sealing) & thus began my quest for healthy, long hair.

 

[Lynnerie]

I've always wanted to have long/healthy hair that was my own. I personally think I look better with more hair so I got to a point where I stayed in braids or weave but I was still relaxed and never got much retention.

One day while shopping at the Asian BSS looking for my next weave the owner of the store had an attitude with me and after that I was done. I just couldn't continue to support these businesses while my real hair suffered so I started to research and really take it seriously. LHCF has been a God-send. Being on this HHJ has influenced me to go natural and start taking better care of myself all around.

 

[ms.blue]

I just wanted to grow my hair back after I had to do a force bc since my dumb self thought I didn't need to detangle that much after I took down my sew-in (I thought the water would just detangle my hair but left me a tangled mess). After finding this site, I chose to remain natural and see how long I can grow my hair.

 

[faithVA]

My process has been more gradual. I wanted to go from a relaxer to a texturizer so the stylist cut my hair down to a itty bitty twa which I wasn't ready for. Once I got the texturizer I realized you couldn't tell my natural hair from the texturized hair so I stopped getting it texturized and just wore a twa for years. At this point I never thought about health or length. It was convenient.

I decided to head back to the corporate world so I started letting my hair grow back so I could style it for work. After a year of wearing protective styles, wigs and extensions my hair was in bad shape. This was the beginning of my search for healthy hair practices. I knew my hair shouldn't feel like it did but I didn't know what to do with it so I started researching and found LHCF. I had never thought of growing my hair long. I wanted it to be healthy, to feel good and to be able to do something with it.

Only after being on the board for a while did I considering even thinking about growing my hair long. My first priority is still healthy hair. And I want to be able to easiy style my hair. Long hair is still a concept that is foreign to me but enjoying the journey to see how it goes. Now the HHJ is a lot of fun. I love learning and sharing with other LHCFers.

 

[Natty_Virgo]

I want long natural hair. I came here because my stylist sucked and my hair started to always look dry and was breaking off, so I started looking into how I can fix it myself. Once I got here I saw so many natural heads of hair that were so long and I want to see if I can do it too.

My husband thinks it would be dope to grow out my natural hair, my family thinks I am tripping and is telling me to keep relaxing. smh

 

[blondemane]

I'm not going to lie I always was the girl that admired white women or any woman with long hair. I think as an African American woman society has forever held up the norm that white and long hair, blues eyes on the side is beautiful. I decided to go natural and start my hair journey because I want to show that even though we don't need long hair to be beautiful we can have it just like any other race of women. Right now I'm only Collarbone length but my goal is about BSL-MBL (very close for me about 1.5 inches apart, yes I'm a shrimp). I want to be able and straighten my hair with the swangggggg and show that it can be just as "beautiful" and long as theirs. Then wash it and let it kink back up just to remind them that I am still a natural black queen.

Now if only my overly curly ends would cooperate and stop tangling we could be on our way to this dream lol.

 

[Blue_Berry]

To be honest and frank I just want long hair. I want to see how long my hair will grow. I use to have hair down my butt when I was young. I want to see if I can get back to that length again and know how it feels to have it.

 

[beana]

I joined the boards because I wanted to learn how to care for my relaxed hair properly. I tried to work with my relaxed hair for years expecting to achieve the length and thickness i had as a child with my natural hair.

Eventually my quest for healthy hair led me to transition in July 2010. I have sensitive skin, and its no surprise my scalp is sensitive as well. i know there are some people who do not believe in scab hair but my transition proved I DID have scab hair. I have 5-6 inches of natural hair and the last 2 are dry and rough just like my new growth was for years when i relaxed. Now my natural hair grows out thick and smooth (still kinky, just smooth). i love it and I'm looking forward to achieving great length, thickness, health, and relearning my natural hair.

 

[Evolving78]

when i was relaxed, i just wanted longer hair, instead of style over length. now that i am natural, i just want a big afro. coming to the hair boards in 2000, i wanted to learn how to grow my hair out without having to get braids or a weave.

 

[melissa-bee]

I really just wanted long hair. At first my hair was breaking from relaxer and when I found this bored I wanted to grow my relaxed hair to BSL. Well after a while I ended up transitioning to natural. Primarily, I am doing it for my self, however, I do have a few doubters in my life and I want to prove them wrong as well.

 

[MariposaSexyGirl]

I just like long healthy hair. I think it's beautiful.

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[prospurr4]

I've always wanted thick, long hair but didn't think I could ever have it. I thought only other races or those with looser textures than my 4B could have hair growing down their backs.

Then I stumbled across LHCF, saw all the pics of Black women with gorgeous long hair,, noted that some of the ladies even had similar textures to my own, then the HHJ was on.....

 

[topnotch1010]

I found the site because I needed help tending to my dd's hair daily. It was breaking because of SSK. When we started she was NL. She's now approaching "BSL" (she's 5).

I've always wanted long hair but didn't know how to grow it. I'm blessed to have found this place. When I started I was a damaged SL. I cut the damaged hair to EL and now I'm between APL and BSL. I also built up the courage to finally go to cosmo school because of all the knowledge I gained here.

I was blessed to have found this place.


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[westNDNbeauty]

I have trust issues and won't allow anyone else to put their hands in my hair. Besides, I've always been a DIYer considering my mom is a non-practicing trained cosmetologist -- I've learned a lot from her.