Hair Progress Update

Okay, here is my update after two months of no haircuts, no dying, no drying or ironing and joining this board:

• My hair is now 18.5 inches (from 17.75 inches before Thanksgiving)!
• I'm not cutting it, trimming it or dying it anymore (I'll do a trim at the end of a year)
• I am only washing my hair 2 times a week with no greasy side effects! (This took about a month to achieve - at first my hair and scalp protested, and now it feels very natural and comfortable)
• My hair is much shinier, healthier and happier
• Winter hair care - I went cross country skiing yesterday and it was about 15 degrees - I oiled with shea butter, braided, wore a hat, and my hair was in great shape at the end of the day)
• Exercise hair care - I condition-only after exercising which works for the sweat issue.
• Started taking evening primrose oil which is recommended for hair health (along with other supplements including multivitamin, calcium, and MSM)

Thanks all of you for all of your great help and advice!

 

Thanks Katja! I posted a picture in a thread a few weeks ago called "Newbie Pic." I will try to take another picture soon!  Thanks for the encouragement

Yay specialkitty!!!!  Good on ya girl!  You are being very good to your hair and your hair is being good to you in return.

Can I chime in with my own "progress report"?  As it's the first of the new year, I've decided to measure (going to measure on the 1st of every month now, instead of the 10th...just easier to remember!). Anyway, I had a bad month healthwise (major surgery) and my hair has not been happy. I didn't think there would be hardly any growth...but it still grew half an inch!  So my measurement today is 21 inches!!!!!! yiiiippeeee!!!  I didn't get my usual 3/4 inch, but any growth is fantastic    I also had some shedding issues for a few days after my surgery, but I'm pleased to say that has stopped too.

Isn't it amazing how our bodies react to physical and mental stress? I am so in awe of how my body is healing itself and it's going to make my new years resolution of living a healthy lifestyle so much easier to keep.  I feel like I respect my body now more than ever before

Anyway....I'm going off on a tangent.   Keep us posted with pics too specialkitty.  Maybe take a photo on each measuring day?

Grow grow grow.....

Yay-well done! Ummm, by 15 degrees do you mean in F? What's that in C? I don't understand...

Yeah, thats why I was puzzled... waaaaah!!!

15 fahrenheit= -9 celcius

Wow, that is freezing!

Just clarifying it for us non fahrenheitys.

Hi Holly, Congratulations on your healthy hair and that leave-in conditioner sounds great! As for the washing thing, I did try to tough it out the first month just to see if it would get better. I was on vacation much of the month and just wore my hair in braids when it was greasy. Each night I would comb it out and braid it again. The first week I guess I washed 3-4 times. The second week probably every third day, and the third week, I made myself go five days between washes. Now I go five-6 days between washes. It was definitely hard to do the first four weeks as I really wanted to wash it I am 2a,m,ii so maybe similar to your hair? Hope this helps - let me know what happens.

Great progress, LHD!!! Your hair color is very beautiful, too and it looks very healthy. How long did it take you to reach that length from the time of your pixie cut? How long was your hair when you got it cut? Let's keep posting our progess every month or two

SpecialKitty wrote: Exercise hair care - I condition-only after exercising which works for the sweat issue.

What is the "sweat issue"? Do you just mean cause your hair gets sweaty and icky and you don't like it or is sweat really really bad for the hair? I have a feeling it might be ... Mine gets all sweaty every day after exercise and I don't do anything about it ... . Should I be? I'd really rather not ...

Edited by Alayney

Well , I measured a couple days ago at 20" (awsome growth since Dec.1st
19"!) but now is the phase where my hair seems to "take a rest" from
growing. It always grows fast from my chin to my shoulders, from
shoulder length on seems to take a little more time. Or perhaps it is just
an illusion because while it's growing from my chin to my shoulders I
have more features to compare length to. From shoulder to bsl, there are
few ways to say your hair has reached a certain point (collarbone...nipples
maybe? hahaha) This is the first time I am growing out my hair while
keeping measurements. So it will be pretty interesting to see if my theory
is true!