Trims

Hello, I've been watching this board a long time and now I'm finally posting! Wheee. Thanks to you all my hair has gotten so beautiful.

How often should I trim my hair do get it to it's maximum lenghth. I'm not quite ready for the now trim approach (I still have some dye to grow out) so until then any suggestiions.

P.S. What is the proper way to measure hair?

What Uzma says is good - I would add:

to achieve maximum length, you had better trim as little as possible. Therefore, I suggest that you grow out the dyed section as much as possible, until it starts getting ugly-looking, THEN trim.

Once you have cut off all the dyed hair, avoid trims as much as possible. Trim only if there are very serious split ends and then have as little as possible trimmed off. Best to go to a long hair salon, where you can trust the stylist not to chop off more than needed.

And if you can afford it, start taking viviscal/hairtopia vitamins to make your hair grow as fast as possible.

It's nice to see that someone is going away from the common way of treating one's hair (chemically processing it for an artificially created look) and back to their natural roots. I appreciate this.

Hello Lalaithial, and welcome! It's great to hear you've been enjoying our community and learning from us; even better that you've spoken up.

I agree with Uzma's perspective on trims. Micro-trims can even be 1/4 of an inch or less, depending on the skill of the stylist (now there's a challenge, stylists). I might add: learn to "dust" your hair. This is the term for searching through your hair (generally at and near the ends) for split-ends, and use a pair of sharp scissors to trim off the split-end from the single strand on which it exists. Repeat until you can't find any more split ends or until you run out of time, whichever comes first. Depending on the health of your hair, this might take almost no time or it could take awhile; regardless, your hair will be in improved condition when splits are zapped.

Hope this helps!