I asked my mother to take off 10 cm, but I think she took more like 8.
Oh well.
I forgot to bring my camera, so she took pictures with hers.
It feels like I have hovered around knee length for years now. Whenever I grow into calf length, the ends get so crappy. But I also can't bring myself to take off a lot more.
You know your hair is getting long...
...When you get a trim and you can't even tell the difference!
Try to use silicone serum just.on your ends after every wash. This little thing revolutionised my hair care. I trim my ends every 3 months. Before the serum era they looked bad as early as a few weeks after a trim and by the time of the next.one they were.so tangly! They damage so fast coz they're my old sections of hair from before i started proper care, but still... Now my ends are still.straight after the 3 months period. I use a silicone serum that is rich in oils. And if we're at oils, I also used them.on my ends for 5 months. A serum is much better, even if it sounds strange.
ReplyDeleteI always use a leave in conditioner that is partially mixed from other stuff with a base of Sunsilk the orange line. In the summer I add stuff like sunscreen and in the winter some heavier, more expensive stuff, serums or oils and stuff :)
DeleteAfter the pictures, I added some and braided my hair (I figured it would be a good idea to not ad "slip" to it for the cut)
I think the ends I disliked are the leftovers from back when I had not transitioned to full CO wash yet, they always had this odd bit wave to them for some reason!
My old, pre-haircare ends curl and wave too! I have waves everywhere, but the ends are.particularly prominent in curling :-D
DeleteThat's odd! Are we onto something here? Some sort of sign that you didn't love your hair enough back when those ends were roots?
DeleteTell me, do you also feel there is something "off" about the way your pre-"longhair circuit knowledge"-ends dries?
As for the serum - it's really a great idea. I use serum for my endings every evening - just one tiny drop on the very endings of my hair. So I guess it will take me may be 1,5 years to use the whole bottle (75 ml). Some serums have got sweet floral scent (not everyone likes such kind of smells I suppose, but in my opinion it's not so bad and my colleague thought my hair serum was a new perfume because of smell:) ). My hair is below tailbone, but not yet classic, they are pretty thin at the ends, but I don't see any splits, white dots etc. And surprisingly for me they still grow - very slowly, but yet grow - about 0,8-1 cm per month. Cutting for me is not an option - cutting means just having the same length for ages and not moving forward at all due to very slow hair growth. And the ends grow back pretty much the same - no splits, no damages, but thin. I realized however that if I wait longer, thining ends "wander" to the bottom of my hair. Previously anything below my waist was thin, but after waiting for a 1,5 year without trims, everything past tailbone is thin now and hair grown from waist to tailbone is not the thickest, but not so thin as they were before. May be for you is not the case, as your hair are so much longer. But if you don't see/ experience any splits, damages at the ends and want to get extra length, I would suggest waiting and no trims at all. Who knows - may be after a year all your hair will catch up and gain thickness? Of course I would suggest waiting only in cae there is no damage on hair ends.
ReplyDeleteWow!! Nice hair---I can't see any change in length, but it still looks lovely. And so are you! Is that a photo of you in the second picture, in the oval black frame? Its amazing--love your mom's house :D
ReplyDeleteHaha. Yea, its me in the top picture, age circa 17-19 I think. Funnily, even though I weighed a lot less back then, I had some serious babyfat in my face XD
Delete(Middle picture is my mom and dad being goofy and the bottom one is my two nephews from some years back)
As we mature, our faces get more angular (unless you are me ;) ) so you may have weighed less, but your face would still be rounder--though to me, you look exactly the same. Was your hair the same length in that photo?
DeleteNo. It's somewhere between shoulder length and waist length, which is the length it's been going back and forth between age and 13-19
DeleteAh--it's cropped due to the photo so it's hard to tell, but it's a lovely photo :)
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