18 years of growing my hair
Where does time fly!? It's already 18 years since I began to grow my hair long. Is it allowed to drive a car now?
I cut all of my hair to the same length (around 0,5 cm, so a little shorter than in the picture), but kept bangs to have less of a buzz cut. But since I hate having bangs, I soon cut them off too.
Back then I used a really dull scissor to cut my hair and would continue to do so for years. My poor hair!
Don't ask me why, but I bleached my hair... Above is the "carrot phase".
Blond and abused hair.
Of course, I soon missed having black hair.
Even if you can't see it, I still hadn't found any hair products, that my hair really liked. And my scalp was a flaking itchy thing.
I decided to, for the last time in my life, bleach my hair, before dying it red and then go back to black once and for all. And thus the "carrot phase" again.
I also used to let a friend heat style my hair and I was still in search of products that my hair really liked.
I really enjoyed red hair, but red washes out so fast!
Before my elbow surgery, I had to wash my hair with disinfection. Other than drying out my hair, it also washed away most of the colour.
Before jumping in to the shower to do my first conditioner only wash. This is where I finally found something that actually worked for my hair and scalp.
Even though I've switched products, I'm still CO-washing today and never use shampoo. I've discovered that my scalp and skin actually hates sulfates.
This is what my natural hair looked like, after a year of CO-washing and when most of the bleach had been cut away.
I decided to never again use chemical dyes and wanted to be a henna head for a while, before starting the process of getting it black with indigo. This was when I first began taking proper hair pictures and also when I first joined the Long Hair Community, altough it would take another year before I became active.
You can read about my hendigo journey here
Black again.
Having kept up with some heavy S&D and minimal trims for years. My hemline was starting to fairytale.
My thin ends reached knee by the end of 2020. The ends were actually thinner than you can see in the picture. I began to maintain at knee.
The ends were still thin, but the thickness was traveling down, since I was maintaining at knee.
Since nothing had happended lenght wise, I went with a more "fun" picture for 2022.
I switched from maintaining to microtrimming, as to allow the hair to grow, while still trimming to let thickness travel down. I reached calf length.
And here we are now. I'm still microtrimming. Altough I've had to and still have to do more S&D after running around at a festival with loose hair. It was worth it! The thickness is still traveling down and the length is slowly creeping downwards. I'm in no hurry to get somewhere. Because my hair is currently in several braids, you won't get a measurment of the lenght, but by the end of 2024 it was 138,5 cm.
Having fun with my hair and enjoying the journey is more importan to me, than reaching super lengths fast.
Although my hair would have been a lot longer, if I would have taken as good care of it all the way, as I'm doing today. I have no regrets! I had a lot of fun trying different colors and doing stuff with my hair!
I often get asked the question "why have long hair if it's almost never down". Well, because it's my hobby. Because I enjoy spending two hours making small braids and doing different updos with them.
And because different hairtoys are fun. And just like those dresses in my closet, that I only wear once in a while, I sometimes but rarely do enjoy to let my hair down.
And as I always end these threads. I will continue to have fun with my hair and I hope you do too!
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