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!
Some more pictures from the Elrond day
These were taken by another talented friend and there's more to come.
The stylist and the nosy model.
A friends dog.
Elrond inspired hair by a friend
Yesterday a friend braided my hair in an Elrond inspired half up. Because doing small fishtail braids in my hair takes forever, another friend got to make the two small, three strand braids by instructions of the first friend.
You know I can't stay serious for long.
I had no sword but found a barbecue fork.
Would you folk the fork queen into battle?
NightBloomin
After I really started to think that my package was lost, I got an update that it was in Sweden on I could pay the fees. Yesterday it finally arrived!
The catnip is obviously for the cats. We've been out for a couple of weeks.
I've been so low on salve and I was afraid to run out completely before getting a new jar. I'm using it for my face and I've tried to use as little as possible. Now I can slather it on as usual again.
I got two conditioner bars of the limited edition Victorian Lady. (Available for patreons.) They smell lovely and I'm really looking forward to trying it. As one bar lasts for years I'm soon set for life...
Easter
A braided Chinese bun with a hair sword.
Ducks are the new cool
Easter 2025. My dear fellow witches. Chickens are out! Ducks are in!
The earrings were a gift from a friend. The feathers are pf course natural sheds from my ducks. I believe that my customers will be impressed with my easter decorations.
I'm still wearing my 13 braids
Slightly messy but they're still holding on. Today they're in a Tatsilus bun.
Battle braid
Friday did some lacebraids and some three strand braids. Today I braided them together in a battle braid.
Hairtoy fixing
I have several hairslides, with sticks that belong to them. But most are poorly made, so I've been using maybe two of them that aren't as bad, to all slides. Today I finally sanded them to make them smooth and give them nice edges.
No hair snagging now!
Homemade wax.
Now I'll leave them over night and see if they need more wax, or if I have to wipe away excess wax.
Just some hair
I thought that my hair would be visible with a skirt with green. It's still too much black where it blends in 😅
Celtic knot bun
Since I have an inflamed knee and can't work out or do much fun things, I may as well spend time on doing other hairstyles than the ones I always do.
Today's Tatsilus bun
My hair toys
Here it is. The big post showing all of my hair toys and the storage!
Scrunchies
Hair forks and combs
Forgot this one that I'll try to glue
Wooden hair sticks
Forgot this one
Metal, horn, bone and acrylic
Hair swords
Clips
Moons
A smaller decorative hair net
Bows and other decorative things
Crown/diadem
To the left real flexi 8's/lillarose. To the right self made.
Hairslides
Decorative things
Beads
Parandas. Braided together to not get tangled.
Scarves. Not necessarily for the hair
Square scarves for my hair. These I wear daily.
This wasn't in the picture, because it's on my head.
Snoods. Selfmade
Ribbons
Rolled up on a toilet roll
All collected in here
Scarves, parandas, henna powder and more
Sticks, forks and more
A modified version of an Amish bun
My hair has gotten too long for the original version, so I pull the braids through the top loops twice.
And I added a hair sword because I can and to impress my nephews.
A braided bun
Happy new year!
I'm only covering my face to force my phone to focus on my hair.
Hair growth and hair year
My hair wanted to be wavy, so I had a hard time taking pictures. But here they are!
I'm still microtrimming to thicken up the ends, while still growing the hair a bit. Last year it was 134 cm and today it's 138,5 cm.
You can see how it's grown, since I first reached knee.
Close up of the ends.
I'm most happy to have reached the milestone of cat length. My second smallest cat height wise in the picture. MÃ¥rran.
As for my hair year. I got rid of most of my split ends. I went to Germany for M'era Luna and spent a windy day at a festival with my hair loose, cultivating new splits. I had fun and saw no one with longer hair than me, so it was totally worth it!
I've been doing S&D since then, to get rid of those splits. This is the main reason my hair is barely longer or thicker. And I may also be closing in on terminal. I'm still happy with my hair and my main goal is still to have fun with it.
Overall I haven't cared a lot about my hair this year. I've mostly kept it up under a scarf and forgotten about it.
We'll see what type of hair year 2025 will be!
Late Christmas pictures
I became sick afterwards, but here's my hair and outfit from Christmas.
Another Christmasy bun
December hair
We don't put up any Christmas decorations at home. But I do in my hair for work. It makes other people happy to see it.
