21 Months Natural
I finally made it home to my cosmetologist and I was overjoyed!! I'd been having issues with shedding and I wasn't happy with having to do my own hair. I want to learn the skills to be able to "tap into the versatility of my natural hair" so I've just been in an awkward place. I went in for a trim, so this length check will be after the trim. Let's see what happened at the salon.
June 18 (picture on the left) 72 weeks natural, (1 year 6 months)
31 weeks since the BC (~8 months)
31 weeks since the BC (~8 months)
48 weeks since the BC (~almost a year)
You can definitely see the growth over the 4 month period. It's small, but it's there. During September's length check I talked about a few things.
I desperately needed a trim! I must say, however, I forgot to mention all the shedding I'd been doing and had attributed it to dead ends. I see now, that wasn't the problem because my hair is still shedding a lot. My goal for this month is to talk with my cosmetologist to see what she says/recommends about it.
In regards to my feelings of needing a salon. I still feel that way. I truly wish I could bring my cosmetologist to any part of the DMV! But she's not here, so here's what I've decided to do about my hair. I will not heat train my hair, but I will wear my hair straight for the majority of the winter. I feel comfortable with straight hair. It's quicker and easier to maintain all the way around, so I'm hoping to have success with that. I've already straightened it once since coming back from home so be on the lookout for that blog post soon!!
My hair looked great after this salon visit. The downfall was that it rained the whole weekend I was home!! My hair stayed straight for about 0.2 seconds and began to gradually poof out for the rest of that afternoon into the night. See what I'm talking about:
Natural hair and humidity just don't mix...either way you wear it; straight or curly!! I ended up wearing my hair like this (--->) for most of my trip home AND even once I returned back to DC:That wasn't the goal, but that's what happened. So, since I wasn't able to relish in the straight, 'flowiness' of my straightened hair this visit...I plan to try my best to get the straight, 'flowy' effect at home on my own. This can't be that hard. People do it every day.
Let's just see if that works!
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