Monthly Review #19

Month Nineteen! This month I gave some great fracking hair if I do say so myself.


Nobody can believe that I grew all this hair in a year and a half. Oh hells yeah - I rock. Whoever implies I'm protein deficient because I'm a vegan next is going to get a huge helping of:

Anyway! One of the reasons people have been noticing my hair length lately is because I started blowing it dry. Has my mother been begging me to do this for years? Maybe. Have I vehemently relented and refused? Some might say that. Am I loving it now? I'LL NEVER TELL!

So now my shower has been moved to a morning cleanse with a blow dry after. But not straight away. No. I get out of the shower and put on a turbie-twist. THEN I do all the other things like dry my body, clean my ear canals - you know, the important things. AND THEN I usually figure out what I'll wear and get distracted by a computer (I'm Funemployed right now so this is around 10 or 11 AM). THEN I pull the turbie-twist off and literally whip my hair in every way I can until it is ALMOST dry and my neck is near breaking. I flip my head over and blow dry for maybe a minute on high. Then whip it some more (I may have a death wish). Then use my round brush with directed heat to make sure the top doesn't do that awful half-ass wavy thing (pictured below in the gold shirt early pictures). and VOILA! It's a little frizzy the first day, perfect the second day, a little flat the third day and in an updo the fourth. Before I go to bed on the 4th night I put some essential oil mixture on the ends. Because Why Not? Not because if I didn't use that essential oil mixture my mother bought me and was expensive she'd kill me. That has nothing to do with it.

I have to say that though I have a had a few knots in my hair I haven't yet seen any split ends and it hasn't been cut at all! KNOCK ON WOOD. But seriously - I urge you if you want healthier hair to consider pushing even a few more hours between your hair washings over time. It really does make a difference. If you're not leaving your house one day just don't wash your hair. It's easy!

I'm so excited for another 1.5 years of growth to get to my waist.

Okay and this month I did try to take more pictureeeesss :)

Monthly Review #18

One year and a half!!

But you, my loyal followers, you're going to rebel for I have let you down. Not only is this super late....but I only took photos thrice....and in the same sweater each time....to be fair one day I had already gotten undressed for bed before I decided to capture my hair so I grabbed the sweater off the top of the laundry. Ugh, now I have wardrobe issues!

Plus....I don't have much to say? My hair looked great on my 26th birthday. The four day hair cycle is still great. I love having this much hair - I keep having real good hair days. It's so great! But those are usually within 36 hours of a shower so I accept that once my hair gets much longer I'll be shortening the cycle in order to have consistent good hair. Yay for the future!

I have been trying to shorten my hair washing by really concentrating and going in a routine order (nape, back, right, front, left, middle).

Also scarves are really easy to wear with hair this length - no tangles or a weird look by having long hair be trapped and pushed up around the scarf. Win!....if it ever gets cold. Knock on wood that it won't.

First 5, middle 4, last 3 (different dates - since there're no sartorial clues)

Monthly Review #17

Holy god. I'm so completely inundated in school right now that the 15th didn't even phase me. Guys - I'M LATE getting to you and I didn't even realize!!

Okay so this month....what did happen this month. BRB, reading last month. Oh wow.... not much has changed since then. I worry I won't ever run out of shampoo because every shower I put more water in the bottle, shake and then use it => infinite shampoo! After 4 days of no washing your hair is OILY - like clumped in it. And my hair is decently thick so it's just a LOT to get through. That's why I water it down. After wetting my hair in the shower I can take the bottle in my right hand and use my left to lift pieces of hair away from each section of the scalp and to allow the bottle to squirt this watery soap in a direct application. Then I use my hand to lather up real good so the soap extends down the hair shaft. I even tip my head over to get the nape of my neck and tip it back to get my hairline....like washing a child's hair. But goddamn a lot of hair is coming out of my scalp - during the showers, during regular life. It's annoying. I'm just starting to get worried - you know? But I haven't observed any split ends, yet! It feels thick and healthy even at the ends...I don't know! GAH. I also have hair insecurity about the size of my ponytail - it's like a nickel in diameter....no quarters or half dollars here....a nickel. :(

I do a lot of half-updos so that I can get it off my face (a ponytail still looks weird to me. like a little puff tail.) If I want a more severe ponytail I pull the top into one ponytail holder at the crown of my head and then pull it and the rest of the hair down into one at the nape of my neck. it works....but gives me even more ponytail insecurity since the bottom pony looks so scrawny. I think about this way too much.

When I pull my hair straight the bottom is about an inch below my collar bone - like 5" from the nipple line! By the end of next summer I'll have hair to my mid torso.....and by the time we hit the three year mark the ends should be flirting with my waist. EEE! (then it might be time for another shave ;)...or maybe I'll just enjoy my long locks for a year or two before I shear again....who knows. I am just so in love with having a good bit of hair again. :D

Omg....I only took photos three times this month. Forgive me, oh blogging overlords! I really am swamped with school. I'm so ashamed....or maybe that's how many times I can naturally selfie before my soul needs an exfoliation.