The Beginning

Everyone woman has a hair story, no?

My story? Hair is hair. Always.

As a girl I always had "a head full of hair". I don't have many photos from childhood because of a fire my parents experienced, but I have one memory of being in 2nd-3rd grade and my older cousin cornrowing my hair to the side/back and adding beads. And some kid accusing me of having fake hair in the coat closet. I kicked his ass, because that's what I would do as a kid. If someone gave me drama, they got their ass kicked. I'm much more mellow now in my life as a suburban mom!

Over the years I have grown and cut countless heads of at least shoulder length hair. I have been thinking about this and was thinking when I graduated from HS I was sporting a super short tapered cut. I got pregnant with my daughter freshman year of college and when she was born, I was at SL (about 18 months). I've grown to jussssst about APL and then chopped. Back to full SL. Rinse and repeat.

The last time I was at APL and wanting to hit BSL was when I met my husband. I "killed" that head of hair by abandoning all my good regimens and wearing my hair down all the time and going for the "quick route" of blow-dry / flat-iron every time.

I'm starting over and have decided on MBL and that it should take somewhere around 2 years to go from SL to MBL. That is about 10" for me (SL to MBL). I'm not concerned with BSL because that's so much more arbitrary than others.

I'm redeveloping my regimen (obviously it was working well the last time - I went from CL to APL in about 15 months) and will post photos on 11/1 to kick this journey off.

My hair (most hair!) prefers very little heat which I'm good about only using direct heat on wash day. However, I am aiming for heat only 1x a month if possible. I will plan that as close to the 1st as I can to have consistent comparisons.

Let's Go!