So I’ve been saying for ages that I only get 4 inches of growth per year and this year I really wanted to prove it. About two weeks into January I decided to take a picture of the roots of my hair.
I had only just colored my hair only a few weeks before so it looked like a good baseline to measure my real growth by the end of the year.
I measured the growth as 0.5 -1 cm or 0.2 – 0.4 inches at the time. Crazy how hair on your head grows at different rates, the very front is about 0.5 cm shorter than the crown area!
Naturally I decided not to color my hair for the rest of the year so as not to skew the results. Below is the picture, you can clearly see where the brown ends and the black begins.
Anyway, you may also remember that I purchased a bottle of Fast Grow Ethnic Hair Growth Enhancer at the beginning of the year in the hopes of increasing my diabolically slow growth.
I’m not changing my tune in saying that “one needs hair vitamins in order to grow hair long”, I mean I still managed to get to MBL with just a regimen and prayer right? Rather I think that getting such slow growth as I do makes things harder in that your retention has to be absolutely immaculate and second to none in order to show progress at the end of the year. Unfortunately for me that means that I would have to wear protective styles year round in order to make the leap from mid back length to waist length.
Now due to my flaky nature (don’t judge me!) I actually only ever took pills on 3 nonconsecutive days soon after receiving them which of course was not long enough to see any difference. As such I still have majority of the bottle in the medicine cabinet.
On a whim a couple of days ago I decided to check how my growth was doing. Obviously with shedding and a bit of color fade, the line where my new growth meets the old hair is not as obvious in this picture but I was able to see it just fine when I was measuring the length in my brightly lit bathroom. I have added a line to the picture to show you where the colored hair starts.
That my dears is 3 inches exactly of hair growth in 9 months! That means that it takes me 3 months to get 1 inch of hair hence by the end of 2012 I should have a grand total of 4 inches growth. Mm hmm, I already knew that.
Now you see why I NEVER trim my hair? Nuff said!
Anyway, going back to my Fast Grow Hair Pills, yesterday was the 1st of October and I finally decided to become serious with them and took them as described in the packaging. Today I also took a dose of these babies and will continue to do so for the rest of the year so help me God. I also plan to implement a pretty strict protective styling regimen which will span 3 weeks out of each month in protective styles between now and end of December. I will also add a 3 times per week green house effect session to enhance the growth.
Now that we’ve determined that my baseline growth is 1 inch in 3 months, if I get any more length than this between now and the end of the year, I will know that it is the pills and GHE that have had their magic effect.
I plan to have my first book out before Christmas so I really want to have some pretty pictures to show on the cover!
Anyway, if you are a slow grower too, take heart. You can still have long hair, just have a pristine regimen and don’t ever trim it.
