It has been almost seven complete months since I daringly took a pair of shears to my eight inch tresses and, out of frustration, snipped close to six inches.  This wasn’t done out of frustration with my hair, but with how things were going in my life up to that point.  What’s the correlation?  Well I’m a big believer in the idea that hair is infused with the energy of your life experiences, and for the past three years a lot of my experiences had been negatively charged.  After an extremely stress-filled visit to Detroit I arrived home and without thinking chopped off my hair at its two ample puffs.  It was such a rash decision it took me about two weeks to be able to look in a mirror.

Well last month I decided to lightly press my hair, not anticipating any real results growth-wise, and this is what I came away with:

That’s looking at approximately three inches on top of approximately one inch to start.  How did I do it?  With a very basic hair care premise called keeping my hands out of it, coupled with weekly conditioning, bi-weekly shampoo’ing and daily moisturizing with a blend of coconut, sweet almond, and grapeseed oils.  Nope, nothing fancy or intricate beyond one or two deep conditioning treatments with my Avocado-Coconut Milk-Honey-Sage conditioner.

Now if this seems miraculous to you consider this: Under normal, healthy condition ALL hair grows an average one half of an inch each month.  So by keeping manipulation and heat usage low, never combing through my hair when it was dry and allowing it to do what it does best, I was able to retain every half inch of growth these seven months yielded.  This is even accounting for natural shedding, which has increased thanks to Columbus’ hard water issues.

To date I have only ventured two styles with my short cut.  A weirdly funky two strand twist that a wrapped too early so the twists flattened:

And this weird, funky twists result turned into this absolutely GORGEOUS twist out fro:

Both styles were attempted this month.  I plan to do another two-strand attempt this week in preparation for my NEW JOB ASSIGNMENT  (*wild applause*) so that I can rock that curly twist out again.  Oh yeah… I hit a new milestone.  While I was in Detroit I actually went outside in the world with my hair uncovered!  Yes.  If you read my post about long vs. short hair then you know my trepidations about wearing my hair in public.  Well that’s a thing of the past now that I’ve found my “signature” short style.

So, there’s my hair update, which I know are painfully far and few between. *lol* I’m still flirting with the idea of locs but I think I want to gain a few more inches before I take the plunge.  Maybe come winter I’ll be ready.

Healthy Hair Wishes,