Hey, guys! My hair is definitely getting thicker and I’m so happy about that. I really have been taking my time in caring for it and my healthy hair efforts are paying off. But I gotta tell you that I’m growing a little impatient. I want more length. I need it. Like, NOW! So let’s get right down to the nitty gritty: I’m officially turning over the hourglass and kicking off the next installment of Operation Restoration - my official hair care routine for growth. It’s time to grow some hair, y’all.
After washing and blow drying my hair, I was somewhat dismayed by what I saw. The “hole” in the middle of my hair that I talked about in my last post seemingly got bigger. I mean, I knew that some evidence of it would be there since I had previously cut just shy of getting rid of it totally. But the gap should not have grown, at least by my calculations. I mean, what gives, right?
Well, turns out I did NOT do my due diligence in checking out and caring for the underside hair above the nape of my neck. These hairs are always prone to breakage since they come most in contact with items such as wool sweaters and neck jewelry that can ensnare strands, thus sabotage growth. And this is where the gap has found its home on my head. This is its origin.
I should have just cut it. I should have at least paid attention to it and at least trimmed that section. Well, "shoulda", "woulda", "coulda"... but didn't. But "can" and "will" as of right now...
And so I gave myself a mini-chop, cutting about an inch/inch and a half off, which basically accounts for all the new growth I gained. Like I said before, I'm trying not to cut too much off because it's hard for me to wrap it at too short a length. It just won't stay wrapped around my head. It already takes me close to 15 minutes as it is with this length as I have to finagle it and then hold my head at an awkward angle just to keep it all from cascading right back down again. But really, it's the number of hairs that I need to gain most. And as you can see, my hair IS thickening up, so there's that...
And then I curled and styled it.
And now here we are...
You know, watching your hair grow is like... well, watching your hair grow! It's a frustrating, laborious wait that seems to take FOREVER! Oh, and one misstep and it's back to the starting blocks. It's never the length that you want when you want it... but then it shows up. And that's the part I'm soooo looking forward to. I want it to show up and show out, you know? And I know that it will because it has before.
I am super laser-focused on getting everything I lost back - and then some. Time to turn the page and start the next chapter of this operation. Gotta get this length poppin'. And it's coming, y'all. I just gotta keep plugging away at it. It. Is. Coming.
