Monday, June 3, 2013

Determining my growth rate and retention

I have always been curious as to exactly what rate my hair grows. Is it a half an inch a month? A quarter? I really don't know. So this month I have decided to measure it. I was supposed to start on the 1st but I'm a little behind. Today is the 3rd. I gave myself a trim last night and my hair (with the exception of my "bangs") was between 13 and 14 inches long in every place that I measured. So at the end of the month I'm going to measure my hair again and see what kind of length I was able to grow and retain. I'm really hoping for an inch!!

One of the things that kind of prompted this was I got an email from naturallycurly.com that talked about hair supplements that are supposed to help with hair growth. Now I already take a hair vitamin, but there were a few in there that I had never heard of. So onto Amazon I went and I purchased two of the items from the list: Saw Palmetto berry and Viviscal. I honestly don't know if adding these two will have any affect what so ever, but I figure they can't hurt, right? I'm taking one of my old faithful vitamins and one Viviscal along with 2 Saw Palmetto capsules in the morning, and then I take them again in the evening, only with just 1 saw palmetto. In addition to that I've been doing scalp massages and trying REALLY hard to keep my ends from drying out so my hair doesn't break off. This week I'll be wearing
my hair in a bun, and possibly next week too and I am trying to do over night deep conditioners. Of course as my last post stated, all of this will be completely pointless if I can't keep it up. With that in mind, I really don't want to try and do TOO much and set myself up for some insane routine that I can't possibly hope to maintain. I do want to find something that not only works, but also fits my lifestyle. I mean I already know what works. I've been there, I've done it  before. I reached 18 inches (which still didn't seem long enough) so I know I can do it. But now that I don't work from home any more, I've noticed other things besides my hair are becoming a lot harder to maintain (my weight being one)

So I will post some before and after pics when the 30 days is up... hopefully I remember to take pics tonight. I had wanted to do a video, but I have just been too lazy. Blogging about it is so much easier!

Til next time.