Hey Folks,

I'm wondering if there's a rough trend for "growth plateaus" where your hair takes a rest period. For those with extra long hair, at what lengths have you all gotten these rest periods? I know rests have a lot to do with personal growth patterns and those vary like crazy, but I can't help wondering if there's a pattern. Any thoughts?

Anais

I think that more often we have "measuring" plateaus than "growth" plateaus. I think that hair hangs a certain way, or waves a bit more, or we measure slightly differently, and it looks like we haven't grown at all.

I do believe that sometimes growth is faster, and sometimes it's slower, but I also know that when it seemed like the tape measure was telling me my hair wasn't growing, I still needed to touch up my roots regularly. If my hair wasn't growing, I shouldn't have needed to do that.

I think my hair grows faster in the summer hot months and slower in the winter cool months. I think a lot of people have similar results. What are your growth plateaus?  :)

I've only been measuring since May, so I don't have any kind of feel for a normal growth pattern.

I feel my hair has always grown fast, and the first month I measured I got 3/4". But it was a month and a half after that before I was sure, given the learning curve of measuring growth, that I had grown more.

The roots seem to keep growing, even though the ends stay put. ::)

My hair seemed to "rest" and not show any growth for about 4 - 5 months.  This happened when my hair was just above waist length.  It was very frustrating.  I finally just decided to put it in a bun and quit measuring.  

My hair then returned to it's usual growth of about .5" per month.

I've read that resting periods are not uncommon with extra long hair.

mine seems to have slowed down at the moment. its frustrating but hopefully itll wake up again soon! *fingers crossed*