This journal will be most interesting. My hair is now just a few centimeters below my shoulder line, so it will be a long wait before I'm happy with its length.

So far, I have survived more than a year of bad hair care and still have a reasonably thick bunch of healthy hair. I have survived the annoying time from growing my hair from stub to shoulder-length, months when it kept falling to my eyes and looked ugly and outgrown short style and almost an entire year when it hung somewhere around my chin, formless and didn't suit at all to my face.

For over a year I have managed to keep my hair on an updo, and have learned several updo styles in the process.

That about my past and to the present. From now on the growth of my hair will be less easy to notice, but the whole looks better. I have learned to be gentle for my hair and I just imagine, that my hair has started to look happier lately.
   I am trying to invent a working way to make a French Twist, but so far I have been unsuccessful. No matter how many days it is from my previous hair wash or how many styling products and hair pins I use- the hair just doesn't stay where I've put it for longer than half an hour. It's frustrating.
   But buns secured with a bun net are easy, as well as some others securely pinned styles. And I really like the way my hair looks: golden and shiny.

My goals: I want to have a long hair. Waist length is the longest one I can imagine on myself right now, but I don't think it will necessarily be the end. I just haven't ever seen anyone in RL with a hair longer than that.  

Guess what I found from my mailbox yesterday, almost right after I had ended my session here? My first pair of Longlocks hair sticks had arrived!

They were lovely! I'm not good with inch system, so they were a bit shorter than I had excepted, but so beautiful! Really from a different planet than all my other hairsticks. I'm wearing one stick right now, and am probably unable to take it off from my hair until the next shipment (which I haven't ordered yet) arrives.

I guess I have found out what to do with the money that I save from not partying or drinking booze.

As I played with my hair, I also decided to oil it for the first time with jojoba oil. My hair was shiny before, but now I almost except that it will glow in the dark.  I also performed split end check and the situation seems so good that I don't need to trim my hair this month as I had planned. More money to spend in hairsticks.

So, all in all, yesterday was a very good hair day.

That's a great idea about trimming a certain # of splits each day.  I just can't ever find the time to sit down for several hours and do it. 

Very cool about the crown braid.  I am also working on them, and last nights was the best I've had so far.  Once you master the crown braid, you'll have no problems with french braids.

Tried crown braid again. It just doesn't seem to work. I start from lower section left and start braiding upwards from there, but handling my hair when doing that is so difficult. I can't make the braid tight enough, or even control it...if nothing else happens, the hair that hangs downwards when I'm trying to braid upwards, gets on the way.
Or then there's just some minor detail that I don't get- could be that too, since I don't have any trouble in doing regular French or Dutch braids. Must keep on trying...

My hair has grown! I've imagined that it's just about 2 inches below shoulder line, but yesterday evening I just looked in the mirror and I tell you- it's more like 4 inches below shoulder line, well on its way to BSL.  When has this happened?

I still continue trimming 30 split ends a day (or more, when I have time& energy). And every day there are always more and I don't even have to look for them much. So that project is very much still continuing.

Thanks, Valerie! I will try your advice!

I just made a post to "help" board. As the title there says, split hairs are everywhere. I've trimmed hundreds of them so far, and there's no end in sight. I'm feeling desperate and my hair is just a big, yellow bunch of problems. My hair has also static, and jojoba oil doesn't seem to help much to that. Hope that someone will be able to help me...

The only happy thing in my hair life is, that I completed my second order from Longlocks boutique today.   Soon I will be a happy owner of three new pairs of hairsticks.

EDIT: 50 split ends hunted down today.  What have I done to my hair to make it do this?

First day when I didn't find 30 split hairs quickly.  I hope, I hope, I hope so much that this is a sign of success.

After yesterday's pampering my hair feels really nice and soft. And thick. I measured round my ponytail and it's now 8 cm (little more than 3 inches). And I still have some hair that's not long enough to get in. 

I read from the newspaper that US dollar is weak compared to Euro. My first thought was: "But that means that I can afford more LL hairsticks!".  I'm addicted.

Hi Galadriel,

That is a great idea about using rosewater on your scalp.  I just tried it and it feels and smells wonderful!

What is a crown braid?  I'd really like to know.

Good journal~ 8)

strawberryfine