....about my hair. i have some disappointing news for you. it's really not that interesting.
i've been growing it out for about four years. ish. i can't remember. everyone on my dad's side of the family has hair and nails that grow like the national debt. as in, exponentially. it is ridiculous. but we are lucky. it's genetics.
lots of people want to grow out their hair. i have some advice for you:
1. wash your hair with a strengthening shampoo and strengthening conditioner. i don't have to use those but if you're looking to grow out your hair it makes sense.
2. don't use heat to style your hair. i'm serious. i curl my hair maybe 3 or 4 times a month, maybe. that's it. using tons of heat, even with heat protectants, will eventually damage your hair. which leads to breakage. which leads to short.
3. put your hair in a braid when you sleep. it prevents breakage and you avoid the problem of bedhead.
4. let your head hang upside down for a minute or two every day. you know, just let your head hang down over the side of the bed for two minutes. if you increase blood circulation to your scalp you're fostering hair growth.
5. take your vitamins. they will make your hair strong. not to mention they're good for the rest of you.
6. most people, i learned from ELLE magazine, can't grow their hair down to their feet because it's a genetic thing. you're genetically predisposed to have hair a certain length. it's just that mine happens to be very very long. yours may not be that way, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.
some downsides to having long hair:
1. you will clog up the vacuum. i'm not kidding. long hair gets tangled up in it somehow and then, as you're vacuuming, the acrid stench of burning hair hits your nose. and then, when you examine the vacuum, you find strands of hair rapped around everything and it is all a big mess and your stepsister has to come help you take your own hair out of the vacuum.
2. it requires more maintenance. for most people. i'm lucky that my hair is long, strong, and shiny and thick. i don't have to do much.
3. styling it, especially curling, takes longer.
4. getting volume at the root isn't easy.
5. it is oppressive in hot weather.
6. it gets stuck on things. most frequently doorknobs, chairs, hooks, wires, seatbelts, jewelry, purses, and sometimes other things too. and long hair is much more noticeable if it's on clothing. people always know when i've been somewhere because a long golden hair is on their couch.
7. you need to have some sort of layering done to your hair, because it can lack shape.
8. babies like to pull on it.
9. people will call you pocahontas, rapunzel, hippie, sleeping beauty, or rumpelstiltskin. i don't know why they call you rumpelstiltskin. i think they're trying to be clever or something.
other than that, i like having long hair. it is the most distinctive thing about my appearance.
i hope this was useful to you. it probably wasn't. but if i exist for something, it's rambling.
xx
