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You can make your air grow real fast! Yes. It's true! Forget the 1/2" a month stuff! That's for ordinary people! You can have it grow real fast!
Buy some Scott's Weed & Feed! Add it to your hair. Water (but don't rinse) your hair twice a day! It gets rid of all split ends and actually feeds the scalp, making your hair grow real fast!
After two days, braid your hair then add some cow manure! Water once a day for a week!
After two weeks, you have over 12 months worth of hair growth! In a month, your hair will be over a foot long!
Of course I'm kidding. I'm making this post to prove a point. Your hair will not grow faster no matter what you do. You can't take vitamins and get super long hair any faster than if you don't take vitamins. Braiding your hair won't help. Massaging your scalp won't make any difference. Spending big bucks on miracle supplements are a waste too.
Science has proven that your hair grows at a certain rate...and that growth rate doesn't change. All you can do is take care of yourself and your body and accept your hair growth as is and WAIT!
Please...stop the "faster" hair growth posts. Just be patient and be happy that you have the hair to grow!
Amen! I've spent the last 12 years growing this mane of mine. It would suck to have it cut it off now.
Iwould be intereseted in knowing how you trim your own split ends?
I need to do it but have not figured out how.
Get a small pair of scissors, hold each hair up to the light and trim the split hair off just above the split...yes, one by one, but it doesn't really take that long and you will get the hang of it very quickly. Then you can use trims at a hair place as a way to just keep your hair looking neat.
So true.
Another thing that I don't understand.
People often post something like this: (usually newbies)
"I am growing my hair out. How often should I get a trim?"
Duhhhhhh!!!!
'nuff said.
That's actually a legitimate question. Every 6 months is generally considered a good interval, just to get rid of split ends. I wish I could adhere to that regimen myself, but the one place I'm willing to allow to get near my hair with scissors charges $50 for a trim for hair my length, and I'm on a tight budget as it is.
Really?
6 months of growth yields 3 inches. What person gets split ends in 6 months from a buzz cut?
Well, ya see, they're really finite. It takes a keen eye to see them and very sharp scissors to get rid of them.
hehehehe
Seriously, that's a good point. I've never had a buzz cut, so I don't know what a good length would be to start having it trimmed.
It bears repeating that if you want long hair without split ends, there is a technique to get rid of the splits without reducing overall length.
Grab a small clump of hair and twist it. This causes the ends to poke out of the twist while the longer hairs continue to the end. What you trim is the split ends that poke out. Don't trim bluntly to the shortest split.
Interesting! I assume this should be done while the hair is still damp?
I've been growing my hair for the last 12 years, and have only just learned how to trim my own split ends without paying a professional stylist to do it for me. I just performed a Google search on how to trim split ends, and found a bevy of information on the topic.
Thanks, Vic! You've just saved me $50!
LOL
What's the address?, I wouldn't mind checking it out too.
Just go to Google.com and do a search for "trim your own split ends". There wasn't any one page I found the information on. I sort of just skimmed through the pages that came up on the list of results Google returned.
Since I'm growing my hair out from a shaved head(!), I'm in a position to keep an accurate record of my hair growth. ON AVERAGE, I have experienced 1/8" growth per week, although I have had "faster" weeks. In weeks 2 and weeks 6, I measured 6/32" of growth. The only correlation I can find is that I spent MUCH more time outdoors under the hot sun during those weeks.
Still, when taking an average, I get BARELY over 1/8" per week, or roughly 1/2" per month. That's just about what I should expect.
You're splitting hairs here (chuckle - I made a pun!). Everyone's hair grows at varying rates of speed over time, however, the average for anyone is 1/2" per month.
WOW...that's some PRECISE measuring!!!
Where do you buy that? :)
Well now, I don't know 'bout growin' hair --- but cow manure worked into braids and watered daily --- that oughta have something growing pretty good in about two weeks!
Rokker is right. Your hair will grow at the rate nature intended unless you are sick, in which case it will grow more slowly and then catch up a little when you are well again.
Keep to a sensible diet, try to keep healthy, and let time do the rest.
sounds just like what i need! i get these brown dry patches in the summer & my scalp has developed crab grass & dandelions.