My 1 Yr Hair Journey Anniversary

*Originally posted on Hairlista.com on 8/13/10*

So... its been a year. There's been lots of ups and downs, some disappointment but overall its been GREAT. This is the first time in my life I've had hair this long even though its not BSL, APL, or hell even SL. I'd consider myself Full NL, after I started off as EL, but to me that's a huge deal.

I dealt with a LOT of breakage which caused me to get about 2 inches cut off at one point during my journey. I didn't yet quite understand the moisture/protein thing. I also don't think I knew what REAL moisturized hair felt like. I was doing what others were doing and not really understanding what MY HAIR wanted or needed. It took me EIGHT MONTHS to understand my hair, and from then, I didn't look back.

My last relaxer was in March, so I did a 20 week stretch, which wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. My hair dresser today was like WOW when he saw my NG! lol. Even the salon owner, who knew me when I had broken EL hair was like "Kimora, look at all that hair you got!"

The only thing though is that the braids I was wearing over the summer broke off my edges somewhat. My hairdresser didn't relax the very nape of my hair. I bought some castor oil today and I'm going to give it one last try. Here's my progress over the past year.





More pix taken today. One thing I'm really happy about is that my hair is the same length all over, not choppy. I'm also happy it still looks full.

Progress is a process but damn if it ain't worth it!

So.. I said before I was attempting to stretch my relaxer to 12 weeks. Needless to say... I caved. lol My roots were out of control thick and my hair as starting to break more. So I got my relaxer on 10/27/09, and the first thing I noticed was that my hair was touching my neck.. :) Now this may not seem like a big feat, but this is the first time in my life this happened. Check out the results...

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Even my hairdresser was impressed! He was like "Wowwww Kimora your hair is really growing!". I should also mention that before my relaxer day, the last time heat touched my hair was September 5. I think that totally had a hand in the results.

Also, I thought I should share, a few weeks ago I joined a site called Hairlista.com. This has been COMPLETELY helpful to me. It's like the Facebook for hair lovers. lol. I have learned so much about my hair through this site, and having other women there who are as passionate about healthy hair as I am, is very refreshing to say the least! I know my friends are probably dead tired hearing about some damn hair lol.

I must also admit that I am a product junkie... I try just about everything. There's been some hits as well as some misses, but alls fair when it comes to hair, right?...Right???


Til next time..HHJ!