See why your hair remains the same length month after month in spite of your efforts at hair care
Has your hair remained the same length regardless of all the techniques, time and products you have showered it with? Are you in that category that says my hair JUST WON’T GROW?
If this is your reality then chances are you have been making some missteps in your hair journey. Something has gone wrong with your regimen. The problem is not so much that it is not growing, but that you have been unable to retain and maintain the inches you’ve grown..
The first thing you will need to do to correct this is find out how to create an excellent regimen that helps to retain your growth so you can see it’s full potential. You can find out more about how to build a hair regimen for length retention in the video linked in the tab above or down in the description.
In the meantime though, these are some things you need to tackle to start to see some immediate results in your length retention:
1. Irreparable damage
It may be that you have started with extremely damaged hair, that is to say heat or chemical damage. Either of these will affect the resilience of your strands and healthy growth cannot be seen unless you get rid if the damaged ends over time or just do a big chop and start from scratch because hair has to be healthy in order for it to grow long.
Provided that you make the decision to stop mistreating your locks and be more diligent with healthy hair practices the new hair growing right now will remain healthy. You will start to see the health of your hair improve drastically and the length will follow. Just remain consistent and remember it’s a process!
2. Mistreating your ends
This could be another reason that you are not seeing growth and this happens when you are not treating your ends as the most important part of your hair. Remember the flat ironing job you did recently when you went over your ends numerous times because they just never get straight enough? Or the braids you practically hacked through with a comb to take down the style? Well, no more of that!
Look at the ends of your hair today and think about how you treat them. Ask yourself this; “Will these ends still be there in 5 years time?” If you think it’s doubtful then something in your regimen has to change, and fast.
3. Over-processing
This is another culprit that robs you of some hang time. If you are partial to chemically straightened hair or color you could be guilty of this; specifically, you are relaxing your hair ‘bone straight’ or over processing your color. With bone straight hair, sure, it means that your hair will have fewer tangles when you are washing it but the length you think you are saving in avoiding knots will be lost due to weaker, drier hair.
Remember, the longer the chemical is left in your hair, the more bonds are being broken. These bonds are what hold your hair together so by breaking too many of them, you will end up sabotaging your length retention and healthy hair growth.
You may want to consider texlaxing or texturizing your hair instead. In essence, this is the practice of deliberately under-processing your hair so you can retain some of the bonds that will keep your hair strong and thriving.
With color I suggest that you get it professionally done by someone who is knowledgeable in healthy hair maintenance and steer clear of at-home box colors.
Nice article darling!!
its good
You are spending way too much time on the hair care forums, buying too many products and hence over manipulating your hair as you try to work your way through the crate loads of products. You know yourselves!
Isn't this a hair care forum???!!!! WTH?
The Real Person!
I agree, you ladies know yourselves, cant go a day without logging onto BHM and LHCF! But I like to think of this site more as a learning emporium . . .
I just discovered your site yesterday. It's very informative.
I do agree with #9 & #11 though. Good piece!
The Real Person!
Thanks!
Nice Hair
From not conditioning her properly and too much heat treatment.
I have the opposite of this problem. My hair grows an inch a month but the ends get damaged so quickly and fray like an old sweater. It sucks.
I’m nine months in my healthy hair journey, however I noticed in the last month that my hair is shedding more than normal, I beleive it’s because it is been extremely cold. What’s your opinion?
The Real Person!
Yes hair tends to shed more in colder months, it’s perfectly natural. Just ride through it, as long as it’s not breakage don’t worry too much.
My concern , is Alopecia what can i use?
Cause my hair stylist keeps cutting it off? New year, new stylist
Them wigs will do it! Hair being pulled back too tight & stress! #ILoveCrochetWeaves!
Using too much heat can leave the hair dry and brittle and break it off.
It doesn’t like me.
Mine is growing beautifully. Heat only twice a year for the last year. Yay!!
I have a bad case of graves disease (over active thyroid) for about 14 Yes now my hair has thinned out completely nd I even has lost some. I do not use any realaxers what so ever but my has seem to stop growing nd it is very very dry no matter what I try especially the ends plz help.
I have a bad case of graves disease (over active thyroid) for about 14 Yrs now my hair has thinned out completely nd I even have lost some. I do not use any realaxers what so ever but my hair seem to stop growing nd it is very very dry no matter what I try especially the ends plz help.
Not knowing what you are doing, no matter what state it’s in…
simply neglecting the Hair
Hyperthyroidism
Hi Alma. I was reading the part about natural hair not always being a political statement and how relaxers don’t always represent self-hate and I agree with that. I’ve been natural for almost 3 years now, and had relaxers prior to that. I didn’t hate myself or wish I were white, that’s just what I did since an early age because that was just the thing to do. Before I got a relaxer, the thing for me as a little girl was to get braids with beads. At that age, I was young to even have an opinion of myself or anything. We like what we like what we like and sometimes that’s all that is. I chose to go natural because I liked the way it looked, I like to change up my hair, but also, I wanted a more natural lifestyle and I also wanted to connect to my roots on a deeper level (outside of what I’ve already achieve when I had my hair relaxed). The one thing I want to argue is about African women relaxing their hair and how it can’t be related to self-hate because there is a higher percentage of Blacks there than whites to the point where there really aren’t any at all. Just because that may be the case, and because we understand that relaxers don’t equate to self-hate, doesn’t mean that the haven’t been affected by white supremacy. The were colonized by European (white) nations and have been influenced by them. They also, like many other people in this world, watch movies and TV shows and follow music artist that and who promote that ideology that white is better or at least, in the case of the skin bleaching epidemic in several of those African countries, being dark is not good. So they too have cases of self-hate for certain Negroid features, but at the end of the day, for some people, hair is just hair and what ever is done with that hair jmhas nothing to do with making a statement other than, I like this yodat just because I do.
Hair does grow it depends on how you care for it.
None of these mention proper diet/exercise or hydration. That is the foundation of proper hair care…
STESS
My hair has been growing . I just read this article for tips .
My hair has been growing . I just read this article for tips .