Short hair

[frualeydis]

I had so many split ends that I had to cut another 6-7 cm off my hair yesterday. I have no idea where they come from, I've never had problems with split ends before. And it's not like I've been using heat on my hair the last 15 or so years. I used to dye it, but not that often, I've used only a boar bristle brush for the last ten years and I don't wash it more often than every five days or so, with a mild eco-friendly, silicone-free shampoo. It used to be longer between, but since I started using conditioner I have to wash my hair much more often. And that's the funny thing, the split ends are coming now, the last month, when I'm using conditioner and henna+indigo as dyeing and use a comb for detangling instead of the brush. Somehow I think I was right before and wrong now.
Anyway, that means I've cut about 20 cm (8 inches) since christmas and now it's only bra-strap length. I might have cut it shorter if it wasn't for the event-season starting now. I need hair that can be put up.

And it looks so damn short now!! I miss my hair, but I hated looking at the ends.

Comments

[seamstrix.livejournal.com]

I've recently gone no-cone and no-brush (well, boar's bristle a couple times a week to distribute oils) and my hair seems to be loving it. I was using a fairly expensive American brand called Aveda but I'm using Lush now and my hair is doing great. I switch between using Daddy-O/American Cream and Ultimate Shine Bar Shampoo/Jungle Conditioner Bar. It took a little bit to get used to the bar products but I love them now. I wash my hair about every 5-7 days and rarely heat dried it prior to the 'conversion' and now it hasn't been heat dried since early February. Lots' of shine, lots of waves/curls, no more frizz. And my somewhat flaky scalp seems to be getting better too. It's still too soon to tell if it's growing faster (I'm taking hair vitamins too), but I have hopes. Right now it's about BSL.

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

I'm thinkng about giving up the henna-indigo mix and not dye at all anymore. The main purpose of it was to get the beneficial effects of henna without getting red hair. I used Lush's Caca Brun and it came out very close to my natural ash brown hair colour so I don't really need it for colour. Henna seems to help against psoriasis in the scalp though.

Eva

[gea-gilwen.livejournal.com]

How about colourless henna? I guess you could get the beneficial effects from that too, since it's said to contain all the tanning agents which might help with the psoriasis, just without the colour.

I've "converted" in February, too - from using lots of curl foam(?) and hot hair drier to silicone-free conditioner, sour rinses and cold hair drier without foams and stuff. I really didn't believe before that I could live without curl foam and hot air, but these two showed to be just based on each other - since I left away one of those, I don't need the other one as well. So far it's hard to tell any difference besides that, but I really hope that I can get to grow more hairdo material beyond bra-strap length.

Greetings, Gea