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| Bushel n Peck |
Posted - May 11 2012 : 7:40:21 PM
Arrrgh! I am so sick of getting bad haircuts!
This latest on makes me look like a recovering chemo patient. I just want to cry. The latest MJF cover inspired me to let my hair go long. Mary Jane has such beautiful locks, OK I admit I am a wee bit jealous! I have very fine thin hair my scalp is starting to show in places; I picked up some vitamins for hair restoration and I have rogaine to help with the balding spots.
I'm really starting from scratch here. Anyone else want to join me?
my blog: http://bushelnpeck.blogspot.com
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C. S. Lewis
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| knittingmom |
Posted - Jun 18 2013 : 6:54:40 PM
I've let mine grow over the last while and it's shoulder length now. I've also had it has short as a pixie cut. I have little ones so just being able to tie it up or braid it back is WAY easier.
Farmgirl Sister #3759
"There is no foot so small that it cannot leave an imprint on this world"
"The things that matter most are not really things after all" |
| neeter302 |
Posted - Jun 07 2013 : 04:54:10 AM
Lookin' good Tracy, your persistence has paid off! I've been trying to get up the nerve to quit coloring and cutting. That expensive once a month trip to the salon has cost me a bundle, I want to stop...LOL...sounds like an addiction doesn't it? But old habits truly are hard to break but I would like to break my coloring/cutting habit. I think what's holding me back is the transitional stage, I know it will look horrid and don't think I have the patience to grow out the permanent color. I can see myself getting it half grown out, freaking out and running to my hairdresser and begging for color and cut. Carol like you I became gray young in life, it's genetic in my family. I love my mom's snowy white hair but mine is very gray in front, salt and pepper in the middle and dark in back so I don't think it would look so great, but how would I know since I've never done it! Anyway I asked my grandson - 4 yrs old- the other day if he would like his Nanny to have white hair, he said NO! I want you to stay the same. :-)
Farmgirl #522
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| sweettea |
Posted - Jun 06 2013 : 11:56:40 AM
Tracy, I love your hair! It's grown a lot in the past year! Love the curls too! Thanks for posting your picture...I've been wondering how growing your hair out has been going for you. It's been about a year now correct? You're looking good!
"There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle." Albert Einstein |
| Bushel n Peck |
Posted - Jun 05 2013 : 08:44:53 AM
Here is the latest pic of my hair.jpg)
Don't know why this is side ways ?
my blog: http://bushelnpeck.blogspot.com
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http://www.doterra.myvoffice.com/tracyajohnson/
I sing because I'm happy; I sing because I'm free!
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches over me. |
| sweettea |
Posted - May 15 2013 : 6:07:45 PM
Great thoughts Tammy! I love it!
"There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle." Albert Einstein |
| Tammyb |
Posted - May 13 2013 : 4:17:26 PM
I have had longer hair for a few years now. Love it ! I am 52 and graying but I love the way it looks. If I want it up then up it goes ... same with leaving it down. I think we all just need to decide what we like and go for it! Long or short - love your hair
Tammyb
Live to leave a legacy
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| levisgrammy |
Posted - May 07 2013 : 2:10:06 PM
Oh How I wish I could let mine grow. My husband likes it long, I like it long but I also like it short. I let it get to a certain point and then it is off to the hairdressers. I had it permed in February and it has been trimmed twice. I like the little wave a perm gives but then it gets to the point of growing out and the top is straight and the ends are sticking out. I am constantly wetting it to get it to look like something. It is very fine but also thick. I am blonde, have never colored my hair though everytime I go somewhere new which is not too often anymore they want to know if it is colored. Every time I say "No that is why you can hardly see my eyebrows." I love the look of long hair and the longest I have ever had it was down to my hips. Dh loved it this way but I kept getting a little cut off at a time until it was back to shoulder length and then I got it all cut off as a "reward" for losing a lot of weight. Of course the weight came back on, though I am working on that again but thinking about letting it go to see how long it will end up. Problem I have is, even though it is thick it looks very thin when it is long and I like it full but I have no curl whatsoever without a perm. I don't like the damage a perm does to my hair. May be jumping in here to get some encouragement to keep letting it grow.
farm girl sister#43
http://www.ladybugsandlilacs.blogspot.com/
O, a trouble's a ton or a trouble's an ounce,
Or a trouble is what you make it!
And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts,
But only--how did you take it?
--Edmund C. Vance.
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| Betty J. |
Posted - Apr 04 2013 : 08:05:59 AM
It seems funny now, ironic maybe, but I was trying to grow my hair out for three years. I didn't cut it at all, not even a trim. Then the doctor told me I had lymphoma and that the chemo would cause me to lose my hair. Well, it did. I was bald and naked for hair all over. The last to go were my eyebrows and lashes and the first to return. It is all over now and things have been clear for two years. I keep my hair cut short now like I previously had. Since it came back even thinner than I started, I figured "oh well."
That's my story and I'm sticking to it!
Betty in Pasco |
| Lavender Rose |
Posted - Apr 04 2013 : 07:42:04 AM
I also dyed my hair for about 20 years. I went grey at 23. I too had to go through the awkward stage of letting it grow out, but afterward I got compliments on my hair. Never did cut it off as it grew out though. Just trimmed it once in awhile. I have always had long hair below my shoulder blades.
My neighbor and I both have long almost all white hair now and we both have decided to not ever dye our hair again. Who wants to go through growing it out again. ugh!
Long hair is easier to put up on your head in a bun, or braid it. Do pony tails, etc.
Lavender Rose
Each day we add to our legacy--good or bad.
Our Daily Bread |
| sewsweet |
Posted - Mar 08 2013 : 4:07:58 PM
I'd been dyeing my hair for over 20 years. My hairdresser would cringe when I suggested I would like to see what my real hair looked like. She would say I was too young to "go gray." I'm in my late 40's, but my gray started when I was 18 (premature gray just runs in my family). I finally told her that I wanted to let my hair grow out. She went on and on about how old I'd look, and how coarse my hair would be...and so on. So, I did what I had to do. I switched hairdressers!
I am so happy I let my hair grow out. I don't look very good in really short hair, so I purposely suffered through a period of "skunk stripe" and had it trimmed as short as I could stand. It took a little over a year, but I now have a full head of non-dyed hair and I love it! I get WAY more compliments on my hair now than I did before.
If you want to go au natural, I suggest that you try it. If you don't like it, you can always go back to the dye, but I have a hunch you probably won't! |
| sweettea |
Posted - Mar 08 2013 : 2:08:46 PM
Thank you Heather and Tracy! Heather, I started used semi-permanent hair color years ago but it didn't cover the gray. Even permanent hair color didn't work for me. So, I backed off to semi-permanent hair color again and after a while I went cold turkey and went off all hair color. I love being gray...no, silver, it sounds better! I've heard there is a demi-permanent hair color but had never checked it out. Perhaps that would be a way for you to transition? I've determined that as I age, I want my hair to reflect who I am. I don't want to fall into standard that sometimes seem set for us that makes us feel we need to have a certain hair style or color. I found a quote one day that I absolutely adore. It sums up what I think about aging, hair color, hair length, style, heck, even life itself! "We need to turn off the wrinkle cream ads, stop dousing our heads in dye, and start looking in the mirror to tell ourselves we’re beautiful. Those gray hairs? They’re amazing. Those laugh lines you always look for in photos? They’re wonderful. You're a ravishing Queen in your own right and don’t let anyone convince you otherwise! So smile, laugh and know that your joy is more beautiful than boxed color or Botox could ever be." ~Lauren Richwine
"There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle." Albert Einstein |
| hwright95 |
Posted - Mar 08 2013 : 08:18:24 AM
Love your color Candace
Heather Wright~ Farmgirl Sister #2187 “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
#8213; Dr. Seuss, The Lorax
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| hwright95 |
Posted - Mar 08 2013 : 08:17:20 AM
I turned 36 this year have some gray coming in,I have always had it long but I want to stop coloring it, but don't want the in between stage of half dark/ gray half bleach blond
Heather Wright~ Farmgirl Sister #2187 “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
#8213; Dr. Seuss, The Lorax
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| Bushel n Peck |
Posted - Mar 07 2013 : 07:20:12 AM
Pretty lady, Candace!
Thank you for posting your pictures. Your hair is growing out nicely, and fast!
my blog: http://bushelnpeck.blogspot.com
my doTerra essential oils online store:
http://www.doterra.myvoffice.com/tracyajohnson/
I sing because I'm happy; I sing because I'm free!
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches over me. |
| sweettea |
Posted - Mar 06 2013 : 7:53:03 PM
I thought I would follow Tracy's lead and post a picture of where I am with my hair also. Since I didn't post one when I started this journey of growing my hair out I'll have to post that first. I started growing my hair out last spring, about April or May if I'm remembering correctly. I got tired of bad haircuts and flat-ironing my hair. When it's shorter I have what I call "bed-hair-wave". The curls don't show up until it gets shoulder length or longer. With the Minnesota humidity my hair frizzes up when it's short and I was continually frying it with the flat iron trying to eliminate the bed-hair-wave and the frizz. That was the start of my journey. So, I started with a jaw length inverted bob. Here's about where I was last spring:
Here's where I am now:
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"There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle." Albert Einstein |
