What a Journey!

I was looking through my hair pictures and realized that my road to WL (Waist Length) is a loooong one. It took me 3 years to make APL (armpit length) and I still have more years to reach WL. But with this journey I was able to see that with hard work I can accomplish a big goal in my life.

For those who don't know....the reason why I started this blog was to prove that a girl like me can grow their hair....down to those butt cheeks! It actually brings tears to my eyes to see how far I've come.

I was tease in school by my classmates because of my hair. Shallow right? My closest friends in Junior High all had long hair...there was Taren (who's biracial and currently has her own site and YouTube channel), Susana (Puerto Rican), Kimberly (who was mixed with Indian...no really she was...lol) and then me. In Junior High I was in a faze where I hated the length of my hair and started to experiment with weaves. I was horrible back then!!! HORRIBLE!!! One of my classmates started to pick on me in front of the whole class and yelled "You think you're cute with that weave in your hair?! You think you're fitting in with the rest of your crew because they all have long hair? You're not!" and the whole class started to laugh.

Not only was I verbally abused in school about my hair, but my mom (who is Venezuelan, Indian and Black) always made comments like "Why didn't you take after my side of the family?" or say "I don't understand why your hair isn't growing" while doing my hair. My older sisters all had APL hair or longer...hell even my little sister had BSL (bra strap length) hair at the age of 2! My mom would bleach her hair and even relax what she thought were naps and was still able to maintain MBL (mid-back length) hair.

I was always the black sheep when it came to my hair. Being the only one in the family stuck at SL (shoulder length) while every one else was swinging their long locks made me sooo mad!

In 2007 I was fed up with my hair not growing and decided to cut it all off. It was something I had to get used to but when I got sooo many compliments I thought...short is the way to go. In Dec 2008, I asked a co-worker of mine how she got her hair to be so shiny and she mentioned that she co-washed...I asked "What's co-wash?" and that's when she put me on to longhaircareforum.com. During my lunch break I logged onto the site and was hooked! I saw so many black women with LONG HAIR and my mouth dropped. I stayed on that site for hours trying to absorb as much information as possible. After seeing that black hair can grow I was on a mission to see how long I can grow mine.

Almost 2 years later passed since logging onto that forum and my hair is the longest and healthiest it's been my whole life! Now it's my turn to educate you ladies and help you out there reach those hair goals you thought was impossible to reach.

Forget the myths like...relaxers and weaves break your hair out, if you trim your hair it will grow faster, black hair can't grow, etc.

2011 is approaching ladies...will you be determined to grow long healthy locks?

June 2007

August 2010

Hair Update

Hey Guys,
My relaxer experience was a mess on Thursday. I got a relaxer from my stylist and mentioned that I scratched my scalp a little before I sat in her chair. She then based my scalp and proceeded to relax my hair with the Affirm relaxer. Before I knew it, the relaxer started to tingle. I thought it was because I scratched that area and ignored the warning signs. About one minute later it started to tingle by my temple. Again I ignored it...a few seconds later my whole head started to burn and I mentioned that it was burning, she said "already?" Then told me to give her a min. Then the burns became so extreme I started to shake and cry. It felt like my scalp was being scraped with a razor blade. I told her that I couldn't take it anymore and we went to go wash it out. While she was washing it out, the burns became so intense....the only thing I could think was that my hair is going to fall out straight from the scalp. She then washed my hair about 6 times to make sure that the relaxer was completely washed out.
While she was washing my hair she asked if I put anything in my hair before I relaxed it and then it dawned on me that I put the BT oil in my hair last Saturday (which was probably the cause of the burning).

My hair still has burns in it and i'm pampering it with Aloe until it's completely healed. Anywho, here's my update...After the trim...i'm now at the same place i was in April (ugh!!!!)

28 Week Stretch is OOOOVVVVEEEERRR!!!!!

I finally relaxed yesterday and it feels soooooo good to feel my scalp. My salon experience was AWESOME!!! Big ups to my stylist's assistant Charee to did the damn thing when relaxing (I had to tip that child $10...ok that's not enough but the whole service: relax, dc and trim was $90). Before she started I told her that I'm still on Accutane (even though I completed the full 6 month process on Sunday..the meds are still in my system). I explained to her that my scalp is very sensitive, she then told me calmly that she would base my scalp and that she would use Designer's Touch Relaxer because it's a moisturizing relaxer. She proceeded to base my scalp thoroughly and then relaxed. While she was relaxing she keep asking if it was burning. Once she was done she left a restructurizing conditioner in my hair for 5 mins and then shampoo'd with a neutralizing shampoo 4 times. She deep conditioned my hair for a half hour and then blow dried my hair.

Then it was off to Tangela my stylist. She was surprised to see how much my hair has grown! She flat ironed and then trimmed my hair. I'm a bit upset that I'm no longer APL, but I'm happy at how healthy my hair looks.

Here's my results:

Hair Journey!

So as I said in the previous post, I've been on a hiatus growing my hair so that i can reach my goal of Waist Length Hair by December 2011. Below you can see my HHJ (aka Healthy Hair Journey)
June 2007


Start of my HHJ - Dec 08


March 09



June 09


Oct 09


Jan 2010


Final Results - I'm an inch and some change away from APL (Armpit Length)!!! Woo Hoo