~~ Growing Out Damage ~~
~~ Grow out damage gracefully instead of chopping ~~
By Robert / PurpleBubba
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Some people find themselves in a situation where they have a lot of damaged hair due to something like a perm. They often ask for advice on how to get rid of the damage without cutting off a lot of hair at one time. If you don't want to cut a lot off at one time you can always do small amounts at different times. Let's say your hair is at 20 inches. Let's say the bottom 1/3 is the worst. That would be about 7 inches. What you can do is maintain that length at 20 inches until you get rid of the major damage and then grow from there. Instead of just going and cutting 7 inches off and being stuck with 13 wait for your hair to get to 21 - 22 inches and trim it back to 20. Then wait for 21 - 22 and trim to 20 again. If you do that you can remove the damage and not have to do drastic cuts. Meanwhile everytime you cut off those 1 - 2 inches you will have 1-2 inches of brand new hair at your scalp. I call this growing out gracefully. After you get the worst damage removed you can start growing a little longer before trimming. If you do it this way you won't go any shorter than your hair is now. Below is an illustration I made. If you have questions Email Me and I will help you.
Please feel free to download and or print this page and my illustration for your own use.
But please do not use it on other sites unless you ask me first.
For those of you who are considering
doing this you might want to try these instructions.
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Feye's Self Trimming Instructions
Feye has a page with instructions that she came up with for trimming or cutting
your own hair. This is for people with longer hair that can be made into a ponytail.
She has instructions for cutting Straight Across, Different "U" Shapes, and "V" shapes.
I have used her instructions to trim my own hair into a slight "U" shape.
Many others have also tried them and had success as well.
About Me & Disclaimer I am a former cosmetology student who has completed 800 of my state's 1500 hours. The information on this site is meant to be taken in a casual sense and is not intended to be absolute fact nor professional advice. My opinions and articles are based on my learning in school as well as my participation in several hair care forums over the past 4 years. Please do not do anything dangerous like take vitamins or use chemicals solely based on what I have written. For things like that you should seek a professional or a doctor. I am Not an expert. I will never claim to be even if I do learn everything there is to know about hair. Please Be Careful.
If anyone has any questions about these articles you can Email Me Robert / PurpleBubba and I will help you.
