alima
New Member
Hi everyone. Sorry in advance for all of the pictures. I've been lurking on here since June and finally decided to join a week ago. I've learned so much about hair in only two months that I kick myself every time I think about all the dumb things I did to it in the past. I'm finally on the right track and have never been happier with my hair (except when it was longer). Here are a bunch of pictures with little descriptions. My two major setbacks happened in college. The first was abusing the flat iron during my freshman year of college
. And the second was being lazy during my sophomore year. Warning: Some of these pictures are the most random ones ever and please excuse outfits, facial expressions, and weird backgrounds
erplexed Feel free to post any questions =)
June 2006: 16th birthday. Not a great picture but notice how long my hair was.
November 2006: Sigh my goal curly hair length.
May 2007: Senior pictures. Again not a great pictures but shows my length (taken on the same day)
January 2008: Hair was its healthiest my Senior year of high school. 07-08.
June 2008: High school graduation
September 2008: First month of college. Already addicted to flat irons. My hair was still pretty healthy though.
October 2008: This was Halloween of my freshman year. You can see the damage from using crappy flat irons, not using heat protectants, and mistreating my hair. I wish I had a picture that showed my ends. They were fried!
March 2009: Close up of my curls before ever putting any keratin, color, or highlights
May 2009: Curls again.
June 2009: Professional hair cut and first time getting highlights. I have tons of pictures from that day if you guys want to see more, let me know. I really liked it but not on me. It made me look old.
July 2009: Picture of my curls. The highlights didn’t affect my curl pattern. The cut did make my hair more bouncy because I had gotten rid of all the damage I had done to it my freshman year of high school. I HATED the hair cut on curly hair though.
July 2009: I just love how shiny my hair looks =) Close up of my hair with highlights. My mom blow dried it with a round brush and put each section in pin curls after drying to make it bouncy
November 2009: Loved how my hair looked in pictures these 3 days but it was a mess in person. The back was all tangled and matted. My hair is really fine and I don’t have a lot of it. This was like 3-5th day hair. Since I toss and turn so much in my sleep, it was “teased” to be this big.
January 2010: A few days before Brazilian Keratin.
January 2010: Brazilian Keratin results. Had lot of ends cut off. Although I stopped flat ironing my hair, I was really lazy with it and would throw it up in a bun and leave it for a week at a time. Although bunning is good, I wasn’t moisturizing at all. Hair would always break off.
January 2010: Blowdried with round brush right after washing out the Brazilian keratin after 3 days of torture.
January 2010: Hair about 2-3 weeks after Brazilian Keratin Treatment. I think this is like 2nd day hair.
March 2010: (lol don’t mind the tired boyfriend) I don’t have many pictures of my curls after my Brazilian Keratin because I didn’t like how it made my hair look. I suspect that the one used on me had formaldehyde and it straightened my hair too much. As you can see in this picture, it looks like I did a braidout but this was a wash and go. Although my curls looked pretty after the keratin. They became more wave like and had less volume which I don’t like. It took a lot of messing with my hair to get it to look like this and it looked gross without the headband.
May 2010: Rollerset. Had a few layers added on top.
June 2010: Wash and go. Two different days.
July 2010: Rollerset
July 2010: My mom did the Brazilian keratin at my house. It came out great. I discovered I had a W going on in the back which I have now been working hard to fix. But I was surprised how much my hair grew from the last time I did it in January. This picture was after I had cut about an inch of ends off. I think I made my length check shirt too big because when I made it my hair was on the first line so please ignore the discrepancies on where my hair lands.
Well thanks for looking at my post. I'm so happy I joined and can post things on the boards. I learn so much while still having fun. Sorry the pictures are all over the place. I didn't start documenting my hair until recently. Most of these pictures were on facebook. Only reason why I know when they were taken.
. And the second was being lazy during my sophomore year. Warning: Some of these pictures are the most random ones ever and please excuse outfits, facial expressions, and weird backgroundserplexed Feel free to post any questions =)
June 2006: 16th birthday. Not a great picture but notice how long my hair was.
November 2006: Sigh my goal curly hair length.
May 2007: Senior pictures. Again not a great pictures but shows my length (taken on the same day)
January 2008: Hair was its healthiest my Senior year of high school. 07-08.
June 2008: High school graduation
September 2008: First month of college. Already addicted to flat irons. My hair was still pretty healthy though.
October 2008: This was Halloween of my freshman year. You can see the damage from using crappy flat irons, not using heat protectants, and mistreating my hair. I wish I had a picture that showed my ends. They were fried!
March 2009: Close up of my curls before ever putting any keratin, color, or highlights
May 2009: Curls again.
June 2009: Professional hair cut and first time getting highlights. I have tons of pictures from that day if you guys want to see more, let me know. I really liked it but not on me. It made me look old.
July 2009: Picture of my curls. The highlights didn’t affect my curl pattern. The cut did make my hair more bouncy because I had gotten rid of all the damage I had done to it my freshman year of high school. I HATED the hair cut on curly hair though.
July 2009: I just love how shiny my hair looks =) Close up of my hair with highlights. My mom blow dried it with a round brush and put each section in pin curls after drying to make it bouncy
November 2009: Loved how my hair looked in pictures these 3 days but it was a mess in person. The back was all tangled and matted. My hair is really fine and I don’t have a lot of it. This was like 3-5th day hair. Since I toss and turn so much in my sleep, it was “teased” to be this big.
January 2010: A few days before Brazilian Keratin.
January 2010: Brazilian Keratin results. Had lot of ends cut off. Although I stopped flat ironing my hair, I was really lazy with it and would throw it up in a bun and leave it for a week at a time. Although bunning is good, I wasn’t moisturizing at all. Hair would always break off.
January 2010: Blowdried with round brush right after washing out the Brazilian keratin after 3 days of torture.
January 2010: Hair about 2-3 weeks after Brazilian Keratin Treatment. I think this is like 2nd day hair.
March 2010: (lol don’t mind the tired boyfriend) I don’t have many pictures of my curls after my Brazilian Keratin because I didn’t like how it made my hair look. I suspect that the one used on me had formaldehyde and it straightened my hair too much. As you can see in this picture, it looks like I did a braidout but this was a wash and go. Although my curls looked pretty after the keratin. They became more wave like and had less volume which I don’t like. It took a lot of messing with my hair to get it to look like this and it looked gross without the headband.
May 2010: Rollerset. Had a few layers added on top.
June 2010: Wash and go. Two different days.
July 2010: Rollerset
July 2010: My mom did the Brazilian keratin at my house. It came out great. I discovered I had a W going on in the back which I have now been working hard to fix. But I was surprised how much my hair grew from the last time I did it in January. This picture was after I had cut about an inch of ends off. I think I made my length check shirt too big because when I made it my hair was on the first line so please ignore the discrepancies on where my hair lands.
Well thanks for looking at my post. I'm so happy I joined and can post things on the boards. I learn so much while still having fun. Sorry the pictures are all over the place. I didn't start documenting my hair until recently. Most of these pictures were on facebook. Only reason why I know when they were taken.
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. I think it would be great if you combined an album on your page or you might even consider creating a fotki album. 
Your curls are so pretty, and I love your highlights 
