Grow Out Challenge 2013

So you guys all know that I'm NOT good at doing Hair Growth Challenges. I've tried last year and I failed! Transitioning and cutting my relaxed ends off while try to do a growth challenge was NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. It made no sense what so ever. BUT since I'm finally natural, I should be able to challenge myself and see if I can reach my goal.

NOW. In my last post, I talked about scab hair and how I suffer from it. I'm acting like it's a sickness or something... "I SUFFER from it" lmaooo! But yea. I have scab hair (which seems like it's on my ends) and I was saying that I wanted to cut it off when I reach a certain length.  I wanted to cut my hair before I braided it because I like to start off with freshly cut hair especially if I'm going to grow my hair out. But I was talking to my mom and she was telling me what I should just wait it out for a few more months and then cut it. Even though I DON'T want to, I HAVE to. For 2 reasons. 1) I'm graduating in June and I want to straighten my hair. If I cut my hair really short, I wouldn't be able to straighten it and 2) I don't want to cut my hair so soon because I want to make sure when I cut my hair, I'm getting all the scab hair out.

So,  my ultimate goal, like I said before, is to be APL/BSL.  I wanted to take it step by step so I want to grow my hair from Jaw length (or from my fresh cut scab hair cut) to collarbone by December 2012. After that, I want to see how long my hair is going to grow from December to June.

So here is what my hair looked like before my cut...

Now,  August or September will be 5/6 month post BC and 5/6 months with the scab hair. I'm going to cut the scab hair off which is going to set me back a little. That's the reason why I wanted to cut my hair now because I figured I can get rid of all this weird hair and start fresh so that way when August, September comes around, I don't have to cut my hair off. BUT I rather wait because I will be really pissed if I have to BC for the third time. I'm already feeling some type of way about how bad my hair is. I just rather wait with braids and then cut it off!

I'm not really going hard for this growth challenge because I don't want to be disappointed if I don't meet my goal. I see these chicks go sooo crazy when doing hair growth challenges on these forums. I'm talking about them all of a sudden eating right, overdosing on Biotin vitamins and using a whole bunch of "hair growth" products. That's just too much for me. Whenever I'm not completely focused on something that's really minor, like this, it always comes out better that when I'm steady focused and worried about it.

I definitely will do an update when I cut my hair. I'm not sure when. Either August or September maybe late July. But i will definitely let you guys know!