Rising After Relapse

No pictures this month. It is currently April 7th as of this writing and I fucked up by not taking and saving my hair growth pictures. My fault but I feel like it is already too late. If I change my mind I'll post it tomorrow. For now I'll list my changes. I noticed in the month of April, my hair started to become way more soft and silky now. I shower every morning this whole time so I know it wasn't the frequency for the reason. Not exactly sure what to account for this but I am glad my hair doesn't feel straw like anymore. Could be anywhere from my body finally feeling the effects of eating better, new shampoo that best fits my hair needs or the new product from garnier fructis I started using last week. No clue!!! Just so I don't forget, here is what I have been consistently using: Often out of the shower I spritz my hair with one or both of these sprays: On a whim I decided to get something to control my frizz.  ...

It is towards the end of April but rest assured that the April pictures were taken within the first 5 days of April.  My hair growth is really slow as you can tell. I am honestly finding more hair in the shower drain. Nothing about my routine has changed. But it could also be due to perspectives. Not writing much this post but here are my progress pictures from last month to this month.

I want to share a template a made that I used to track my earnings from apps. I am far from a pro as I've read people actually make hundreds of dollars a month on these things while I bust my ass to break $100. I originally made this template as I was wondering if my time was being wasted on these apps. It honestly felt nice to see the solid numbers and a breakdown of everything. Without further ado here is the template: LINK TO FREE TEMPLATE *Select Make A Copy so you can be able to input any data. As a quickie refresher here are what the columns mean: A= Date of your payout redemption  B= App you redeemed from C= Gift card amount in US dollars D= PayPal or Amazon gift card you chose E= Date you received the payout The template is blank but all very self explanatory. The first page with the graph YOU LEAVE BLANK! That is because I input formulas that will eventually carry over to show in the graph as well as the totals. For January, February, March and so on is where ...

Super late post but my pictures were actually taken on March 1st. I just didn't post any damn thing. Had a stressful month. Unrelated. This is a hair growth blog so let's see how my hair grew. This is how it looked when I got out of the shower and let air dry: Reason why I delayed posting was because I see that my hair is starting to lose hair again and it was making me depressed. Still way better than a year ago so I will try to remember that. Here are random shots in succession. This is what my hair looked like when I brushed. Just to show difference. I don't have comparison pics for this. And from the back. I also don't have comparison pics. I should have but oh well. Now the rest is when I decided to flat iron my hair: but I did when I straightened so here they are. And the other side And then the back: ...

Late update but February pictures were taken on the 3rd so it still counts. It is the beginning of the new year so am choosing to start fresh and no longer use the 2025 pics. When I do it will be very selectively.  I was a bit upset when I first took this picture because I was expecting way more hair growth. Looks like a lot of hair breakage if I am being honest. Then again who knows how bad my hair was if I were to straighten it at any point last year. Here is my starting point for 2026.  I am honestly going to ignore my January post because I clearly did not straighten it all the way. I had some frizziness which did not reflect its real growth. Or lack of. I am so mad at myself for not taking just 5 minutes of my time to fix the kinks but oh well.  Here is what the behind pics look like. Like i said it is hard to see growth. I initially took it bad as if my hair is thinner but I really think it is the frizzines...