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    Default How Fast does your Hair Grow?

    This is kind of random, but I am curious...

    How fast does your hair grow? I know average is supposed to be 1/2 inch per month, but I tend to grow about an inch a month.


    If you get more than the standard 1/2, do you take something special like biotin or hair pills to achieve that or does it happen naturally?

    I think the fastest I ever heard of was 2"/month.



    P.S. I am not some creepy old male with a long hair fetish lurking in his parents basement

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    Default Re: How Fast does your Hair Grow?

    I went from a short pixie cut (like less than an inch of hair) to middle back, almost touching ass in two years.

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    not fast enough. I want LONG hair...but mine is super damaged and keeps breaking so I am stuck at right below my shoulders

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    My hair grows sloooow.

    I had about chin length hair when I moved here, 3 years ago. I got trims every 2 months or so.
    It got just past my shoulders. Not quite touching my bra strap, in 3 years.

    Which is why Im devastated now that it is chin length again. It'll take years and years to grow back again.

    Hopefully all the hair pills I take will work.
    ( 7,000mg of biotin, walmart hair pills, msm,silica..ya know, the whole turbo hair growth thread)

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    about a year ago I started to dye my hair blond and it was a HUGE mistake. My hair started to break off at the ends and fall out. I started to get sores on my head...it was just a complete disaster. In January or so, I stopped killing my hair with dye and let it grow. I wear hair pieces so that I don't have to heat style it. I just whipped out the tape measure and it has grown almost 3 1/2 inches I was a bit dissappointed but not surprised since I have been very ill and have not been able to exercise since November. Oh well. I want it to get back down to my butt like it used to be. It is barely past my shoulders right now though.
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    I'm not sure. I keep it with a lot of layers so I only have one section that tells me how long it's getting. That part is past my shoulders.

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    I'm half asian, so my hair grows super fast. I recently cut 4 inches off, and nobody even noticed. It's still gracing over the top of my bum. I also like to keep long layers in it to give it some body. I use a pick to comb it, and I never blowdry it.



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    A lot of you are lucky to have hair that grows fast....

    I had a layered chin length bob in December 2005 (loved it, BTW) and it has only NOW grown out to past my shoulders (not counting trimmings.) However, my health has been bad so maybe that's why it's growing slow.

    PS I found out a salon near me gives out free haircuts for people who donate more than a foot of hair for wigs for cancer patients...So I'm going to take those hair pills and make hair farming a hobby. Altrustic thriftyness!

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    my hair breaks off and takes FOREVER to grow..plus its curly so it bounces up alot =(!! i swear it only grows like 2 inches a year.

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    Mine is slow. It went from chin length to waist length in 7 years.
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    Default Re: How Fast does your Hair Grow?

    Wow! Some of you have lightning fast hair.

    If it makes that much of a difference, you must have amazingly healthy diets...

    Hahaha...any tips?

    I agree with the babying of the hair. One year I just let it air dry and wore it up all the time. It grew from shoulders to waist in a year. My hair grows fast, but it's pretty delicate so if I'm not careful, I lose a lot of length.

    Kaylinn, you're doing Bargello's regime, right? High doses of biotin are really supposed to help. I started taking hair supplements 2 months (only 1500 mcg of biotin though) ago and my hair seems to be growing a little faster. My nails are crazy long and fast growing though. I've heard that these vitamins affect you in this order: skin, nails, hair...so hopefully I will see results regarding hair growth soon.

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    You know..I haven't noticed a difference in my skin at all.
    Even with the increased water I've been drinking, and all the vitamins I take, my skin doesn't seem any different. ( I'm still getting zits)

    My nails are much stronger, and seem to be growing faster, if I try not to bite them.

    My hair had started growing a lot faster when I added the vitamins. It had been chin- shoulder length for years and years, And I'd say just in the past year it started growing a lot faster. Acutally, I can post pics, from when I started modelign a year ago, to when my hair was cut off a few weeks ago, you can see HUGE difference in length.

    So the vitamins do help a ton.

    Bargello's regime? Not sure, I follow whatever it said in the turbo hair growth thread, along with the walmart hair pills thread. ( the walmart hair pills, California Naturals HAIR doesn't have a lot of biotin, or the other suppliments I take in it, so I think it is safe to combine both)

    Another thign that helps is scalp massages.

    I massage in this deep conditioner made for black hair called Growth somethign or other, it contains silica and a bunch of other stuff, so I think Im not only takgin thoes vitamins and helpgni my hair grow from the inside out, but by massaging it in my scalp, Im helping it from the outside in as well.

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    Default Re: How Fast does your Hair Grow?

    EXTREMELY fast... Good if I have a bad haircut, but very expensive when it comes to maintaining my hair colour/highlights. I cut my hair to my shoulders around January, and it's all the way at my lower back right now. My best friend's hair grows like a weed too.. It's crazy.

    My hair has always grown fast, so I don't know.. Same for my mom.

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    Default Re: How Fast does your Hair Grow?

    Quote Originally Posted by sc0101 View Post
    I went from a short pixie cut (like less than an inch of hair) to middle back, almost touching ass in two years.
    Mine is somewhere in this area. I'm finally letting it grow out long again (I always keep it shorter than longer because it gets on my nerves), and I can't believe how long it's getting.

    I keep getting my hair stuck in everything...it kind of sucks, but I like my long hair.

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    My hair's about mid-thigh right now, its taken around 9 years.

    The two most helpful things I've found are vitamins and babying. I wear a sleeping cap at night to keep it out of the way, scrunchies and bands pull and break hair too much. I only wash it three times a week as well.

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    I know it's an oldie, but bumpie pls..I finally found the hair prods. that work for me (shea moisture) so now I'm taking the Wal mart hair pills, then when they run out, I'm getting the Bonita from Amazon, as was recommended to me.


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    After I ruined it with bleach it barely hit my shoulders, but I was determined to keep it blonde and it took 4 yrs but its finally past my boobs. It grows the usual 1/2 inch a month but it does obviously break and I don't see it getting longer than this. My sis's hair is weird. It does grow 1/2 inch a month and she's blonde as well but hers has always broken off at the collar bone.

    I want to get hair pills just to grow stronger but I'd take em for two days and just give up. I'm not good with consistent regimens, I can barely be bothered to deep condition.

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    Default Re: How Fast does your Hair Grow?

    My hair tends to grow fast. It has always been that way but I take vitamins and use only the good stuff on my hair so maybe that helps to.

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    I pretty much get consistently 3/4" of growth a month, sometimes more, sometimes less depending on my diet, sleep, supplements, exercise, etc. Drinking a lot of green tea, hot yoga and scalp massage (w/infused oils) makes a huge difference -- I see more growth especially when doing scalp massages 3-4x/week.

    Oh, I try to baby my hair so as not to have too much breakage or damage (no flat irons, ripping through it with a brush, drip dry only, no chemicals, etc.). However, I try not to get too obsessive about it because it can be a bit of a hassle with everything else I do!

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    Default Re: How Fast does your Hair Grow?

    Quote Originally Posted by JudyO View Post
    I pretty much get consistently 3/4" of growth a month, sometimes more, sometimes less depending on my diet, sleep, supplements, exercise, etc. Drinking a lot of green tea, hot yoga and scalp massage (w/infused oils) makes a huge difference -- I see more growth especially when doing scalp massages 3-4x/week.

    Oh, I try to baby my hair so as not to have too much breakage or damage (no flat irons, ripping through it with a brush, drip dry only, no chemicals, etc.). However, I try not to get too obsessive about it because it can be a bit of a hassle with everything else I do!
    I am so jealous of you. I think I only get a fourth of an inch proper head hair growth per month. The last time it was down to my mid-back, I was 13 : (

    I went without heat irons or blow drying for more than a year, now the old damaged hair is the lower half of it. Side note- styling hair is expensive, I go though a can of hairspray a week sometimes. & I don't even have a 1980s blowout hairstyle, lol

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    Take some hair pills? I like the ones from Nature Sunshine, they've rosemary, which as a side benefit, helps digestion.
    Also yes, scalp massage works, African Hair Pride brand Braid Sheen spray is a water based herbal prod. that feel wonderful on scalp, & helps..it has aloe, rosemary, & lots of other herbs.
    My hair is fairly fast growing, I must get touch ups a lot.


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