Do I Regret Cutting My Hair?!?!
- Posted on 25 February, 2023
- Curly Hairstyles
- By Anonymous
Have I made a huge mistake? If you're thinking about making a drastic hair change, this video might just save you from making the same mistake. At first, I was feeling myself and loving the new look. But now???? I'll be sharing my honest thoughts and feelings, as well as the challenges I've faced with maintaining my new hair. Don't miss it!
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The question is: do I regret it? Hey there guys welcome back to my channel and, if you're brand new here. What am I talking about? Well, I'm talking about the decision I made at the end of last year to chop off 12 inches of my Virgin Hair, and I will be going into all my thoughts and I'm afraid that this video may not be very satisfying for those of you who love A definitive yes or no answer, because there's really not a solid yes or no. To answer that question. Do I regret this giant haircut that I got and the crazy amount of bleach and highlights I have now put in my hair. Hopefully, this video is helpful to you if you are on the cusp of a major hair change and you just want more info, you want to hear someone else's experience. That is what I'm here to do, I'm here to share. So if you want your curls to go up a letter number grade, you better hit the like like button AKA if you're 2A and you want to be 2B hit the like button, it'll magically help. I promise just kidding. I hope this video is helpful to you and you can. Let me know that it's helpful by giving it a thumbs up and if you want to hang out with me, some more feel free to subscribe. I'D love to see your bright and shiny face around here. Again because we have a lot of fun talking all things: wavy, curly, hair here on this channel now, let's dive into do, I regret chopping off all of my hair. To be honest. At the end of last year, I had a crazy itch to cut my hair. All off I was sick of the crazy long hair. I know I know for the past what four years I've been talking about, how much I want to grow my hair out and how I had mermaid hair goals. Well, the realities of long hair were kind of too much. For me, it takes an incredible level of dedication to maintain hair of any length, but particularly long hair required so much more maintenance. I found that the tangles were really becoming bothersome with my long hair detangling. Even with the best shampoos, even though my hair was virgin low, porosity hair, I was beginning to deal with Tangles, because my hair was so long and my hair was constantly back in a bun. It was always in my face and getting in the way when it was really long. I would shut my hair into doors, guys like walking through a door. If I shut it, my hair would get slammed in the door. I was constantly sitting on my hair and my hair wasn't even that long like it only made it to there. It wasn't like it was close to being able to be sat on. My children were pulling it it just. I was so done with the long hair and I I have truly and deeply desired to donate my hair for as long as I can remember - and I've just never been in a position to do that. I was thrilled to be able to donate 12 inches of Virgin healthy hair to children with hair loss. If you missed that video feel free to check it out, it's a good one. It'Ll make you laugh, but Courtney, why did you go from chopping all of your hair off to also highlighting it? Well, the wavy curly hair scientist in me was dying for an experiment. I wanted to see what it was like to try and manage hair. That is fine and wavy when it was higher porosity, there's no getting around it. If you bleach your hair, you will increase the porosity of your hair even with the best Bond Builders guys. I have some of the nicest Bond builders on the market in my cabinet and even still, it did not zero my hair back out to where it was when it was Virgin Hair. It doesn't matter how amazing the product is. It can mitigate some of the damage. It can help to some extent, but even the oh blessed, oloplex number three, even the oh blessed k-18 - did not 100 percent zero out my hair. If you choose to highlight your hair, you will be dealing with some higher porosity and honestly. I was curious to see what it would be like to manage, highlighted, hair. Also, it's fun. I spent the majority of my life with highlighted hair, and I wanted to see my face with highlights again. Here is the interesting thing about it. Highlighting my hair was not as magical as I remember it being when I was growing up. The grow out is so difficult to manage. My roots now are significant efficiently. Darker than my highlights, let me see if I can show you sort of you kind of see it anyway. There'S a big difference between how dark my roots are and how light my ends are. This means it is very noticeable as soon as I grow any hair, and that is not cute. That'S not the look. I'M going for. Also I've had my hair highlighted twice since this commencement of experiment with the highlights and both times my hair has really wigged out. It'S just freaked out and not wanted to curl properly really prone to frizz. Curl families were no longer families, they were distant acquaintances. It took a while to convince them to come back together and live in their curl family. Curl clubs like they didn't want to both times. I got the bleach and the highlights, even with access to the most awesome, missed hair treatments that I know of it still affected my hair. I have had to stay on top of the Highlight maintenance and I forgot the costs involved with maintaining highlights as well as the time it takes. I am more than willing to pay an excellent stylist for their quality of work. That'S not the problem. I'M not worried about paying the money, but like it's a lot of money, if I choose to have my hair like this, and it's not necessarily a choice I have to make and let's just talk about Tangles, I thought I was dealing with Tangles with the long Hair before the tangles, with this nice short highlighted, hair are 10 times worse. My hair is so prone to wanting to snarl and Tangle now, like I'm a really having to work at it, I'm having to bust out my most slipperiest products in order to be able to detangle at all, and while it has been fun to really like brighten Up my hair brighten up my complexion, I am shocked and stunned at how much I actually and truly do miss my natural hair color. I know I've said this before, but I'm saying it again. I thought for sure that if I ever like you know, young Courtney with her bleach blonde highlights, she thought that her hair was just ugly dishwater blonde, totally unacceptable and like gross and needed to be highlighted in order to be cute. And then I did the wavy curly hair journey and went with my Virgin Hair Color. Just for the sake of seeing how healthy I could get my hair, but in doing that and seeing my natural hair color fully grown out fully on my head, I fell in love with my natural hair color, so I did succumb to the desire to play around With highlights and experiment and see what higher porosity hair felt like, I now really truly do miss my natural hair color. I feel like it maybe even suits me a little better, but that's not to say that the highlights aren't a whole lot of fun. They are a lot more money to maintain and a lot more time to maintain, and I do have to spend a lot more time on wash days focusing on my hair like come on, you can Clump together, you can behave, please please don't frizz out. So am I going to be keeping up with the highlights? Honestly, I don't know, I'm not sure I do notice a couple of things that are bonuses, one my hair can actually absorb product now when it was terribly low porosity. I was super prone to build up. Things would just sit on top of my hair and not soak in now that it's highlighted and more porous. I can really feel a benefit when I do certain protein treatments and certain hair masks, whereas before it didn't do much, but now I feel like they do a lot for my hair, so that has been really fun. It'S been fun kind of remembering what it was like when my hair was first in transition and the struggles that go with that, because once you're fully out of the transitioning from wearing your hair straight to embracing your waves and curls you're recovering from a lot of Damage going to healthy hair once you're got the healthy hairs, your hair becomes way less Persnickety and you're able to kind of do whatever ever with it, and it's going to behave more consistently when your hair is damaged and unhealthy, it tends to wig out and freak Out more, it did kind of put me back a bit with the health of my hair, thus the hair, wigs out and frizzes and stuff and things that is what I'm noticing highlighted hair needs a lot more. It needs layering of products. I can't get away super easily anymore, with a one and done Styler like I need a leave-in conditioner and a curl cream and a curl enhancer and a hard hole gel in order to get the wash Day Results that I am hoping for. The last thing I'm noticing about my highlighted hair is the texture. It is so weird the ends feel really crispy and straw like at times to be fair. No one has cut my hair since Allison did so. I am due for a haircut. It is what it is, but the feeling of my hair. It feels very fragile and crispy, and it never felt that way. When I had virgin hair - and I was terribly due for haircut so there we go. I think I have fully covered the highlights portion. I touched on the length portion, but I kind of want to go back to it and talk a little bit more about chopping it because that's probably what is going to be the most helpful to you. Most people aren't going from Virgin Hair to Crazy bleach blonde highlights. Most people are just cutting a lot of hair and then enjoying a new haircut. There are stages of this 100 percent. You grow your hair out long. You can't stand it, so you chop it off. You love your new haircut for 10 minutes and then you totally regret it and cry into your pillow and miss your long hair. I didn't have that really hard like hit the wall. I totally regret it now. I'M so sad. I'Ve gone up and down there's been fluctuations, there have been times in the past where I've cut a lot of hair off, and it's really made me sad. I didn't experience that this time. I think it's because I donated it every time I thought about my haircut. It'S made me happy instead of bumming me out. That being said, there were a few reasons why I was very ready to cut my hair, and that is because in 2021 I was pregnant with our daughter. I gave birth to her in 2022. I nursed her for as long as I possibly could, and there are a lot of hormone changes that occur during that season and hormone changes do affect curl pattern. I 100 notice this with my last pregnancy. It was weird it was so weird, so I had kind of tighter curls-ish when I got pregnant with our daughter and then throughout the pregnancy. My curl pattern just kept stretching out and stretching out and stretching out, and I thought it was due in part to the length of my hair, but looking back, it was also due in part two. The hormones. The hormones were definitely affecting my curl pattern as well, because, as soon as our daughter was weaned, I noticed in the back of my head a section that really starts to get nice tight spirals. My Curls are changing again with the shift in hormones. So when I started to notice those tighter curls right at my crown, I thought okay, I'll just cut my hair and then I'll be able to kind of reset and see what my curl pattern is going to do. But then I also highlighted my hair, which affects the curl pattern. So who knows what Courtney was thinking but chopping off? A great big long section of my hair was part of kind of figuring out what my hair is going to do after major hormone chips. Over the past four years, I have been growing out my hair, and it is a lot of work to grow. Your hair out that long there is a part of me like Mrs, is the long hair because of all the work it took to get my hair that long and that healthy, I feel, like I've lost all that hard work, but then again I gave it to Children with hair loss, so it's a mixed feeling and the feeling of gratitude that I was able to participate in children with hair loss program kind of cancels out my missing the long hair because of the hard work that it took to grow it out. So what am I going to do a game plan for Courtney's hair? Your guess is as good as mine guys comment down below what you think I should do with my hair honestly. I am truly open to hearing your suggestions because that's one reason I'm here on the internet, I am here to be as helpful as humanly possible to you with you and your hair's needs and concerns, which is part of the reason. I highlighted it because a lot of you guys choose to color and highlight your hair and want to know how to best care for your waves and curls, while also maintaining the color and the highlights. So that was another reason. I kind of felt like doing that. But that being said, what should I do now? Should I do a grow out process where I try and get back to my natural hair color and show you the steps I take along the way doing that, because there are several ways that that could be done. I could just let my hair grow out and then cut off all the color. I could just maintain regular Trims and we slowly watch the grow out together or I could keep up up with the highlights and keep maintaining them keep getting better at learning. What my hair does when I get it highlighted how to best get it back from the freak out that it does after a highlight, share that information with you. What is most valuable to you? Let me know in the comments down below, I hope, you're having an absolutely fantastic day and I will talk to y'all later bye. Thank you.
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Swavy Curly Courtney: Hey! Welcome to the comment section! If you've ever made a big change to your appearance, you know that it can be both exciting and nerve-wracking. In this video, I wanted to share my personal experience with you, and I hope it is helpful to you if you are thinking of making a big change! But I want to make it clear that regretting a hair transformation doesn't make you any less beautiful or confident. It's okay to change your mind and embrace a new look. And then to have mixed feelings afterwards! If you're going through a similar experience or have any tips on how to maintain bleached hair, feel free to share in the comments. Let's support each other and remember that beauty comes in all forms.
Star 123: Courtney looks cute with highlights. She also looks beautiful with her natural color. Lucky her, she can’t go wrong!
sunny bluebird63: I am a licensed hairdresser with 25 years behind the chair and I love all your content. I love your highlights but I love your virgin color the best. I would love to see you grow the highlights out, or maybe not do as many highlights AND I would like to see how your hair would curl with some pretty heavy layers in it. I have curly hair - definitely brought on by hormonal issues. The older I get, the curlier it gets. I always wore my hair pretty much one length down to my waist with just a little layering at the bottom but I have recently started cutting it a little longer than yours now but I have really heavy layering from the crown down and my curls have really taken off but they are a softer bigger curl. The longer my hair gets, the curlier it gets, which I know sounds strange because my hair is really heavy and you would think the weight of the hair would pull the curl out but it just goes to show how strong the curl pattern is from the scalp. Can't wait to see what you do next. Love your videos!!!!
Alyssa Bush: As someone with long hair, I relate to this so much.
LadyKC67: You inspired me to cut my hair and I’m so thankful you did. My hair is thick and heavy. Every time I’ve tried to grow it long without layers I’ve regretted it. And yet I did it with my curls. I was so frustrated with my hair, it wouldn’t hold good curl and I had a lot of the same struggles you had. I went to my hairdresser (who is AMAZING) and I didn’t even know what to ask for. I needed help was all I knew. Anyhow, my hair was to my mid back. She only took off a couple of inches but she added layers and it made an incredible difference. My curls sprang up and they look gorgeous, either left natural or done with magnetic rollers (my favorite). But the layers were long enough that I can still put it in a pineapple/high pony and it still looks cute. So I have the best of all worlds. As far as highlights, my hair is basically the same color as yours. And I’ve always hated it on me. I get it colored a brownish red (that does less damage than bleach) but I need highlights because of my age (50s) so she does a few around my face and it works. There isn’t as much to “bond repair” like an entire head of highlights and when I look in the mirror I have the lightening I need for my older face. Just some ideas that might help you decide what to do with your own hair. I do recommend some layers, it helps the curls spring up. Even longer layers help the weight. So that’s my $.02 FWIW.
karendibee: I LOVE LOVE LOVE your new hair! The blond really brightens your face. And I love the hairstyle.
Nicci Chapman: Hi Courtney. Proud of you for donating your hair to such a good cause. Would love to watch you continue to have highlights and how you cope. It was because of you I started the cgm. I started having highlights in my hair as the grey started to come through. I can now say Im blonde. But identify with freak out my hair has after the bleach. The other thing I have found is because our weather is so damp here in England I only have to go outside for a short time and I am left with head of frizz. Help! God bless and keep up the great work. Xx
Heather Hoeps Intuitive Art: Hey Courtney, I have subscribed and been watching tons of your videos since I embarked on the CGM 2 weeks ago. I love your entertaining information style. I have to say I LOVE this hair length for you!!! Like it better than longer hair on you. And it seems so much easier to take care of. Your hair looks amazing. I can't wait to have such shiny, silky locks.
Kimberly Clark, OT: You have totally validated my experience with highlights- and helped me with my decision to stick with my virgin color (my hair is so much like yours in every way)
Mandy Maney: It's an interesting thing through life how our hair changes. I never had wavy hair in my youth but menopause suddenly created waves in my highlighted hair. So experimenting and learning how to handle it has been "interesting" for sure. Now add to the mix, as I grow older, Greys, silver tones and hair thinning. Hair struggles are real and finding a hairdresser that understands is not easy either. Thanks for sharing your hair tips.
Kate Mathewson: I had mixed thought when I did something similar - I think it’s only natural. About 18 months ago I got my hair cut to a similar length and also dyed it red - something I always wanted to do. I absolutely love the length and have cut it a little shorter now but the red was just far too much to maintain so I’m growing it out. It was a super fun experiment but I’m just too lazy to keep up a red hair routine
Angela G: To begin with, your hair looks great regardless of the length. My hair right now is mid-back length. For me it is way too long. Before Menopause, my hair was straight and I had it both pretty long and a pixie cut. My hair has always grown pretty fast so I never had a problem cutting or growing it at my whim. Later years I found I preferred it on the shorter side (between chin and shoulder). Now that my hair is wavy/curly, I am finding that I like it better a little on the shorter side. At my next cut, I plan on getting about 3-4 inches cut to bring it up to the shoulder/collarbone. BTW, I also color my hair regularly.
Mandy Ratliff: Your hair looks great. I have enjoyed watching your videos dealing with high porosity hair. I don't bleach my hair but I do color it an auburn color. So it's pretty high porosity. I think you should do whatever makes you happy. Maybe keep the highlights going for a little while and see where it takes you. Unless your hair gets too unhealthy of course. Thanks for all you do, Courtney!
Dressault: I like this new length on you. I think your curls are liking it, too. I am curious to see how more layering in your shorter cut wound look. I can relate to the long hair struggles. My hair will get caught in everything from zippers to seatbelts, if I don't carefully tuck it out of the way. Despite this, I love long hair.
julieks879: I donated 8" last week. I could not let it go any longer, I was so over it! I had a panic attack in the chair bc of the initial shock but once I got home and fixed it myself I was in love with the short hair.
Molly Fitz Brown: I go through phases of wanting long, then getting sick of it and wanting short, then wanting long again lol it never ends but I love your short and am about ready for a cut soon…! I also live in Florida and prefer shorter in summer and longer in fall/winter.
KR: I chopped my hair after my second baby, he was a hair puller and wearing it up all the time was giving me headaches. It's so hard to resist the temptation to chop it with the PPD hair shed anyway. I really think when you get enough grow out you should go for that wavy/curly pixie you've talked about wanting. ❤ It would look SO cute on you!
Tina Kaminsky: I am so happy with your hair experiment since I am a shorter colored hair girl. Loving seeing what products work for you now. I say stay with highlights to experiment more!!
Tracy Kinney: This video was very helpful to me on something you may not have even planned for it to be helpful on!! I too got pregnant in 2021 and had my beautiful daughter in 2022. My curls while I was pregnant were amazing and my hair grew out so well. Fast forward my low porosity virgin hair isn’t as curly anymore and I don’t know why I didn’t think about it before but you helped turn on the little light bulb for me, HORMONES!!!! I’m still breast feeding my daughter and she’s just over 9 months old. My hormones still haven’t returned to normal which makes sense as to why my hair is being so difficult!! I was blaming my hair being longer so I did get it trimmed up but no change, hormones are definitely the culprit!!! Thank you!!!
Sonia Burgos: It's been 3 years since I last highlighted my hair. Yes, I do miss it, but I would rather have healthy hair. Your hair looks beautiful anyway! However, I loved your natural hair color best. I think you should grow it out, but have it dyed close to your natural hair color so the roots do not make you crazy during the process.
Bethany Rose: I love the highlights and the length!!! Really enjoy your channel.
Jessica Kindle: I would love to see a grow out process to get back to your natural hair. That is currently what I am planning to do and would love some inspiration.
taties d: I absolutely love this short length on you, it’s added youth to your face!
Judie Loveday: Puberty brought me curls and menopause has taken them away. I've been wearing my hair curly since the age of 19, and it became part of my identity. For the last 7 years or so I've seen my curls depart to the point where I'm wondering if I even need to use a curly hairdresser any more. Mind you, in that time I've been diagnosed with a couple of autoimmune diseases, for which I take lots of medication for, and I've stopped colouring my hair. So I'm thinking it may be a combination of everything. Would it be weird for me to purchase a curling iron?!
curls_of_silver: This is a great look and you pull it off 100%. Look forward to seeing which hair-path you'll choose in the future.
jennifer ramirez: As a person who has never liked thier natural color and has highlighted hair I understand the struggle. For me it is worth it with the color I have now . My hair is short but I have accepted it. Thank you for your video.
Michelle Bumbaugh: I've been following you for 2 years now and our journeys are very similar. I have a 19 month old. 2 weeks ago I chopped off my hair. While the cut was not exactly what I wanted (I wanted shoulder length hair and the stylist gave me a sharp A-line bob and I ended up cutting it again at home into just a short bob, I think I cut off like 8 inches). I loooove having short hair. My hair was so thick and heavy, I was having neck problems. But it feels better now! I think it's good to cut your hair off, it's a good exercise in not being too attached to your hair and it's a great reset. It's also been amazing for my waves! They were so weighed down so they just sprang up! And all of a sudden it's holding the waves. My last wash day lasted for 4 days with no refresh! (Usually it would only last 1 and refreshing is impossible.) But it's been so fun. The volume has been impressive too! If you want to chop your hair off, just try it! Hair grows back. Also, thanks to you, my stylist said my hair was incredibly healthy. Almost too healthy, she said
Arad Barzilay: Im donation my hair to almost a year ago and the big changes is that i have less detangel and my hair looks better then it looks before.
Larea92503: I really like your new cut. The fact that you helped children is such an amazing plus. One option could be to work toward another donation! It sounds like you are not really enjoying the highlights, so I would recommend letting them grow out myself. Your hair is lovely any way you wear it, so I would do what makes you most happy.
Christine Marie: I have been growing out my natural color since 2020. I always loved my natural color, I just didn't love the white hairs that started popping up and started dyeing my hair to cover the gray. Now I am loving the blend of white and brown as it has grown out. I still have a couple inches of dyed hair at the ends. I had to remove an inch or so myself last month when I got too close to the gas rice cooker and incinerated the ends. I was worried they would start to split. I don't have a problem with split ends and didn't want to develop one. Your hair is beautiful short or long, but I really love the honey color of your natural hair. I find short hair frustrating since I have to tie my hair up for work and it's much easier with long hair.
Syl B: Over the last year, I've cut about 22" off of my hair. My hair is about as long as yours is right now. I had it highlighted when it was longer and I hate it because it is really dry and knotted all the time. I'm still dealing with bleached ends but I'm looking forward to having that all grow out again. Since I'm pretty gray it isn't exactly what I would prefer but better than all the knots. It sounds like you feel the same way about it. I think the length you're having right now looks super cute on you. If you're having as many struggles to get through the tangles as I do, you might be better off not highlighting your hair anymore. The color and hightlights do look very good on you though. Having said that, I'd love to see your curls in their natural state, no color or highlights. Grow it out and rock the transition as balayage. ❤️
J Britt: How did you get your hair to "virgin more healthy" hair previously? Maintain trims and grow out the bleach/highlight color? Or did you grow it all out and then chop? I feel like it would be more interesting to see maintain trimming without maintaining the color, as in let the color get smaller and smaller with time. Plus it's kind of fun to measure the growth based on the color left maybe ♀️ also, how can you use the growing out colors without adding more? Like is there a way to do that? I've seen root sprays but not sure how that would work with bleach/ lighter colors.
Megan Whitney: Add in the cost of extra products to maintaining the highlights. You always look great, so do whatever sparks you joy. I’m afraid of dying my hair since I’m a natural red and my color isn’t easy to dye back to, and I really don’t like the idea of spending that money on hair instead of vacations. Content-wise teaching people how to handle growing out damaged hair is likely super helpful. You’ll be coming at it from years of experience in this world of wavy curly hair, and many will be entering this journey as beginners. Seeing your frustrations and what you’ve learned to do through the messy parts may be really helpful. But either way, your beautiful soul shines through in any color of hair, and if adding in joy and adventure to your hair journey will make keeping up the content more joyful, then go for it!
QuickSilverHair: All your highlight issues with tangles and curl family divorces, are exactly why I never highlighted my hair after the last time in my late 20’s. They were always fun in the initial look but so many dysfunctional curl families. My mom has a wonderful saying that fits here: sometimes you have to go back to find out why you left. Excited to see where you go from here.
Geri Pivowar: Hi Courtney, grow out your hair,and keep the highlights. I loved your long hair,your highlights are pretty. It will be fun to watch your hair journey. ♀️
Katie Demski: Hair is an adventure ♀️ I promised myself I was done coloring and was going back to my natural dark… from my beloved red/copper… so I put in a semi permanent deep red to start the transition… Nope. A week later I did a lil bleach bath and popped back in the copper… Roots be damned I love it too much
Chappysmom: For what it's worth, I thought your natural hair color was just lovely!
sadie sheep: I have a very similar hair type to you and natural color. I let mine grow out to 100% virgin and then I decided to bleach it and do a balayage. Instantly, my hair was more difficult to manage, less curly, and I found myself missing how my natural color looked on me. I’m now back on the journey of growing my virgin color back out!!
Karie Thorington: I would love to see a grow out process!
Kayo Ell: I'd love to see you go back to Virgin hair and see how the change in length plays out. Often wavy/curly folks need more length for the waves/curls to come out (contrary to the classic notion that length weighs it down.
Bobbisue Scott: I’ve thinking about getting my hair cut off to my shoulders. It’s natural curly and it will be much easier to take care of. I have a bad back, so too have my hair long just takes up so much time and kills my back. Love you so these videos ❤❤
Crystal Ferris: I selfishly want to ask you to color your hair to help me with mine! I have to color mine due to the multitudes of gray hairs I have and it really alters my curl pattern. I really have to work at it after I color my hair for about 3-4 weeks until it kind of goes back to normal. But by then I’m ready to color again! I tried going gray and I’m just not ready for that Is it a different process for colored hair rather than highlighted hair or could I use your tips as well? BTW, I think your natural hair was beautiful! But your highlights look great too. Do what makes you happy. Either way you will be helping someone and you’ve branched out to be able to help even more people! Thank you for helping me to love my hair! I found you in March 2020 right when the pandemic started and have been curly ever since!
Christy Price: I'm partial to longer hair, but you have to do what's best for you. Sometimes I love my long hair. Other times? I want to have it chopped off.
Lynnette Wood: My hair is similar to yours, it is shoulder length, fine and highlighted. So I want to be selfish and say keep it highlights are definitely work though. I use bond treatments, protein and deep conditioner most weeks then need a leave in most days through my ends. I do like my hair though, I have layers in mine though which I think encourages the curl pattern to be higher
Iris L: Well I haven't bleached/highlighted my hair in around 15 years. But I do color over my grey. Some tips and tricks for color-treated hair that doesn't involve bleach, but to help maintain color added on top, would be something that I'm looking for. If you want to go that route I would be appreciative, if not... if someone has some youtube recommendations for curly/wavy and color-treated hair I would love it. For anyone who decides to comment that "I should just grow my grey out", please respect that I don't want to. I've gone "mostly blonde" before. I know what I like with light hair and I do not like the look. Thank you.
Wendy Abels: You can always try and find wavy hair extensions to have the long hair on the days when you miss it and want it back.
Little Kyle: Okay so I have a really weird question which is unrelated to this video or... well... any video I do not use heat on my hair, but I was wondering if there is still a benefit to using heat protectant spray. Like would it be a lightweight way of sealing out extra moisture/preventing your hair cortex... or something... from swelling? I know it would not work as a sunscreen/UV blocker, but you know how your hair is nice inside and then you go outside and things go wrong? I was wondering if heat protectant could work as an anti-frizzing spray instead. I have super thin hair and run from anything heavy, so I was just wondering if I could do a little spray and go action!!! I was by no means a chemistry scholar in highschool, so if there is a really obvious answer here... I am not going to find it on my own Anywhos - maybe you could try it out for a video? Texas is humid, right? I was just thinking if I ever go somewhere really humid like the Philippines it would be nice to have an "anti-poofing" spray on hand. I doubt this experiment would have been worthwhile in the past for you, but now your hair's porosity is higher like mine... hehe... have I sold you on the idea?
Susie Lewis: I had rod straight hair my whole life….until menopause! I’m now Curly Sue!
Lisa Zylstra: Selfishly, I'd like to see you go back to your natural hair color and either grow it out as is or work with different ways to shape it while it grows. I have a few wonky curl sections that end the curl sticking straight out since cutting mine that I haven't quite figured out how to make "behave" yet, whether it's just the length they are or how I'm styling. That said, it feels SO much healthier. But I was surprised to learn that diffusing really isn't much faster, even with my hair 8" shorter. Just to see, I tried one day to blow dry my hair straight instead (gasp). It was much faster, but my kids said I looked like Snape from Harry Potter, and hubby didn't love it either. So I'm on this curly journey to stay. :) I'd like some day 2/3 refresh guidance with the shorter length and tips/demonstration for getting more volume/root lift on air dry days. Thanks for all you do to share your hair journey with us! You're a happy corner of the internet I enjoy visiting!
Caryl Castro: I think you look great with your new hair cut.
Cali Rose: I like your hair both longer and "shorter." I think it's all just a personal choice. Your hair, in my opinion, looks fuller now. When our hair is very long, the weight tends to pull it down. I also used to have very long hair, like you, I constantly had tangles .... I don't think shoulder length is "short." I feel it's a flattering length for most because it helps people focus on our eyes.
Karen L Byrnes: I would try transitioning to less highlights. All that color does make it more prone to knots. What about painted highlights towards the middle and ends of your hair. I think it’s called biolage or something close to that.
Paula Doll-Wildenberg: I love your hair this length.
Michelle: Good thing the fad now is to have longer darker roots. Even in wigs, which I wear a lot. Personally I don't like that look in my wigs, and it's actually hard to find new wigs which are "unrooted". Your hair looks lively now, but it looked lively before too. I have pretty poor quality hair so I really appreciate yours. With the busy life of having kids and all associated activities, I think this is a time for easy. I'm trying curly girl methods (hair is halfway down back) but not sure how long I'll do it as my results are kind of puny. And having hair everywhere (me and the dog) is getting tiresome.
Mattar: I think transitioning to a balayage would be cool to watch.
Rebecca van Dorsten: I think it was wise cutting your hair after baby! There is quite a bit of post parfum hairloss about 6 months after birth and you’d need to cut it anyways…
Janet Keene: I may not be the only one who has suggested this, but maybe you could put lowlights of your natural hair color in your hair. It might be an easier transition for you. Also I just cut my hair and now it's too short to pineapple. How do you sleep with yours now?
Razia: Please don't abandon us low porosity girls
amyjo8799: I do lived in bayalage once a year and it grows out great and low maintenance. Before color I did a bond treatment and didn’t wash it after for a few days after color. I just kept adding oils and leave in to mid length to ends . At first wash I used L’Oréal bond concentrate followed by the shea moisture protein masque. I had really good results and my hair feels back to normal. I think maybe it depends on how many highlights you have and how long it had to process too ♂️?
Trevor Clabough: You should do that shag cut that a lot of girls are doing now. With your texture it would look so cool on you.
Meredith: When are you going to review trepadora hair products ? Love your oppinion on their products.
Renate Keiding Lindholm: I love your current length❤️
Kelly Fernando: I love your new hair length.
KathleenKC1: I do trust my stylist to do highlights, but I do not have the patience to sit in the salon for the amount of time it would take to get it done. Plus, I have started to go gray a bit, so that is mother nature's own highlights. I will watch what you do with your hair, but I will only be a bystander and not participate in the short hair & highlights.
Christy Price: Soooo, that's why I'm struggling so much with tangles?? My hair is down to my butt.
333Lovelylaura: Thanks for sharing your honest experience and opinions Courtney From listening to you it felt to me that you had had (and are having) your experience with your choices and are ready to let go of the stressors you've created with your 'fling' It's Pretty, but to me not nearly as PRETTY as your virgin hair. Also, I think you look gorgeous in long and short hair
Sunflower Baby: I would love to watch you grow out your hair minus the highlights. But whatever path you choose will be fun to observe.
Chrissy Ivey: Hello. Love your videos. I was wondering if you could do a review of the L’Oréal elvive dream length curls products. If you have already done this, I apologize. If so, would you mind sending me the link? Thank you!
Patti Wilkinson: Love your new haircut! Looks great on you!
Phyllis Malone: I preferred your natural color, but love it shorter!
na.y.: Please, what's your hair type? Is it 2B? What are its density, width and porosity, please? Just so I can compare and determine if my hair would behave the same, similar or different, please!
Yesenia Kutz: Omg I love it
L B: This length suits you. Grow out the highlights. Your natural color is nicer.
CCisRight: Can I be completely honest? I don't mind your colour, it suits you well. Now, as for the cut.... from the beginning I didn't care for the cut itself. I much prefer the way your hair was being cut previously. It's not about the length but the layering or lack of.
Brief little candle: I would like to see you with chin length hair and your natural color but you do you
Janie Hall: Hi. I like your hair as it is now
R Andrews: I wish I had known you sooner, I buy hair to make extensions :(
Alyssa Marie: Balayage and then go natural or keep it balayage with more length.
Bennie Maine: Try a mid length.
SueRosalie: that's a very nice length on you
Amber Noland: You need the treatments, and they do something, bc your hair is damaged. You didn't need them before, which is a good thing! So, your plus that products and treatments work better now, isn't really a plus at all.
Emily Carriker: I think we are both destined 2a but hey it can still be Nice
mariana yamashiro: It like lovely either way