Hair History

I thought i'd do a slightly different post today. I'm always interested in reading blogs and watching videos on people's hair routine and their hair history. So i thought i'd do a little post about my "hair history" ENJOY! 


I wouldn't consider my hair to be in bad condition but it could be better. When i was younger i could have treated my hair ALOT better. So this is my original hair colour. It use to be a light brown and was in perfect condition as my mum always made sure i had it cut a lot more than i do today! When i was younger my hair was always in a bob with a short fringe as it was the in thing at the time... i'm sure!

When i was about erm 8 years old i decided that i wanted to be in charge of my hair! I HATED my hair so short and in a bob and didn't want a short fringe so i decided to grow my hair. I kept my fringe clipped back ALL the time with different clips and sparkly rainbow coloured hair bands! I'm not sure if it's an old tale but i was always told that if you kept your hair clipped back it would grow quicker?! Was anyone else told this? Years and years past and my hair was A LOT longer and i no longer had a fringe it had completely grown in to my hair! ( I'm sorry i have no pictures to insert! All the pictures of me when i was younger are actually photographs and are in the loft) So my hair was about belly button length and it stayed like this until i went to secondary school and i decided to cut it off. Well not off but so it was SHORTER     (Thinking about it now i'm not sure why i actually wanted to cut my hair that short but at the time it was a good idea of mine!)

In secondary school my hair pretty remained at shoulder length and that's when i was introduced to the dreaded straighteners! I went to the hairdressers when i was about 14 and got my hair highlighted for the first time, well a few bits at the front highlighted and the lady straightened my hair and that's where my love for straighteners really started!

My mum got my a cheap-ish pair of straighteners from Argos and from then i straightened my hair EVERY day even when i was doing nothing at home! In fact as much as i don't want to admit my straightening obsession i'd sometimes straighten my hair twice over before going to school to make sure it was poker straight! How bad is that?! I ALWAYS used some sort of heat protection but my hair was very dry and very dead at the ends! So i either straightened or curled my hair everyday for school until i finished school and went to college.

I then went on to college and i was still using heat appliances on my hair but then i decided to start home dying my hair a wide range of different colours to say the least! I mean i never went to eccentric like a blue but i went from blonde to red to dark brown every few weeks! Half way through college i decided to get my hair completely cut off into a bit of a crop i'm not to sure what the right word is called for it but it was a cut that was long at the front and short at the back. Again it was in at the time! I also dyed my hair a light blonde.

So once i finished college i then went on a gap year which really has led me to just staying at work and not really knowing what to do as a career anyway that's a different story. I finally managed to get over my straightener & heat appliances obsession and for the last erm two years i've not been using heat appliances on a daily basis in fact hardly at all well that's a bit of a lie i do straighten my fringe every second day. I now only use heat appliances on "special occasions" I've also tried to be nicer to my hair in terms of washing it. This may sound a bit disgusting but it works for me. I use to wash my hair EVERYDAY which wasn't helping the dryness situation as i was washing out my natural oils so i managed to also kick that habit and now only wash my hair every 3 evenings and use dry shampoo if needed in between washes. I normally keep my hair down for the first two days and on the day of washing stick it up in a top knot as it does need washing by then! 

This is pretty much the latest picture of my hair to date, i decided to OMBRE the ends of my hair  blonde over the summer but now the summer has gone before my eyes i'm thinking of dying it a darker colour possibly a brown for the winter. 

SORRY that this post was super uber longer! I hope this was interesting for some of you! If anyone has tips on how to grow hair longer quicker if that's even possible, i'll try anything! 

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