The Phased Big Chop! Oh, and I Also Texlaxed on Monday! :-)

Hey There Girlies!

I'm sorry I haven't been able to post as often as I would like, but I definitely will not leave you out of the loop that is "Rachie's Hair Journey" for very long.

As you know, I had quite a bit of shedding and breakage in Late November and during December 2014 due to the stress of Wedding preparations, The breakage is especially at the line of demarcation where my Relaxed dyed hair meets my Texlaxed hair.

I had made a plan (Much like Harlem from harlemhhj.blogspot.com)to hold out until my birthday in April to cut off the relaxed ends - woiii! the thought of cutting off 4" at once was scary.

So in the mean time I've been cutting bit by bit: 

about an inch in January, 

and inch and a half in February 

and this month, on Saturday March 21st I cut off 2 inches off of each plait!!!

*see the new growth/roots?*

Crazy huh?!

Yeah I was sad,
but so it goes,
health over length!


I had a bit of a setback, but it's okay, deep down I always knew I'd have to trim away the relaxed ends, it just came sooner than I had hoped.
 But I'm good because if there's one thing this Hair Journey has shown me is that I am fully capable of reaching Waist Length and Beyond!

*New growth with MAJOR Shrinkage! - 2" in length when stretched believe it or not!*

2 Days Post Chop...
I Texlaxed my hair at 18 weeks and 3 Days on March 23rd 2015:

So where is my hair now?

 *I wore this to work the following day*

Hovering just at/above BSL!

Yup yup! It's the weirdest feeling, 

I feel like "OMG where's my hair all gone?!" Lol!

But you know what? Now that its mostly Texlaxed - Its thicker, bouncier and its healthier than my relaxed ends - I still have a teensy bit hanging on for dear life, LOL!

I have more pics but I cant seem to get them off of my camera!! #trials!

PROS:

It's nice to be able to brush through and style my hair in seconds, literally the bun in the first pic took me all of 10 seconds to accomplish. I kid you not.
I also anticipate that my wash days will take less time re detangling at least for the next 4 weeks.

CONS:

I really miss my new growth, I not gonna lie - I was even toying with the idea of the POSSIBILITY of ONE DAY transitioning to natural hair...

Alas, I couldn't go any further with my relaxer stretch, maybe I was being inpatient along with teh stress of work and reading, the breakage had me almost to the point of tears!
Ahhh well!

Shout out to Relaxed Thairapy who is still going strong at 36 weeks post!!!

Amazing!

Inspirations everywhere I tell you!

Have you guys relaxed/texlaxed/chopped recently?

Have a great day girlies!
Xoxo Rachie :-)