Picture Proof (or lack thereof)

I'm - in a mood, in general. I can't find any happy online places, and - meh.

Okay. Lets start with hair comparisons - part of the reason why I'm so meh. Shrinkage is a mofo and a half.

This picture is from January of this year.



And this picture, I took this past weekend.




It's the same. freaking. length - to all appearances. I do notice that it's 'fuller' - I've got more of a triangle going on, but arrggghhh!! My hair was done roughly the same way both times, freshly unbraided from my 'drying' braids, in preparation to be twisted.

The really argh-inducing part is that I know, know, know my hair is longer - I can do more stuff with it - but DUDE. It so doesn't look like it. It's kinda funny, when it's not irking me.

It is getting prettier though - and look! I was kinda shocked when I looked in the mirror and saw this, because I was like - AHHHH!! That's what a braid-out is!!! *lol*



It's a bad picture (though my, but I look skinny from that angle! *LOL*) because I'm still too silly and shy to ask DH to start taking my hair pictures for me. *sigh* I truly can't take proper pictures of the back of my head anymore - at least not in the bathroom.... I'll have to look through my old pictures and see what else I was doing.

I've checked the one spot that I used for my initial 'length check', and it's the same danngone length - maybe a 1/4 - 1/2 inch longer, which is my normal growth rate. I shudder to think of how much breakage I might have had in my 'stretched hair' experimental days. Poor hair. *sigh*

I didn't take any other progress pics, I don't think - let me go and check my flickrhouse. *sigh* Nope, nada. I might use those two comparison ones up there - at least they show the difference in thickness, to a good extent.

I swear, just looking at the pictures, you would seriously think that my hair hasn't grown at ALL, but I know it has! I know it! *has very small fit*

*sigh*

I'm not, not, not pressing/straightening my hair just to show growth. I'm tempted - oh, by the sweet saints, I'm tempted, but no. It's - it's not worth it.... though I have found a line on not one, but two Dominicans operating in the city..... so maybe, one day, I might. Maybe.

Hrmph.