My One Year Hair Growth Journey, Hair Regime & Before and After Pictures

Hello MABH readers!

Today, I am going to share with you all my one year hair growth story with ‘before and after’ hair growth pictures. Hair growth, hair fall, shiny hair – these will be few of the most searched words in Google when it comes to hair care and stuff. From my experience with beauty blogging, I got to know that clearer skin and longer hair are what people wish for! Let us leave the former. The latter one is our topic today.

I am eighteen now. This hair growth journey has been started before a year when I was seventeen. I was doing my 11th grade that time. The difference between last year and this year in my hair growth is not that huge but still, I wanted to share my hair growth story, experience, regime and photos with you all as per readers’ request! Stay tuned.

 

Before and After Hair Growth Photos – My One Year Hair Growth Experience:

So did you check the picture above? The first one was taken last year (Around April-May) and the next one was taken last week by my cousin.

Update : Please don’t raise your eyebrows and say‘You are wearing the same dress huh!) I wore the same dress to know the exact difference in growth; not to breed doubts in readers’ mind.

Okay coming to the story, did you notice that my hair has become straighter than before? It is not that I have done hair straightening (I have virgin hair!) but the good (Read ‘better!’) hair regime made changes to my hair and I am happy for that now! In these 12 months, I trimmed my hair twice to thrice which was a blunder I made. I should have only trimmed my split ends. Instead, I chopped off nearly 2 inches. Sob!

Let me talk about my hair care regime now without wasting any more time. To be frank it was not a magical hair care regime that I followed. I will list now what all I did to my hair and what changes I made to my hair care regime to promote hair growth in this one year.

I Started Taking Biotin Pills

Yes! This was the first thing I did when I dreamt of having beautiful long hair. After consulting with my physician, I got a pack of H-Vit biotin and started taking it everyday. I took 10 mg biotin a day. Within ten days, biotin gifted me acne breakouts. :(

I already knew that it might be the side effect but still, I said sorry to my skin and continued the biotin treatment. The breakouts gradually stop once your body gets used to it. I took biotin supplements for one month and I could notice a lovely change in my hair texture. It has controlled my mild hair fall and made my hair more shinier. My hair looked better after biotin intake. It has also strengthened my nails.

But wait.. I was (Am too) a super lazy girl and so, I did totally forgot about the biotin! I mean, totally!. After that one month, I never returned back to biotin pills due to laziness. If I had taken them, I am sure my hair would have grown at least an inch more than how long it is now. Hence seriously this time, I am going back to my biotin from this week. I will surely make a difference post on MABH after one more year!

One more thing.. Don’t ever take any hair care supplement without consulting your doctor. Though it is just a food supplement, I am in no away recommending you to take biotin pills without asking your doctor!

I Oiled My Hair Every Week

This was one thing that made my hair texture better. :) When I was 12, I used to have thigh length hair. Then came the phase when I started hating long hair. And I got my hair cut done once in two-three months. I chopped my very long hair and maintained it till waist. I got VERY long hair due to ‘everyday oiling routine’ when I was in my 5th, 6th grades in school. I hated oiling hair but then, my mom insisted me and oiled my hair every other day. The oil I used (I am still using it!) was our homemade product :)  It contains a unique herbal formula. You would have seen my mom’s hair in this post. She uses the same too!

Currently, I am selling the product, i.e the MABH fast growth hair oil online as per readers’ requests. If you are interested in getting it, go through this POST for product details, price, ingredients, method of payment etc. You can place your order from www.mabh.in – our official site, and get the product at your door step. I am sure you will love the results after using our oil. Feel free to get in touch with me!

 

After my 7th grade, I banned hair oil totally which gave me bad dry hair. You can see on the pic which was taken a year back. They were not beautiful waves.. My hair turned that dry and horrible due to lack of nourishment. From last year, I started oiling my hair, but only at nights. I use our the MABH product and I do it twice a week.

With my no-cheat oiling hair routine, my hair texture has changed a lot in this one year. It is more silky and straight now.

Update: (I don’t remember the date.. Sorry. However it was in between August and September 2013 I guess)

Take a look at my hair now. I continuously followed the 2 times/week oiling routine (with our hair oil) and got really black and thicker hair! Our oil works best to stop hair fall, eliminate dandruff (if any) and stimulates scalp for newer and thicker hair growth. I am looking forward to next year. My goal is to grow out my hair till knees. One more update is coming up soon on January!

Update – January 10th 2014 (Must READ!)

Read: My 18 Months Hair Growth Update {Before and After Pictures}

 

I Started Eating Eggs Everyday

This may sound strange.. But it is true! Daily intake of eggs has made my hair grow faster. I have seen it visibly. Actually I didn’t start eating eggs everyday to make my hair grow; but to put on some pounds as I am underweight. But eggs never helped me gain weight :P Instead, they all went to my hair as protein and did magic to it. My mom says it is the protein content in egg that made my hair grow faster. Hence, even though I experience mild hair fall, due to the speed of my hair growth, my hair grows longer.

Egg white is full of protein and it really helps with improving the health and shine of your hair. Likewise, I love chicken too. I eat chicken at least twice a week. If you are a vegetarian, then stick to chickpeas, soy beans and paneer. They are really great sources of proteins in vegetarian food items.

I am sure that I will follow this egg technique hereafter too but with a little alteration. I am not going to take more than one egg yolk a day because it is full of cholesterol. I am just going to take more egg whites from now. I would say, the egg routine really worked for me like a magic to grow out my hair longer and stronger!

 

I Avoided Sun and Dust

Sun and dust are two big enemies to hair growth! They don’t affect your hair growth in a direct way, but of course they cause dandruff, root weakness and many other hair problems which result in hair breakage, hair fall and hair thinning. If your hair falls more than it grows, then how is it possible for your hair to get longer? That’s the thing. So if you control hair fall, you maintain your new grown hair and you will get long hair. Controlling hair fall = Long hair! Got it?

To achieve this, I avoided sun and dust totally in this one whole year. I was sitting at home and blogging the whole year without going to school (Yeah I did my schooling in corres due to full time blogging!) so it was possible for me. But for most of the women out there, avoiding sun exposure is not an easy task. Better wear a cap, a scarf or a helmet while riding bike to protect your hair from direct sunlight. Wash your hair 1-2 a week with a mild shampoo to get rid of dust. That’s what I do too.

We take bath and cleanse our skin every day then why not we do the same to our hair? Scalp is more prone to dirt, sweat, infections and many more things which can affect our hair growth. But keep in mind, over washing your hair may lead to DRYNESS! Hair fall happens with dryness too. Right? So make sure to moisturize your hair if you are over drying it by rinsing so often. Don’t use silicone based serums to achieve that temporary shine. Those serums might ruin your beautiful hair. Instead, use light hair oils.

Okay the post is going super long and I am sure you will get bored if I write more. So let me finish the post with few little hair care tit bits from my hair growth experience. These hair care tips will really be helpful to you if you are person who is wishing to grow long and healthy hair.

 

My Own Experienced Hair Care Tips to Grow Long Hair Faster:

• Never comb your hair when it is wet. You are actually growing your hair millimeter by millimeter so hard. So why do you allow it to break so easily by combing in hurry? Always air dry hair and comb with a wide tooth comb after it gets dried.

• If you want long hair, then stop using hair dryers, straighteners, blow dryers and curlers very often.

• Include more protein in your diet. This works very well in increasing the length of your hair.

• Maintain your hair and scalp clean all the time and at the same time, keep them moisturized.

• Oil your hair at least twice a week and leave it overnight.

• For my cousin, eating fish very often helped with her fast hair growth too. Hence, if you are a good seafood lover, include more fish to your diet.

• If someone tells you that your hair will grow very long if you trim it, shout that’s a myth! Your hair grows from the root and how could it affect your hair growth positively if you trim the ends? If you have split ends, trim them and maintain your hair healthy but never ever trim good health hair if you want long hair!

• Avoid using SLS, silicone based hair care and hair styling products. It’s one of the best ways to say goodbye to hair damage.

• Drink tender coconut one or twice a week and cool down your body. Body heat might also be a main cause of your hair loss. I haven’t tried drinking tender coconut, but heard it from a beautician. I will surely implement it soon!

• Last but not the least, have a good night sleep. It should really be a ‘night’ sleep. Be stress free! Do what you like :) Have hobbies. Good sleep, stress free life and happiness are 3 keys to grow your hair longer in few days! Believe me!

I am so sorry for the long post. But I hope the points will be helpful to you. Which regime you swear by to grow your hair longer? Now it’s your time to share your hair growth story below!