My New Journey: Retaining Length

It's February..month 21. I recently bought Hairfinity vitamins. I started in Jan, and am now on my second bottle. It's hard for me to tell if my hair has grown. Why? Because I had to trim my hair. Now that my hair is long enough for me to put in a bun, I have been od'ing with pulling and tugging my hair..which is a recipe for BREAKAGE! So between breakage and split ends (due to some of the hair color I still have in my hair) I had to trim to make my hair healthy and as even as possible. Unfortunately my hair looks very short right now..but I won't focus on that now  but its health. I straightened my hair to trim my ends. I'm hoping to keep my hair straight as long as possible. I've only been able to keep it straight for a few days before dousing it in water. My goal is a month.

Now that I've just started my 2nd bottle of Hairfinity, it will be easier for me to document my hair grow for a month. I'm looking online for hairstyles I can do for a month. So far I've been using the flexi rods to add curls to my hair. I know I won't want to keep using them every night. Right now I have my hair in a loose high ponytail with a scarf over my head to keep the moisture in along with keeping my edges flat. Trying to figure out how to style in the mornings. Because of its short length, it's hard to style without using heat...and heat is what I want to stay far away from. And this comes to the title of this post, My New Journey: Retaining Length. I've decided to stop putting my hair in "tight" ponytails with water and gel. This was breaking my hair. This is a great time to start this, now that I'm approaching my 2 year anniversary. 

Fresh trim. Journey to hair retention.