Builds Character: Lovely Long Tresses

When I turned sixteen I made a promise to myself that I would never cut off my hair again at least until my wedding. Now I know that may sound random but I took a summer camp in 2006, and one of the girls in the group had cancer. So in honor of Erica I have donated over 48 inches of hair to Locks for Love. I would encourage anyone that wants to cut off more than 8 inches of hair to donate to Locks for Love its very easy and a great cause. They make wigs for cancer patients. But now that I have done this for now I want to see how long I can get my hair ideally I want it to be to my waist or longer.

I have never had a lot of patience, so I have been looking into other peoples thoughts and remedies for making their hair grow faster. Here are some of the interesting ones:

One girl claims that your hair grows slower if you cut it on a full moon. She claims that from her own personal experience cutting her hair on new moons during the water signs has helped it to grow fast. She even claims that the new moons during Pisces (Feb. 19- Mar. 20), and Gemini (May 21- Jun. 20) are the best. I may have to try this saying that I am a Pisces. Now as a disclaimer I have never tried this, so I have no idea if it works at all. 

I've also read that if you wash your hair with natural things it helps. I have washed my hair with baking soda and been doing a vinegar rinse. I use about a 1 to 2 proportion of white vinegar and water. I have also heard that apple cider vinegar is good too. For me I was using the white vinegar because I found that it helps with taming my crazy curly hair. I have notices some growth since April my hair has gone for being 19inches long to 23. However I am still looking at other ways mainly cause I'm inpatient and it doesn't seem to be growing faster. However I do like this solution, it cuts the cost of shampoo and conditioner almost completely.

A friend of mine takes biotin a natural vitamin that is know to help strength and encourage the growth of hair and nails. I have not done this yet so I don't know how effective it is however I would love to try it. I have a habit of picking at my nails if I'm nervous so even if this doesn't help with the hair a lot, it may be worth it.

Those are three of many solutions out there if you have any thoughts I would love to hear them.

New Adventures

So I have three catch phrases I guess you could say. More or less they are three lines that I use in different situations that I think are knowledgeable or just describe my life.

"Builds Character"

"Knowledge is Power"

"I'll sleep when I'm dead!"


So with my leaving for a great new adventure in about a week. (I will be starting my freshman year at Gannon) I think that I would be fun to try to actually come of with or rather try to find a way to be blogging more frequently. Now I know you thinking to yourself, Mary you said this before. This is true and I know that I haven't followed up on that thought and I don't know at the moment if I will but I want to see where I can go with this blog and I think that maybe just maybe this new adventure will be a way to make this something worth reading.

So my quotes well I thought that I could for starting out at least until I get a feel for blogging that I will try to at least once a week come up with a post about some sort of story, lesson or adventure that could by some stretch of imagination fall under one of those categories.