Jan 2011-Dec 2012 Hair. Can I do better?

My Mane!

 *A quick summary of this picture timeline.*

I started my healthy hair journey in Jan 2011 after almost texturizing my hair! But thank God I went on You Tube first!

Jan 2011: Picture taken in Mississauga (Toronto) Canada, about two months before I went back to Beijing the Second Time. I decided to put myself on a 12 months hair growth challenge to see how much hair I can actually grow and retain in that year

August 2011: I did Kinky Twist from March-May (2months) and I played with weekly protective styling every week or other week after that. Picture taken in Beijing

April 2012: Since I have a slow hair growth coupled with dry and breakage prone hair, I usually don't do a quarterly length checks. Instead I'll take pictures when I notice a significant change in hair length since my previous length check. Here, I noticed my hair has finally grown past my nose and is now touching my lower lip!

Dec 2012: *Ignore the three different outfits with different hair textures, pictures were actually taken over a weekend. I just wanted to make sure I got the most accurate hair length ;). Now I'm back in Canada and I notice my hair has grown a bit more since I left China in July.

Can I do better? It's obvious I didn't have a smooth sailing and I have no one else to blame but myself!
But now I am SERIOUSLY putting myself on a SERIOUS "Hair Retaining Challenge" for the Year 2013. This challenge will be done in two phases on a biannual basis. The first phase will happen from January-June and the second phase will happen from July-December.

Future blog posts will explain more about this fun challenge

Till then!