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Um, I've had a lot of people tell me to like, wow, your short hair kind of embodies your personality so much better and I think while I agree with that I feel more spunky, I feel lighter. I like and I love my short hair. I think I just live too active of a lifestyle to keep it short and it's really gotten annoying to like be able to put it up in a big, a big messy bun when I want to do a hard workout or, you know, run with my dog or something. So I've decided to grow it back out. While I've decided to grow it back out, you know how short hair always has this weird transition period, where it just looks like something's wrong. And so I've had days where I don't like the shape and there's pieces here and there's pieces here. So I'm trying to like kind of hedge as I go and I'm still doing the curly girl method. For those of you who don't know what that is, I will go ahead and link that in the description below. But I did a curly girl video when I first got started with YouTube and it pretty much is a way of taking care of curly hair that uses no heat. So you don't use any hairdryers or flat irons or anything like that and no silicone and no sulfates in your products. There's plenty of options these days for sulfate silicone free hair products and there's thousands of curly girl videos. So I don't need to get into all of that because if you just YouTube curly girl, you're going to just be blown away and overwhelmed with information. No need for me to add to that. Currently my washday routine is about every three to four days. I'm still doing the same kind of thing where I use a really protein rich shampoo and conditioner. I like to go with Shea Moisture. It makes my hair super soft and I can just tell like I get a lot of more curl definition on my washdays with that. And then I do Cantu's Cream Activator Curl Curl Cream and I do Prane Hands with soaking wet hair, scrunch it all up with a dry cotton t-shirt. And then I do Dollar Store Gel. It's kind of just been my jam. I can't bring myself to spend more than like five bucks on a styler. I just think it's kind of a waste of money because it does the same thing for my hair. Maybe it's just because of my hair texture and my curl. What's it called? My curl pattern, but I like cheap gel. That's where it's at. So I'm transitioning my hair back to long using the curly girl method and I think actually that this is going to help me take care of it to have my hair stay healthy, to have it grow more quickly and because I'm not using any heat and I don't need to trim it off anything dead if nothing's dying if that makes any sense. So I'm like I said I'm cutting as I go like there are certain days where I'm like oh this this layer is not looking good so if you see me in public and you go wow you need some help. I'm probably not going to go to a stylist. It's just going to be something that I go through because the money I'm saving while I'm cutting my hair far outweighs my crazy looking my crazy looking girls. Like I'd rather look crazy and save some money than go get it fixed by a stylist. And I've actually had a few people tell me shouldn't you just go to someone that knows what they're doing? Yes I could do that, but I'm not going to because I enjoy being frifty and saving saving money and being frugal. That's way more fun to me. That's all I have to report. Hopefully in another year or so it'll be long enough for I can put it in a giant bun and I will be so happy about that. But yeah in me time I'm gonna be using my pins on days I need it and just kind of taking my hair for what it is every day. One day at a time because every day is a little bit different. My kids are outside playing can you hear them? They're so loud. So if you're still watching at the end of this video watching me ramble you know thanks and thanks for tuning in. Yeah tell friends tell a few I'm still here I will be for a while until I get to my hundred videos which is what I've challenged myself with for those of you still don't know. Since I am in the process of learning all the time I hope to give you more fun learning tips and live advice next week when I come back next Monday. So stay tuned and I can't wait to see you again then. Go get messy have fun and learn.