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My ends have not been trimmed or clipped since this whole rice water journey. After this this footage I will be going to get my hair trimmed. It needs a bad trim. It has not had a proper professional trim so we'll be doing that. So it may kind of set me back just a little bit but if this stuff works like it says it works then my hair of course will grow. More importantly I want healthy hair growth. Now length of course is what I'm aiming for but I also want my hair to be healthy more so that's the most important thing. So with trimming your hair and properly grooming your hair that actually does help more in your hair growth. It actually helps to boost your hair growth. So don't neglect you know trimming your hair and you know properly taking care of your ends and as I say dusting those ends. You definitely want to do that and properly take care of your hair because the rice water long it's just not going to do it all by itself. You know you you got to you got to put some work in there as well and do some other things to also aid in that hair growth. So I've been doing this rice water since January as I stated and I have been doing this once a week. The process of my rice water regimen is I do this once a week as I said and I do a shampoo and then I do a deep condition. I normally do the rice water after I shampoo and leave that on my hair for anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour and then I do a deep condition with the Myel Organics deep conditioner meant deep conditioner. I used to do it the other way around but because the rice water is rancid and it's it's sour and it's strong the Myel Organics a mint deep conditioner actually is overpowers that smell and it leaves my hair smelling really wet. So I always do the rinse first and then I followed up with the deep conditioner. So now is the moment of truth to see if this rice water has actually grown my hair any since I started my journey in January. So that further do we're gonna go ahead and get started. So when I initially measured my hair on the left side it came right at my neckline. It did not go any further than my neckline right here on left. On the right side it came exactly on top of my collarbone and on the back of my hair it came just a little it came right across my shoulder blades lined up with my shoulder blades maybe just a little below my shoulder blades but I don't think it was quite so I'll just say right at my across my shoulder blades it was that length and I don't think I measured from the top down to my chin so I will be doing that because the only video where I measured from the top was the hair serum aloe vera the aloe vera hair serum and my hair barely just came to my lip so I'm gonna be measuring from here here and also left and right and also across my back. So I'm gonna use the Garnier Fruits this is a leave-in spray detangler and I'm gonna use the TGIN curl balm. Alright we're going to start to spray from the root down make sure that piece is nice and saturated and I cannot wait to get my hair trimmed. Oh my gosh I can't wait to get it trimmed and I'm just gonna put some of the gel on it here from the root to the tip and we're gonna see what this stretches out to be. Alright here we go. In the moment of truth we're gonna see if it still stops at my lip or if it comes lower and where comes to my chin comes exactly to the bottom of my chin so it grew. Now I don't know if y'all remember but you probably don't but I had cut my hair again after I did that aloe vera video because I had trimmed my ends and I had not trimmed it anymore and then I started doing the rice water like I said you know recently because I have not cut my hair so we'll do one more time. We're gonna see what the left is doing now. Alright so the moment of truth we're gonna see if it stops at my neck or if it comes down a little further and here we go scoot back some. It is now at my a little bit below my collarbone. Just a tad bit below the collarbone. One more time straighten my neck up. Yeah it is just below my collarbone. Alright let's check the right side. Alright here we go. Now last time it came right below my collarbone so now it's maybe about a half inch below my collarbone. Just a half inch below my collarbone. Now we're going to take a look at the very back of my hair. Just slightly past what it was before. So I do see progress that the rice water is working especially without trimming my hair or doing any other maintenance other than just my regular wash routine. So for my hair to go from just barely at my neckline to now down to my collarbone that definitely is growth and then the other side is just a little bit below my collarbone as to where was right at my collarbone. One thing about the rice water I felt to make mention of earlier is that I have noticed that the rice water has thickened my hair greatly. So in addition to the growth it's definitely giving it some thickness and some fullness. So I noticed that after washing my hair and letting my hair air dry when I do twist out my hair looks very big it looks very full and I did not have that volume before not as much. So I did notice that I'm really excited about that fullness especially when I wear my hair out and twist or when it's just like big and fluffy. It just looks more fuller and thicker and I like that. So I definitely noticed that is a result of the rice water. So definitely some hair growth there. So I see some progress I'm still gonna keep it up. Now I was not expecting a big drastic you know hair growth. It's only been just a couple months so I'm still going through this journey. I'm gonna go for the whole year and see you know what my results are at the very end of the year. So I did thank you guys so much for just tuning in and watching my rice water update. I will be bringing another one hopefully in three months I'll bring another update for my second check-in. So if you liked this video please don't forget to like comment and subscribe. It's just Janine. I will see you guys on the next video. Happy hair growing. Bye guys!