2026 Hair Growth Challenge: February recap & results.

February was kind of tough, health-wise. I ended the intro post saying that I was transitioning from healing leg to growing hair, but I definitely had more leg to heal 😅😅 Not to mention two weeks of Fool's Spring gave me a preview of migraine season, and I wasn't about to get into scalp massages when I have inflamed dura mater right underneath. Or get into showering in general when I'm in that much pain 😅😅 I think I managed four full wash days and chebe treatments for the month, which isn't bad, but is only about half of what I was aiming for.

I did keep up my internal part of the challenge! Daily hydration and nutritional supplementation, as well as very minimal "cheat treats" aka foods I'm allergic to but eat anyway sometimes with the help of Benadryl, damn the torpedoes. Pizza is my biggest weakness, and I didn't have any in February. So, I felt like I was mitigating the stress of the healing leg and the migraines by not adding to it with any undue stress I put up on myself with my food choices.

And I basically lived in a silk bonnet, and when I did take it off I immediately pulled my hair up into a ponytail, so yesterday's growth check was news to me!

I did give myself a trim the other day, nothing that affected the length. I did default to techniques and shapes I'm used to, I need to check myself on that and explore different styles as my hair grows.

So, how did February go?

To compare, here's where I started:

Not a lot of length overall, but the front really grew in! I did that, and healed a whole hip joint!

As a preview of March, I only have about two treatments of chebe butter left with the yellow shea butter. Functionally, it's working great, but the yellow is making my greys look brassy. I purchased ivory kokum (or mangosteen, it's a seed butter) for my next batch, so there'll be a report on how kokum compares to the cocoa butter and shea butter I've used for my chebe butter so far. As well as on my skin, I usually slug with cocoa butter, but kokum is supposed to be good for pore refining, so let's see...