2026 Hair Growth Challenge: March recap & results.

So far, the trend seems to be that I spend most of the month thinking that my hair isn't growing at all, and then in the last week of the month realizing that my hair has grown significantly enough that I'm going to have to start modifying my routine to accommodate the new growth 😅😅 I've been washing and oiling my scalp with my hair loose this whole time, sectioning it on the fly. I'm about to the point where I'll want to section out and twist my hair before getting into the bath. To be honest, I thought I was still a few months away from that point. When I cornrow my hair to stretch it, or wrap it, it doesn't feel like it's gained too much length, but it does feel denser, and I'll take it!

Cue the drum roll... here's my March results:

Compare that to February:

Not a lot of overall length, but the sides are catching up to the back nicely!

Not to mention, where the hell did all the greys go? The lighting is a bit different, but not that different. I didn't dye my hair. The only change was the chebe butter recipe, which I'll discuss a bit later in more detail. The changes wouldn't add color to my hair. And the greys aren't gone, trust me. I just didn't realize I had so many more last month than I do right now. If I was shedding greys to grow dark hairs in again, that might explain a stall in length, too...

I'll credit the Kundalini Awakening effect, why not? Since my Maa Kali murti came home on February 27, I've been listening to Kali mantras while wearing my heat treatment cap over my freshly applied scalp oil and chebe butter. Mantras are supposed to be done for one hour, and so are heat treatments, seemed logical to me. And Maa Kali's hair is impressive af. I fully credit Her influence for starting with head wrapping/veiling.

I just got some unlined silk wig caps and silk durags to protect my hair from rubbing on my cotton headscarves and baseball caps, and to prevent my headscarves from getting stained by my hair butter. My initial order of jersey cotton hijabs from Modest Behaviour came a couple weeks back, and y'all, hijabs are exactly what I was looking for! The perfect length, the perfect weight, everything. I wasn't sponsored to say that, I found her completely independently through her cat's TikTok!

I also made an energy clearing and protecting spray for my scarves and silk underlayers, consisting of half & half Florida Water, and Holy Water consecrated by an exorcist. The chemical reaction when I combined the two honestly freaked me out 😅😅

My spiritual hygiene is going to be like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TylmPkRN17A

The crown chakra is the other end of the root chakra, so it kinda makes sense, I guess. Ancient Israelites girded their loins for battle, modern spiritualists in the Kali Yuga gird their heads.

Speaking of crown chakra protection, April's purchases also include more papaya oil, I'm finally down to the last 6oz of my pre-surgery scalp oil batch. I've been using that aforementioned new batch of chebe butter with kokum butter as my solid for a few weeks now, though. I have found my butter, hallelujah! That makes my final chebe butter recipe:

• 1/2 cup kokum butter

• 1/4 cup raw coconut butter

• 1/4 cup olive oil

• 1 heaping tablespoon chebe powder

You'll melt all the ingredients down together in a double boiler (or in a Pyrex bowl over a pot of boiling water, like I do...) before transferring it all to a wide-mouth mason jar to store. Why wide mouth? Because it'll take a good 48-72 hours for the oils and butter to re-harden, and the chebe powder will sink to the bottom of the jar. You'll want to take a hand mixer fit with a single beater to whip your cooled and set chebe butter and re-incorporate all that chebe into the base.

And with that, I'm on my way to long hair! I ordered a bunch of sets of silk scrunchies when I ordered my hijabs, so I'm ready to keep my hair up off my shirt fabric while I'm at home, too. I'm prepared for maximum growth, let's do this!