Can’t grow my hair out?

I've done practically every thing (accept getting professional colour or a relaxer done) to my hair and have had all most every length of hair you could imagine. It still grows and I'm turning 41 in March. I managed to grow it down to the middle of my back.

You have to learn how to prevent split ends to begin with. When you get a hair cut put a leave in conditioner on the ends of your hair the next time you wash it. It would help if you eat healthier too, lots of omega 3 oils are good for your hair.

In the mean time you should use products that help repair damaged hair. Avoid straightening it with flat irons and using too many heat styling tools on it.

Cowash

fish oil

If you've straightened your hair in the past, STOP! It may grow slowly or none at all. Hair that you see now is dead. Wikipedia. But it has static electricity, when using heat, it sends currents to the roots, tampering them, they go into a coma. The RESULT of damage to the follicles from excessive styling or harsh chemical treatments. The result could take years! Think laser hair removal.

HAIR THAT HAS lots of splits, and your hair is NATURAL, it only means: you're not eating properly. If your nails cracked, and your hair has lots of split ends, are signs you have a poor diet. Hair does not repair itself, like skin. Hair is DEAD. They NEED to be cut.

Websites online can give you suggestions how to improve your diet, but don't buy supplements, that can do more harm than good.

"Foods for Healthy Hair"

.. - or 10 Best Foods for Your Hair.

NO MATTER which link you picked, they all suggest the same foods. Your hair may be the fastest-growing tissue in the body but, unlike the skin, it cannot repair itself. That is why getting the right balance of vitamins and proteins is imperative. Don't expect to look like you've stepped out of a hair commercial the day after you've changed your diet. It is likely to take at least three months before you actually see tangible results. Hair is dead, but hair also has electrical energy; the negative charge of damaged hair can lead to flyways and unruly hair and tampering with your hair using heat makes the hair grow slowly or none, you’re sending currents to the roots tampering them.

Growing healthy hair doesn't come from a bottle, box or can and hair products do not speed hair growth. Any hair oil, is another form to keep hair moisturized, nothing more, it could also make the hair thinner & dryer. If you're in HS, your hair & nails should be growing normally, and as healthily as possible, since you're eating healthy foods. But when hair isn't growing as fast, it's because they've been tampered with: chemicals, hair straightening, etc. . So, one needs to have a healthy balanced diet to have healthy hair.

get a regular trim to remove split ends, and stop creating the split ends by staying away from heat and doing a deep conditioning treatment weekly.

Your hair won't grow on forever though. A hair follicle will live until a certain point, then it dies and the hair falls out. So even with perfect care your hair may not be able to get super long.

oil it

do small trims. make sure u hare not using too much heat.

Just barely trim the split ends and it will grow.

Maybe your hair length is genetic and you can't change that