Hair growth

My last relaxer was June 2011. That's about six months ago. The back of my hair is totally natural and my husband just measured a pulled curl at 2 1/2 inches. That's just the back. The top is a little longer although there are still some relaxed ends up there. At this rate my hair should be 5 inches long in the back once I reach a year (June 2012) and perhaps 10 inches long after two years. I'll keep my fingers crossed.

Getting Nervous

More and more of my relaxed ends are disappearing. I am not nervous because of the loss of permed hair. I am nervous about having really short hair, because my natural hair hasn't grown out as much as I would have liked before I lose all of my relaxed ends. Up until now I have worn twist outs and roller sets, however recently I have begun to lean more towards roller sets rather than the twist outs because my hair looks really thin and scraggly in comparison to the natural hair. I've found at this point that roller sets work best because the curled relaxed ends kind of mask the natural hair and the natural hair underneath kind of hides the thinning of the relaxed ends. My plan was to transition a year or at least until my natural hair was about shoulder length....