More Pics

Here are some more pics. Still a little scalpy at the crown. But lookit my lil babies, trying to get grown and swollen

Month Three w pics

Hello Blogland. It's been a while and I apologize for that, but school has been whipping my royal foxy behind. The school I attend operates on a quarter system and since I have a propensity to be a slacker as the school session rolls on, I opted to take 1 full term course and 2 mini 5 week courses. One at the beginning of the semester and one at the end.

Which means that no only is one entire semester of work crammed into a quarter, its condensed into five weeks!! Is there any wonder I am finding gray hairs in places I shouldn't be finding gray hairs? But that's another post entirely.

Anywho, I am on month three, yippie!!! My last retightening was on April 30, was about five weeks from my last appointment and took a little under two hours. I have about three locks on the right side of my kitchen that constantly slip. I don't know if this is because I sleep on this side and my sleep bonnet rubs against it when I turn, but the other side is locking up just fine.

A few days ago I woke up and looked in the mirror and was like, dang I gotta leave the lock loops alone until my hair gets longer. Then I remembered, hey, I haven't set my hair in over a month. Good old shrinkage. My hair has constricted to about half its install length. The ends are swelling and budding, OMG, wait, I'm in the next stage of locking!!! Cool. I actually like it a bit better, I can truly freestyle and not have my head looking confusing. Now, if I can just keep my mother from yanking at the "knots in yo head," all would be well.

Photos to Come, but busy packing for Vegas, Phantom, here I come!!!

Is it Just Me?

It is just me, or does it seem like there are a lot of people cutting or combing out their locks. It started with Golden and then, when I received an alert that Fauryn another loc idol of mine had loaded a new Youtube video, I was shocked and heartbroken to see that she had also combed out her beautiful locks. She is still gorgeous, but I just chalked it up to, well maybe it was time for her. THEN while watching Sunday Best on BET, I see that Latice Crawford one of the top five has also big chopped her shiny locs.

I know these ladies probably feel the same way I did about the concern that people have with their hair. I used to HATE IT when people would comment about me cutting off "all my long pretty hair." I am by no means knocking these beauties at all, they all look great with their new do's and are all still keeping it natural. I am just curious how many sisters in blogland and cyberspace have considered cutting or combing out their locks and the reason behind it. As a newbie on my loc journey, it's interesting to see that maybe women do get tired of having the same hairstyle and want something different.

I guess that I thought of my locs as the cure all for hair woes, but it is just hair. Those with short hair want long hair and when they get it, they grow bored with it. Same with women with long hair who want short hair. I don't know why I got it in my head that these issues would be resolved once I started locking. But I'm going to wrap this up because I am starting to ramble, but am very interested in your thoughts.

2nd Retightening

Will edit this post later, but remembered I promised I would post some lock mohawk pics so here they are..

My First Video Blog

Here it is my first month anniversary lock video blog. I feel a little silly now, celebrating one month anniversaries like you did when you were dating in high school..But I am in love with my hair, so here it is...

First Retightening

Had my first retightening yesterday. Took a total of about 3 hours including retightening (actually that part took about an hour,) shampooing and sitting under the dryer. Being as it was only two weeks, there wasn't much new growth, but enough.

Shannon (my consultant) tightened first and then washed. It felt soooooo good to have someone else shampoo my hair. I missed that luxury since I stopped going to the shop. I used to have my hair professionally shampooed every few months as a treat because I love it so much, but most beauticians would try to talk me into some perm or under a pressing comb, so I just said forget it.

I actually packed my own shampoo (Dr. Bronners mix of peppermint, eucalyptus and lavendar shampoos with some water,) just in case she was going to use the Sisterlocks shampoo. Nothing against Dr. C, but I don't want ANY chemicals on my scalp period. As a matter of fact, when I DO get the green light to color, I more than likely will only color the tips of my hair, not the root. But I digress.

Shannon does use Dr. Bronners for the same reason I do its natural, affordable and does the trick. After shampooing, she put a light oil on my scalp and a bit of shea butter conditioner and set me under the dryer.

At first, I was disappointed because I was like, man everyone else gets rollers before they get under the dryer, why didn't I? Well when I was done I saw, my hair has a natural crinkle and GASP, my ends have started developing curly-q's whooo hooo..

So my next retightening appt is March 17, which is a little shy from three weeks. More info to come.

Lock Loops

Ok, so I was a bit bummed out about the state of the ends of my hair, so I went on a mini shopping spree. Ordered myself some Lock Loops and a few Loc Socks . Still waiting on the loc socks, but my lock loops did arrive (rather quickly I may add.) I used about 13 locks per curler and got super tight curls...Too tight. I think I would like it if I wasn't having a bad lupus flare which made my face super puffy... Will post more as the days go on.