6 Month’s Loc’d

My goodness! I have made it to the halfway point of my loc journey! I am so happy to have gotten to this point. I am not going to lie, I have had my days where I wanted to comb these suckers out and start over, or just be a loose natural again. I thought about having them restarted so that they are smaller and that I will have more locs (current loc count:89). However, I decided that when they were installed I said I wanted medium locs. I also know that I did not want to have so many locs that would be heavy when they got longer and I would not want to deal with them. Therefore I am happy with what I have and decided to stop comparing my developing locs to others when it comes to loc count, length, progress if we started during the same timeframe and fullness.

In my earlier post, I shared a video that I posted on my YouTube channel about my first salon experience. I have maintained my locs ever since they were installed in July. Although I enjoyed doing my hair, I was frustrated at the beginning of the month and decided to see a loctician. I wanted to be pampered in a way and just find out if I was damaging instead of nurturing my budding locs. Going to the salon was the best decision that I made in 2014 and I have decided to keep going (my next appointment is this saturday!) until:

a) July which is when I am 1 year loc’d or

b) until my hair is fully loc’d, whichever comes first.

I never do anything for myself so I think going to a loctician this year will be a monthly treat. It’s nice to have someone else shampoo, condition, massage your scalp and retwist. I do not have to worry about my arms getting tired!..lol.

Please check out my video below which is about  my first 6 months loc’d and my goal this year is to be better about sharing my experience on my blog. Thank you for your support!

Almost 4 weeks no retwist/perm rod set on baby locs

Hello everyone!

I have done really well with not doing my loc retwist before 4 weeks since my last retwist. As a matter of fact, this weekend is my scheduled retwist time so now I know that I can go 4 weeks between retwists and that I can shampoo without having to retwist. On a whim, I scheduled an appointment for Saturday at a natural hair salon to have my locs retwisted. I wanted to have someone just go through to make sure my parts are good and maybe rework a few of them. However, I am staring to feel uneasy about going because the person that I spoke with asked if I interlocked or palm rolled. When I told her that I palm rolled, she then said, “well we will see what’s best for you when you get here”. I was not happy with that statement due to two reasons:

1. My personal preference is to palm roll. I have seen videos on YouTube where some people prefer to interlock and over time the loc looks like a braid to me. I do not like that look, if I wanted braids, I would braid my hair.

2. Cost: Palm roll is $60 and Interlocking is $80 and the $60 is within my budget that I plan to stay in. I have a feeling that I will be canceling this appointment. I will post this weekend with an update.

Last night I decided to use perm rods to curl my baby locs because I am not sure if I can rock pipe cleaner curls just yet. I did the following:

I. Sprayed my hair with water

II. Sealed with a very light amount of Creme of Nature Argan Oil,

III. Used 1 pump of the Proclaim Olive Oil foaming wrap lotion and spread it throughout my hair

IV. Rolled my locs the small pink and gray perm rods and slept with a satin bonnet over night.

Here are the pics of the results:

Not bad huh? I think it looks nice and hope the curls will last at least for the next two days. As the days pass I am enjoying this new phase of my natural journey more and more. 🙂