Alas! The time has come to talk hair! LOL! I’ve been meaning to update my transition forever so please forgive the tons of pics with this post! Over the past month and a half, my baby locs and I have had a love/hate relationship! When I first started this transition, I hated my length…I knew it would grow but I was just not feeling where I was at that time. My first retwists (in the pic stitch bloopers) turned out to be disastrous! I made the mistake of clumping the retwists in groups instead of how I’d like them to lay when the clips are out…I woke up the next morning with very little time before I had to leave out of the house only to take the clips out to see THAT MESS!!! Embarrassed is not the word to describe that morning! My husband got a good laugh out of it all though…sadly…it was so terrible…that was all I could do too! Thankfully I had a hat that matched the outfit for the day! BTW…I am SOOOOO NOT A HAT PERSON!!! LOL! That day, I contacted my aunt who is a natural hair care specialist to seek advice as to what I had done wrong. That was how I learned to retwist my baby locs in the way I’d like them to lay!
As the weeks progressed, I started to love the things my baby locs were starting to do. My hair had grown out a little more…I now have a short bang (LOVE!)…and I’m really starting to dig this length! Unfortunately, because my hair is a softer, curlier texture…my hair still has YET to loc. I know this process takes time though. The sucky thing about my hair texture during this process is my hair looks fuzzier way quicker so I have to constantly refresh to keep from looking a hot mess! (Those who really know me know there is nothing worst to me than to walk out of the house with a messed up head!) Another con to this locing process is the dandruff! I’m used to shampooing my hair once a week to keep the dandruff away. To clean my hair, I am currently using herbal Cleanse “Dry Shampoo” by Organic Root Stimulator…while it decreases my dandruff…my scalp STILL itches…and I still experience caked dandruff! A week ago, my dandruff was so bad, I researched a different way to clean my hair. I got in the shower with my satin cap and shampooed my hair through the cap. That definitely helped but I’m a little nervous about doing it as often as I’d like b/c I don’t want to mess up my forming locs. I’m hoping the water helps with the locing process like a few bloggers suggested.
In these pictures, I used Mango Lime Locing Gel…but my sister just informed me that locing gels are too heavy for my coils/baby locs and I need to switch to using shea butter until my locs have fully formed. So I’ll be doing my two week retwists this weekend with that! (Thanks, Morgan, for the tip!) Hopefully I can decrease the number of fuzzy-headed days as I progress through my journey! I hope you enjoy the shared pictures from my month and a half long loc journey thus far! End of the month May Edition coming soon! LOL!
*~Dimpled Sunshine~*
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