I am too excited to finally be on this loc journey! I have been natural for about 6 years and have enjoyed every minute of it, but I am at a point in my life where its time to go a step further. I love my natural hair I think its truly beautiful but I'm tired of being a product junkie and I'm tired of putting so much extra time into my hair when I could be doing other things. Never knowing whether or not that twist out was gonna come out right, constantly fighting shrinkage, spending hours waiting for my hair to dry, picking and fluffing trying to get the perfect shape, I'm over all that. I'm all about living a free minimalistic lifestyle and I just started feeling like my hair was taking over. I told myself I would loc my hair at 30 and I chickened out. I kept giving myself excuses for why I should wait the most recent one was I needed to wait until after my wedding in august, but on 4/19/17 something came over me and I immediately felt the need to loc my hair. I knew the longer I waited the longer it would be till I had beautiful mature locs and I had pushed the process back long enough. I would see people online Id been following for years and how their locs have grown to be so beautiful and I was like damn that could really be me but I keep playing! Also my fiancé started free forming his hair 6 months ago and seeing his hair transform has been beautiful. I knew that this is something I needed to do. Tomorrow I will be 2 weeks in and I feel like each day gets better and better. Yes I'm in what people call the "ugly stage" but I don't see it like that. No my locs are no where near where I want them physically but every stage my hair goes through is helping the process so I appreciate it. Right now I still have obvious 2 strand twist and lots and lots of frizz and shrinkage but its all included in the journey. I just have to be patient. My plan is to semi free form so I wont be doing any retwist I will only be separating them so they don't all congo together, I think that's a beautiful look too but not for me at this point! Right now I just spray with water and castor oil mix, let it get mist from the shower, and leave it alone. I will shampoo once a week and no conditioner just oils to moisturize. If I'm at work I pull it in a low ponytail or wrap it up in a scarf just because I don't feel like explaining my choices to all of my clients and most wouldn't understand anyway. So many people still think locs are dirty or unprofessional and all types of other nonsense its really ridiculous. I don't want my locs soaking in that negative energy! If you're interested in following my journey I will be doing monthly updates on this blog and I will do even more updates and showing pictures on my Instagram @veganhigh. This is all so new to me I'm constantly on youtube watching other peoples journey but if anyone has any tips or advice to help me through my journey please let me know!
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