I cant believe im doing this journey again!!... Going natural is the best experience for me. I dont have to worry about my hair falling out and adding harsh chemicals to my my scalp. Ive been going natural for like two years now. And all through the two years ive been locking unhappily.
the reason why i say unhappily is because Ive been through two lock journeys! this is my third. In my first lock journey, i was locking for a year before i cut them. at that time my locks were thicker and uneven due to a bad cutting accident at the salon. Lets just say that the stylist got scissor happy with my locks. I cut them down and started braidlocks but i eventually got impatient and got lock extensions. The lock extensions were kept in for a few months and that was horrible. They didnt come out the way i wanted them to but i dealt with it until recently. Technically this past saturday.
This weekend i tried to die my hair bronze and that was a nightmare!!! My natural hair was bronze but the extensions werent. If i had kept them in it would have been obvious to the world that i had lock extensions not to mention they looked raggedy.
so i cut them off and combed my hair out. Most of the ends of my hair werent bronze so i dyed them that color. when i was done doing that, i put some locking gel to my hair and coiled them. I intend on letting them lock up.
this time is different because this time around my hair will grow into my locks as opposed to my locks growing into my hair. plus i think my hair will lock up alot faster because my hair is at its naturalist... course, kinky and nappy... plus it has more flavor because its colored!
im excited about this lock journey because its like starting over fresh!!! with short hair! im not used to short hair with is new to me. im so used to long hair. but its okay. it brings out my face and inner beauty.
plus im so sick of people looking at me and seeing a pretty face and long hair! now people will be impressed with my intellect as opposed to my physical features.
how am i dealing with the change? pretty well. in fact i love it. its something new and different. what really brings out my hair is when i wear earrings. particularly long earrings.
this morning i had to spice them up by twisting them with locking gel to give it a fresh look and also adding hair insense to my locks to make it smell fresh. this hair style requires little maintenance thank god. I wont have to wash my hair for another 5- 6 weeks. but i have to keep my scalp clean so ima use a dry shampoo for my hair and just retwist them when ever i can with gel and pins. this time around ima go to the salon every two weeks to have them touch it up. i don't wanna wash my hair and then the coils unravel. maybe next week ima go and have the stylist touch it up for me.
but for now... ima put on my satin scarf and go to sleep...
GOODNIGHT
