Cocooning...

Dear lock blog,

Lately my hair has been frizzing up a lot and I just simply don't have the time to do it. After two days after my wash last week, my hair frizzed up again!! I just didn't wanna slap the gel on it so easily. Eventually I ended up putting hats and wraps on my head just to look decent.

I guess u can say I'm cocooning. They call this stage cocooning because your hair tends to get messed up and tangled so much that u result to putting on wraps and hats. I guess I'm gonna be cocooning for a while because I don't wanna put gel in my hair every time it getsd frizzy.

Yesterday I found this scarf in my house. It was my mothers. It was a black cotton fabric and long enough to wrap my hair with. And when I did wrap it, it came out perfect. Now I have to go to the fabric store and get a satin one like it with the same length and width. Its perfect. Ima get it in different colors. Today I have it on with some long butterfly earrings.
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Another wash.

Dear lock blog,

The last time I wrote was last month.. When I washed my hair.

Lately I haven't had the time to wash it cuz I've been so busy with work and school. But today I had the time so I washed it. Lately my hair has been kinda frizzy and unruly.. Basically all over the place to the point where I would have to wear a hat or scarf. Today I went to work with a hat on cuz I was having a bad hair day. And I pretty much broke down and washed/ twist it.

This wash was much more sucessful than the last wash.. My locks are really coming into themselves lately. Before I washed them, I went through them to see which ones needed rubber bands on them.

I place rubber bands on them so that when I wash them they don't unravel. Only a select few needed rubber bands on them. And those were the ones that I had to separate last month. They didn't bud yet. No more than ten locks needed rubber bands.

All my other locks are really coming out nice!!! They are budding now and its even harder to put a comb through them. Great!!!!! I guess its safe to say that they are in the teenage stage aka "budding stage".

Anyways... When I washed them they tangled up within themselves. But that was okay. I did two wash cycles (scrubbing gently). they didn't unravel. I covered my head with a towel and kept it on for an hour. When I went to twist them I noticed that only two unraveled. But it was easy to twist them. Infact, those two locks in particular, I backcombed to tangle them up, then I twisted them.

The twisting process was a breeze. I notice that it only takes me 40mins to twist my entire head. But when I got my first set of locks it would take me an hour and a half to twist. Maybe its because I'm more experienced now.

I just finished twisting them. Right now I have clips in my hair to set over night. I added some Dr Miracles grow oil for my scalf. God knows I really needed it cuz I haven't oiled my scalp in weeks. And right now, this oil is really stimulating my scalp.

I used a permanant color on my hair back in july wen I started this set of locks. My hair has grown a lot since then. My ends are bronze and my roots are black... I think ima color my hair again for my birthday. Adding a permanent color to my hair is a great way for me to track the growth of my hair cuz when my hair grows my natural color grows with it..

I can't wait till it grows out even more... Then I will be able to get curls and braids.. But for now ima just let it grow and do its own thing. I've learned my lesson. Just let them do their own thing and my locks will look beautiful. I don't wanna over manipulate it lols.

Now that they are beginning to bud up, I'm thinking about washing them every two weeks. Washing tends to tangle up my hair more. And plus I don't want to be wearing hats for the next few weeks! Lols. I need to keep them nice and neat. :)

I'll have pictures posted up soon!! :)
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