I am finally coming up for air from last week. I was busy every day but Friday when I started getting sick and just slept in. Monday through Thursday was super hectic for me including a drive in for my second retwist. My loctician is on maternity leave so someone else in her shop is filling in. In general I liked the new technique but she combined a few without letting me know and they just looked awkward when I came home so I split those and went about my day after letting her know I had done it. There was also a bit of oil overload so I will probably ask her to stand down on that next time. Now beyond that I noticed a few things about my hair.
First thing is the length of these coil/starter locs. My hair is longer all over, save the damaged patches I mentioned a few months ago, to the point that it is hanging in certain places and is making tying it down with my old method problematic. I did buy a loc soc from Curly NuGrowth and a new Slap Cap that allows me to tie it into place. I have mentioned before that I have a big head and it's because I have a big head. Anything that is wholly dependent on a band to keep it on my head will be okay for a few weeks before my head stretches it out and then starts slipping off while I'm asleep. Even with the tie down options I am probably going to put on an extra cap to hope that something has my hair covered in the morning.
Second thing is even as much as I move around in my sleep and play in my head, still working on that, my locs are retaining their shape really well as has been noted each time I go in. I wasn't sure that would happen because when my hair is in braids it is resistant to all of that and starts to slip in different places as soon as humanly possible. Doing nothing to my hair is taking almost no effort. I am more concerned about dryness of course but spraying with one of my moisturizers and oiling my scalp has been working well. I may start adding some JBCO to the patches that were damaged before I started the whole loc process to help them grow but I may just need to massage those areas a bit more like I did many moons ago when my edges were on vacation.
Finally, I am just loving a new phase of my hair journey. I'm not sure I would have gotten here without the long and winding road I traveled and not because I had issues with locs but because I wasn't ready to risk whatever I thought might be in play professionally and personally by going in this direction. That's the beauty of aging. The field of effs you have to give about things like that become more and more barren. All right, enough of me babbling. Here are update photos. Oh and I lost 2 pounds lol.
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