Spring celebrations

A male coworker picked a flower as we were leaving a meeting and I immediately put it in my hair.  I even wore it to my next meeting.  How cute?!

Today is my son's 12th birthday so we decided to go out to eat to celebrate.  The flower was gone (cuz I took a nap) so I decided to try something else. I did a basket weave in the front and then I tied the ends in the back.  This is a side view.

This is a view from the back:

It's a little funky at the bottom but oh well.  (I didn't know that til we got back).  And this is the front:

It took less than five minutes and we were out the door.  I liked it and I might try it again tomorrow.  (It's too tight to sleep on).  What do you ladies think?

So... I decided to...

Leave my hair just like it is. For now. I'm not going to comb my locs out this summer. Or any summer. Combing would take more time than I really wanna spend. When (or if) I decide to start a new set of locs, I'm going to cut them off. A fellow blogger, Nessisary, and I have been talking about this for a few weeks now. She suggested I grow my hair out (free form) for a few months then cut the locked part off. This would make more sense to me. I would have a couple of inches of new growth so my afro wouldn't be super short. She suggested free forming for a year but I'm not sure how long I could go without retwisting. But it might be easier for the hair to lock again if it's not too long anyway (just my assumption). It needs to be long enough that it's not easily unraveled. So to those who were worried about me unlocking my locs, don't worry. It's not gonna happen. I may cut them at a later date to restart them but not any time soon.

I AM ready to cut the extra head off of my two (and 3or 4) headed dragons.  I have rubber bands on most of them and I'm really ready to take them off.  I know it's not time and I'm being very impatient.  Oh well.

Til next time, thanks for reading. ;)

Finally!

I finally tackled my hair last night.  I brushed my locs and then used baking soda to scrub my scalp.  My scalp burned for some reason when I put the baking soda on it.  I rinsed it out then washed with my new Dr. Bronner's Peppermint Soap.  My scalp felt better after that, thank God!  I did the ACV rinse and did my tingling conditioner.  I left it on for an hour.  I had to rinse 3 times (with hubby's help) to get everything out!   I'm not sure how long it actually took to retwist my hair cuz I was watching a movie with the hubby at the same time.  I did a LOT of combining.  Some locks now have 3 or 4 heads.  Those will definitely be cut off at a later date.  I put rubber bands on most of the combined ones to help them mesh.  I wanted to do a good job with the retwist so I haven't curled the ends yet.  I'm pleased with the result.

You can see some of the combined locks because they look like two strand twists.  I'm not really feeling that look but I really needed to combine.  I can't wait until they mesh together so I can cut some of the extra 'heads' off.  The lock that I combed out the other day was wrapped around the next loc and has blended in with the rest.  I'm not even sure which one it is.

*I hate this new upload system.  I would have put more pics up.*

Til next time, thanks for reading.

Response to Loc Rocker's 'Loc'd Love' post

One of the bloggers I follow, Loc Rocker, posted a picture of a couple who both have locs. (Click the link to read her post).
Here's a picture of MY loc'd  love:

This was taken last April.  We've been married for 3 years.  My hair has been locked for almost 7 years and my hubby has been locked for about 4 years.  He says I inspired him to lock his hair.  I maintain his locs for him and he lets me try out new stuff on him.

Here's another one:

Aren't we cute?! Don't hate.

I combed out a loc!

So today I combed out one of my locs.  The entire loc.  It was a thin one toward the back.  I wanted to see what I was in for if I decided to comb out all my locs this summer.  It took a long time.  I picked a thin one because I didn't think it would take that long.  Let's just say this is making me reconsider this whole endeavor.  Look at all the hair that came out:

There wasn't as much lint trapped inside as I expected. With this much hair coming out, the remaining hair was thin.

That's all that was left. I know it was a thin loc but goodness!  Anyway, I'm going to wrap the loose hair around the thin loc that's next to it.

So I'm off tomorrow and I'm going to finally tackle my hair.  I'm going to retwist it and probably do some curls.  I'm going to combine some of the locs because I want them a little thicker.  I'm probably not gonna comb my locs out so I figure I should make them thicker like I want.  I will think about it some more but today's experience was not what I expected.  The texture was cute and curly but I lost a lot of hair which makes me think my hair is not as thick as I thought (if that makes sense). I knew there would be a lot of shed hair trapped inside but it's just not what I expected.  I'm gonna make a list of pros and cons but in the meantime, I'm retwisting tomorrow. :)

And I'm so excited I have 12 followers!! Thanks for reading!!