My Hair World Has Come To An Abrupt Halt

I've lost my nappylocs tool!!!

I am devastated. I was doing my hair on the sofa, and I dropped, it's just so small. But, unlike last time I dropped it, it wasn't simply under the couch where it had fallen through. So, it must be IN the couch. There is a slight tear in the couch, and I'm afraid that the tool has fallen in. I don't even want to think about it. Ugh. And, as the title says, my hair world has come to an abrupt stop. I'm going to go crazy. My hair wasn't finished! I'm going to turn the couch upside down of something, I can't NOT have the tool. It's not even like I lost it outside of school! It's in the living room! Yet, lost at the same time...

Happy Valentine's Day

Well, It's the official, one and only day of love in the 365 day calendar. And people are going crazy. I got a cute little teddy bear. It's pink and says 'Princess' on the heart that it's holding. I also got some chocolate and some cards in person and some from the mail. It was a fun day.

And on to more on topic matters, my hair is....the same. Just growing, and that's to be expected. But sometimes I wish that it wouldn't because growing makes the need for re-tightening more necessary than it already is. And I kinda hate tightening my hair, well, the labor of it anyways. It's a love/hate relationship, me and the tool. I love it because its tangible proof that my hair is growing, and the obvious hate because I have to work to tighten it. Grrr.

Naturally yours,

M&M

My 2nd Re-tightening

Hey people! Long time, no blog. I have been neglecting my blog as much as I have been this 2nd re-tightening. This is hard work. It looks weird if it's done in public, and you can't do it quickly. That is exactly why I can't seem to find the time to get this done! It's so much work, and it takes up so much of my time! I'm gonna get this done because I'm no fan of looking bad. I notice that I don't seem to be able to get my hair like my mom does. But I've been reading on various forums and other blogs, that it's kinda damaging to the hair and can cause breakage if you tighten it too much or too tightly. So, I let some of the new growth mellow, but not much of it. It's just so hard to keep from marrying them together. I'm gonna keep at it, but I don't wanna take like 5 days to do it again. DIYing can have its rewards, and it's annoying little cousin, his name is hard work. I'm not really a fan of his.

Naturally yours,
*M&M*

My Hair Hates Me.

It won't stop growing! I really, honestly think that it hates me. Or it really likes attention, I wash it once a week, oil it every 3 days, and water it ever morning to get it to behave. So, I've got hair that gets a fair amount of attention, and yet, it won't stop growing! It wants me to tighten it or something. It's not to that stage yet, but I don't even want to think about tightening it. It's so hard to believe that hair can grow so much so fast.

As you can see, my hair looks borderline horrible. I've got to figure out a way to make my hair look better. Water helps, a lot actually, but ugh, the new growth is to that point, looking at a picture is different than looking in a mirror. When I'm done here, I'm so gonna grab the tool and get to work immediately. I can't go on like this anymore.

When I was getting perms and was thinking nothing of natural hair, my hair seemed like it was having a growth recession, like the hair kinda shrunk some. It was terrible, and kinda odd looking when I used to let it go too long without a perm, the the day of the perm and 5 days after that were great hair days. Day 6 used to be the slow, but steady decline of my good hair days. I used to stop and look at it. It was longish looking, but then again, it appeared to look like it was shrinking as I let it grow out.

I have no clue why it did that, but in relation to my hair today, in its current state and form, the very back of my head, under the bottom wasn't put into a loc pattern because it was way too short. It has shown considerable growth, and that is starting to be a problem. The back of my head that was patterned is still short and is growing rather slowly while the rest of my head is growing like crazy. Ugh, Another point why I say my hair hates my, It knows that its supposed to hide, but it wants to be seen. Well, this turned into a rant/whatever blog. If you actually read it all without once thinking," This chick is crazy.", I commend you. Someone actually thought I was sane for once. :)

My 1 Month Locversary

Yay Me! I have had my locs for 31 days, consecutively that is. And I have loved every day of it! It definitely is a freeing experience, I'll tell you that. Not having to spend a lot of time that I don't have fixing up my hair, trying to achieve near perfection with what is nearly perfect. I'm so glad that I don't have to continue this cycle of perms and new growth.

I can't tell you how many people told me that I needed to get a perm ASAP when I was growing out some natural hair. At the time, I wasn't exactly sure what for, but I knew that I didn't want to continue wearing my hair in that terrible, damaged way. Especially after I researched the relaxer that I used. Wow. That information scared me half to death.

I'll continue to rock my locs and enjoy them. I'll keep y'all up-to-date as I possibly can. I have received word that I could be cutting this summer if all goes as expected with the locs. Yay! I'll get rid of those dreadful ends, BTW, they still shed, the ends, the pop off like crazy, I'm not moisturizing the ends. Do y'all think that I should start, of care less because they are coming off anyway?