Well...it's been 28 months and I am absolutely loving my locs...I still have not latchhooked them or tightened them...they are doing great...whew!!!
I finally figured out for sure where all the new hair I sprouted came from...okay, check this out....lol...
When I first started latchhooking my hair, it was right after I had jacked it up in my 13th month of locing...I had put a serious moisturizing treatment on my hair using Organic Root Stimullator (ORS) Hair Mayonaisse on my locs, and my hair was not fully loced yet...So the hair started to unravel...I started latchhooking to try and save what was left of my locs and stop my "hand in loc disease" by not manipulating my hair other than the latchooking--no more twisting...right???
Wellll....me being me...lol...I loved the way my hair looked when it was freshly tightened...you know what I mean...the hair was all close to the scalp and looked really neat...
Now for those who don't know, latchhooking is realllly easy...it's so easy you can do it anywhere, anytime...so in the very beginning stages of latchhooking, I would lay in bed watching television and tighten my locs...EVERYTIME I felt some new growth...lol....
I tightened so much and so tight I was ripping hair out of my roots...now understand me...this was NOT the way I was taught to latchhook!!! I just took it upon myself to "expound"....((LOL)) on what I HAD been taught....and then I started noticing my roots were getting thinner...
Now, my locs are already thin...but the roots had always been strong and healthy...suddenly my roots were looking and feeling thin in a way that had never happened before...so I started to latchhook only every two weeks...then every three weeks...and then once a month...until I finally stopped completely in October...
In October I started a little daez experiment...I wanted to see if the reason I had enough hair to start a whole new head of locs was because I had been tightening my locs to tight and too often....and I found that to be true....duhhhhhh....lol...so now, I am freestyling...I am letting my locs do their own dang thang and the roots are once again all strong....I will most likely go back to latchhooking at some point, probably sooner than later...but for now, I am loving the fullness, even though I have a ton of new babylocs from the new "sprouts" of hair.....lol....
I had to sit down and figure out why I would tighten my locs so much when I first started latchhooking and I figured it out....see, I was so disgusted with the way I had no control over the fact my locs were jacked up I found SOMETHING I could control....the tightness of my locs at the roots...chalk this one up to something I have learned to deal with...letting go of things I have no control over....
All I am doing is washing my locs...spritizing with this herbal mixture I make...using this shea butter liquid mixture I've developed (thanks to my friend Richard for helping me formulate the right mixture for locs....and doing hot oil treatments with olive oil once a month....I use the ORS hair mayo once a month, and you can see how healthy my locs are looking....yayyyyyyy.....lol.....
The reason I started using this herbal mixture is because I am taking prednisone again temporarily...having a little health issue...and the medication makes my locs overly dry in an already overly dry climate....they were starting to get somewhat brittle, but the shea liquid has really stopped all that nonsense!!!....
I have absolutely fallen in LOVE with headwraps...but I usually don't wear them as actual wraps...I wear them like the pictures shown above and other off center styles...ways other people don't...ya'll know me...I gots to be "different"...lol....
So all is well in daez land....and I am not only celebrating 28 months of locing but my 51st birthday too....How cool is this....lol...
Thank you God for giving me another day of life....AMEN..... |
