| The Mini-me Connection.. |
| Bear with me while I tell you the sad tale of mini-me... We all have one, it's the little person inside of you who brings your child-like qualities to light.... good and bad... |
| My mini-me is a little kook, as much as I hate to say it. For instance, whenever something crazy happens with me I know exactly who to blame. MINI-ME!! Now, mini-me doesn't mean to cause mayhem in my life. She popped up about the time I started going thru menopause. Mini-me is obsessed with having red hair! I don't know why this is, it just...is. Well, I am allergic to some ingredient included in hair coloring products. Like, when I started my loc journey in 2000, I wanted to start out with black locs, no gray hair showing. So I colored my locs, had a terrible reaction, and ended up with my head swollen up like Frankenstien! The doctor had to put me on prednisone and antibiotics to clear up the infection that occured because of this. So believe me, with all the pain I went thru for a couple of weeks, I, daez, was well aware of the hazards of using hair color. Now I'm going to go out on a limb and tell you about my red hair experience. Everytime I would see a picture of someone with red hair at one of the loc groups or in a magazine, mini-me would whisper to me, "Go ahead daez, color your hair red...you know what's going to happen, but it's okay...the doctor will just treat your wounds, and your locs will be red, just the way you want them." But, even with me being me, I knew better, so I left the hair color alone. Then one day I couldn't take it anymore. I posted the question to the group at Lovinlocs about my desire to have red hair, asking is it possible without using permanent or semi-permanent haircolor. A lot of people responded by saying YES!! You can color your hair with KOOLAID and it will get red! I was so excited I went right out and bought the koolaid. I found out how to mix it, applied it, and waited in anticipation. When I rinsed the color out, I RAN to the mirror, with a great big smile on my face. I looked in the mirror, humming "red hair..red hair"... and what I saw totally freaked me out. My gray hair had turned pink...PANK ya'll!!! I couldn't believe it! So I rushed to Sally's and bought some Jazzing hair color in Cherry Cola and another color wash. I put it on, and when it was time, rinsed it out...and VOILA!!! Uh ohhhh...now the color was fuschia!!! FUSCHIA!! This was my punishment for listening to mini-me. Pank/fuschia locs! So I waited a couple of months...I looked really crazy but the color was fading. Now it was pastel pink....sigh...oh when will I ever learn? Okay, so mini-me says "daez, you need to go ahead and put some more of that black hair color on your locs...you need to go on and do it, because you're too old to be wearing pank/fuschia gray haired locs!!!" So I listened...I thought...and I did it! I ended up with serious burns on my ears...my neck swole up like a giant sausage...my eyes swole up...my face swole up....I ended up in the emergency room, once again on prednisone, looking sheepish as my doctor prescribed my medicine. I had to take antibiotic's again, and it took well over a month for me to finally get back to normal. By that time, the black had started to fade out of my hair...DUHHH....But this time, I took pictures. This time, I logged it for future reference....It won't happen again...right mini-me??? I was feeling bad because my locs were falling apart. I was searching for a quick fix for my damaged ego...and in the process I messed myself up. So now you have been introduced to mini-me. The immature, silly side of me that is always looking for instant gratification. The side of me that has messed up my lovely locs more than once. The side of me that I constantly have to keep in check. The side of me that convinced me that 17 earring holes in each ear would look cool. Well... to me it does....and that's what I have....a LOT of holes with earrings in each one....lol.... But this little so and so...I have to keep a tight lockdown on her, cuz she crazy ya'll...... The messed up pictures are on the next page..... |
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