Always doing sumtin

Went out to the "club" on Saturday night and REAKED unbelieveably of SMOKE! My pure tee draws and bra smelled like smoke! So, if that be the case with my clothes, can you imagine what my hair smelled like? You don't even want to know... Washed the heck out of it. Know we have a water restriction, but I was like I dont give a rats azz, I'm washing the smell outta my hair! When I finished it smelled quite citrusy.. :o) An experience I dont really care to go back and talk about. Maybe later.... :o)

Challenge no mo....

I said BUMP the twistless challenge! Call it weak, or whateva. I started to cut my locs last night. For real. I got the scissors, positioned my locs and honestly got ready to whack em.... Instead, I washed em(my regular weekly routine), and proceeded to retwist my roots. Yep, sho did. i retwisted my roots, and loved every single cotton pickin minute of it! So now I am officially OUT of my funk.. :o)

In a funk.....

Well, I have made it to 8 months of my journey! I am so proud of myself... When I first started out I never would have thought seriously that I would have made it this far. I think I have had maybe one serious setback at like 5 months where I started having loc envy and I picked out some locs calling myself starting over. Other than that. I have been ok. As you know, I combined quite a few right before the 28th and now I kinda sorta feel in a funk about my locs! I think I am getting very anxious. I'm just ready for mine to loc and do whatever! I have thinking about getting them cut in the bob style that I loooooove so much. they would kinda be like Max's on Living Single(when it was on). My husband says that I remind him of her a lot... She was crazy. I had forgotten all about her and that hairstyle until I was watching some reruns one day. I was like, dang I have been wearing my hair like hers! Anyway, I'm not all that crazy about length right now. I just want them boogers to be on a serious loc down! I have a buddy who has been growing her tresses for 12 yrs! Talk about beautiful! She never wears them down cause they are so long! Her son and her daughter are also loced. They are 7 and 9. Simply beautiful.. I have loc envy when I look at hers for real... Hers are the traditional locs.. I look at her locs and be like loc love for real.... Anyhoo, I havent done too much to mine, but I have done enough. I should have started them w/2st, but didnt. Am I going to start over, i dont think so. I just keep holding on the the thought that there are many out there who started way before me and they may have felt the way I feel and stuck it out. The end result will be total loc bliss for sure. Just think in 4 short months I will have celebrated one year of trying to get this loc thing straight. Big kudos to me.... So with all of that said, I'm kinda in a funk, thus the title, but, I am trying to overcome. I need some encouragement people. Hit a sista up w/ some love! I think I might just go until the end of the year and not twist... I dunno. I love the manicured look, but I love the full look too. I'm torn, but I know I gotta leave my babies be. Too much styling is going to regret some things down the road. I feel it, so I gotta go w/ my gut feeling.... It's all good... Thats my rant and my rave for the day. Check ya later...

Combined locs....

I so like this

I am feeling my color

(Click on pictures for detail)
Ok, my last maintenance to my hair was done July 28. On my fotki page i declared all out freeform war! :o) Well, that really was my intent. But, what I noticed during the "freeform" period was 2 things. 2 very important observations. My locs loved the wash and go routine. My roots did thicken, and didnt thicken.... I started out w/ like 220 or so locs and they were on small root beds. What happened? Lets see, I picked out a few and started them over, I combined some to make a more secure base, others were just NOT locing. The ones that were not locing were in the top of my head. They were just doing their own thing... I know I know patience, but this was a little bit more than patience. I forsaw a problem and thought I should correct it before I really paid for it a little later into this journey. What did I see, you say? Umm lets just say I dreamed on more than one occasion I would wake up, get out of bed and have locs laying on my pillow...... not a pretty picture. So what did I do? I had a merger of sorts.. :o) I combined the majority of my 200+ locs and feel more excited than I did in the very beginning. The thing that is sad is that the ones that I combined look like they should have been one anyway! I washed, conditioned, latchedand two strand twisted and wrapped to keep the mergers together. I am hoping that by Nov they will be able to stand alone and I can take the wraps off... I plan to stick to my original plan of staying away from the root maintenance until then. I know I already did one for September, but it was part of the plan. Hey, I went 7 weeks! Good for me... :o)

Just a little something for Wednesday...

This is 7 months worth of locing... The top photo is August 07, right photo is 3 months, left photo is 2 months. can you see the changes? click on the photo to see the pictures larger..

Happy Loc-Versary To Me!!!!

Well, one thing about it, I have gone thru a part of the day and didnt even give knowledge to the fact that today is my 7 month locversary! So with that said, here are a few pictures of my babies showing some mad detail...

Can you say some growth.. I didnt realize that my hair was really growing, but I do believe it really is! Now, if my sides would only catch up with the back.....