Goals for 2012

I thought of this post while reading Darker Than Brown's post about her own hair goals. When I cut my hair in May/June 2011, I knew that I would take this opportunity to relearn my hair. I made goals for myself too. They were:

• Healthier hair
• A definite regimen
• APL hair by February 28, 2012 
• Better knowledge of products for my hair
• Ability to listen to my hair
• Knowledge and implementation of many, many different hairstyles

I accomplished many of my goals with my loose hair. I definitely moved my hair to a higher level of health. I even formed a stable regimen. Listening to my hair is still somewhat a challenge, but I am getting much better at it. I even know a few styles! Starting locs has made my goal of APL hair pretty impossible. I have so much shrinkage that it's ridiculous. I'm alright with it though.

Goals for 2012 are certainly in order. Here they are:

• More baby loc friendly styles
• Regular trips to the loctitian
• A definite loc regimen

I'm sure I'll come up with more soon. Until next time...

A Few Loose Ends

Hey! I was browsing the loc forums over at Nappturality, and I found some ladies talking about the ends of their locs. Apparently, some locs do not loc all the way down to the end. The results for most are curly, loose ends. Many of the users on the forum loved their loose ends! It was a way for them to keep a sort of loose natural look in combination with a loc'ed one. It's also different from a typical view of locs. I personally love the idea! I can tell already that my ends will probably not seal at all, but I love my little spirals on the ends. When my hair finally locs, I think I will keep my ends loose.

What do you think about loose ends?

Two Months!!!

It's been two months (but 10 weeks, strangely enough) since my loc journey began! I've started to kind of ignore them. I constantly play with them, but I'm not obsessing over them as much as I used to. I have, however, picked up a strange habit over the past couple of days. My coils are still somewhat tight from my trip to the loctitian. I can unravel them at the root though. I've started unraveling them then using my finger to split them until I reach a point where there's a knot. That is where my hair is loc'ing, I'm assuming. This is a terrible habit, right? One of my locs had pretty much no knot, so I almost split the whole thing. I've got to stop this asap. Pictures are coming at some point!

My First Trip to the Loctitian: Part 2

Wellll, I got back from the loctitian, Jocelyn, about an hour ago, and I look a like a completely different person. I'm feeling a lot of different things right now. Let me tell you how it went down:

My First Trip to the Loctitian: Part 1

Hey lovelies! As I've told you all before, my birthday recently passed aaand my family isn't super supportive of my new decision of loc'ing my hair. I made the decision to start and maintain my locs myself because I feel that doing so would bring me closer to my hair and help me work on patience. My mother and other loose people, however, disagree completely. They think that my locs are messy because I am doing them. Nevermind the fact that my hair is going through the many stages necessary to loc'ing. Anyway, my mom decided to "surprise" me by taking me to our natural hair stylist who is also a loctitian. I absolutely love her! She did my loose natural hair for about two years, and my hair reached exciting new lengths with her. In any other situation, I would love having her fingers in my hair again. Buuuut, my loc journey was supposed to be mine! *Disclaimer* I do not believe that loc'ers who are regularly maintained by loctitians do not have their personal relationships with their locs.

Here's a picture! Not the one's that I've been promising, but just a picture.

*Sigh* My appointment is tomorrow at 9am. I'll update you on my feelings, what she says about my progress so far, etc.