I finally finished tightening my hair yesterday. The re-twisting was cool and I definitely will use it in a pinch, but OMG I was so happy to wash my hair!! I'm not used to having anything in my hair and that gel was making my scalp itch like crazy!!
I'm really here to tell you about something I've learned since starting. When you first start your locs, you have this vision in your head of what they are going to be like. When you first have your installation, it may or may not match what you pictured. Don't sweat the small stuff!!
When I first started I had a few braids that I thought were going to produce locs that were too big for what I wanted. I split them into 2 smaller braids. In the last 10 months, I've learned that what I thought I wanted isn't what I actually want, and that super small locs are not for me. I'm too damn lazy to be trying to tighten 200-300 locs myself lol
Most of the locs that I had separated, I have since combined. As a matter of fact yesterday, I turned 4 locs into 2. I have 4 more that I plan to make 2 eventually, probably after the new year. *shrug* We'll see.
Usually I just latch the roots together and twist them, but these have thick ends from budding, so I twisted, then rubberbanded. I'll take the rubberbands off on my 1 year anniversary, which gives them about a month and half to get with the program. I know some people don't like to use rubberbands, but I used one on my loc that wouldn't lock and didn't have any problems with it.
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*flips locs*
Deuces!!
