Hey y'all!!
I had some free time today, and I was like "I need to catch up on my blog."
So here I am.
I just counted and realized I'll hit 21 months on Monday. I mean
literally counted
. lol I don't really ever think about how long I've had them anymore, so when I did the math, I was shocked and had to count it out to make sure. lol
I know I have a couple of new lockers following, so I wanted to do a post that shows how some of the things I worried about when I started locking are going now.
- The loc that couldn't - When I started, I had a loc at the nape of my neck that kept coming undone during my first month. It was braided at the top and bottom and loose in the middle. I took it down and rebraided it, then secured the end with a black rubberband. I worried about this poor loc for at least 3 weeks straight.
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| 1 month, 2 months, 21 months | | | |
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It's fine now. All that stress for nothing because it looks just like my other locs.
- Combined locs - In September of 2012, I combined 4 locs into 2. I
worried that they would be huge, or that they wouldn't lock together,
or that they would be totally noticeable in my hair.
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| They slimmed down and started locking together. Can't see them unless I look for them. |
- How much thicker will they get? - This was a concern even before I started my locs. I wanted relatively slim locs (which is funny to me now, because most of my current fav locs on other people are thick).
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| Month 2, Month 21. |
LOL The first pic is back when I first got these beads. I used to have to pull 3 braids through, now some locs are too thick for them. :) So basically, they got thicker, but not more than I expected. I ended up with the size I wanted.
- The front won't lock - I worried about this for a long time. My front locs didn't really get going until months 5-11. And even then, it was going so slow that I worried they'd all be braids forever and I'd hate them.
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| Month 5, Month 21 |
I've still got one braid that refuses to loc... and I love it. It gives my hair character. People ask me all the time how I got that one to do that and I'm like *kanye shrug* lol Again, I notice it if I look for it, but day to day, I don't even think about it anymore.
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| Now you see it, now you don't lol |
First pic I held the loc out so the camera could catch it, second pic I let them fall naturally.
My hair isn't growing - It has to shrink to lock. That's a fact. The sooner you deal with it, the easier it will be. It will take you a while to see progress in length if you started with longer hair, because shrinkage is a mofo. Don't think that because you can't see the growth in the mirror, it's not actually happening.
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| Top Row: Day 1, Month 10 Bottom Row: Month 17, Month 21 |
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I hate to quote Drake but... Started from the bottom now I'm here!
If I could give one bit of advice to new lockers, it would be:
Patience is the key. Mother Nature will work it all out, so don't worry.
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| *flips locs* Deuces!! |
