19 Months!!

Hey y'all!!


I just hit my 19 month anniversary last week!! *snoopy dance*


Nothing too big is going on except I'm experiencing a ton of new growth.

You'd think that would encourage me to retwist more, but to be honest it doesn't.  I actually did a retwist on 4/21/13 to go to a funeral.  Probably wont retwist again til end of this month.



Here's what my hair looked like before maintenance.

Here's what it looked like after:

My routine has stayed pretty simple:

1. Wash with whatever shampoo is on hand. I'm currently using Aussie Moist watered down with a little peppermint oil added. 
2. Hot oil treatment with Hot Six Oil every 3rd wash.
3. Grease scalp with Sulfur 8 Light (blue jar) when needed.
4. Spritz with water, lemongrass and sweet orange oils daily. (Usually after a workout.)

Here's some random styles I've been rocking lately.

Length check!!

Talk to y'all soon!!

*flips locs* Deuces!!!

A Very Merry UnBirthday Pt. 3!!

Hey y'all!!

I've been trying to keep up with my picture taking so that when I have an opportunity to blog, I've got something to show you.


I'm at 16.5 months and I still love my hair.

I pretty much just wash when I need to, retwist when I feel like it, and go on about life.

Besides shampoo I have been using Sulfur 8 Light every 3 days or so to keep my scalp from going nuts.

I also use Earthbalism Herbal Hair Rinse, except instead of using it as it a rinse, I use it as my daily spray.

I brew it like a tea, strain it, and put it in my spray bottle.  I keep the bottle in the fridge to keep it from spoiling and I go through a bottle a week. 

It keeps my locs supersoft... and since I don't use conditioner anymore, it's pretty much become my favorite thing ever.  I've been using the Flower Power one, but I need to re-order this weekend so I'll be trying all three varieties this time.  It smells amazing and whenever I brew it, my house smells like a garden for DAYS!

I've still been rocking bantu knot outs when my roots are out of control, but I'm too lazy to retwist.

It takes about 20 minutes to do and the curls last for about 2 weeks.

Here's another lil collage of just random shots, but you can see my beads.  I haven't been wearing a lot of loc jewelry lately, but I'm never without my beads.  I got 4 of them on clearance for like $1 a year ago and now I wear them regularly.  I take them out when I wash my hair and they're rarely on the same locs for more than 2 weeks.

Pretty sure this was after my last retwist about 2 weeks ago.

Here's a random loc shot so you can see the length and thickness of my locs.

That's all for now folks!!  I'll be back whenever I get a chance, but I'm still taking pics so you can see how my hair is thriving.

YAAAASSSSS!!!  lol

*flips locs* Deuces!!

15 Month Update...

Yeah so... I was going to update sooner, but the way my attention span is set up... *Kevin Hart voice*


LOL My bad y'all.  Last time I was here I was gearing up for my one year anniversary and now it's 3 months past that.  I've been busy!  It sounds trite, but it's so true. lol  I've got a bunch of stuff going on in my life (good things) and blogging about my hair tends to fall to the side as those things take over.  I'd promise to do better, but we'd all know I was lying. :)

So anyway... let me tell you about my hair.

It's going great.  The front left side has is about 80% locked so I'm almost completely there.  I still have 3 stubborn braids that refuse to give in, but I like them.  They give my hair personality.

I have stopped interlocking and started retwisting.  I used to really want neat roots and since I have to wash my scalp so often, that made twisting out of the question for me when I first started.  Now I couldn't really care less about my roots.  I'm a retwister...when I have something special going on.  For the most part, I just separate when I wash and go on about my day lol  I haven't interlocked since that last post I mentioned it in September.

Don't act like y'all don't see that length!!  Ow!! Get it!!

Style-wise, I usually just wear it down.  Sometimes I do a twistout or an actual style, but for the most part, I just chill and let them hang.  I have also become one of those people who wears a ponytail holder like a bracelet so I can pull them back out of my face if I want to.

Right now I actually have a bantu knot out going.  Bantu knots have always been tricky for me.  They never came out the way that I wanted.  This Sunday, I was watching Walking Dead (that's my show!! lol) and I decided to try again and I love the way they came out.  Plus it only took like 15 minutes to put the knots in.

I have been getting compliments on this left and right.  Like my boss literally came out of his office to come tell me how nice my hair looked.  So that's a win. :)

My routine is still pretty simple... I wash when I feel like it or when my scalp starts acting up.  I've been using a cheap V05 shampoo followed by Aussie Moist shampoo. I have been doing a hot oil treatment every 2 weeks with Hot Six Oil.  Basically I just heat it up, smother my head, put a plastic bag on it, and sit under my dryer for a half hour. That's actually the only time I use my hair dryer.  I let my retwists air dry unless I'm in a rush and I try not to do it when I'm rushing.

Those locs that I combined in September are doing well and I've actually combined a couple more since then (I sewed the newer ones together, then pulled the thread out when they started meshing). I think I'm done with combining.  I've got them all pretty much where I want them now.

So that's what's going on with me.  Hopefully, I'll do better with updating but if not and you just want to keep up with me, you can catch me on Twitter or Instagram. Both of my pages are locked for privacy but if you send me a request, I'll accept. :)

Until the next time folks... Keep it nappy!!

*flips locs* Deuces!!

A Very Merry UnBirthday Pt. 2

Look how soon I'm back!!  LOL


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.

New babies!!

I'm out for now, talk to you later!


*flips locs*

Deuces!!

Making Lemonade

Hello all!!

I know I'm a horrible blogger for being gone for so long, but summer is my favorite season and I try to spend as much of it outside with my family as possible. But I'm here now, so let's get to what's really important... the hair!!

I hit 10 months yesterday!  I was happy and nonchalant at the same time. The overall excitement has worn off for me, which I actually think is a good thing.  It means that my locs aren't new to me anymore.  They are another part of myself that I just expect to be there like my fingernails or eyelashes. :)  To be honest, I hit 3 years natural on 8/18 and didn't even remember until a couple of days later.  For someone who spent the first 2 years consumed by my hair and various products, the fact that I forgot was a moment of pride for me.

Here's a couple of pics of what my hair is looking like at 10 months.

Back view - still got a couple of braids in there. :)

Ponytail... I don't usually wear this out of the house, but I still sleep like this most nights.

Random basketweave.  I do this a lot when I want my hair out of my face.











So I know you're like what the heck does lemonade have to do with her hair?

Well tomorrow I'm going to a wedding.  My plan was to spend 2 days this week tightening my hair.  It's been about 9 weeks since the last time I've tightened. (What can I say... it's summertime and I'm lazy! lol)  So I got through about 1/4 of my hair and then my yarn needle broke!  So rather than keep buying things that will break, I ordered a nappylocs tool.  Great...except it won't be here until sometime next week. So in the meantime, I decided to try a retwist.  I don't normally do that because I wash my hair about every 3 days so it would be a waste of time, but desperate times call for desperate measures.

It actually came out pretty good!! 

So that's what's up with my hair.  I promise that it won't be 2 months before I update again!!

Texture shot!!

Until the next time, keep it nappy y'all!

*flips locs*  Deuces!!