Hey fam,
Yes it's finally here...my one year mark. I can't believe it's been that long. I was officially locked on November 15, 2008. I had to retighten so I'm a few days late. This mark is double special for me because of my locs being one year old and my third diy retightening. I haven't had too many mishaps with my sls except for accidentally chopping two of them in half. Yes!!!! I was so mad at myself. It was during my last retightening and I had tightened some strands of one loc to another. So I grabbed the scissors and tried to feel where I needed to cut with my fingers. I pressed down on the scissors and heard that horrifying sound. Yes the sound of hair being cut :-( I called my consultant like the next day and she told me to come in. She looked all through my head and couldn't find the chopped locs. So that made me feel a little better because at least it wasn't obvious.
Anyway there's been nothing too major other than that. Just usual stuff you know like locs trying to combine themselves. So now I am consciously trying to keep them seperated whenever I can. The retightening is still taking me three days which I'm not happy about. But hopefully the process will become quicker the more I do it. I feel so liberated and proud of myself. My hair still doesn't look like locs yet, but I realize everyone's hair has it's own journey and I wouldn't change anything that's happened along the way.
On a final note, I've been pretty busy with school and I guess it paid off. I was inducted into PTK (Phi Theta Kappa) on Friday Nov 20 which is the international honor society for community colleges. I'm going to visit my daddy for Thanksgiving weekend and I'm looking forward to a few days of rest and not thinking about school lol. Well I hope you'all have a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend. Till next time babies!
Tee
Monday, November 23, 2009
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
My first DIY Retightening :-)
Hey fam,
I know it's been a while since I've posted. In my defense I guess I'll say that I haven't been motivated lately. Anyhoo, this post is about me taking the retightening class today and what will follow. I am naturally a diy type person and I think it has a lot to do with my personality. I have always been a quiet, reserved person who would rather learn how to do something myself then ask people for help. I know that's not always a good thing, but whatever. The way this economy is these days I can't afford to spend money on anything that's not a necessity. And while I take great pride in my appearance, these days getting my hair retightened is just not a necessity. Especially when I'm not working and my husband and I are living on a single income. Well enough of that. The point is that for me learning to retighten my own hair seems to have more pros than cons...at least for right now.
At 5:00pm today I went to my consultants shop and she briefly explained a few things to me. She gave me a kit and then let me do two practice locks. She asked if I had any questions and sent me on my way. Now the whole time she's talking she kept saying that it would get easier the more I do it. So when it was over, I was sitting there like..."that's it?" She said that I could always call her with any questions, but that still didn't ease my mind. I'm like "wow I just paid $250.00 for that?" But once I got home and started doing some I did realize that it's one of those things where you learn best from doing hands on. I actually got a good section in the back done in about three hours. I will work on it on and off tomorrow and the rest of the week. Hopefully I will be done before the weekend so I won't have half my head looking a hot mess. I must say it doesn't seem as overwhelming as I thought it would be leaving her shop today. So to all the DIYers...I salute you. And hopefully I can become a self-maintenance girl. We'll see how it goes (crossing fingers). I've included some pictures that show my progress so far. I'll post again as soon as I finish. Til next time babies!
Tee
I know it's been a while since I've posted. In my defense I guess I'll say that I haven't been motivated lately. Anyhoo, this post is about me taking the retightening class today and what will follow. I am naturally a diy type person and I think it has a lot to do with my personality. I have always been a quiet, reserved person who would rather learn how to do something myself then ask people for help. I know that's not always a good thing, but whatever. The way this economy is these days I can't afford to spend money on anything that's not a necessity. And while I take great pride in my appearance, these days getting my hair retightened is just not a necessity. Especially when I'm not working and my husband and I are living on a single income. Well enough of that. The point is that for me learning to retighten my own hair seems to have more pros than cons...at least for right now.
At 5:00pm today I went to my consultants shop and she briefly explained a few things to me. She gave me a kit and then let me do two practice locks. She asked if I had any questions and sent me on my way. Now the whole time she's talking she kept saying that it would get easier the more I do it. So when it was over, I was sitting there like..."that's it?" She said that I could always call her with any questions, but that still didn't ease my mind. I'm like "wow I just paid $250.00 for that?" But once I got home and started doing some I did realize that it's one of those things where you learn best from doing hands on. I actually got a good section in the back done in about three hours. I will work on it on and off tomorrow and the rest of the week. Hopefully I will be done before the weekend so I won't have half my head looking a hot mess. I must say it doesn't seem as overwhelming as I thought it would be leaving her shop today. So to all the DIYers...I salute you. And hopefully I can become a self-maintenance girl. We'll see how it goes (crossing fingers). I've included some pictures that show my progress so far. I'll post again as soon as I finish. Til next time babies!
Tee
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it's starting to look much better the more I do it