I actually managed to get my hair tightened up over the weekend.
Yes… it took me alllll weekend…most of Friday night, all of Saturday…and while I wasn’t doing it continuously…still it took longer than I had expected. The results are very much so worth it… at least to me. I doubt that anyone else can even really tell that I did anything to it, although you can see a bit more of my natural color now. I however, can most certainly feel and tell the difference.
Why tightening up my roots makes the whole loc feel smoother and tighter I have no clue, but I like the end result. Then again, maybe it was the conditioner that is really doing all the hard work. Whatever the reason I am thrilled with it. It’s just starting to feel more ‘locked’. *does a happy twirly dance*
I've had better...thanks..
Anyhow…I haven’t talked about my hair in a while.
It is doing okay… it’s getting into the whole ‘I wanna do my own thing stage’ It’s too long to just leave hanging as it drives me crazy brushing against my forehead, and it is too short to really do any up pulled styles… and besides all that I REALLLLLY need to work on my roots before I lift my proverbial skirts to annny body.
I have been considering just curling it and being done with it… but that jus takes so damn long. *sighs* Lazy Lazy Kiya. I have been conditioning it on a regular basis so that it won’t all break off because of the dye job I did (which still looks pretty doggone good by the way) but other than that and the daily soak, I am leaving the crop alone…. I am still getting compliments about my hair so I guess it doesn’t look but SO bad.
It's Hot It's Hot... take it uPPPP!!!!!!
IceChica has planted an evil evil seed in my mind...I am going to dye my hair. Again. :) I'm going to a mall after work, and the one I am going to has a Sally's Beauty Supply in it (talk about hair heaven) and I am going to figure out just what color I want it to be before I leave work. I'm not going blond (and besides, I don't want my hair to fall out)but maybe a nice bright auburn. The weather is warming up and it is time for me hair to HEAT up to. *grins*
Both Feet In...
I have leapt into locking my hair full fledged. Over the weekend I tightened the roots, then washed it. It is much neater looking than I expected it to be, but it doesn’t have the same dense/heavy/thick feeling that it had before. Maybe it’s just too clean. But I am happy with it… *sighs*
While bored out of my mind at work, I decided I would try this little hint I got off of one of my newgroups about how to keep the roots of your twists neat while waiting from them to get nicely locked up.
So, I looped & twisted (my name for the process) the whole back row of my hair, and figured I would leave those in and see how it turns out. IF it looks good and last through a few hair washes, I might get bold and try to do the whole head.
Confession time…. I have been holding off putting locks in my head because of a remarkably odd conversation I had one day on the MARTA (Atlanta’s train system) with this guy. He sat down next to me and asked me if I was so & so… when I said that I wasn’t he said that I looked almost just like a friend of a friend of his who was growing locs and dropping weight at the same time. He said something to the effect that I would look almost just like her once my locs had grown out.
This convo was held during that period of time when I was ‘trying’ to loc my hair in Atlanta. For some odd reason, I think that the person he was talking about WAS me.. and that when I finally make the plunge to get locs, I will also have to fully commit myself to the plunge to lose weight. *sighs* I don’t know….
my own skin
Hmm hmmm hmmm… In love with my hair lately.
I realized just how comfortable I am with myself when I started thinking about whether I would want to be another race if I could switch. Just snap my fingers and be white or asian or hispanic or indian or african or whatever, and the more I thought about it, the more I realized that I am just peachy keen happy about being just where I am.
As much as I bitch and moan about my weight, I would not trade this body for anybody elses…as much as I groan about what I am going to do with my hair, I wouldn’t exchange being able to feel the rich silky thickness of my hair for anything else. Yeah, I want to be slimmer…but that is just a matter of time. Yes, I want my hair to be longer, but once again, that is just a matter of time.
I am actually HAPPY with what I have to work with…and man it’s a wonderful feeling.
Happy happy joy joy. That’s really all there is.
Takes toooo long....
Anyhow. Over the weekend I took out my braids, colored my hair, and twisted it. *sighs*
Talk about an entire weekend gone. It took me about 8 hours to take me hair out, wash it, and condition it. It took me about two hours to color it, 8 more hours to twist it, and I STILL ain’t too pleased with how it looks.
The color I love, it is a rich black with a red undertone ( goes great with me skin) , but the twists themselves are… so-so. My hair is wonderfully soft, and it really did grow (I could tell from the demarcation line of the reddish color vs. my natural color) almost an inch or so since I colored it. :) Wonderful hm? *sighs*
The love/hate affair I have with my body parts amazes even me sometimes. Ah well.
Life…oh life…oh lifeeeeee…oh life!
