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Saturday, February 14, 2009

4 Months, 3rd Retightening

As you all can guess I have been busy enjoying my grand daughter whom I call Tinkerbell however her name is Chavea.

Well as I embark on 4 months of this wonderful journey, I have not many disappointments this has been a great journey for me. I think it is because of several reasons but I have to give props to my consultant for having faith that I would take great care of such short locs when they were first installed. The normal length for installation being 3 inches where I only had 2 inches with 1 1/2 in some areas.

Sometimes I wish my locs were longer so that I can style them like I have seen so many of my SL sisters do, I am patient as I know in time I will be twisting, roller setting and most of all using permanent color soon enough.

I have notice a great deal of growth in the past 4 months, more growth then I thought I would experience. My Honey,Daughters and Co-workers are always commenting on how much my hair has grown in these four months. Its amazing how much others are watching my hair, my co-workers even notice when I get my hair re-tightened both sisters of color and Caucasian co-workers alike take notice of my locs its growth and when I color...(how could they not notice when I color being over 50% grey)...LOL gotta love those greys one good thing about the grey I definitely know how much my hair has grown.

If you notice below I posted prepping for semi-coloring dated 12/27/08 however I actually colored the morning I was retightened, which made it a little difficult for Ms. Agape Locks to see the parts as she was retighting my locs...Sorry Agage Locks much love.

It took us about 5 hours to retighten as some of my locs in the rear love to hug each other, but not as bad as with my 2nd retightening. Guess that means I getting better at separating after shampooing, actually I think it's because I shampooed during waking hours as opposed to just before retiring for the night.

I have not had to much slipping thank God as I have read so many blogs about the slippage. I am progressing well on my journey, I can even condition now to get a softer look which I am so happy about because my locs are a little stiff, soft but not as relaxed as I would like (probably mostly due to the grey, as my consultant keeps kindly telling me grey hair does what it wants to do when you want it to lay down it wants to stand up).

If you notice on my pics there is a section in the back that just will not come together always leaving a bit of a gap between the locs making it look like I have a bald section back there and I don't....so I am hoping that conditioning will help those locs lay better. Here are the pics of my 4th month with SL....and Yes I am still in love with my Lovely SL's..


10 comments:

Lalaboobaby said...

You are looking good. Continue to be patient with the back, it will all come together in no time.

new2locs said...

Your hair has definitely come into it's own. It looks very nice, & I can definitely see the growth! You have given me courage to do the things I'm afraid of doing, ie, coloring & conditioning your locks! I am on the verge just trying to hold out! LOL

JUST Euphoria said...

wow look how much your hair has grown and here I am wishing mines was even longer to do even more styling.

CaribSun said...

Your hair is looking so lovely and it is really growing fast. Have you tried roller setting yet? This may help you to train those locks in the back that want to leave a gap.

Nubian1 said...

Wow!!

JUST Euphoria said...

hey got your message let me trail & error some things & then I will get with you and give you a call

Ezme said...

I can't believe how much your hair has grown. Girl, your starting to give me some competition LOL

Stay Blessed

Unknown said...

Your locks are looking awesome!

JUST Euphoria said...

Hey granny we are missing you girl I know those locks are sprouting all over the place, and because I so love your spirit I have nominated you for creative blogger award check my site for details

The Real Nique said...

Hey Angel! This is looking pretty good. Your hair is growing pretty nicely. Congratulations on the new addition to the family.