Month 4!

4 MONTHS!

Today makes exactly 4 months to the day and I have been putting off retightening my hair. Why? No real reason although, I do want to see how long I can go without a re-ti. (You know, for future references). So, im down 4 weeks now since my last re-ti, excluding my edges, which I did a week ago because I had somewhere to be. Im gonna push for 6 weeks though. I've been a little busy transistioning into a new residential setting and whenever I do have free time, I am attending to something other than my hair. 

Another reason why I feel I can push this out a little longer is because I dont think I have as much new growth to be doing it monthly.  Also, I love the lift I get at the roots from the lack of retightening. My hair seems so much more fuller without my parts showing through.

So let this be the start of my lil' ol' experiment. We will see in two more weeks if this was a good idea or a not so great one. We will also see if this makes my re-ti take longer since I'll have presumably more new growth to work with. And, we will see if ill ever be this lazy again LOL.

Until then, lata lovvies.

100 Workout!

That's what it looked like after I completed what I thought would be a mini workout.  I had to kick those bad boys off and just lay there, on the floor, reflecting. LOL! But seriously.  This workout was no joke.  So some time ago, I screenshot a few at home workouts onto my ipad from FB.  And today I felt motivated, and all types of ambitious.  The '100 Workout' is what it was named but really your doing a million things at once.  Need a total body workout? Want to sweat like never before? This definitely did it for me.  Of course, everyone is at different levels of athletic ability and I am not too high on the the bar but this is sure to get anyone's blood pumping and heart racing.  A combination of jumping jacks, squats, crunches, leg lifts and running done circuit training style.  I rested for 30 seconds between each rep and it was definitely needed because everything was burning. Loved it, Hated it, will definitely be doing it again.

Why Locs?

Why Locs, why locs?

So, I Know I have already spoken about my fascination with the hair style, in and of itself but I have not spoken about what truly made me turn from loose natural to loc'd natural.

Let me first start off by saying that I loved my loose natural hair. I have a looser curl pattern so it curled up really effortlessly without much product-- and I have dabbled in my share of products while relapsing from being a PJ (product junkie).  I tried out various brands of styling products like Miss Jessies and Shea Moisture, which happen to be my favorites. I also tried deep conditioners, leave in conditioners, shampoos, the whole nine.  It began to be just me spending money for no good reason since I would always run back to my favorites. 

So, I told myself that I would stop experimenting with products and stick to a selected few that I knew worked. In that way, I saved money.

My go-to styles were twist-outs, buns and mini twists. I would protective style my hair every few months to change things up.
Coming up on the new year, 2013, I was getting really annoyed with my hair for a few reasons:

     1). It was getting longer and unmanageable. A pain in my toosh some days-- although I was ecstatic with my hair growth, I was not too happy on wash days when having to part and detangle. #ugh
    2). I was beginning to hate styling it all the time. If I didnt set my hair at night,  I would have to rock out with an afro the next day. No problem there unless I wasnt feeling it. And then, if I did wear the afro, what a pain it would be to detangle.
     3). The time constraints. When natural and with lengthier hair, one has to literally have a wash DAY. Between sectioning, washing in sections, rinsing in sections, conditioning in sections, rinsing again, and then styling in sections. Twas driving me mad.

I longed for something simpler. After some time, twist-outs, braid outs, all the manipulation put into your hair to get it to curl a certain way gets old.  The ability to get up and go was everything I ever wanted, which was why I would protective style every so often.  Coming up on my decision to lock my hair in March,  I was wearing my hair in mini twists. I loved them and redid them every 3 weeks to a month just so it wouldn't tangle or, essentially loc.

That's when it dawned on me! An epiphany! Why am I fighting what my hair already wants to do on its own. The tangles, my twists meshing together after a month- HELLO! LOL! its my hair in its most natural state. So why not take the plunge? And thats exactly what I did. And I love and have loved every little itty, bitty minute of it.

Now dont get me wrong, some days, I hate it and others I don't but that's with any and everything.  Take it one day at a time. And it's something to look forward to, the fruits of your labor-- knowing that one day, I'll have locs down my back and all the time in the world because I wont be sectioning my life away. LOL!

Until Next time Lovvies.

P.S. Upcoming posts include a montage of photos of mu hair journey, why I went the microloc route and more! Please stay posted. :)

And I lied to you-- #ForgiveMe

Guys..

I did you wrong. Lol.
So I know I had said I would try and put up more looks during this heat wave week.  See what had happened was. . . It was just too damn HOT. Everyday I threw this hair up in a pony and let it be. I just couldn't be bothered. I did try with tremendous effort one morning but it was jus another variation of the roll and tuck once again.

Today was my day off and my hunny's bday, so I actually took it out of the ponytail for a change.  Last night, I decided to retighten just my edges because they were getting out of hand.  This morning, after getting dressed, the number one motive was, "Get it all out of my face."  So, I simply parted my hair down the middle and put two platts on either side and pinned them in place, leaving the back half out and hanging.  This style was so simple that I reconsidered putting this post up a few different times. However, I thought to myself "nooo, I gotta put up something."

And of course, your pics as always. Lata Lovvies.

Heat Wave Anyone?

Today headed the beginning of a week long heat wave. Don't get me wrong, I love the summertime but I hate to sweat. So this weather called for all things up and out of my face. While getting ready for work I came up with a simple variation of the roll and tuck. I parted my hair in the back into two sections and rolled them to the front, securing with a hair pin. I then took all the leave out from both sections and made an off-centered pompadour. Quick and cute and definitely kept me cool. Stick around throughout the rest of this week and lets see how creative I can get with these styles. Lata Lovvies.

Social Media and Politics

"People are funny. If you sit here and say even the smallest bit about the Martin-Zimmerman case, or God forbid you put up a picture expressing your concern for our future and justice system-- you are automatically accused of following a crowd/fad. Funny, 'Cause i'm sure if nothing was said/posted we would be accused of not caring, being heartless and uninformed/uneducated. So much for us feeling the pain of our fellow brothers and sisters, so much for this universal equality that we keep preaching. 'Cause when its all said and done and we do react as one--it's not taken seriously." ~t.berry


I would have to say that the two, social media and politics, never coincide very well.  There always seems to be a huge uproar of widespread opinions from so many different sides that everything just becomes overwhelming.  At times, I dislike when everyone is chatting up one specific hot topic on Facebook because it makes my timeline a mono-toned lecture.  It can get catty and even offensive.  However, I still stand by the saying, "to each his own."  Everyone has their own page and is entitled to their first amendment right of free speech and I have the opportunity to just scroll on by and leave things be.  Sometimes, it's just not that serious.

Today, though, with the Martin-Zimmerman case and the impending verdict, Facebook, Twitter and every other type of social network was full of the hate, accusations, pain and various expressions of opinions regarding the issue.  I couldn't be on FB for more than two minutes because my patience ran extremely thin.  I won't take this time to express my view on what I think happened but I will say that only two people know the true happenings of that evening and one of them is no longer with us.  People chose to show their respects with a blacked out profile picture and/dressed in hoodies, posting statuses and poems and excerpts.  That, to me, showed a tremendous sense of unity in a time of pain-- people taking out the time to reflect on an unfortunate event.

And while this beautiful moment was taking place, of course there were those pessimists who seem to think everything is a passing fad.  Those, "Oh, you just talking bout this because everybody else is," or " You putting up pics as if its gonna help the situation."  This had my blood boiling.  Why is it such an issue when people try to show respect/concern for a common cause or event?  Why do we get so angered by an event being a hot topic but when everyone is in cargos and a polo tee don't 'nobody no how' seem to care?  Maybe it's because these events hit too close to home and touch something in us that we would much rather ignore.  Maybe it's too uncomfortable and inconvenient for us.

These uncomfortable situations should fuel us into making a change-- whether it be public or not.  Its a time to reassess ourselves and our communities, how we treat each other and think about things, how we react. . .