6 - 8 Months Pics

10 8 Truths (Because 10 is hard!)

1.  It is really not easy to maintain a blog.  I mean I had good intentions, but suddenly life got too hectic; the hairdo became less “new”, and the blog fell by the way-side.  I hope to do better.
   

 

2. I still love my hair even though my locs haven’t matured.  Honestly, I thought I have long, flowing locs by now.  At 6 months, yeah right!  Well, it was my fantasy until it didn’t come to fruition. 

 

3. I still have hair all over my bathroom floor.  It’s true; every time I wash my hair, I braid & band and once I take the loc loops or spirals out, hair comes out with them.  I understand I still have some loose hairs and I’m not fully locked yet, sigh…

 

4. My hair gets depressingly dry.  I have tried many remedies and the best one yet was a simple visit to hot, humid Charleston.  That climate worked wonders on my tresses.

 

5. The lighter persuasion (white folk) handles natural hair so much better than us darker ones.  And I know this subject gets beat into the ground, but black people, can we please get out of our own way?!?

 

6. “A thug changes, a love changes, and best friends become strangers”.  That was an old quote by rapper Nas and I meditate often on how true that still is.  I wonder where my best friend from high school is. 

 

7. My consultant is awesome and I don’t know more than she does about locs.    It’s a natural tendency once you do so much research, get locs, read blogs and follow LIU everyday to think you’ve become an expert.  Respect her training (formal and on-the-job), her experience, and her intuition –she knows what she’s talking about.

 

8. It is difficult to come up with 10 truths.  I think this is a good stopping place J.