Shit! I had a post all ready to publish and it got erased!! I'm such a stupid asshole!!

Alright.. Enough of the self bashing.. I'll just begin again with what I remember. I'm in my 9th month with my locs. I'm totally locked. My locs shake now. I'm enjoying being a dread head.

My routine is just wash, grease shake and go. Loving the simplicity. I'll start conditioning in about 3 months. My hair kinda needs it. But right now I'm battling build up from my product junkie days. DH was right about not needing all the product. But he just thought I wouldn't lock with out product.. Scarred on him cause I locked faster with no product. I've been using Naani's shampoo for about the last 3 weeks. It's OK, but it's just expensive shampoo to my idea. Smells wonderful. (I got the yummy moisturizing shampoo.) But I think I'll be looking for another source of shampoo. I can't drop $20 for Adequate shampoo or even very good shampoo. I can get shampoo from the salon.. THE SALON.. Pick one.. For about $10. No shipping.. Much cheaper.

Is the product good? I don't know that. For someone who twists with heavy products, it will strip all that crap out of your hair. But I'm a pure freeformer and I don't have extra oil and gunk to wash out really. So all it did was soak into my hair and make it dull and dry. Plain and simple. Maybe if I add oils to it, it will do better. I'm gonna try that.

Anyway.. Me 9 months.I'll add a picture as soon as I remember how the hell I did it last time.

Jen


These are the little dears now. They 9 months old and Just learning to behave themselves. :)

Well, I've been locked for nearly 6 months now and those little buds are locs now.Cute little locs. Sometimes I twist them up to make them alittle neater, but there are times when I just say, "Alright kids, GO WILD!!" and just let em hang free. They're not that long, but they are coming along nicely. I'll be 6 months along in my journey the 27th of this month. Maybe I'll have new pictures then. In the mean time, here's my last picture I took..

I know they look wild and crazy here.. But know what.. It's all good..

Jen

Well, it's the weekend and as usual I'm here with my plastic cap on my head conditioning away. I have lot's of little buds on my head. I guess that's what they are cause they aren't dreads just yet. Since I'm freeforming this thing is gonna be pretty random and unpredictable but I'm ready for the ride. I've had a few family problems with my decision to loc and such, but in the end I didn't have to do anything and my hair seemed to make the decision on what it wanted to do on it's own. It WANTS TO LOC UP!! I'm glad it wants to do what I want it to do so badly, but I'm sure it will do it the way it wants to do it. That's how this hair of mine always has worked. And it's been trying to loc since I was a little girl. Mom leaves plaits in too long, I had lint filled locs in weeks.. (She didn't neglect me or anything. I just had so much hair I'm sure it was loads of trouble to comb straighten and replait this stuff. I wish she'd locked me then. No.. I'm glad I was given the chance to make the choice and to learn the significance of locking and just being natural and as God intended.

Anyway, I can't wait until they get longer and fuller and WILDER!!

Jen
See my little buds there. Cute little babies aren't they.. This is getting interesting.

I guess I'll be posting here for a bit. Hopefully this will be a great place to chill out from time to time. Well, right now in this journey of the hairy nature, I'm not yet locked but I'm not just natural. I have a mixture of dreads, mattes and fro.. Kinda cool if you ask me. I've been up all night doing this and that, so I'm kinda beat. I'll add more later.. Look at all that HAIR.. Geez.. I called this pre wash, but this may be the one I did just now when I just washed it.. My mind isn't what it use to be..

TaTa...

Jen