The good thing is that I'm not playing in my hair; mostly wearing wraps. I haven't counted them yet because I'm hesitant to find out. I'm going through the occasional minor pangs of buyer's remorse. Perhaps they're too big? What if I don't like them as they mature? I quickly push those thoughts out of my head. I'm just curious to see how they develop.
Onto maintenance, when I left the salon, China gave me only two instructions to follow: wrap my hair at night with something non-cotton and to spritz with hair oil every other day or as my scalps needs.
Here are my essential items for this first (relatively easy and stress-free) phase of maintenance.
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| I wear a hanky at night to secure the locs. I also wear one when I'm hanging out at home. |
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| This is the large head tie I use over the hanky at night. My locs aren't going anywhere! |
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| I'm spritzing with Africa's Best hair oil. You can get it at Wal-mart for 1.99. For the ingredients included, they're giving this stuff away! |
Lastly here are some pics of my day 4 loc babies.
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| Lots of loose hairs! |
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| The locs at the nape are frizzing up. |
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| Big loc babies! |
- kareen
p.s. My sweet hubby just counted my locs and I have between 55 and 60. Not as worried about the size but it seems like most people are around 80+. I know. I know. I can't measure myself against others. And I'm not. It's just an observation. We'll see where this journey ends!
4 comments:
The feeling of doing something wrong will go away eventually. It went away for me after I washed for the first time (two weeks in).
I haven't gotten around to counting mine yet. I have too many and they're too short for me to band them and not re-count some more than once. I love the size of your babies! They look awesome!!!
Thanks for the encouragement, Kim! I couldn't even imagine taking on the challenge of washing my own hair right now. I saw your youtube vid on and thought "you go girl!"
Thanks for stopping by :)
- kareen
Looking great! Keep it up :)
Thanks so much!
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