Introduction

I finally did it! I have started the locs I always wanted. Before I start documenting them let me tell you a bit of my story. As a kid I had natural hair up until age eleven.

Here I am rocking a fro as a baby!

Here I am at the service after my baptism. (Wish I had that length now!! Lol)

I remember I used to get it hot combed and obsess about how I could comb it with the small side of the comb lol! I would also watch those Pantine Pro V adds and wish I had hair like that, oh how naieve I was!

Good times. But yea, back to when I got it straightened, I was graduating from primary school, so off I went to the hair dresser to get it all ‘did up’ for Graduation... Sadly that ‘wonderful’ lady not only burned my scalp but she also over processed my hair, so I spent the next three years, trimming off damaged ends, but at least I had a good hairdresser this time, that actually nursed my hair back to health.

Then came my first big chop. I was three years into straightening, and I just began to hate it. It burned too much every time, my hair was not big the way I liked it and it seemed to be thinning to me (though it may not have been) so I waited until I had about two inches of growth and got my sister to chop it off! I can’t even describe the reaction of my classmates when I went to school the next day LOL! That was epic! 

So I started wearing my twiggles from then, I’d just take the hair in between my fingers and twiggle it like comb twists ;). This is when I discovered Loc and Twist gel, I love it up till this date.

As it grew I graduated from twiggles to twists to plaits and then to cornrows. 

It was fun while it lasted, but the truth was that after it got long, I couldn’t manage it on my own anymore, so I had to make a decision. I wanted to start locs but my parents were against it and I didn’t want to straighten again so I turned to curls. And so  the curled chapter of my hair story began.

So yea, three years of natural bliss finally ended in a perm. I loved them though, after they started to fill out I was in love, I had the big hair I liked, but I still had the ‘ease of non-natural hair’. So I had a ball! The curls really worked with my face. 

I experimented with all sorts of styles with an assortment of hair ornaments. The only things I didn’t get to try were highlights and cuts. In a way I regret that, but I truly enjoyed my curled hair.This chapter lasted just over two years and brings us to the present.

So now you know my hair history :P let’s get this show on the road!!!