New and Improved locs!

nah, i ain't start over. lol...that pic ain't nothin. i just like it.

after a while, i just thought things over, and i'm gonna go back to my old ways of D.I.Y. cheleski inspired me so much more and gave me the initiative to just get my hands dirty.

like i said in my previous posts, i went to a locitian (not mine. it was my sister's salon actually) to see if she offered that practice at her salon and she provided me with no help whatsoever (i was actually being lazy by tryna see if someone else could do it but her visit gave me the needed boost to start doing my own cultivation more often). i was extremely turned off by her attitude. she kept telling me that sewing locs together was not advisable and that it wouldn't be cylindrical but rather, flat. and she kept motioning to her own locs sayin "these are locs" and implying that if i did sew them they would no longer be locks. she also said that from the weight as my babies grow, i would no longer have locs cuz they would fall out. the way i figured is that if i latched mines, they would remain strong (like sisterlocks and i've seen some pretty healthy SLs). but i had been having complications as of late with it and always having to snip the root cuz i may have latched some together. so that's why i'm at the salon more now to let them get back to normal. but she really was not any help.

another thing she had said was that by me joining them together at the roots and letting them hang would create a bigger problem for me in the future. all the things she was telling me really didn't add up. why is it that i see plenty of ppl doing things to their locks (sewing, combining sealed locks, etc) and their locks thrive? and then i have this woman telling me its all BS? come on. and she was contradicting herself. as i was tryna hit the door to get out of that place, she suggested that i get them wrapped or add loc extensions. then she said she wouldn't advise on that.

THEN WHY SUGGEST IT?

so i took things into my own hands...thanks cheleski!

before i went to the loctician from H*LL, i had combined all my locs at the roots.




i realized that by me keeping the ends out and rockin a whole bunch of two headed dragons would not fare well in the long run, mostly bcz i interlock the roots as my main type of maintenance. i also wasn't down with the fact that i would have a lot of locs but it just didn't add up when you got to the roots.





So about a week or so later (go by the dates on the camera), i spent the ENTIRE night picking out about half an inch to a full inch of the ends of my locs and twisting the combined locs together and letting the ends curl up.




this was something i wanted to do anyways because i love lisa bonet's locs and how the ends just curl up the way they do. but this was the perfect opportunity. i also didn't want to sew together locks with sealed ends.







by me just twisting them and leaving them be was not a good idea either (i was tryin everything so i didn't have to resort to sewing bcz i was nervous about doing something i wasn't entirely sure about).

see the curls??? :)

these two used to be four. :)

So then about two days later, i decided that i would stop thinking so much (because the more i thought about it the less likely chance of me not going thru with it) and i would just jump in and DO IT! (think nike lol). i got out the black thread and went to work. took me literally all night to do it. i started wednesday night at around 8 and finished about 730 the next morning (thursday).








i was so pissed because i wasn't even halfway done and i ran out of black thread so i had to use the dark green thread. its all good though. i now have thick locs that i love.

i don't even like green.

but i was real serious bout getting this done bcz my salon maintenance was on thursday, the 27th. but now that everything is said and done, i'm happy that i did this. i will probably continue my salon visits until the end of the year and then go back to doing them myself, only going to the salon for special occasions and whatnot. but i may go every three months or every other month. it depends on the cash flow.

that stupid dryer was hot as heck. the salon had did renovations and turned the front of the salon into like a mini store with clothes and handbags and whatnot. my stylists chair was in the front of the shop so they moved him to the second floor by himself and it was hot up there enough as it is and the dryer didn't make it no better. you can sense the pain in my face. LOL

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but i'll put some pics up here soon. nothing new is going on except for the fact that i did combine my locs at the roots and i'm just gonna keep them twisted to the ends. i'm not expecting them to fuse together (although i have heard success stories in this regard) but i just need for my roots to be thicker.

the only problem is that when i went to a salon (other than my own) to see about getting the extending locs sewn together the woman just about went into a tangent about how unhealthy it is for your locs and that even though i'm trying to remedy one problem by combining the roots, i'm creating another problem because the locs that are already loced will not fuse together and that it will cause weakness or something. i stopped listening to her at one point because i didn't like her demeanor and attitude and she kept tryin to tell me how she been in the business for 40 years and how she wouldn't tell me something that wouldn't benefit me in the end, and that's all well and good, but i asked one simple question, and not a book. i just had to get out of there.

for now, i'll just keep the ends twisted together and when i go back to the salon on the 28th, i'll ask them for their opinion.

one thing she did tell me though that sounded appealing was to get loc extensions on my locs but how then again she wouldn't advise that i take that course either.

THEN WHY SUGGEST IT?

she told me it would be too costly, yada yada yada. i couldn't even get a question in and whatnot. it was just aggravating.

anyhow, like i said, i'll figure something out. if any of you ladies have any suggestions, please help. thanks...