am I late or what?

Woohoo! I think I have finally figured it out. I will be doing something totally new for a while (maybe forever). I don't want to give details yet but I will have pics and do a real entry. I just couldn't resist posting this picture because this is the only time I've gotten my hair in ONE ponytail. :) Scarves were the answer. I know that seems obvious but don't forget that I was clueless about hair before I had dreads and I am finally taking the time to learn. Also I do not wear it on the wrong side with the tag out when I'm going out! LOL. I wish I had more than one. haha. I brought that one on a whim. It was 20% off and I thought I might not use it. Now I'm going to wear it until I can begin my new plans.

Getting a lotta ideas for my dreads

I'm not having a bad day. Just trying to hide some of my face. :) I need to get the scarf thing down so I can use them more often. Updated my fotki album with 2 pics. One of me and one of Jason Castro.

frizzy!!!!!!!!

Should I accept that my hair will always be frizzy? It looks the worst on the top. That is why I have the headband on. From the back, it looks like crap but I actually like the look from the front. I'm beginning to believe what someone told me: Since my hair is soft, it will always be frizzy. I'm not too worried...unless I have a job interview or something. As long as I have enough notice, I can do maintenance on it.

Whatev.

dreadlock love

Yeah, I could have chosen a better photo of Jason Castro but he is always making funny/weird faces. LOL. I think he has been growing out his dreads for 3 years. I love him....and his hair.









I tried to find a pic of Whoopi with her wonderful bob hair cut but I couldn't find one. The above pic is nice too but the bob is so cute and much shorter. Her new do inspires me. When my dreads get too long, I want my hair just like Whoopi's hair right now. To see it, try catching her on "The View".

I added a pic to my fotki album. The link is on the side and somewhere below.

fokti is filling up

I will post some pics here because my hair album is almost full. I will erase some pics so I can continue using it until the end of year 3. Besides my hair is not doing much. :) I'm past the teenage years.



I will wash and retwist my hair this weekend. Of course I also said that last weekend.

Year 3 photos

Year three photos are here.

I saw someone with gorgeous locks over the weekend. They were perfect looking. So I had to know why hers look so nice. She goes to salon every 2 weeks! Everything I've read says doing that much maintenance damages (weakens) the hair so I was sorta surprised. She goes to same lady I called twice about sisterlocks. Well I won't be going to her anytime soon. According to gorgoes dreads lady, the hairstylist is going back to New York. There probably isn't enough business down here for her to stay. Oh well, we lost one. :(

Year 3 begins

I forogt to celebrate! I like wearing my hair in ponytails but I hate how my profile looks. Anyway I will probably be rockin' the tails all next week unless I decide to wash and retwist this weekend.


I've had dreadlocks for 2 years!

salon free or not?

I cannot believe I have had dreads for almost 2 years! Jan 14th is my lock-a-versy.

Anyway I have uploaded to new pics to my Fotki hair pics. Link on the side where it says "Hair photos".

I will probably have some more pics on Jan 14...no matter how messy it looks! I am thinking about going to a different salon for a one more "one time maintenance retwist". Well we only have 3 places that do dread maintenance (@ last count). So if I go, I will go back to my old salon. My ex-stylist is no longer there. It will be strange. I am only considering this b/c I probably will have job interviews soon. Otherwise I would just do it myself and put a net on it when it gets messy. I have no problems with that. :) Afterall I'd been salon free for about a year or more??? Loosing track of time

Picture time!

I got a digital camera! Woohoo. It was a gift. ;-) Here is one picture of my hair that I took today:



I will try to update Fotki tomorrow but I've got a ton of boring things to do. I went to the salon on December 4th. The salon charged me $80, not $35. I knew it! Ugh. They did an okay job but she just put a bunch of gel/beeswax/whatever in my hair so it wouldn't look so frizzy. Well I could have done that. My hair was white on top for days. That is why I don't use a lot of gel/beeswax. It makes my hair look dirty. Oh well.

It took me a while to think about just spraying it with water. Luckily I figured it out before the job fair.

$35?!

I have an appointment to get my dreads washed and retwisted for $35 in December. Um, suuuuure. No one has ever done anything on my head for that low a price. Everytime I go to salon I get, "Wow, you have a lot of hair" and then they charge extra. I would always have to go to the ATM to get more money. Always. So I don't believe for one minute that it will only cost $35.

Yeah I was supposed to go in and get a quote. But this is the busiest I have ever been in my entire life. I was off from work but I still have work at home. And my living room is finally clean! The kitchen is clean enough for me. ha.

Back to "work". I wish I could take pics after I go to the salon but I still don't have a digital camera (not a priority) so unless I buy a one use camera, I won't have any pics. I just hope that I can actually get my hair done. The woman had an accent - and what if she didn't write down what I said? Maybe I could a walk-in later but that is a busy week too.

::waiting to exhale::

DC photos

Misc photos


Hair photos

I love beeswax

I finally found a product that works! It looks like I went to the salon. AND it doesn't leave gunk in my hair. It looks like I just washed it (which I did on Saturday). AND it doesn't smell. 4 Stars for Murray's Beeswax.

I just randomly picked it up in Walgreens about 2 months ago. I thought I would never use it. In the past, I would buy sprays or gels and the smell would be horrible or it just wouldn't do anything for my hair. SO I finally decided to try to palmroll with beeswax and I love the results!

It might have alcohol in it. Does "fragrance" usually mean alcohol is in it? I don't care. It freaking works! Woo hoo!

I am still going to the salon next month if the salon is still there. I need to stop by one day so they can actually see my hair before telling me the price of a retwist and wash. I would get a style (like a french roll) but I don't know how to wrap my hair when I do stuff like that. Plus it would cost more so I'll just let them do the basics.

Curls?!

I haven't been to a salon in a year. 365+ days. Without dreads, I never went to a salon but I feel like my hair needs something. So I am planning on going in November. It will be an early Xmas gift from my mom. I don't want to go regularly. I have neither the time or money for that. I may go twice a year or at least once. I wish there were more salons that managed dreads. I am planning on going to a salon near my old apartment. I have never been there. I hope it still exists! If not, do I go back to my old salon? ::scary::

This past week I have started rolling my hair with hair rollers. (Is that the correct wording? LOL! sorry). Of course the curls don't last. But my hair does have an extra bounce (volume?) all day. You can tell that I did something with my hair but it isn't really curly. More wavy perhaps.

I've been reading about how other people deal with dreads and curls. Some people use setting lotion. I have never used that in my life. Will I have to wash it more if I use lotion? I dunno. I'm just thinking out loud. I don't want the curls to last for weeks. Honestly, I'm just sick of the frizz.

Oh yeah, I tried a braid-out. Did not work. My locks are simply to thick. I can't even braid 3 locks into one! Even the ones that used to be thin are getting thicker. Oh well.

Well today is a pretty day. Who know how many pretty days we have left until fall really sets in so I'm going to go outside and enjoy it.

tiny update

I did end up going to DC. I have pics but I haven't bothered to get them developed yet. I saw the White House for the very first time! Of course no one can believe that I've never been IN the White House. Um, hello I had never seen The White House until last month. There was so much security. I made sure to say good things about the president (LOL) while taking too many pics. I saw the snipers on the top of the building, ready to shoot so I was on my best behavior.

Hair update:
I washed and palm rolled this weekend. blah, blah. A few weeks ago a lady said to me, "Your hair is straight and that is why your dreads look that way." That way??? I just stared at her waiting for an explanation. She didn't offer one. I ASSUMED that a person would explain themselves. I guess a normal person would have said, "What way?" That didn't occur to me until later. Anyhow, I don't have naturally straight hair and I haven't had straight hair since I was probably around 12-14.

I think I made an enemy. (SHOCKER!!!) Now when she sees me she sighs. Oops, guess I made a social mistake. I still want to know what she meant by "that way".

Hair pics coming when I get my pics developed (along w/ lots of non-hair pics)

Strangers with locs

I saw three beautiful women with natural locs today. FYI, natural locks mean not sisterlocks. Nothing against them, in fact I love sisterlocks. Anyhow, I always want to ask people what they do with their hair. Do they use any products? Which ones? One lady had locs almost down to her ankles! How long did they take to grow that long? WOW. How many of these people go to a salon? How many of them do nothing but just wash? I would love to know but...

Random people have asked me questions about my hair and complimented me. I don't have much to say. They usually ask if I go to a salon. I always say, "Not anymore but I started out with a stylist."

I might have some more pictures this summer. I may be going to Washington DC. I have been to DC several times but it is hard to turn a DC trip down even if it is for less than 24 hours. So I may have a few pics from that trip if I go. One reason I don't want to go is because since I moved in April, I rarely have a free weekend. Today I worked overtime, worked on my lawn (so hot - 97 degrees!), and did my hair. Busy, busy, busy. I would love to sleep in just once. Oh well.

Today I palmrolled my hair in less than 2 hours. Go me! Yeah I washed and palmrolled my hair today. Very exciting.

Beach AKA My home

New photos here!

I really was taking pics of the beach so the hair photos aren't that great but this is the only update I will probably have for a while.

In Lowe's a guy who used to have dreads told me that I should get beach water on my hair to get rid of the frizzness (is that a word?). Ever since that moment, I've been determined to get to the beach despite the lack of funds. LOL. I don't know if it worked. I want to say it did...I washed it for the first time since the beach yesterday. And my hair was much less frizzy than it normally is BUT it is still frizzy.

I don't think i will be able to judge until I wash and palmroll. That takes 4 hours. So I'm not planning on doing that for another 2-3 weeks. Yes I will be rolling with pig tails! I can't stand palm rolling ALL my hair and it takes forever to dry.

Other than that I love my dreads and I wouldn't change a single moment of this journey (even the salon guy leaving me stranded).

New PICTURES - fianlly.

NEW PHOTOS.

NEW PHOTOS.


NEW PHOTOS.

NEW PHOTOS.

New pics soon?

Well I have taken pics of my hair. I need to get them developed ASAP for home owner's insurance reasons so I should have the pics soon. I got the cheapest disposable camera possible. LOL. Who knows how the pics will come out? I just need the pics of my house to come out...

I got a printer/scanner/copier for my birthday. Now I don't have to pay CVS $17 to scan them to a CD. I can scan them myself.

Recently I've been washing my hair ever week. I feel like I need to. I wouldn't mind if it didn't take forever to dry. I have to sit under a dryer to get my hair fully dry. Sometimes I use it for 1 hour and the back of my hair still isn't fully dry.

I am only doing maintenance (palmrolling, detangling) once every 5 weeks or so. I should probably detangle more (AKA popping) but I usually forget.

Hell Yeah!!!

I have my hair in two ponytails! SWEET!

LOL. I've always wanted to do this. Yes, I am the 20 something that likes pig tails. Will I ever be able to get it in one ponytail. I probably could right now but it wouldn't like right at all.

Anyway, I will probably have pics soon. I have to take pics of my house for insurance purposes (annoying %^$#), so I will probably have someone take a few of my hair. I wish I had a digital camera because the person I'm asking to take the pics, thinks it is very silly. I have to put up with that condescending crap just to get new hair pics.

Oh well.

weeeeeeeeeeee

Yay for the small things in life!

I can now wear half of my hair up. I have always hated wearing my hair down and now I don't have to anymore.

YAY!