I had worn everything from perms to blonde coloring in my hair. I was tired of spending all Of my hard earned money for someone to constantly damage my hair and scalp and sometimes It was me who applied the chemicals to my hair to keep it looking a certain way. I finally got tired of seeing my hair slip down the drain every time I put a comb to it. I decided that I was done with putting chemicals in my hair and felt my hair needed to breathe. I was wearing a short curly style for a while and later moved on to an afro which my husband kept tapered. I had seen many people with locks and wondered how to get them. I tried doing it myself by twisting it around my fingers and to my surprise, I had formed a small cylinder shaped coil and thought that it would look good all over. I completed my whole head and thought it looked great but as the months went by; my hair still had not locked. I was getting frustrated because my hair is fine and curly and I had been told that it would take a long time to lock. I was fed up and decided after a whole year of wearing my hair in this natural style, that it was taking too long so I stood in the shower and washed them out. After I washed them out, I wore my hair natural for a while and went right back to wearing a perm. A lot of people were shocked and some agreed that I should have taken them out. After I put the perm back in my hair, I started seeing more and more people with locs and I saw how healthy their hair looked and how proud they were of their hair. I told myself that obviously this is not something that you get instantly, it is going to be a challenge for me because of the type of hair I have so I cut all of the perm out of my hair (about six inches) once again and re-twisted it. I began to do some research about locs and how to care for them. Some people grow locs for religious purposes and cover them in public, some grow them as a trend, some grow them to rebel…. I grew them because I knew that I could be patient and god would bless me with a healthy head of locs. Growing locs is a journey and takes some time to acquire. I learned that when I was rushing And not really realizing that patience is an important factor in locking, god did not feel I was Ready and did not bless me with them the first time around. I now have a head full of 4 inch Locs with little curly ends and I love it!! I just can’t stop touching it. It’s the best thing I could ever do for my hair and you can do it too!!!
Happy Locking!!!
Kendra |
