When your hair gets caught in the middle

Sometimes the blahs can take over your hair. I went about 2 months not doing a darn thing to my hair. No re twist, nothing.
Whoa Nelly!!!

Well I did style it when I needed to, but I just didn't feel like putting in a whole lot of effort.



Those styles only required I re twist about three locs in the front at the most and the rest of them was like the first picture. The styles do require bobbie pins but it's really simple to do. Just twist the hair around itself and pin. You can pin as you go along in places that look right until you have put up all of your hair. I've done it with just the top half or all of the locs. The back of my head takes a minute to really become poofy in the roots but in the front my hair is very straight so that hair wiggles out of the loc as soon as it can. For that reason I usually re twist my hair every two weeks so for me to go from that to nada was a trip. It actually made me question if our journey was coming to an end. Was I experiencing the seven year itch? Most of the locers I know cut them off within the 7-10 year time line. I had always said that I wasn't going to do that but there I was feeling very apathetic about my hair.
I considered:
Cutting them
Picking them out
Dying them black
Cutting a.bout 12" off
I would feel really gung ho about all of these options, but a couple hours later I was back to the blahs. I talked to a good friend of mine and they said don't cut your hair out of frustration because you are sure to regret it. Cut it when its time to cut it. You will know....not interpreting your actions to see if it's time to cut. With those words of wisdom I decided not to cut it, but I still wasn't feeling like doing my hair, so I went and got someone to do it for me!


So she re twisted them without pins and braided them as she went along. I sat under the dryer for 30 minutes max and she cris crossed the plaits in a style for me. I kept the plaits in for 3 days and viola!

Pretty crinkles!

Now I love my hair again! LOL I use to do this style a lot probably 3 years ago but just stopped for some reason. It's a very simple way to wash re twist and keep it moving! I think crinkles will be around for a minute now with variations of my up dos for spice. Sometimes you need some good words and lil push to appreciate what you have. I share these lil random things cause I know some of the newbie locers go through times of wandering if they are doing the right thing or if they should even be locing at all, it's a natural part of the process even for a ole head like me!

Peace, Love, & Namaste,
Shawnta