My Loc Journey

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It has officially been eight months (May 2013) since I began my loc journey and so far it’s been very interesting. I’ve actually gone through some emotional states of being while going through this process.

I’ve always been very intrigued by locs throughout my life, and had family members that had them. It didn’t hit me until I was in college that I said to myself, I want to do that. At that time, I was still getting my hair permed but never made the transition. It wasn’t until I left home after college and moved away, that I felt the innate sense of shedding a part of myself and being reborn in another form. So I made the soulful decision to grow out my perm and be who I was born to be initially in this life. I shed oneself and became another, and we all go through transitions within our life’s journey until me pass on to the other life. I embraced my hair for quite a while with the other loc self being in the background coming out every once in a while to speak to my soul. It took my years to finally embrace the voice and do what I needed to do.

All of our hair is different and I wasn’t sure because my hair is naturally curly, if it would take some time to dread or not so I went into this a slight bit concerned. Why? Because that was what I was reading on internet and a part of me didn’t want to go through with this and fail. I also didn’t want to go through the awkward stage of the loc process, so I decided to get used to having them I would two-strand twist my hair. That is what I did and had them for months and then I was ready.

So I had a friend give me a good hair treatment and get them retwisted, and then my other friend did my palm rolling once a month. I had a period in which I had been told that my parts were larger and that they should be smaller, and had contemplated getting them redone.

As I thought about it I decided that this is my loc journey and that I’m happy with them so why change.

So I have kept them the way they are, and yes it is a process because your hair has different stages to go through. I’ve asked many questions of people that know, how does it look, should I get them redone, are they to many spaces etc.

They all reassure me that they will evolve you have to be patient with the process. So I’m giving it up to my hair for teaching me to just let be!