Ixchel- Journey to Natural Locks 2 years 9 months!

The beginning

Natural strawberry blonde ~ 4/5 henna 1/5 indigo 25g alma ~ 2/3 henna 1/3 indigo

1 month

2 months

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4 months

5 months

6 months

6 months & 20 days my first knot, first loop!!! <3

7 months

8 months

Progressing slowly but lovely <3

9 months

10 months

11 months

1 Year! ( photo spam on page 7 )

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2 years!

2 years 4 months

2 years 9 months

updated by @ixchel: 11/12/15 07:06:37AM

I think it's interesting that your hair looks smoother in the 3 month mark...

But great progress love! You have some seriously obvious sectioning going on. Anything happening in there that we can't see in the pictures?

thank you! I think so too

And_G said:

cool timeline, it'scoming along nicely:)

I think it's because most of my photos are right before washing, that 3 month one is after a fresh wash. They always puff up & look like nothing again right after a wash. Then after sleeping on them a night they start to look like my nice sections again

I thought i had a knot, but the section split in half & then went to loose hair again...so I don't know what that was all about lol. I was able to actually keep a few beads in for a couple days & it looked like it was going to start looping at the roots or something, but then wash day & it disappeared. It's fun to watch the little changes like that tho. I can feel some tighter sectioning on the underneath, I know it just wants to knot in there, pretty soon I bet we'll be seeing some bigger movements. It's all just building up to make a huge entrance

as soon as i get a loop or picture noticeable knotting i'll be spamming it all up in here <3

Valrie said:

I think it's interesting that your hair looks smoother in the 3 month mark...

But great progress love! You have some seriously obvious sectioning going on. Anything happening in there that we can't see in the pictures?

Lol! I am at 3 months and in this past month I saw some reverse progress as well as some awesome looping on others. It's so interesting watching because my hair's temperament matches my own :P

I will be thinking loopy thoughts for you and can't wait to see them crop up. :D

Ixchel said:

I think it's because most of my photos are right before washing, that 3 month one is after a fresh wash. They always puff up & look like nothing again right after a wash. Then after sleeping on them a night they start to look like my nice sections again

I thought i had a knot, but the section split in half & then went to loose hair again...so I don't know what that was all about lol. I was able to actually keep a few beads in for a couple days & it looked like it was going to start looping at the roots or something, but then wash day & it disappeared. It's fun to watch the little changes like that tho. I can feel some tighter sectioning on the underneath, I know it just wants to knot in there, pretty soon I bet we'll be seeing some bigger movements. It's all just building up to make a huge entrance

as soon as i get a loop or picture noticeable knotting i'll be spamming it all up in here <3

Valrie said:

I think it's interesting that your hair looks smoother in the 3 month mark...

But great progress love! You have some seriously obvious sectioning going on. Anything happening in there that we can't see in the pictures?

it's sooo crazy how much progress you have! i keep thinking you are way further in than 3 months lol. looking awesome either way!

thanks!

Valrie said:

Lol! I am at 3 months and in this past month I saw some reverse progress as well as some awesome looping on others. It's so interesting watching because my hair's temperament matches my own :P

I will be thinking loopy thoughts for you and can't wait to see them crop up. :D

They are looking so nice to fast!!! Awesome!!

What do you do to yours formaintenance? I know we've talked about this before but my memory sucks :P

what are u wahing with maybe a change there will help

they sure look like they are trying hard but keep stepping backwards must be a way to lesebn the backwards stepping

maybe try some hair wraps if beads wont stay just till u get a base knot going once the roots are starting to dread u can remove em

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all i do is wash & air dry. some days i throw in a bead or wrap. i will separate once the need arises

MamaKittyLove said:

They are looking so nice to fast!!! Awesome!!

What do you do to yours formaintenance? I know we've talked about this before but my memory sucks :P

i use the lockin up liquid, or baking soda (i've tried the paste suggestion panterra gave to butterfly a few times too). I have a bar too but i've only used it like twice since they are babies.

even with the back stepping i can notice forward progression, just slowly

i stopped using my hemp to wrap because of the weird black spot that i had gotten, i think the hemp must have been "polished hemp" (WAXED!!!) so some of the wax must have left that bit of residue. I purchased some embroidery thread & some new smaller beads tho so now it's on!!!

wrapping some up today <3

soaring eagle said:

what are u wahing with maybe a change there will help

they sure look like they are trying hard but keep stepping backwards must be a way to lesebn the backwards stepping

maybe try some hair wraps if beads wont stay just till u get a base knot going once the roots are starting to dread u can remove em