Yep. I was never as scared in my life. And I've cracked my chin open falling off a 6 foot terraced wall in a kids backyard when I was younger, chopped of bits of my thumb at work, and burned my hands to oblivion (also at work).
for my first set, I got the same advice as you, unfortunately I listened and after the 2 months my hair literally melted off my scalp. I'm talking as soon as it hit water I didn't even touch it with my hands yet and it was falling out in clumps. For a moment I felt like I was going through chemo therapy. It was the scariest thing of my life. And I've had some bad falls and accidents. Nothing compared to this.
I had to shave what little was left of my hair and start over from scratch. At least there wasn't any permanent damage to my scalp and the new hair grew in just fine
Well, what you can't see in my pics is that it looks like I have a bunch of locks, but I have really combined them into 12 bigger locks. I need to wait til those roots grow out a little more before I can do anything cool like that
That's probably true. The fewer locks I have the neater the braid would look. I'd got 12 mature locks now and 4 more short babies growing in
I love the picture of the girl on the last page with her locks in a braid. If mine were long enough and thin enough I'd do something like that once in a while.
Good job
Exactly. The salt water from the bay will help them form faster by drying them out. Humidity will slow the process down a ton.
Well if the roots are loose, then it's just a matter of a few weeks more, maybe a month till they start to tangle and that part will disappear.
gotcha. That's probably due to either them being too short, still. Or that your roots are too tight. How did you start growing your locks? When I first started mine, and had bands at the roots for a little while, I had that same discomfort on the front locks. As your roots loosen and grow out, that pain will go away
Yeah, as you wash and dry and get messy, they will move around and suck in hairs that are on different parts of your head. It'll disappear really quickly. Wearing a tam once in a while will help this along faster, but it's notnecessary.
What do you mean that you can't put your hair up right now?
Wool helps, but like Eagle said it'll cause tons of frizzies. Plus it's really warm in the summer. If you want, you could just get a normal cotton pillow case, but something like 200 count thread. That'll be comfy, and rough enough that it'll cause some knotting without making your head into a puff ball.
I started mine 5 years ago not knowing about this site (if it's even been around that long). I just went with my gut, which happened to lead me to do practically nothing. And 5 years later I couldn't be happier. Of course there are things you can do to speed up the process, but none of it will help you grow locks any better than another. Locks will grow no matter what you do to them
