New Color

Yesterday I went back to Natural Vybz to use my LivingSocial deal and get a color.  What do you think?

Before they started

Sectioned hair

Three layers of color.

Do you see the patch around my hairline that didn't get any color?

Yeah, I know that's a lot of pictures.

When I went for my consultation, we settled on three colors - copper, red, and purple. That's how it's layered on my head.  Shanna, the colorist, said that over time the copper will lighten, but how light it will go varies.  I guess we'll see what happens.  Oh yeah, remember the $35 I had to pay for the consultation?  That was a deposit towards to actual service. Awesome!  The total price for the three colors was $65. They used CHI brand in case you were wondering.

I feel like this post doesn't flow great, but at least I got the important information out.

Oh.  Another thing.  Shanna recommended deep conditioning since my hair is colored.  That works out because Loc'd Life did a post recently on conditioning.  Time to re-read it.

Well Hello Stranger

Most natural black women don't like their hair to be touched.  I am no exception.  Mainly because you don't know me that well and I don't understand why you feel the need.  I did grant an exception to this allowance while in Mexico.  On a tour of some Mayan ruins, an Indian woman was quite captivated by my hair and asked to touch it.  I think it was her genuine curiosity, lack of English, and the chance for a photo which made me give in:

I'm not sure which was more intriguing to her, the texture of my hair or the color.  An Indian colleague of mine told me that in India the hair color I was currently rocking was achieved using a plant (not henna) and he wanted to know how I did mine.  I felt honored to be this woman's first exposure to locs and hoped it was a good one for her.

2 Years Loc'd

My locs turned two in Mexico.  It was interesting.  Last year, I went and got it done.  This year what was the point?  I pretty much just did a regular styling:

2 years

As pleased as I was with the growth in length, I couldn't help notice...

...my "bald" patch isn't looking any better.  In the  Natural Hair Challenge 2014 newsletter for February, they talked about thinning hairlines.  One recommendation was "combine a few drops of either peppermint oil, tea tree oil, sage essential oil or pumpkin seed oil with a 2 tablespoons of  olive oil or whipped Shea butter and Vitamin E.  Use this on your hairline everyday for several months." Since I have some of these ingredients, I'm going to try this and hope it works out better than the Jamaican Black Castor Oil which caused build up on my scalp and made it gross.  

So when I first got my locs, they looked like this:

A year later:

Two years later:

I just need to be patient and eventually, my hair will cover my boobs.