Its About That Time........................

Finally Renea has decided to LOC it up!!!!  I'm so excited for one I'm tired of wetting my hair and going outside with a wet head every day and I am ready for the locing process to begin!!!!

This will be my head on December 2nd during the process of twisting......

I hope my twists are this long...they may be  a bit shorter.  Anyway I am looking forward to the new process and I will blog about the process and put up a pic of my new look!!!!

LOC It or Not.......

Sorry its been almost 2 months since I started this blog and I have been slacking!  Well I'm just going to start with the recent updates.  I'm still natural, but I did some almost a week of wearing a wig....yes I went back to my wig for a minute.  I took the punk way out!  However I am BACK now!!!  My hair was being funky during that week and my normal product was not working!  Its funny because now that my hair is longer I am actually seeing my curl pattern more!  Its a tight draw back inside curl pattern, but I love it!  I also decided to color my hair!!!!  Friday I put on an orange/red color shirt and my hair matched!  UGH!!!!!!  That night I bought a dark burgundy/black color so I can mesh right into fall!  When I went to South Boston for funeral I received alot of compliments on my hair.  It has grown sooo much!  When I pull my curls out I can pull and twist them.  This leads me into my next cycle.............LOCS!!!

When I see the pretty curly, colored locs I become so jealous and eager!  I want them so bad!!!! 

Pretty right!!!!! 

I am going to a consultation this week to find out the price of starting locs and if I start them with my own hair first how long they will be.  I am very excited!!!!!  I will keep you informed!!! I promise!!!

6 Weeks in....................

Okay let's see....March 2008...after loosing over 100 pounds my thick, medium length, relaxed hair had become a thin sparse mess!  I can not stand thin hair and never wanted it.  The quick weight loss provided me that hair and a nicer figure soooooo I can live with that.  Well after discovering my hair was so thin I did what came natural....I cut it off!  It was a cute cut, but my hair texture had changed drastically.  My coarse, thick, but soft hair had become dry, hard, and unmanageable.  I was impatient to wait for my old hair to return.  Then I found out I was pregnant.  Wow...my thin hair became even drier and I am sure the relaxers didn't help.

Around 6 months of pregnancy.  I got micro braids.  My hair had begun to be "normal" again and grew a little, but it was still not my "normal" hair.  After I had my daughter I stop getting relaxers and started wearing wigs.  Wow the freedom of waking up and putting on an already done head of hair was great, but hot, and itchy!

The Wig Girl....

July 2010.....after wearing wigs, braids, and whatever else I could get my hands on I revealed my natural...kinky hair.  My hair was very uneven in length so I cut it off to even it out.  In doing that my hair just looked dry.  I had bought some "uncle funky's daughter curl pudding" to supposedly make my kinks curly.  The hair stylist I went to had never used the product before and didn't know how to....neither did I!  So I allowed her to do the next best thing....  She put a texturizer in my hair and colored it red!  The curls were still a little dry and not quite right but I figured once I got home I could spice it up.  When I looked at my hair in the sun it was BARNEY RED!!!!  I immediately bought some brown dye and recolored my hair.  It still has a red hue but with dark brown mostly.  

The Barney Red

Now I feel that my texturizer is bogus.  I can't wait to get my hair trimmed and be a true natural.  My next goal is locs.  I don't want to feel as though I HAVE to have curly looking hair to be beautiful.  I want to embrace my kinky and move on.  I want my mind and inner beauty to shine through and show that my hair DOES NOT define me!!!

Close Up of my Kinks.....

It's so funny to see some of my family who dare ask.....WHY!?!?!?  I'm usually the play it safe person.  They haven't said anything regarding my hair, how it looks, why did I do it anything!?!?!  Funny right!  It's better that way....I guess the saying if you can't say anything nice don't say anything at all right!  I feel great about myself.  Sometimes I look at some folks kinky curls and wish mine were bigger, but then I say...Hey they probably wish it was something about me that they had.  I love the skin I'm in....I love the hair on my head....I want my daughter, Chloe to appreciate her beautiful, black, thick, kinky curly hair!!!!

My Baby's Pretty Curls

The goal of my blog will be to discuss my hair journey.....Ready...Set....Go!!!!!! Ooops 6 weeks late but here it goes!!!