Mature Locs

A few months back, I got a comment asking about how often you should retighten mature locs. I have responded several times as a comment but each time it would disappear whenever I hit enter. So this post is basically my response changed and edited a million times out of frustration.

How often you retighten your mature locs is completely up to you. If you want to stick with the four week schedule or drag things out by a few weeks, my recommendation is to stick to a six or eight week schedule.

Experiment and see what works for your hair type and tolerance level for looking a bit unkempt around the edges. My hair demands that I keep a four week schedule, so that is what I am sticking to. I very rarely extend that time unless I want to dedicate an additional evening (2 to 5 hours) to getting it all looking neat again.

Hope this helps.

I know it's short but there isn't much to say about this.

- The Loc Addict

Banned from Doing Hair

Life Updates!
1.  My locs look like locs now.
2.  My therapist has banned me from doing my own hair.
3.  My two year loc-aversary was June first.

No more self-retightening.

No more blowdrying or towel drying my hair myself.

No more time-consuming hairstyles created by me.

No more.

On the other hand, I feel a lot better.

Now before you start thinking I am mentally unstable or something like that, I am talking about my physical therapist.

Over the past two years, I have had shoulder pain on a regular basis. In late December, the pain became more frequent and in February, had intensified to the point that I could not sleep at night and could not remain in the office for more than three hours at a time.

I had to find a doctor who specialised in pain to get any answers. He told me I had tendonitis with referred pain, then a muscle spasm and finally, he landed at cervical spondylosis. Basically, I have arthritis - in my neck.

I have been going to physical therapy, changing my meds on a regular basis and have reduced the number of things I do with my affected shoulder. Progress is slow but it seems as though we have hit the right balance for now. Pain management is what we're focusing on and anything that may increase tension in my neck needs to be delegated to someone else.

I am not sure what to do now that my loc-aversary is coming up. On one hand, I was going to start showcasing simple styles but I can't do that now and just talking about the progress of my hair and length checks is not enough. I am open to suggestions but there is a chance that this will be my last blog entry.

Hope you've enjoyed this journey with me.

- The loc addict out.