New Journeys

Sunday, October 16, 2022 marked my youngest daughter’s one year loc-versary. To celebrate I baked her some brownies with chocolate frosting from scratch. The previous day my oldest daughter came to me and said that she wants to start her loc journey. I had to stop myself from getting too excited because my daughter is very fickle and she loves playing in her hair. She was frustrated when she announced this to me because she wasn’t getting a response from her hair braider and she’s getting tired of figuring out what to do with her hair. I get it. I was in the exact same spot five years ago before I locked my hair. To see how serious she was, I asked her questions like:

• Are you sure you’re ready for this commitment?
• How do you know you won’t get tired of the locs or the process and decide to do something else?
• Do you know what kind of locs you want?
• What size?
• How do you want to start them?
• What research have you done?

She had answers for all of my questions except for two of them. She showed me pictures from her loc board on Pinterest of the size of locs she wants (she wants traditional locs on the medium/large side), so she’s been giving this some thought. I told her that the next step would be to schedule a consultation with my loctician so she can see her hair and together they can figure out the best way to start her locs – comb coil, two strand twists, insta-locs, or interlocking. I told her how much it would cost so she can save her money and schedule a day for her installation.

I’m trying my best not to get too excited, y’all. Of course I’m over the moon happy that my oldest daughter wants to join the loc family, but I also know my child, lol! She can speak out of frustration one day and want to loc up her hair and then decide that she misses her loose natural hair the next day and comb out her locs. I’ll believe that she’s serious once she makes the appointment for her consultation and then make an appointment for her installation.

She’s watched me go through my sisterlock journey and now microloc journey, and she’s watched her younger sister go through her traditional loc journey. She knows what to expect and she’s seen us go through the loc stages with our different journeys. To me that’s a huge advantage to have. Whatever she decides I’ll support her either way. But I hope she joins the loc family so she can experience true hair freedom!