How Locs Changed My Life!

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These Locs really did their big one! As a girl who once associated her hair with identity and self-esteem, I am happy to be relieved of the shackles and the crisis it put me through 😫. I think for many black girls growing up hair is a big deal. Wanting to wear it straight or curly like the non POC girlies and then being crazy embarrassed when it would turn out otherwise. Our hair is just different plain and simple. For me however, I dealt with that on top of suffering from alopecia. I can go into this further in another post, but for now, I was already dealing with not being able to do certain styles, now I really couldn’t do certain styles. I was limited (still am just not as much) because my hair would break off. It ended up worse due to stress, tension, heat and overloading products. As a kid, my mom and grandma would also perm my hair. It wasn’t until end of middle school into college where I would still get silk press but naturally. I didn’t do a big chop because I was natural for so long without it, I would just get trims every time I got my hair did. At this point I was taking care of my hair, even with heat, and I grew my hair the longest it had been. Anywho, into my adult years, I stopped putting heat in my hair all together and I was doing either ponytails, braids, or wigs. This only made my alopecia worse. In addition to not having a healthy base, my hair was falling out and breaking off again, but worse. That brings me to about a year and a half ago, my close friend had put me on to thinking about locing my hair since she had been loc’d for time. It was either going bald or locs… I chose locs. By the grace of God and trusting the process I am here now. I can honestly say its one of the best decisions I have ever made for myself.

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I have been loc’d in for a Year. I hit 2 years in August of ‘25. I have to recount my locs and ill get back to yall on the count, but my locs are currently sitting just above shoulder length✨

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