This has been the longest week ever and not just because I have to make myself stop touching my hair. It's the week of the summer intensive program and it has been plagued with rain so to make sure my hair didn't get wet I kept it under a head wrap the last four days. I probably didn't need it today but I wasn't feeling fluffing out my hair. I'm going to need to come up with a back up plan for the coils around the nape of my neck cause they are not about that life right now. I fixed one and it was like good looking out. The rest are slipping--which I have heard is normal but still--along the hairline. There are only a few though so all things considered my hair is holding up relatively well. You can't really see the parts at this stage and I'm ok with that. My scalp was feeling hella exposed for the first few days. The longer starter locs feel pretty solid and like they are going to chill into their next evolution. The shorter ones are about 50/50 and then there's the aforementioned nape hair.
My scalp isn't as itchy now either. If I don't think about itchy scalp it tends to not flare up. Even when I do it's something that can usually be resolved with a spot scratch here and there. I'm going to try to stay up on documenting this process even if I don't post about it weekly I'll try to take photos. For one thing I'm curious about how this will look over time. But honestly I wanna be more mindful about my hair while I technically do less to it. A few days ago I had a dream that I woke up and just combed it all out but I don't have plans to do that. For now I just wanna keep it looking and feeling healthy for the next few weeks. Retwist is already scheduled for three weeks from now but got an out of town trip that may push it up a week if I don't like how my hair is feeling when I get back. I'm not sure why that would bother me really cause I'm not going to do much besides be somewhere with a completely different climate for this time of year.
Here are the one week photos
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