Four months gone by

Hats off to me, it's my 4th month in my locks journey. Am not seeing much difference from the photos I took last month but vmy hair has grown and it has a little more volume. The back is locking nicely while the front is taking its time. The colour of my hair is changing after every wash; I'll just have to wait to colour it after my locks have settled.

The dandruff is still a nuissance but it doesn't itch at all; so I don't take any notice of it and I try not to finger my scalp or scrape off the dand with my a comb.

They say, you are what you eat, so I try to eat alot of fruits and veggies and drink lots of water; so hopefully a good diet will reward me with a dandruff-free scalp and healthy hair. I'd actually like to become vegetarian but the few times I've tried I was miserable. Am like cousin lion who if deprived of meat becomes extremely angry. A colleague once made a crude statement that an Africans have a strong body ordour like lions because they eat alot of meat. That was so out of order but I took it with a grain of salt and let it pass. Too many people out of sheer ignorance or stupidity come out with senseless comments and they're not worth the energy. Mind you cousin lion remains strong and slim on his meat diet.

Nice in Nice

I took a short 4-day vacation to Nice, south of France and it was absolutely wonderful. I shrugged off all the stress as I left Paris to Nice Ville on the TGV. It was a long 6 hours train ride but it was worth it although the hot weather in Nice made it quite difficult to do much.

I hadn't planned on going swimming but my friend convinced me to pick up a bikini on the way to the beach. It took me quite a while before I dropped my towel and took a plunge into the cold sea. Molst beaches in Nice are quite stoney and that was very uncomfortable. I was cautious not to get my locks wet so I tied them up with a scrunchy and they didn't budge.

We went to Monte Carlo and visited the Jardin Exotic on a cliffside with an extraordinary view of Monaco and the French and Italian Rivieras. The garden has over a thousand species of cacti. I also went into the observatory grotto at the foot of the garden's cliff with subterranean concretions of all shapes and sizes - very impressive indeed. Am abit of a coward so my heart was in my mouth while descending deeper and deeper. I kept thinking, what if... So I sent a text message to one of my sisters just in case... Survival in such a place would be nil!

But gosh, people in Monaco are so rich - they're living a mini paradise life.

Cannes was also nice with the rich and lots of exotic shops that I didn't dare enter especially the fact that I was wearing flip flops and looked so plain. It reminds me of how Julie Roberts in Pretty Woman and how she was snabbed by sales assistants because of her look - well I didn't want that happening to me and I didn't want to get annoyed and ruin my vacation.

Eh voilà.

The only way is Up

Sometimes in life we go through aches and pains and find no answers or solutions to whatever is bothering us. You want to give up, to let go of everything and run away to a place far away where no one can find you. That is life, with its many ups and downs. But we have to learn to pick ourselves up and face our fears and grow up.

So whenever we face trying situations, let's not crumble and crawl into bed like invalids but let's look up to the sky because up there is beautiful, where the sun shines and God's glory reveals itself.

Three months gone by...

So here I am three months later.

The other day a lady from Guadeloupe stopped me and asked me about my hair. I was quite surprised coz I have often caught black women staring at my hair but no one had the gall to ask me what I'd done. Anyway, I took my time to chat about my hair journey to the curious lady but when she heard about the London-Paris-London trip she quickly said oh la la, c'est trop compliquer!

Three and a half months after installation my locks are settling in well and am pleased. No slippage, no nothing. Sometimes I walk past women with beautiful weaves and braids and I feel nostalgic. I used to have some of the most extravagant hairdos and I miss all that. But I know that in a couple of years I'll be rocking my hair like 'em sisters who started locking years ago and have hair reaching their back!

I enjoy washing my hair coz after's when I really notice the change. My scalp doesn't show anymore which means it's thickening.

Initially my scalp used to itch like crazy but not anymore except for the dandruff. I've tried every kind of shampoo, but nothing's helpeed so far. So I've just decided to live with it and pretend all is well.