- Eight months locked.
Take two.
Am I, yeah, I'm rolling on it.
Take two.
So it's officially been eight months
since I started locking my hair.
You can check out the full journey in the Eye of Sauron.
So yeah, a few things have changed,
a few things have changed this month.
I actually retouched my hair for y'all
so I went through it over the last two nights
and reinterlocked my hair.
One thing I will say about interlocking
is it's a little more tedious
but you don't have to do it as often.
I tried to go back to my previous videos
and figure out when was the last time
I had actually interlocked my hair
and I couldn't figure it out.
So I wanna say it's been at least two months,
probably three, it could be four
and now that it is retouched, there's more movement
because there's movement so that's cool
and I'm also getting to feel the length,
the length that I'm at now
because I had that much new growth
that after I finished retouching everything, I was like,
oh, it's longer.
My hair's legitimately longer now.
I've kind of left the cute pixie stage and now,
but I'm not quite into a bob stage
so I'm just kind of at prepubescent boy right now
which is awkward.
This is something I remember from my first journey
being at this length and it was just like,
it's not long enough to put it up.
You just kinda just have just like
just boy mop thing going on for a while.
So yeah, that's what's going on.
Another thing that has changed
is I think in the last video
I showed you all my wash routine
and how I use Head and Shoulders and things like that
and that has changed.
I don't use Head and Shoulders anymore.
This past month, I have been experimenting
with just using Alaffia's African Black Soap bar
on my entire body.
So to move away from hair for a second
and just rap with y'all about where I'm at mentally
in my life.
I've been kind of like for the last six months or so,
I've been leaning more towards a minimalistic mindset,
a minimalistic point of view not only in my hair care
but just trying to be more minimalistic
in my life in general.
With my hair care, something that always has bothered me
is the fact that I couldn't just use one thing
to wash myself, my entire body
and with the African Black Soap, that's what I do now.
I use that Black Soap bar to clean my scalp,
clean my hair, clean my face.
I'm working on updating y'all on my skincare regimen
because yo, I don't know if y'all noticed
but for the past four months, my skin has been wack.
My skin has been trash.
I'm working on it though
and then using the African Black Soap
to wash my body as well.
At first, it was a little rough.
For the first two weeks, I mean, for my body it was fine
but for my hair, it was a little rough
for the first two weeks
because when you're going from something
as intense as Head and Shoulders
to something like really organic essentially,
there's gonna be some bounce back,
there's gonna be some blowback
and you hear this a lot with people
that go from using shampoos regularly
to going towards water only washing.
They try a water only washing regimen for a while.
Your body has been overcompensating
with the amount of sebum it's been producing
because you're using such a harsh chemical to wash your hair
and so once you stop doing that,
your body's still overcompensating
and it's gonna take a while for it to balance back out
to what it should actually be
and that's essentially what happened to me.
It took about two weeks
and I had obscene amounts of sebum on my hair.
I was having to stand under the shower
and really get it to just spread and come down
and part of that is also because I do have
a bit of a scalp condition
where the sebum I produce in general is just very thick
and it can't get off of my scalp
which is why buildup is always something I'm conscious of
but with the Head and Shoulders,
I just felt like I had been using it two times a week
mostly because I was trying to be proactive
and combating any issues I could possibly have
from working out so consistently
that I think I kind of overdid it
and so that was what made me shift
to the African Black Soap only
and that's what I'm using now
and my hair is thanking me for that.
My scalp's still a little upset.
I'm not holding out and saying
that I won't use Head and Shoulders
once a month or something like that
but for now, my scalp seems to be okay with it
and my hair seems to be very happy with it.
The Head and Shoulders even though I diluted it,
it still would be very harsh
and it was still really hard
to get my hair back to a good moisture level
after I washed it and by the time I did,
it was time to wash it again.
So now that I've moved to something a little more mild
like the African Black Soap which is soap.
African Black Soap cleans your head, it cleans.
It's just not too stripping but it's intense.
It's a strong soap
and my hair is maintaining moisture.
The shafts in my hair are maintaining moisture
a lot better now.
And that's pretty much it.
I'm using Alaffia's African Black Soap on my hair.
I finally retouched it 'cause I needed to
to get it just ready for the new year.
Happy Chrismahanukwanzakah.
If you don't celebrate anything during this time of year,
happy winter solstice to you.
Blessings to you all in the new year.
I'm pretty sure this is the last video of the year for me
so I'll see y'all in 2017.
Amen?
Amen.
I'll see you when I see you.
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