So i've been away for awhile trying to get some order to my life. In doing so i've learned quite a bit.
- There is a reason people retighten their hair in sections over a period of time.
- OCD, I am.
- What I see is not what others see.
- It's not that serious!!
Okay, so after retightening my hair in my last post I was excited and proud of my accomplishment. Well, that all came with a HEFTY price. Because I had decided I would complete my hair over a period of 2 days, a issue I have because what many would call my OCD characteristic, my body suffered from it. You see I feel if you start something you must keep going until it is complete. This has kept me awake many a night to finish a project. I must see results to call it a day. I know now how insane I was. I later suffered from a very stiff neck. The pain was excruciating. Fortunatly, I had some left over mucle relaxers from a previous injury and had massage training to work it out. I was in the middle of completing the retightening and having a discusion with my sister, we were walking the track, yes I sad walking the track, OCD, when she just came right out and said there is nothing wrong with your hair. To me it just wasn't good enough. If I could I would remove my scalp and lay it out in front of me to make sure what I was completing was perfect. Somehow I don't think i'll feel satisfied until I have someone walk me throught it that I feel is also a perfectionist. I'm learning, learning, learning, to relax and just let it be. Until it really bugs the crap out of me. :)
Since my hair has grown since my last retightening I have to get more photos up. I'm really surprised at how fast it's growing! I don't know why because it always has since i've been natural. My only issue was I was tired of trying to figure out what to do with it. So I would just cut it off and start the process over. Any who pictures coming soon!
P.S.
If you hear popping while someone is retightening your hair take heed this warning, too many rotations. I figured this out after I had my hair retightend professionally. When I decided to retighten my own hair there was so much fuzzy hair that was too short to be caught. You can probably tell in the last photos. It was because my hair had so much breakage. Now I have to work to maintain my broken hair. It will grow back!! Remember headache=damaged hair.
3 comments:
I so agree at my last re-tight the pulling and popping and the pain was just ouch that's one reason I decided to try my hand at DIY, I think the Sl tool is horrible, I had a headache for days
I don't know if it's the tool or the user. Each person has their own method to handling the tool.
I'm so glad you posted this. Headache definitely = damaged hair. My SLs were 'installed' in April and I have lost 2 of them already and several others are hanging by a thread due to the damaged hair from being done too tightly.
In some of your other posts you mention 'repairs' - can you say more about how this is done?
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