Baking a bun

Hello!

Bun

You may have noticed that I have had a bit of a hiatus where this blog is concerned. There is a very good reason behind it mind you and can be summed up by my recent case of 'bunintheovenitis'. Yes, a little one is on the way.....  Sadly, Powerplate parked up for a time now......

I have to say that this time round, the morning sickness has been an absolute killer, causing me to vomit everyday for almost a whole 3 months, coupled with serious nausea, extreme tiredness, food aversions, heightened and altered sense of smell (everything has been stinking everywhere I go!) plus an aversion to chocolate of all things!! The summer heat has made things all the worse, especially the journey to and from work on packed stifling buses, with the burning heat, stinky perfumes, sweat and B.O invading every pore of my body and making the nausea 10x worse! Ah, it's been awful!

Only now am I beginning to feel a little bit human again. I felt like I was in a deep, dark pit of despair. Only now am I able to start thinking about the joys of another little bubba.

Baby!

The experience has really made me think about how we all take feeling 'normal' for granted and how when that balance is upset, it can really change your whole outlook on life. I've been feeling absolutely miserable, and I know my temperament and moods have been all over the place (my poor family, sorry guys!). I really feel for people with chronic pain or conditions which mean they just don't feel right. I had a little taste of feeling really crap for a time and it's not something I want to ever experience again!

Anyway, now that I'm feeling a little better, I felt compelled to provide a bit of an update on my hair.

The hair
 

A while back I mentioned that I was having issues with some of my locs after starting the retightenings myself. I visited my consultant so she could have a look and she reckoned that I hadn't been doing the retightenings properly - hence why some of my locs were developing holes - arrrrrgggghhhhh!!!. I did have a feeling that something wasn't quite right and did think that my hand positioning maybe was the cause of the retightening pattern getting messed up. I had been shown how to do a 3pt rotation, which I thought I was doing very competently, only for issues to rear their ugly head a few months down the line.

Dreaded holey loc!

My consultant's preferred suggestion was for me to start again.....

Now, this option left me completely shocked as I have already invested so much time, effort and money (yes, the beginnings were flaming expensive!) into my hair. Why on earth would I simply say 'oh well, let me just chop off all my hair'?!?

Secondly, I don't think the 'issues' left my hair unsalvageable, plus, my locs still looked good regardless.....

It was time to do some quick thinking and follow my mind and gut feelings (best policy in my experience).

I left my consultant with the alternative suggestion that I just let my hair grow out and see what's what after a few months or so (in my head thinking how on earth am I going to allow my hair to just grow free without any retightening? I still have to go to work and out and about. I would probably end up with a bit of free form going on! I don't think so).

I have to say though, that the 3pt rotation had bothered me slightly from the start as it seemed to make it all too easy for me to make a mistake and go through the same hole twice, which is what I must have been doing on occasion, hence the holes forming! Thankfully, I already had the 4pt rotation in mind from my days of researching Sisterlocks on the web and it was what I always had in mind as my preferred method after watching videos etc of others who followed it when doing their own retightenings.

It was a bit of a slog going through my entire head and trying to rectify some of the mistakes by cutting, twisting, plaiting and joining! But, I think my saviour from the moment I tried it was the 4pt rotation!! Hallelujah! I could see the difference (for the better) immediately and it seems to present less opportunity for mistakes. 

Loc I managed to fix using a combination of  twisting the regrowth and the 4pt rotation

What a little right to left, bottom to top, left to right and top to bottom can do. By the looks of things it has saved me from another big chop, even though I had to experience near disaster, with a few locs lost on the way, to eventually appreciate it. 

They do say you live and learn. I certainly know my hair a LOT better now.