these loc knots….
i remembered how great it was to have short hair for a while.
i remembered the compliments i got on the new style.
i remembered the cute curls i got once i took them out.
….i forgot how horribly itchy they were! ughhhhh i’m dyyyying…..and remembering why i took them out so soon the last time !!!>_<!!!
if anyone has any suggestions on how to remedy this, i’m seriously all ears. i’m sure a large part of the issue is just the contact between the coarse texture of my locs and my scalp, but i don’t know how to get the kind of moisture/smoothness that could fix that problem. the plan was to leave them in for two weeks, but i’m not sure i can take this for more than another night.
another miserable night of rubbing my head and trying to sleep on my face…
my mother’s black Christmas angels
yesterday i began a photo album as joking documentation of my mother’s addiction to black Christmas angels. while it’s been a good laugh and has prompted my mother to finally say that 46 black angels may be as many as our house can hold, the album has also brought a number of people out from the woodwork, saying, “my mother has been dying to get some black angels for our house. where does your mother find them?”
i asked my mom, and i gave answers to those who asked, but i am still struck by the fact that there is a real demand for something that in my house has been taken for granted and even treated as superfluous. so i decided to share the wealth with tumblrville, in case any of you, or your mothers, have been dreaming of a black Christmas :)
she stays on the lookout pretty much everywhere she goes, and observes that high quality angels seem to be getting more scarce, but her most frequent suppliers have been:
Walmart
Michaels
Amazon.com
JoAnn Fabrics
The Dollar Store (seriously)
Burlington Coat Factory
…and she’s gotten at least two from Rite Aid.
I’m sure this not an exhaustive list. Have you spotted a beautiful black angel somewhere?
