Call me vain, but I hate the gray. I am by no means ready to "grow old gracefully". I'm not even middle-aged yet! When I got my locs installed they told me I should either color right before installation or I would have to wait a year. A year! I thought I could stick it out, I didn't want any chemicals on my hair before installation (at this point henna hadn't even crossed my radar). Back in July I had colored dark brown and within a month my roots were bad. Tri-colored hair and I had colored right after I took my braids out! I've been artfully doing a side-part to hide the worst of it. But at my two-month tightening my loctitian made a random comment about the colors in my hair. The colors in my hair aren't nearly as pretty as the background. Last week I contacted my loctitian and didn't exactly beg, but was possibly persuasive enough that she gave me the go-ahead to use henna a week before my re-ti ( CAUTION!!!! This is not recommended...
That's not a typo.