Welcome back to another installment of a series dedicated to the first 12 months of your loc journey, yes the Growin' Pains. Melissa couldn't have been a more perfect candidate for this conversation. She came with the wisdom, the facts and the candor when it came to discussing starting locs a later in life– a very vibrant 37 to be exact. There's this red thread I've noticed among black women that locs are your final resort. Once you've reached a certain milestone or exhausted all your other salon options that then and only then is the time to loc it up. In our conversation Melissa reflects on fully and finally embracing her texture as her locs grew through quarantine–the nappy, soft and in between.