Thumbs Up from Loctician...

Well, dodged a bullet I guess. I just got my hair re-tightened and the loctician said I had a bit of slippage but the locs looked just fine. YAY!

Shrinkage is over now that I'm all tightened up. I still want to dabble in color again one day. But I think I'll stick to my natural hue or close to it. My main goal is just to cover up the grey. I'm not and never will be Beyonce!

2 years, 5 months.

Survived another loc disaster...

 So, you all have read about my lice issue a year and a half ago. Never, did I think I was in danger of losing my locs. Until two days ago when I made the fatal mistake of coloring my hair and then getting highlights. Yeah, the bad kind with bleach. Oh, the drama. Long story short, the beautician was recommended and said she had worked with sisterlocs before (I didn't think she had, but I did find out that she had prepared a lady with sisterlocks for her wedding). She definitely seemed to know locs. But she underestimated MY locs. She saw my thick hair and believed it would take a long time for the color to "take". Oh, how wrong she was. I was getting my hair brown with the highlights being about two shades lighter than my natural hair.


I began to worry when she was rinsing in the bowl and this boy walked by and said, "Why is her hair yellow." Whoa, nelly. YELLOW??? We didn't talk about yellow. We talked about brown. So yeah, here's what I saw...

I CRIED AND I CRIED AND I CRIED. I just sat in the parking lot crying, cursing myself out for being so reckless. The ends were fried. And it was just ....YUCK! She was juggling me and two other heads. She just left it on too long.

But she had said I could come back and she would repair it. That was today. I walked around with a scarf for TWO DAYS. True to her word, she fixed it. The picture below is this afternoon. The picture above his how I looked this morning. I have some slippage so it's not as long as it was before.

So, I survived. Albeit, my ends are a little tattered. I will probably have to trim them a little. But the locs themselves managed to survive the madness. Thank goodness I didn't bleach the entire head.Lesson learned. Just color the grey and move on. I think I was lucky. It could have been much worse.

Just had to share with my loc friends. If you're thinking about getting highlights. DON'T DO IT.

Shari

The Day Before I Color...

So I'm FINALLY going to do it. I have an appointment at a salon to get my hair colored. I've never colored my locs before. To say I'm nervous is an understatement. It's scary. But I decided to go with a professional because I just have too much darn hair to take it on myself. This beautician hasn't worked with sisterlocks, but she has worked with locs. Let's just hope I still have locs after it's all over!

So here is the before photo...