I let it go almost 8 weeks!

Yikes! Do I need to get a retighten! I never let it go this long. It feels like when I used to get my hair relaxed and I let it go just a week or so too long. It's gonna be painful but I will take my advil and let my consultant wreak havoc on my tender scalp! :/

Considering sisterlocks? Jot this down!

When I first was looking into sisterlocks, like most sistas, I couldn't get enough of the blogs. I wanted to know everything. But most of all, I wanted to see pictures. What would my hair look like in a year, two years, five years! Pinterest is a bonanza of photos for the curious. I am not sure how many Pinterest spots there are, but collectively there have to more thousands of images. If you're a newbie or someone who is considering getting sisterlocks, you won't want to miss this. 

Here's a link:
https://www.pinterest.com/search/boards/?q=sisterlocks

Pros/Cons of Sisterlocks -- just a few more to add to the list on Clutch

Did you happen to catch the article on Clutch about the pros and cons of sisterlocks? (Here's a link: http://bit.ly/PIWcSk). They hit all the main points so I won't bother to repeat them here. But there are a few I think they missed:

Pros
1) Great for the style-challenged: I have never been great with styling my own hair. Sisterlocks is a built-in style. I wake up and look great. Love that.

2) Versatile: If you are the type of person who gets bored easy, you might think locs would be a poor choice. Not so. You can curl, twist, braid, updo, color -- even flat iron (Check this out: http://bit.ly/1kjaC6Q)

3) Many men love them: Seriously. When you've got this long, beautifully flowing sisterlocks that are naturally yours, it's sexy.

Cons

1) There are haters. People who are just anti-loc (See the new military ban on locs: http://bit.ly/1is04Or). Just a reality check that while we may feel liberated, not everyone is celebrating our new-found freedom.

2) When they get long, washing them is a longer process. I have so much hair and it takes forever for it to dry. But oh how I love them when they are freshly cleaned.

3) Lint. It's a pain if you get it stuck in your locs and looks awful in your hair. Using a silk or satin  hair wrap at night and microfiber wash cloths are good too. BlackKofi just did a review on the Turbie Twist: http://bit.ly/1h4Itwu

It's a New Day!

I LOVE my loctician's new digs. Because she is no longer mobile, she is rested, refreshed, and speedy. I have a lot of hair, for sure. But my retights use to take nearly 8 hours. Now, I'm down to 5! That is HUGE. It's like found time in the day. Truthfully, with the retights taking so long, I was starting to wonder if it the time had come to return to the tiny afro. But now I'm a sisterlocks soldier once again! :)