Accents Your Style

I left a lock out on the side to create an accent curl.  You can do the simplest things to make your lock style unique.  Plus, I like to show off the versitility of Sisterlocks.  You can sorta se the style below.

Check me out!  My hair is curled in the back which is why it looks shorter than it really is.

Here is another style. I stuck 3 decorative hair pins in my pinned up hair.

French Roll

Managed a French Roll. Used The old sock trick to make the style. Got a lot of compliments too.

EZcombs

 have been eyeballing the EZcomb for a while and finally decided to get it. Now I'm going back to get one in every color. The teeth are round and slide around the lock, not through them....and it pulls out really easy. This is a must have. I have SL's. It may work for small traditional locks. The teeth are probably not spaced apart enough for med - large traditional locks. I should mention that my SL's are 7 months, 3 weeks, and 2 days old.

 

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Shampoo Day

Just finished washing my hair with Paul Mitchell Tea Tree Shampoo. What a treat! My head is still tingling from the tea tree oil in the shampoo. This shampoo was recommended by my locktician due to it's cleansing ability and the invigorating feeling it leaves behind. I highly recommend it.



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Sisterlocks 7 Months 5 Days.

Pinned hair after wearing a twist out for a few days.

Secondary style after wearing a braidout all day.

Flat Twist

Experimenting with my Sisterlocks.  I think I'm starting to get the hang of it.  Oh, I should  mention that since 5.5 months I have been using the Sisterlock Moisturizer and Dew by Happy-N-Nappy...sparingly.  Around 5.5 months my locktician started using these products on me, but she told me not to use them at home until she says I can.  I figure that since she uses it on my hair, so can I.  Hope I don't regret it.  I only cheat on the weekend.

I should mention that my hair was wavy due to a previous braid out (a few cornrows) and I secured the twists with tiny black rubber bands.


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6 Months 5 Days Sisterlocks

I wet my hair and put it in 7 or 8 corn rows and covered it with a bonnet. I did not use any product because I have not gotten the thumbs up from my locktician yet. The braidout lasts 4 or 5 days. I wear the bonnet each night.

6 Month Anniversary Sisterlocks

Well, I'm half way there.








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Rebel Sisterlock

I have this one hard headed sisterlock that is trying to hold on to my original curl pattern. You are going down!




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5.8 Month Sisterlocks

My Sisterlocks still have plenty of frizz.  I had a retightening session this past Wednesday, or was it Thursday which is why so much scalp is showing.  Well, although I claim that I don't see progress , the pucture says otherwise. I see growth and locks forming. Wish I could color because my hair looks dull and blah. Guess I have to be patient.




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Hair Frustrations

I'm in the bathroom at work trying to do something presentable with my hair. I tried a new style and was getting the "stare" from my boss. I should have taken a pic of it before I took the style down. Basically the front was curled and the back was in a bun. Since my hair was recently tightened, it looked really scalpy. Maybe if it wasn't freshly tightened it would have looked better. Who knows, maybe it looked fine to begin with.


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5 Year Old Sisterlocks (A Total Stranger)

I saw this lady in Target and she was nice enough to let me take pictures of her hair.  Her Sisterlocks are only 5 years old and look how long they are!  She did have shoulder length hair when she started.

4.8 Month Sisterlocks

I call this the hot mess stage!  My hair is not locked and not, not locked.

This is 8 days after a retightening as you can tell by the scalp. The ends are thick compaired to the shaft and root.  Puffy, frizzy, and matted comes to mind as well.  Not an attractive stage.

4 Months Sisterlocks

Trying out a new style.  My temples are still looking a little thin, but they have gotten better since I stopped relaxing.

4 Months Sisterlocks

This is the point where I started getting the knots or balls at the ends of my hair.  I'm told that is evidence that the hair is starting to lock.  I called them my hair buggies.

3 1/2 Month Sisterlocks

At this point my hair is starting to change.  It is becoming compact and I am loosing my curl pattern.

2 Months Sisterlocks

My hair is starting to swell and is really fuzzy. I am starting to loose my curls and seeing more of a matt.

2 Month Old Siserlocks

Here my hair shows a bunch of shrinkage and my natural curl pattern. Too cute. I really need to loose weight :-(

1 1/2 Month Sisterlocks

My natural curl pattern is the bomb!  Shrinkage, not the bomb.

1 Month Old Sisterlocks

My Sisterlocks are 1 month old. It is just after midnight. I get them washed and tightened for the first time at 9:00am which is why I am having trouble sleeping. I am really anxious to have my stylist freshen my locks up. My hair is coiled a lot tighter to where it no longer simply looks like a twistout. In fact, if you were on the outside looking in, you would have no idea what was going on with my hair. People have no idea that I'm locking just by looking at me, yet it looks as if I have not combed my hair since forever. Some of my ends are rounded and some are loose. My biggest frustration is that I have balls of hair hanging off the ends of some of the locks. To me it looks as if I have a bunch of bugs hanging on by a string. I know I sound harsh on myself...but I guess I'm going through that uncertainty stage of my journey.

On another note....I have got to loose weighgt!! The weight is aging me big time!! I stepped on the scale the other day and was at 167. That is the same amount that I weighed when I was pregnant!!

At this point my hair is bunching up and my temples are coming loose. My temples are pretty short compared to the rest of my hair.

3 Day Old Sisterlocks

My coils are getting tighter and shorter from shrinkage and I am starting to get that frizz my stylist told me about. For those of you who don't know how Sisterlocks work, they use a special tool to make a pattern in tiny sections of your hair. They leave the ends open so your ends take on the pattern of your natural hair. My hair coils. The lock starts at the ends and work its way up to the root. It takes up to 3 months to a year for the hair to lock depending on the texture and if you take care of it. The advantage of Sisterlocks is that they don't come undone in the early stages like traditional locks thanks to the technique.

2 Day Old Sisterlocks

I can already see shrinkage

I actually wore makeup for the first time in a long time.

1 Day Old Sisterlocks

This is day one of the rest of my sisterlock life. After spending two days at the salon, my hair is finally done. My stylist is considered to be a trainee, but her work looks as though she has been doing it for years. She works under a seasoned sisterlocker (who is sporting some beautiful mature sisterlocks). They are both very awesome. How did I embark upon this journey you ask? Well, I was happy with my natural hair, but I found that I kept it in a pony tail most of the time because the longer it got the more time it required to style it...and I just did not have the time. I love traditional locks, but I don't think they are for me. I have always wanted Sisterlocks. I did not think Sisterlocks was a possibility because the technique is rather new and I did not know of anyone who did them. I was dropping my son off at daycare and I noticed a lady with really cute natural hair so I went over to her and asked her who did her hair. I did not recognize that she had Sisterlocks because they were new and had not locked yet.....sorta like mine are in this picture. She told me she had Sisterlocks which definitely caught my attention. Come to find out, the salon was five minutes from my house!! Well, visited the salon a few days later and the rest is history as they say.

I was "warned' by my stylist that my hair would frizz based on my texture. Apparently everyone has a different result while they are waiting on their hair to lock. My texture = frizz. The challenge for me is to look try to keep my hair looking professional for work while I wait for it to lock.

I was told not to use any products on my hair until they tell me that I can so I know this stage will very difficult for me. Wish me luck.

Notice how stringy my hair is in the front. That comes from the press & comb. I got my hair pressed two or three times and the heat damaged the natural curl pattern of my hair.