Bling, Nape, & Repairs

The title of these 1^st few entries will be very “random” since I’m trying to recap my 1^st year with SLs.  

Bling: I’ve enclosed a closeup shot of my “nourished” locs just to show a lil’ bling that my otherwise, thirsty-dirty-dishwater-brown hair is currently rocking.    I believe this bling is credited to my glycerin water mix and the Honey/Vitamin E Oil rinse I did a 2 days ago.



Nape loc'd at 10 months



Loose haired Nape.  Longest length

Nape:  The point of this is to show that “retention” is very important to seeing length and determining growth results.  I’ve always hated my nape.  It looks like a Z drawn by a blind 4year-old (not neat at all).  The 1^st nape shot is from my nape when my hair was “loose” and about 2yrs into my babying this area by applying the perm last, and texlaxing(underprocessing) all at the same time, this was about as much length as I ever held on to.    The 2nd nape shot is of the same area with a 10month old Sisterlock install. 





Repairs:  I’m slowly interlocking the back of hair from the nape up.   My “endstate” should be locs that are tighter and less frizzy. 

Mentioned earlier: I started twisting (instead of latching) sometime in October.    

Perhaps I should also mention that:  At some time during my journey  (April-June) I began interlocking the relaxed portion of my SLs, this was a very-very-very- tedious process but I wanted all of my hair done, so I started this DIY project.   The process was never completely finished because I had a lot going on during this timeframe. 

With that said starting from the nape up, I’m now going through loc – by – loc and repairing.  Tip-to-Middle and Root-to-Middle as needed.  The picture here shows the newgrowth & the repaired “compacted” area of the loc.   I hope to be done with this phase before spring .  (I’m in no rushing)  

Repair for: unraveling
 permed ends & flyaways

I HOPE TO GET BETTER WITH PICTURE PLACEMENT, LOL

A Loc Delayed Is Not a Loc Denied,....

(I am Installed, Loc'in & Luv'in it!)

     First off I should point out that  I'm starting this blog about a year into my journey with SisterLocks.  Secondly, it has took me 3 years to start my lock journey.  I did a lot of researching, had 2 consultations, and then of course a lot of researching.     

     I have fine and what some would call thinly populated hair all throughout the crown of my head.  Though my first consultation was "very discouraging” it’s fair to say I did not give up "completely" I used the time during this “setback” to decide whether I wanted to even "try" this or not. 

My Stats: 

• SisterLock Install date:            02/07/2010
• Install time:                              18 hours
• Loc size:                                 small & medium
• Starting length:                        about 3" of new-growth with at least 6" of relaxed hair
• Pattern:                                  4 point
• Number of locs *to start:         436   (I've since increased the count to 470)
• Sisterlocks Consultant:            Rita. faithfulness70@yahoo.com

     Regarding my consultations, understand that I have n-e-v-e-r had short hair, and my 1st consultant offered up some great suggestions regarding the thinness of my hair at the crown.  HOWEVER, he also suggested that I cut my hair down to 3” (new-growth only) and then comeback for a very expensive install.   < IT DIDN’T HAPPEN>. 

     I waited 3 year transitioning from perming my hair every 4 weeks to “under-processing my hair, to braids & twists; all the while massaging, and trying to coax life back into my underperforming follicles.  <NO LUCK!> 

 I tried the two-stranded twists for about 3 weeks; when this didn’t work I decided once again to find a consultant who would lock my hair as it was.  < IT HAPPENED, .........."Thank you" Rita!>. 

      

The above picture shows the "combover" style that I felt most comfortable with due to my "scalpyness".

Stay tuned, there's more to come later.....