8 Months

wow I've been so busy I almost forgot about my 8 months anne. I am absolutely in love with my locks but as all love does it comes with its share of frustrations. For one this build-up issue will not rest and I am at a loss for what to do. I have switched shampoos, I use a scarf i just dont know. Also the front of my hair still is not locked. It has actually begun slip can you believe it? At 8 months my hair is slipping, the unraveling at the ends has officially turn to slippage in quite a few locks. sigh. Also my edges have begun to get week since I have been retightening. I think this is partly due to me connecting some locks by a couple strands and popping them to seperate. So needless to say I believe I will be going to a consultant very soon. Other that that my locks are doing very well LOL. The back is really locked the middle is partly locked and some of the front is showing good signs of becoming locked soon and other just want to be free. Most of all my locks have lots and lots of personality.

YAY they finally arrived!!

Well I got my loc loops today yay! I have been retightening my lock for the past week its really not so easy when I have to fit it in between studying and classes. Anyway I have retightened my entire front but not the back. I decided to trythe loc loop anyway bcase I want to wash my hair so I figured why not. I set it up and can't wait to see how it comes out tomorrow morning. Also here is a seven month pic

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Loving my Sisterlocks 6 Months Later

Hey so I'm at six months today! YAy!! I will post pictures later my computer crashed and it stores all my pics so lets hope that it gets fixed real soon shall we.

What I have noticed:

I don't style my hair half as much as I used to in my first 3 months or so. Now a days I mainly do I bantu set and wear it like that for 3-4 days then do another or just wear it freestyle.

To my surpise I don't wear as many headbands these days, which is strange to me because I love headbands.

My head has gotten very tender since my installation something I never experienced before this may be contributed to the fact that I have not combed my hair in 6 months. this could also be the reason why I have not been wearing as many headbands sometimes they hurt my head again something that didn't usually affect me before.

I still dont like the braid out especially now that my locks have expanded and my ends are loose. Its just a waste of time and gives me a giant afro.

my locks have expanded

MY LOCKS HAVE GROWN A LOT!

The back of my hair is locking first

I started washing my hair every week to see if it helps my build-up issue although I took out most of the ones that had build up anyway.

My hair likes the heat of the sun, I think that is what has prompted my growth spurt over these past couple of months.

I mainly style when I have somewhere to go.

I really really love my locks.



what I'm looking forward to:

My ends sealing so I can wash my hair without bundles and banding.

the front of my hair to evenly be at my chin

Being able to have a decent pony tail

I want to try wrap a loc or at least pipe cleaner curls, just haven't devoted the time yet

I want to color my locks by December, if my locks are sealed.

I want to learn how to properly basket weave my hair I've tried and lets just say it turned out horribly.

Then I want to have enough length to do a really nice basket weave up do maybe with pipe cleaner curls in the back :-)

5 months

In other news Today and tomorrow marks my 5 month lockversary. I go to get retightened next week and my hair is doing very well I can feel the change in my texture my curly ques aren't quite as curly as they once were and I can feel many bumps and lumps up and down the shaft of most of my locks. Also there are many many balls on the ends of my locks. I have only had one lock slip this time and it was on my hairline. I have washed my hair twice so far and it pleases me to say that the majority of my build-up is gone. There are still two locks that I see which still have build up but its not nearly as much as it was. This leads me to believe that the culprit was the baby lotion I used on my face. A while back I ran out of face cream and I started using baby lotion it left my face clear and cool and did not break me out like most things do so I stuck with it. Now my consultant did warn me about not using baby shampoos in my hair because they can cause a protein buildup in the hair but it just didn't dawn on me that baby lotion might do the same thing it is contact the hair from the skin near my hairline which is wear most of the problem was, around my hairline and in the back of my hair near my neck where I would also put the lotion. Now whose to say that this was the real problem I don't know but I continued to use the dr. bronner lavender shampoo followed by the SL shampoo and its going away. Other than the texture change there has not really been much change in length this month or at least not from what I can see. My mothers says differently.

I have also decided to take the retightening class in Philadelphia, I am relocating and I really don't want to have to go through searching for a consultant and all that stuff so I have decided to take the class at the end of this month and set another appointment with my consultant in September after I retighten just so she can let me know how I did. Then for the future I will follow up with a consultant every three months or so. Or at least that is the plan we will see what life brings along.

4 months and retightening

Well I finally got to tame the beast. My retightening took almost 5 hours, yep thats right 5 hours. Now that its done I'm sooo happy I can see and feel my scalp again. My hair feels so much softer now that it has been retighten, all is right with the world, almost there wasn't much my consultant could do about my build up especially given the fact that I had to have such an extensive retightening. Here are some pics of before and after. My hair has def grown a lot this time around.

11 weeks

here is a hair update at 11 weeks, I have a few little balls on my hair, mainly in the middle and in the back. My hair has condensed a lot since my installation. It is a little fuller than before but not by much. As you can see there is still a lot of scalp showing in the back but I believe that is because there is a patch in the middle of my head where my hair was cut shorter than everywhere else when I got the color cut off my hair. As for my hair regimen Most days I just get up and go. Sometimes I spritz with water and essential oils but not often. Even though my hair has grown since my installation its hard for me to tell. It still looks the same to me but I know it has because of how much needed to be retightened a couple of weeks ago.

Sidebar: don't mind my swollen lips, I had just gotten a root canal and my mouth was really swollen LOL but these were the only clear pics I had with my hair out after graduation.

hair update 9 weeks

here are some pics of the slippage in the back sorry the picks arnt very clear. Also here is my first attempt at curling hair. It wasn't the greatest but it was ok.