DIY'er?

Ok so I'm considering becoming a DIY'er already. I've never been real good at waiting for someone else to do my hair. I've been a DIY'er for the past six years of this natural journey that I'm on. There are a couple of issues that I'm having with my sisterlocks. The first one is the amount of hair that is left on the end of each lock. I had felt that it might be too much but just kind of kept my mouth shut because I trust my consultant, well technically she's still a trainee. But now that a more experienced sisterlocker has commented about it I see that my concern was a valid one. Second, there were some parts in the front that were crooked so when I went back to my consultant she took some of them down and redid a section. The problem is that when she redid that section she made them smaller than the ones on the other side. So now I have more locks on one side than I do the other. Which would not be a big deal but I feel as if I paid for a system because that was what I wanted. Had I not paid the amount of money that I did I probably wouldn't care so much. Third, when she redid the section she went ahead and retightened the entire front of my head and ran out of time to do the back. Which would not be a problem except she hasn't been able to fit me in to finish the back. I work two jobs so my schedule is limited and she works full time on top of doing sisterlocks so her time is limited as well. So I decided to just wait until my first full retightening but we are still having scheduling conflicts and it looks as if our schedules won't open at the same time until march which would put the back at over 8 weeks for a retightening. Not good.

So my options would be to find another consultant or become a DIY'er. I realize that if I become a DIY'er at this point that there will be some that will not consider my locks sisterlocks anymore. Do I really care what they think or say? No. I just want locks. I have the number to a consultant but have not seen any of her work. She's listed on the sisterlocks website as a certified consultant and I met her cousin in Sally's and she told me that she'd been doing sisterlocks for years. So I will probably give her a call first and let her look and my locks and maybe give me a chance to look at her work. I'm really not afraid of becoming a DIY'er, because honestly the system doesn't look like its hard to do at all. I'm just not sure if I should take that leap or not.

Oh, one last thing I wanted to mention. I'm including this for those who may follow my blog in the future. I listed the Fantasia IC 100% Tea Shampoo as what I was using now. Well I've been informed that this shampoo will loosen the locks over time and is only recommended for locks that have already settled. So I wanted to include this so just in case someone in the future looks to my blog as a research tool. I don't want to recommend a shampoo that will cause more harm than good.

ITCHIES!!!

Okay fellow lockers, tell me what's up with all these itchies and flaking. How long does this last? I am welcoming all suggestions on how to combat this temporary problem. Do I do as they say when I was in the army and suck it up and drive on? Is an ACV rinse a good idea at this point? I have a spray bottle with some rosemary and peppermint eo that I have spritz my hair with a couple of times. I don't want to spritz with this too often for fear of causing any type of buildup or slippage. I spritz with plain ole water everyday which my hair seems to love. But I had been doing that for a long time before sisterlocks so I knew my hair would love it. What else can I do? Help pleez!!!

On a more positive note, I have completed my first month...yay!!! I am officially in my 2nd month of sisterlockdom (is that a word? lol) I saw my consultant about a week and a half ago for my follow up visit with her. She had to redo some in the front because some of the parts were not straight and some in the back because they had unraveled. She was very excited when she saw my hair saying that is had shrank and hardly had any slipping. I guess she was surprised because of the length that I'd started out with. I contribute it to the fact that I was natural for 6 years before I started this journey. Aside from the itchies, this has been a beautiful journey.


Washing seems to be going very well. Of course I braid and band because I don't want to take any chances and mess up what is progressing so well. I don't have any of the sisterlocks starter shampoo but my consultant did provide me with a very good clarifying shampoo that gets my hair sqeauky clean without drying it out too much. It's Fantasia IC 100% Tea Shampoo:



I've also noticed that they are starting to expand a bit which I'm very pleased with. So my hair feels a little more bulky. I'm curious to see where I am in another 5 months at my 6 month anniversary. With my texture I'm not sure I'll see much of a difference, I think its going to take awhile to see any real changes. But what do I know we'll just have to see.

Week 3

Let's see what have I experienced so far. Well first there was just awe at how it all turned out. Halfway through the initial installation I was a little fearful of how it would look. But once my consultant was done I was estatic because 1) She was FINALLY done :) and 2) I had finally taken the plunge into a new journey with my natural hair. I had contemplated locks for at least half of my 6 years natural but was held back at first because I was in the army and next because I was still enjoying my loose natural hair.

The next step after awe was acceptance, you know that I had actually taken the step and had over 500 locks installed on this big ole head of mine. I kept looking at it everyday saying to myself "I can't believe I finally did it". It took the first two weeks for me to just settle into what I had just done. Now I don't want this to sound negative in anyway, because its not. Even though I had wanted to have locks for a while it just didn't seem real at first. Sometimes I want something so bad but something in the back of my mind messes with me and tells me that I won't follow through. Well my sisterlocks was one of the many things that I did to prove that little voice wrong.

Now I'm looking forward to celebrating the finish of month 1 in a couple of days. I know a month is not very long but I'm still celebrating it as if it were a year...lol. The last time I attempted to lock my hair I took a trunk full of pictures, I'm going to try to resist this time. I found that alot of them looked alike during those five months that I'd had them in. I'm sure at first I'll take alot but after awhile I'm sure I'll taper off. Hopefully, I'll have other interesting things besides my hair to blog about.

Here are a few pictures that I've taken over the past couple of weeks.

Irritated!! Grrrrrrrr!!

Someone please help me. Blogger keeps deleting my links for other peoples albums. What am I doing wrong. I'm very new to this and would appreciate the assistance of some of the more experienced ladies. Do I need to do something special when I change the template? Help?!

Okay my computer is up and running...Tagged!!!

Okay so I got my laptop up and running my desktop is on its last leg so now I'm ready to keep up with my blog more regularly. So here we go:

1.Link to the person that tagged you..... HI http://fuchsia-soul.blogspot.com/
(Sorry I don't know how to link yet) :o(

2.Post the rules on your blog

3.Share 6 non-important things/habits/quirks about yourself that have not been shared already



6 non-important things about Sereni-T

1. I was just hypnotized for the first time on Tuesday night. It's a series of three group sessions for weight loss, so I figured what the hay...

2. I was in the U.S. Army for 6 yrs and feel it was one of the best decisions I ever made. It opened alot of doors for me, got me into my current career field, and gave me a chance to meet some very very cool people.

3. I'm really a very sensitive person. Most people don't realize it because I hide just how sensitive I am. :o)

4. When I was 13 I was in a drillteam call the "Marching Cobras" and got to travel to Nice, France for Mardi Gras (too much fun by the way) and to D.C. to perform inside the Rose Garden (very cool experience).

5. I'm a very forgetful person and have a really short attention span when people talk to me. I try to pay attention but my mind just drifts without warning.

6. I LOVE SHOES!!! I have WAY too many pairs :oD

I don't have very many people to tag but here it goes:


http://sunshinesisterlocks.blogspot.com/

http://belindasblogat.blogspot.com/

I've been tagged!!!

This is pretty cool, I didn't think it would happen this early. Makes me feel like part of the family...lol. Unfortunately I'll have to come back to post, my computer is on the fritz at home and I can't stay on too long at work so bear with me. I just bought a laptop and will be playing with it on Tue so I'll post then and hopefully have some other people to tag. Maybe give me more time to come up with some interesting things about myself. Ciao....