Alise's Sisterlocks

Front view before retightening Back view before retightening.

So this is me the morning of my retightening on Saturday, January 28th 2006. I am freshly washed and dried and getting ready to head out the door to see my consultant/trainee for my first retightening. I sat under my hooded dryer to dry my hair while I was still banded and braided hence the extemely crinkly look. I'm so happy to be seeing by loctitican today because I have a few loose hairs at the front of my hairline that somehow escaped being put into a loc and they have been kinda bugging me, but I haven't been stressing about them 'cause I know she can fix 'em.


Front view after retightening. Close up of back after retightening
Back view after retightening. Side view after retightening.


Top view after retightening.

Okay, so now I am really loving my locs. My loctician did a fabulous job and hooked a sistah's wig up. It took eight hours for my first retightening session and we've agreed that we'll have to work on speeding up the process. One of my locs had to be combined during this session because it was just too small so now I'm down to 525 locs now. Can you tell (ha)? You can see a few of my parts but that doesn't bother me either because usually my hair is so thick I often wonder if there is a scalp down there.

My loctician tells me that my locs are doing great. She did not find any slippage and already the back is starting to lock as evidenced by the balls on the ends. Hopefully, the rest of my journey will be as easy as the first month has been. To tell you the truth, I can't imagine it being bad at all . My hair feels heatlthy and it's obvious I've had some growth this first month. I can't wait to post some pictures at 6 months. Of course, in the meantime, I'll post pictures at all the months in between as well. Dang, this blogging thing is addictive.

I have been natural, wearing braid extensions, since early 2004. I knew then that I would never again put a chemical relaxer in my hair but I wasn't sure early on how I would style my very thick, crinkly/curly hair.

Me and my identical twin - I'm in front - Braid extensions.

Me and Mark - Christmas 2005 - More braid extensions.

Imagine my joy when I discovered Sisterlocks while surfing the net. I then joined this website and have been lurking ever since. I found my consultant/trainee, PJ Hadley, on the Sisterlocks website and contacted her. After my consultation, in which we immediately "hit if off" I decided that the time was now and began my journey. PJ put in 7 test locks and examined them two weeks later. As I suspected, and she confirmed, there would be no problem with this "brillo head locking".

Night Before Sisterlocks.

We started the locks on 12/26/05 and 3 days and 38 hours later (I am her second client and she is very meticulous) I had a head full of 526 teeny, weeny little locks.

Sisterlocks - Day 1 - Front View

Sisterlocks - Day 1 - Back view

I am totally overjoyed. It's only 4 days later and I have received only positive reactions from coworkers, friends, and family.

I just want to thank everyone on the Lockitup website for providing all the information a person needs to prepare for their journey. Your blogs and links are inspirational.

Photo before Sisterlocks with braid extensions

Thanks for stopping by to view my blog. My plans for this blog are to chronicle the progress of my hair in the various stages of my Sisterlock journey. Come along for the ride!