Here’s why I decided to get sisterlocks:
Your guide to surviving the first year of sisterlocks/locs in general. Also infamously known as the “ugly stage.”
Black girl enjoying the water appreciation post. Water and sisterlocks, two of my favorite things!
“Don’t remove the kinks from your hair, remove them from your body.” -Marcus garvey
Sisterlocks have provided me with a level of hair freedom that I did not know was possible for Black women.
I get approached about my hair quite a bit when I am out and about. Usually from other Black women telling me about how they love my hair, but they are “not the loc type” ..which I guess means they are not confident that they would like how they look with locs. I am a firm believer that everyone looks great with locs, but that seems especially hard to convince people of. I always make it a point to tell women in these conversations that I am sure they would look great and I am more than happy to recommend a good sisterlock consultant to get them started. Personally, I absolutely love the freedom that locs provide and the versatility that comes unique to sisterlocks.
I love that my hair can pretty much be straight, without any curl to it and still have a cool look with just a bobby pin. Simplicity is key for me and all I added to this look was makeup, I did not have to spend a lot of time on my hair.
style spotlight!
I abosolutely love wearing my locs curly. Fun fact about me is that I actually despise my hair straight, but curling it up is a lot of work! For this style, I used jumbo orange perm rods (pictured below). I three strand twist halfway and then roll it becuse I like the result better. I then sleep on the perm rods at night to achieve this style.
**I used jumbo perm rods because my goal was looser curls. If you want tighter curls use smaller perm rods.
Jumbo Orange Perm Rods
I live by this stuff. When my locs were much shorter all I needed to do my hair was water. Once my hair started getting longer I could not understand why my hair wouldn’t curl anymore. One day I asked my loc consultant and she asked what products I used and I replied “water.” She laughed and told me that my hair was too long to just use water. She suggested this brand, I tired it out and was hooked! It works so well. This retails for about $5.99 at my beauty supply stores.
**One major caveat with this stuff is that if you have a lot of locs like I do you will go through this bottle rather quickly. I can only get two full styling cycles out of this bottle and then it runs out. Still a huge fan though.
Life is too short to have boring hair!
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