Lock It Up! Support Thread (Sisterlocs, Dreads, Freeform, Etc)

Have ya'll seen Sister Soko's 2 year lock update video? I saw it on my feed earlier this week.:



Her locks are even more prettier now than they were when she started and in her 1 year update.:



It's September 2019 now, so she should be 3 years locked now. I'm waiting on her to post a 3 year update like...:poke"

But I'm confused...because she posted this earlier today:



So she must be mad late with uploading (again)...or maybe got her dates wrong. I don't know...but her hair looks goodt!!!
 
fifi134 said:
A little while back, I posted about going to my sisterloc consultation. The meeting itself was fine, but I wasn’t impressed by her portfolio. My sister has waist length locs and she maintains them herself, and she does a much better job with that than the loctitian. I wasn’t willing to get all those locs and have the final product be something I hated so I didn’t get them of course.

I did however get traditional medium locs started today! The stylist did such a great job. She twisted using her fingers instead of coiling them, so I have no shrinkage. She did pin it up into a style so it’s not scalpy. I’ll go back in 4-5 weeks for another wash and retwist.

I have pics to post but can’t. :sad:
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Congratulations on starting your journey!!!! I think it's also a great thing that you decided to keep "shopping around" when you found that the Sisterlocks consultant you went to was not a good fit and her portfolio didn't speak to you.

So did you start with two strand twists or are you trying to say the stylist did finger coils and not regular comb coils to start your locks?

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@Cattypus1 It worked!
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They look good! That's a pretty style and your parts are sharp! She did that, honey...go head now!
 
My "Harpo, who dis woman" post of the night...I just found her on YouTube tonight after watching Sister Soko's videos. She has micro locks and they are so pretty!!!

TyKara Ann:



She has 644 micro locks, ya'll...:eek::eek::eek: She started with two strand twists. Her mom did a spectacular job! It took 4 days...and legit looks like it could pass for a Sisterlocks install. I'm so amazed.



I just subscribed to her channel and I will be following her journey to see how these mature.
 
shortycocoa said:
Congratulations on starting your journey!!!! I think it's also a great thing that you decided to keep "shopping around" when you found that the Sisterlocks consultant you went to was not a good fit and her portfolio didn't speak to you.

So did you start with two strand twists or are you trying to say the stylist did finger coils and not regular comb coils to start your locks?



They look good! That's a pretty style and your parts are sharp! She did that, honey...go head now!
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Thank you ma'am! Yeah, I was debating back and forth but was glad I made the right decision. I would have had to cut them out to start all over and I think my cutting phase is gone...for now :lol:

Yes, she did finger coils instead. She did such a great job and wasn't raking through my hair to part too.
 
shortycocoa said:
Have ya'll seen Sister Soko's 2 year lock update video? I saw it on my feed earlier this week.:



Her locks are even more prettier now than they were when she started and in her 1 year update.:



It's September 2019 now, so she should be 3 years locked now. I'm waiting on her to post a 3 year update like...:poke"

But I'm confused...because she posted this earlier today:



So she must be mad late with uploading (again)...or maybe got her dates wrong. I don't know...but her hair looks goodt!!!
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I saw it too.
 
I found this woman (Alexis Black) Sunday night also...this is one of my length goals for my locks so when I get here, can't nobody tell me NOTHING!!!! :lachen:

And I laughed so hard when she flipped her hair and it hit the bag in the second video. Some of the things she says in these videos are not accurate, so you have to take it with a grain of salt.



 
I'm mad late but on Monday I hit 17 months, ya'll! I need to wash my hair. I might do it today if I have time or wait until tomorrow when it's less busy.

Tomorrow DS1 will hit his 1 year lockaversary. That was fast. I plan to wash his hair tomorrow and oil his scalp and locks. No retightening. I just checked the calendar and I feel like it's still too soon, even though this week marks 6 weeks since his last retightening.

I'm going to try to stick to his new retightening schedule, unless his hair dictates something different. So that means I won't be retightening again until the first week of November.

One thing I have observed during all of this is that his hair seems to behave like mine (we have similar hair textures) in that he tends to get a lot of loose hairs all over. So I have to spend extra time rejoining those hairs with the locks they separated from. He doesn't have ANY fat ends like me, though. But I do see one or two locks that look like they have the potential to start developing that way. I'm going to see if I can fix it at his next wash.


DS 1 will hit 9 months this coming Sunday. I have just been washing his hair every week and rubbing it with the washcloth afterwards, spraying then oiling his locks.

I have gotten away from rubbing his hair every few days during the school week some mornings. I need to get back into it.

He has so many locks that have married, despite my efforts. Plus it doesn't help that he doesn't like for his hair to be touched, especially when I have to split them.

I have left some of them that are too far gone, and some of them are too big. I even tried splitting some after he went to sleep the other night. I was able to split a few but he woke up in the middle and actually moved away from me and went back to sleep... so I said let me just leave him alone before he is up all night.

I don't know what else to do. I might have to break out the Infusium-23 mix I still have and spray his roots with that and then try to split them again this weekend.

His hair is so thick in the crown that those locks are taking longer to develop the same shape as the rest of the locks on his head.

I am always telling him that he should just be still and let me interlock. But he doesn't understand. I'm going to talk to the ABA team to see if they can run a program to get him used to me touching his hair, grooming his hair and ultimately interlocking.

One of the cool things about the new school he is at this year is they are teaching some of those self-help skills so I sent in the items for them to work on that. But I didn't send in a comb or a brush since he has locks.
 
I saw one of Desiree Marie's videos in my feed the other day, too. Her hair has gotten so long since she started her locks. I also went to her IG this morning to follow her and I didn't realize that she had already gotten married! I thought she was still engaged. She did a post about the wedding. She looked really pretty and so did her hair.



 
Cattypus1 said:
It might be my imagination but I think my hair grows faster when I exercise. I’m going to keep telling myself that because that’s what I need to hear and if it turns out to be true then Imma be fine as frogs hair with locs to my knees:lachen:
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I need to get on the good foot with you. I have a sweat band that I can use around my hairline. I started working out then I stopped. I think I will start some Tabata workouts and do some resistance training without weights first. And yes exercise does help!
 
Here’s a fun before and after. I purchased my fitted Buffalo Bills cap 4 years ago and the company I purchased it from sent the wrong size. It was way too big. Didn’t have time to exchange because home opener was a few days later. Wore it anyway.

Fast forward to 2019. Thank god my hat was too big because I wore it to home opener a few days ago and fit just right. There’s no way a standard size cap would fit with my hair now. It was meant to be :lachen:

2015:
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This past Sunday:
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BillsBackerz67 said:
Here’s a fun before and after. I purchased my fitted Buffalo Bills cap 4 years ago and the company I purchased it from sent the wrong size. It was way too big. Didn’t have time to exchange because home opener was a few days later. Wore it anyway.

Fast forward to 2019. Thank god my hat was too big because I wore it to home opener a few days ago and fit just right. There’s no way a standard size cap would fit with my hair now. It was meant to be :lachen:

2015:
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This past Sunday:
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Girl you better work!!!!! Your locks are looking so luscious, healthy and thick. Did you color them? They seem to have a blue tint to them.
 
BillsBackerz67 said:
Here’s a fun before and after. I purchased my fitted Buffalo Bills cap 4 years ago and the company I purchased it from sent the wrong size. It was way too big. Didn’t have time to exchange because home opener was a few days later. Wore it anyway.

Fast forward to 2019. Thank god my hat was too big because I wore it to home opener a few days ago and fit just right. There’s no way a standard size cap would fit with my hair now. It was meant to be :lachen:

2015:
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This past Sunday:
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Loc crush!!! Those locs are EVERYTHING!
 
Found this one in my recs... Safiyyah Christian:



Harpo, who dis woman????? #following...I'm feeling her whole style and her locks. I'm curious to know how she combined her Sisterlocks. At one point, I contemplated combining mine several times. I didn't like how they looked two strand twisted together though. And I didn't want to walk around with a bunch of two-headed dragons all over my head until they married.

I also don't understand her combing out the second set to make them smaller...IMO, the third set looked like the same size.
 
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