Well as I embark on 4 months of this wonderful journey, I have not many disappointments this has been a great journey for me. I think it is because of several reasons but I have to give props to my consultant for having faith that I would take great care of such short locs when they were first installed. The normal length for installation being 3 inches where I only had 2 inches with 1 1/2 in some areas.
Sometimes I wish my locs were longer so that I can style them like I have seen so many of my SL sisters do, I am patient as I know in time I will be twisting, roller setting and most of all using permanent color soon enough.
I have notice a great deal of growth in the past 4 months, more growth then I thought I would experience. My Honey,Daughters and Co-workers are always commenting on how much my hair has grown in these four months. Its amazing how much others are watching my hair, my co-workers even notice when I get my hair re-tightened both sisters of color and Caucasian co-workers alike take notice of my locs its growth and when I color...(how could they not notice when I color being over 50% grey)...LOL gotta love those greys one good thing about the grey I definitely know how much my hair has grown.
If you notice below I posted prepping for semi-coloring dated 12/27/08 however I actually colored the morning I was retightened, which made it a little difficult for Ms. Agape Locks to see the parts as she was retighting my locs...Sorry Agage Locks much love.
It took us about 5 hours to retighten as some of my locs in the rear love to hug each other, but not as bad as with my 2nd retightening. Guess that means I getting better at separating after shampooing, actually I think it's because I shampooed during waking hours as opposed to just before retiring for the night.
I have not had to much slipping thank God as I have read so many blogs about the slippage. I am progressing well on my journey, I can even condition now to get a softer look which I am so happy about because my locs are a little stiff, soft but not as relaxed as I would like (probably mostly due to the grey, as my consultant keeps kindly telling me grey hair does what it wants to do when you want it to lay down it wants to stand up).
If you notice on my pics there is a section in the back that just will not come together always leaving a bit of a gap between the locs making it look like I have a bald section back there and I don't....so I am hoping that conditioning will help those locs lay better. Here are the pics of my 4th month with SL....and Yes I am still in love with my Lovely SL's..
