Wednesday, February 9, 2011
ONE MORE WEEK!!!
The countdown begins! Only one more week until my sisterlock installation! I'm excited and nervous! I can't wait to see how it looks. I promise to post pics as soon as my head is complete!!!
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Almost One Year Later... and I'm taking the plunge!
A lot has happened in the last year. I fell in love. I fell out of love. I SWORE I didn't wouldn't get in to a medical school. I was accepted to a top-twenty medical institution. I was sooo down. I was on cloud nine. I cut off all my hair, then grew it all out, just to texturize it and cut it off again. Oh yeah, I had multiple sets of braids, twists, cornrows in between.
BUT GUESS WHAT!?! I set up my installation day on 2/16/11. Its official. I'm gonna get locked. But I'm super scared. I don't know what my hair is going to look like!! I've been scouring the internet for hours upon hours to find a sisterlocked sistah with my exact hair texture: very very very very (I EMPHASIZE VERY) tightly coiled 4a hair that is very dense... then I realized, no one is going to have the same exact hair like me... only my blood sisters come close. (And pictures can also be so deceiving...) So I guess I'll have to wait two weeks and see :-).
Until then, look at some pics of my nhappy locks until I have more interesting sisterlocked pics to show you:
BUT GUESS WHAT!?! I set up my installation day on 2/16/11. Its official. I'm gonna get locked. But I'm super scared. I don't know what my hair is going to look like!! I've been scouring the internet for hours upon hours to find a sisterlocked sistah with my exact hair texture: very very very very (I EMPHASIZE VERY) tightly coiled 4a hair that is very dense... then I realized, no one is going to have the same exact hair like me... only my blood sisters come close. (And pictures can also be so deceiving...) So I guess I'll have to wait two weeks and see :-).
Until then, look at some pics of my nhappy locks until I have more interesting sisterlocked pics to show you:
Pic of my tight tight tight coils
Right before I texturized my hair in 8/2010. I actually eventually cut all this off after my texturizer grew out a bit.
My hair today!!! I know its extra deceiving cuz it looks extra shiny.
Actually, this is how I really wear my hair in traditional starter locks cuz I'm too lazy to even comb my hair on a daily basis.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
The BC (Big Chop)
Hello all!
I decided to start this one of many hair blogs because I wanted to document a young woman’s journey to becoming all-natural. “Why do you want to go all natural?” you may ask. Well, I had been relaxing my hair for about a year and a half by rocking a Rihanna-influenced short do that many of us sistahs have been wearing recently. Everything had been going well, and I really loved it. It was trendy and cute. It gave me an edge but I still had enough hair to retain my femininity. However, on New Years Eve 2009 I went in to the salon for a touch-up, and the result was badly burning parts of my hairline. At this point, it was safe to say that I was finished with relaxers.
To start the transition process, I got a full-head weave. After about a month, I took out the weave due to extreme itchiness. Along with the weave, about a handful of my relaxed hair came out! If you don’t believe me, look at the pics. At this point, there was no turning back. I wanted to use a half wig to continue the transition process, but there was too much damage to do even this. So the next day I went to my lovely hairdresser and asked her to cut off all of my hair. I was sweating bullets as I sat in her chair. As my hairdresser buzzed my hair off, everyone in the salon was unabashedly looking at me thinking, “She must be crazy! Why is she shaving her whole head off?” Luckily I had my boyfriend there to tell me when she was done, “You look beautiful.” I was just happy that my head wasn’t shaped funny. I thought I would have a peanut head.
So now what’s my plan? To grow my hair out to get Sisterlocks ™! I have been admiring them for a while now, and I can’t wait to join the community of beautifully locked black women!
Now that I am natural, what products do I use? What should my hair regimen be? Help!!!! All comments are highly appreciated.
I decided to start this one of many hair blogs because I wanted to document a young woman’s journey to becoming all-natural. “Why do you want to go all natural?” you may ask. Well, I had been relaxing my hair for about a year and a half by rocking a Rihanna-influenced short do that many of us sistahs have been wearing recently. Everything had been going well, and I really loved it. It was trendy and cute. It gave me an edge but I still had enough hair to retain my femininity. However, on New Years Eve 2009 I went in to the salon for a touch-up, and the result was badly burning parts of my hairline. At this point, it was safe to say that I was finished with relaxers.
To start the transition process, I got a full-head weave. After about a month, I took out the weave due to extreme itchiness. Along with the weave, about a handful of my relaxed hair came out! If you don’t believe me, look at the pics. At this point, there was no turning back. I wanted to use a half wig to continue the transition process, but there was too much damage to do even this. So the next day I went to my lovely hairdresser and asked her to cut off all of my hair. I was sweating bullets as I sat in her chair. As my hairdresser buzzed my hair off, everyone in the salon was unabashedly looking at me thinking, “She must be crazy! Why is she shaving her whole head off?” Luckily I had my boyfriend there to tell me when she was done, “You look beautiful.” I was just happy that my head wasn’t shaped funny. I thought I would have a peanut head.
So now what’s my plan? To grow my hair out to get Sisterlocks ™! I have been admiring them for a while now, and I can’t wait to join the community of beautifully locked black women!
Now that I am natural, what products do I use? What should my hair regimen be? Help!!!! All comments are highly appreciated.
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