13 Months

When I was deciding to get Sisterlocks, and even after I already had them, I feverishly searched for every site/blog that I could find.  I had to know what my locks would look like at every stage.  For all you ladies curious about month 13, here are some pics:

I curled my locks with a curling iron-- turned out super cute!!

A couple days after curling my locks-- as you see, the curls don't last.

Texture shot; side note: I took the tightening class and did my own head a couple weeks before this pic.

One Year Sisterlock LOCKSIVERSARY

I'm back! I know I haven't posted in over 7 months, not because I didn't want to post, but I wasn't feeling inspired.  I was so stuck in this torturous world called medical school that I almost forgot that I was once a person that existed outside of the confines of the library, whose life did not revolve around this aspiration of being a doctor.  Of course at the end of it all, I love this challenge that I have set before myself, but as with anything in life, no one aspect of one's life can be all-encapsulating or all-fulfilling.  But a few months ago, in the midst of memorizing the cranial nerves and instilling in my mind that the "lub" of the heart's characteristic "lub-dub" sound was due to the closing of the atrioventricular valves, I kinda lost all sense of...me.

However, one day, I was looking at myself in the mirror, and I remembered: I  love my hair!  I love my sisterlocks and I love reading about other people who love sisterlocks, too!  And then I started looking at my old favorite blogs like Blaqkofi's, Kreyola's, Nicole is the New Black,  and I started finding new one's such as CurlyNuGrowth, NaturalNikkiDST's, and Terez. These beautiful ladies inspired me to take a good look in the mirror again, after which I realized that my hair GREW!  It was long enough to style and I can finally have FUN with it!  It soon dawned on me  that February 17th was rapidly approaching, and that meant it was my LOCKSIVERSARY!  

All this to say, as ridiculous as this may sound, sisterlocks helped me find my way back to...me.


Enough talk.  Here are pic's of what you've missed:

12 months sisterlocked, braid-out pinned back

11 months sisterlocked, freshly retightened

11 months sisterlocked, braid-out half "ponytail", if you wanna call it that

10 months sisterlocked, in the company of my fellow beautiful future doctors of color

9 months sisterlocked, at my white coat ceremony!!!

8 months sisterlocked, pretending to be a model at the beach... lol