Showing posts with label DIY. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DIY. Show all posts

Saturday, June 5, 2010

Sisterlocks or Bigger locks?

As you know, I have sisterlocks and to be honest with you, its (for the most part) been a great experience.

However, I have been thinking (more recently) about how NUTS it is that because I have over 400 locks, I cant retighten my locks myself. I once made an attempt... actually, I succeeded, but the success came three months after I started. By the time I was done the whole head, it was time to restart it all over again! arrrrrrrrrrrgh!

Maybe I should try again to see if this time it'll take me a shorter time?

I freaking doubt I'd do that.

Four days ago, I went over to see a friend of mine and helped her retighten her new locks. I envy her :(
She only had 40 so it took me less than an hour.





She looked so nice with them too!

My point is, although I chose sisterlocks because it'd give my thin hair a fuller look, if I could do things over again, I'm pretty certain that I would have gone the palm-roll (or other forms of bigger locks) route. This way, I could do it myself and not have to pay to have them retightened or have to make the time to... I like the feeling that I get when I know that I am self sufficient (though no one is ever truly self sufficient). Wish I didnt need a loctician to retighten my hair. Though to be honest, I probably have the best loctitian on this side of the globe.

Back to my newly-locked friend...I get this nice feeling inside knowing that she decided to take the plunge. She used to be my weaverlicious-partner-in-crime. In highschool,we had weave in all sorts of colours. Blue, Green, Purple, Pink, Red, Burgundy, Blonde... we did them all.
I dont think we did yellow though... lol

And now, we're both locked. When I asked her why she did it, she said
"I've always liked it".
But she never took the plunge till now. Hey! Better late than never. I'm just glad she's finally on board.

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Color Rays of Red n Black

I dyed my locks...again. lol

I remember asking my loctitian if she would dye my locks bright red, and she'd responded "no, you'd have to bleach it first and that'd damage your locks".

I thought... "so what? Damahe shmamage! Who cares about damage? If it does get damaged, I'll get over it and know better next time".

I'm not always the smartest pill in the pillbottle. If I was, I would have appreciated her professional opinion and learnt from it instead of trying to learn from a mistake.

Anyhoooo! I ended up finding a dye that actually dies dark coloured hair! Its called colour rays and boy oh boy does it ever work! I love it!!!

So, my roots are dyed red, and my ends are still jet black. Awww.... nice.

What is next on my todo list? Start up on retightening my locks again. I'm due already! geeesh!

Saturday, November 28, 2009

Doing it maself!

okay, so the story is:
i have not retightened since the first week of september. I usually get them retightened every 1.5-2 months however, i live 9 hours away from my loctitian (the closest sisterlocks consultant) and i missed my last appointment because i managed to catch some silly virus and couldnt make it. WELL! now am left with my matty locks that are determined to unite if i dont get up and do something,.

Problem is_ i am a student and i cant make it down to see my loctitian till the end of December (my exams are done on the 21st) so! whats a girl to do?

I have not taken the retightening course and i was actually scheduled to do that at my next meeting with my loctitian.


I have decided to take matters into my own hands.

worst case scenerio: my locks break off and i have to start over
best case scenerio: i learn a new lesson, and gain a scence of independence, oh and maybe save money in the future!
I got myself a plastic children's needle (i got the idea off of a felow blogger) and i got started...
here is a video (sorry for the quality)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPIHfeklThE