Sisterlocks | My New Sisterlock Journey - 1 Week Update

This is a week of having sister locks, so my babies were born on september 1st 2022, and it is one week later - and i am i'm in love with them. I am. I love them. Hello. Welcome back to my channel, as you can see by the title of this video, this video is going to be a little different from the content that i have posted in the past um. As you can see, i have started a new journey. I am officially a part of the sister locks community, the lock community, the lock family. What have you - and i decided that i wanted to document this journey here on my channel um, so here we are, i did not um construct a script or anything for this. Video, so we're just gon na go with it, because i feel like this is such like a broad topic and people have so many questions about locking their hair, especially like right now. I know when i was searching for videos and searching uh doing my research and everything i had so many questions so to keep this video from being so long, i decided to break it down into two parts. So with that being said, why did i decide to get sister lock so in all honesty, um, full transparency? Here i this maybe like back in 2000 and high and back when i was still in college in undergrad. I was you know, getting ready for class one day and i was watching judge math, okay and one of the. I don't know whether it was the planet for the defendant, honey, but this had some sister locks did. I know what they were at that time. I did not. I thought they were like just really small, pretty brave, like i could tell they were smaller than micro. Braids so, but i didn't know what they were and i was just like: oh my gosh, those are so pretty so i started to research back then like googling um, trying to find different pictures and stuff, and so i don't. I really don't know how i came to the knowledge that it was a form of locked hair, but i later found out that they were sister locks and so i kind of shied away from them because they were more of a permanent decision. At that time i was not ready for a permanent decision regarding my hair, so i just kind of you know brushed it under under the rug kept going getting my relaxers at that time i was still relaxed and getting my sew-ins. What not i later on this is the second time that i have went natural, so i went natural in 2013 and 14. I transitioned and it was so stressful for me to maintain my natural hair. I at that time we just had our son, and i was i had just started teaching, so i felt like i needed to look put together even with my natural hair um, so it was really stressful to me to keep up with my natural hair. So i stayed natural for about. I think i gave it two years. I gave it two years and when i found out that we were pregnant with our second child, our oldest daughter, i went back to the relaxer i was like. I don't have time. I'M just stressed, i really could not maintain it. So i went back to a relaxer and i wore a relaxer on up until um around 2019. So um it was just easy for me. I was just you know, wrap my hair at night and go. I then decided that when we moved to houston, i was having a hard time finding someone to do my hair in the translation, because you know didn't know anyone in here still trying to figure out the area. Things like that. So i and i was also in the middle of a um - seven hearing dermatitis flare up, so you may have seen it here um along the edges, um right here around my nape. I do get discoloration because i have a medical condition: condition called um. Seven hair dermatitis: some people call it seborrheic dermatitis, some people say seboheric suberic, i've heard it pronounced so many different ways, but that's what it is. It'S extreme flakiness and it can cause discoloration, which is it happens to me. I was having a bad flare-up when we first moved, and so i was looking for someone to do my hair. I wanted to get a relaxer, but i couldn't find anyone that would put one on my head because they were afraid that you know my inflamed scalp would become more irritated, which i can understand. I do thank them for that, but i was so blessed to find a stylist that she does natural hair and she specializes in the health of your hair. So i i let her talk me into going natural, which i was so glad that i did because she took such great care of my hair uh, my natural hair, at that i was a straight natural. I rarely ever wore my hair in natural styles. I i would only do a twist out if i had to, but i was a straight natural. It was either straight natural or like sewing or a unit or something for me. But even though it's easier to manage straight hair - and i feel like only a black woman - will understand where i'm coming from when i say this, it's still stressful um. As a matter of fact, me and one of my friends were discussing this she's a stylist as well, and she made the comment that black women um are the only race that we really just have to stress about our hair um. The way that we do, we have to do so much to our hair, to be to feel presentable, to be to be deemed presentable by society's standards of beauty, and so it just what my stylist is was is because i still you know, communicate with her. Absolutely wonderful, it was just so stressful for me, because i also have two daughters and they have heads full of thick hair too, and their mother is not a hair person. So me learning to do their hair was also like a it's been a learning experience. It'S been a process for me, so you know that was a stress point for me. So one day i was on a playdate with one of my oldest daughter. I went on a play date with one of her friends and her mom actually had sister locks too. So we were talking - and i was just talking about - you - know how i was trying to learn - how to french braid my daughter's hair, both of them and i was practicing on them, and you know how kind of stressful it gets for me to do their hair And i'm not naturally gifted in the hair department, um and she was saying girl just get you some locks, lock your hair, and i was like say what now i was like explain. So, of course she has sister locks and she explained to me like her process. Um how it's basically freed up some of her time, giving her hair freedom. You know because she has a daughter too, and she has to do her daughter's hair as well, and i was like okay and then you know she explained to me the cost, and you know how all of that is calculated and everything. So she gave me something to think about, and i was like this - i saw this this is. I wanted these back in like 2009. I saw these, but i didn't want to get locked in i'm at a completely different point in life now um, so it became a serious, serious consideration for me so y'all i literally spent the last. I think me and her had this conversation. I i think she - and i had this conversation last july - i think from last july, until now - i just i just researched research research. I probably watched every sisterlock video youtube has to offer. I probably researched every location in the houston area did every sister like photo on instagram and pinterest, and it was a no-brainer for me now i did. There was a season where i was kind of thinking about getting micro locks, but for the type of hair that i have, i ultimately came to the decision that sister locks would be better for me. So - and i don't want to get into like the difference between the two there's so many videos here on youtube that thoroughly explain that. But i just decided that, for me, sisterlocks would be the better option, and i also talked it over with my lactation as well. And she agreed so after i made the decision that, yes, i am going to i'm going to lock my hair i'm going to like my hair. I had already started kind of saving up my money and because sisterbox is an investment, just i'm just going to put it out there. Sisterlocks is a large investment um to me. It'S worth it to me. It'S been worth it so i started researching um as i was researching loctitions. I had followed a few in the houston area that i i felt like. I liked their work and you know the amount of knowledge that they provided about sister locks on their social platforms. I had a consultation with um, a micro locks consultant as well as a sister locks consultant. Obviously i went with the sister's house consultant. She gave me the option that um with the texture of my hair um, wait i'm getting into the process right now. Okay, so just to make a long story, kind of short, not really short, maybe a little longer after talking to my friend about her sister locks, installation, and you know how she enjoys it, how she loves it. I ultimately decided that this was the right thing. For me that i was going to lock my hair, i'm getting ready to change my camera battery because it's flashing at me so i'll be right back all right, i'm back! Let'S talk about the process, so i'm going to just say that my process actually started at consultation. Um. I went on two consultations. I went on a consultation for micro locks and another one for sister locks. The micro lot consultation that i went on was done by a loctition that only specifically did micro lux, starting with the twists. She did amazing work, so i wanted to see get her viewpoint and kind of analyze that process for my hair, as well as get the viewpoint of a um sister, lock consultant as well. So i then about two weeks later i went on my sisterlock consultation and my sister lock consultant. She actually also does micro locks as well, so she does sister locks, she does micro locks and she starts her micro locks with interlocks as well as the twist and braid locks. So she does it all. So we talked about the processes that may be better. For my hair um, so when i went to my consultation, what she did was she measured the length of my hair because your price is determined by the length of your hair and she also looked at the density of my hair. So i do not have 4c natural hair. My natural hair in some spots is like a 4b 4a and up top, it's kind of like a, i think, like she's, like a 3c um, because it's not as as dense and as coarse at the top um. So she suggested for my hair type. The best options would be sister locks or micro, lock started with interlocks or even braid box, because the twist with how fine my hair is the twist might have unraveled and if you've done like your research, you would know that the unraveling of your locks, you know, When they have to repair them, that can cost more money later on down the road, so we just decided that that's not the best option for me, so quite naturally, sister locks is what i originally wanted. So to me, the price difference was not it wasn't that big of a price difference for me between the micro locks and the sister lock. So i went with the sister locks for my hair. Now my hair, measured at 16 inches in some spots and 15 inches in others. So again, that's how my price was determined. I do not know how many locks i have. We did not count them. I don't know if i'm ever going to count them, because it's i don't know so. If you're wondering i don't know how many locks i have and i might not ever count them. I don't know if i do i'll put it here, but so that was consultation day. The consultation was about 30 minutes um, and i i liked her style. What she did was she did like um, eight, six or eight tester locks right back here, um and like kind of like in the back of my, like my nape area, right back here, to kind of see how my hair will behave with the sister locks and We set my insulation for two and a half weeks later, and so i went in for my installation. We allotted three days originally to complete my hair, so we originally calculated what she did that it would take at least like 24 hours to complete my hair. But we were actually done in like 16 yeah, i think 16 hours so the second day she was working. She was working, we were watching netflix, we were chit-chatting and before we knew it, we were done so it to it. For everyone, it's going to be different. So some people it takes three days. I'Ve seen some videos where some people said that their hair took four days, so it all depends on your hair. Everyone is different. That'S the thing about your loc journey, like with sister locks. It'S going to be different for everyone, so one thing that i did when i was researching. I would look for people with hair that kind of match the texture of my hair. So me watching a video of someone with 4c natural hair. Getting sister locks is not really going to give me a good depiction of what my locs might look like, because i don't have 4c natural hair, so i had to look for other options. So i suggest, if that's something that you're looking for definitely try to look for people that has the same texture as you, and i mean it's. Your hair still not going to look the same, because everybody's hair is different. Everybody'S head shape is different. Everybody has different length. It'S going to be different, but it'll give you an idea but uh my process. I i have absolutely no complaints about my process. My lactation is absolutely amazing. She is very well aware of my scalp condition with um this over here dermatitis. She um she is okay with me, washing my hair as needed. She told me how to do that safely to try to prevent slippage um. I know a lot of people say. Locks is no maintenance. I don't think it's no maintenance. I would say it's low maintenance for me: it's low maintenance for some people. It may be no maintenance, but for me it's it's low. I do braid and band my hair each night, the past few nights. I'Ve been rolling them with some perm rods, my ends, but i still braid them um to kind of keep my ends um curly, simply because when i was not doing that when i was just braiding and banning them, they started to get frizzy throughout the day, and I i did not like the frizzy look, so i found that rolling them kind of helped it out a little bit. My lactation actually has a product that she makes herself um it's kind of like a moisturizing spray for your locs and for your scalp. So i've been using that, along with um the braiding and rolling at the ends - and i feel like for my locs to be a week old that they are flourishing very well, that they are very pretty. And i like the look that they're giving me now. I am a little scalpy, i know everyone says you know in the beginning to expect the scalpie. I i'm definitely in my opinion, very scalpy, so the thing with sister locks is they are going to swell over time. So it's a process. You know i'm excited to see how they change, how they swell how they grow. I'M excited to see what my hair does with the process, because i'm all in now. I have also been told that hey, if you don't like the scalpy look, you can wear a wig over it. You can put you a unit on over it honestly and truthfully. I have no desire to do that because i really do like my locs, like i really like them, and i honestly think it's because i spent so much time, um researching. I think it's because i prepared myself i kind of knew kind of what it would be like. I prepared myself for this gappy phase. As far as my edges go before i got sister locks i had i've had. I do have a lot of thinning on my edges because of the severe hair dermatitis and, of course, having children um getting braids sew-ins things like that. All that tension, it does wear on your scalp, but i lost most of my edges to the seven hair dermatitis condition. So i have a spot over here and i have a few spots right here - that she did not lock she just like braided them very loosely. So that if they, if and when, because we are claiming that they will start to grow um, she will eventually lock those and fill those in as needed. But right now to to not put any more attention on those areas of my scalp they're like very loosely braided and i'm okay with that, you really can't even you really can't even tell okay so yeah, i have a spot right there and then this over here. As well um, i feel like there's something else that i'm forgetting to say: um, hmm, what is it? I am fading, something um shoot. I hate when that happens now, like i said i didn't take, notes this time. That'S what i get. I think i want to continue to update you all about my locs and just document the journey for my own purposes as well. Um i'll probably do another update at one month and then i'll just see where i go from there. I now remember what it was that i was gon na, say: um getting sister locks has allowed me to be able to freely wear my natural hair um without adding a lot of synthetic hair to my hair and a lot of extra products, because it does. When i was doing that, it did irritate my scalp and cause a lot of inflammation, so i feel like i'm, giving my scalp a chance to heal by wearing my natural hair, um y'all. The beauty of this is that my locs, it's just me. It'S just me. This is my hair. It'S going to get an opportunity to do what it was designed to do your hair. Is you it's your natural hair and i'm just you know, i'm just gon na. Let i'm just gon na. Let my babies here just do their thing. You know i want to name them. I want to give them a name. I want to give my locs a name, so the next update you know they might have one she might have one. My next update is going to be after my first retie, my um loctition suggested that i come in for a retie at my first retie at four weeks, so i will update you all after that, so that is all for today's video. I will see you guys. Next time, thank you so much for watching bye. You