True Love

Sooooo, after 5 days, (yes, 5 consecutive butt numbing, movie watching, junk food filled days) I am ecstatic to say that my hair is done! *Shout out to my locktician, Elizabeth. She has the patience of Job : ) I do have to admit that throughout this process, I rode a roller coaster of emotions that I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.

Day 1: With 20% of my hair done and 16hrs in the chair, I looked at myself in the mirror and went home petrified.

Day 2: With 40% done and only one more full day left to devote to my hair, I was idling on panic.

Day 3: With 75% done and I left worrying about figuring out some kind of a way to style my hair for work the next morning. I was completely over hearing "You aren't finished YET?", "Now, what exactly are you doing to your hair?" and "So you can't take those those things out at all?"

Day 4: With 90% done and I left fighting off an anxiety attack fueled by exhaustion and impatience.

Day 5: With 100% done, I went home around 2am so exhausted I fell asleep wearing all of my clothes. I couldn't even relish the fact that the one thing I had been waiting the last 3 months for was DONE. I slept through my shining moment. I awoke the next morning to find that the jury was in.

The verdict is: TRUE LOVE

I wasn't love at first sight by any means, but it is truly the real thang baby! I love, love, love my Sisterlocks! I has been 3 weeks and I couldn't be happier. I have about 1000 teeny tiny Sisterlocks. I don't foresee counting the locks on my head, so that's a really rough guess. I have been wearing my hair in a braid-out style and using perm-rods for my ends. Some of my ends are strait because of my using a flat iron for so long and the rods keep my ends from looking stringy. Is it vain of me to say my hair is beautiful? Too late... It's beautiful. I can' t wait to see where this journey takes me.

I "heart" my hair...

I'm Taking a Moment of Silence

I would like to take a moment of silence for - - - the purple Nikon S210 Digital Camera I lost in the rain leaving the CBC gala last night. I'm not a gadget person, but my best friend bought me that camera for my birthday last year. I wanted that camera for such a long time and was ecstatic when I got. It had the last pictures of my pre-Sisterlocked hair, not to mention some really great pictures from this weekend. Folks, I'm not superficial and I know it can be replaced, but I'm still a little bummed about it.

Just needed to vent for sec....

Deep Breath.....Here we go!

Deep breath.....Here we go. Hi all! Anyone out there? (cricket...cricket) Uh, well, I am one of those very excited, proud, yet still a little nervous women who has decided to take the plunge and join the Sisterlocks family.

I've been natural on and off again for about 9 years. I had my last perm about 3 years and I will never perm again. Like so many I've had a love/hate relationship with my hair for my entire life. My hair has been thick and dry ever since I can remember. I've been permed, pressed, braided, weaved, blown out, flat ironed, worn it short, long and a worn the all too funky "in-between" length. I've been looking for natural options for sometime now. I'm a swimmer and I try to swim 3 or 4 days a week. Needless to say, swimming doesn't love my hair. I had literally given up. I had actually made an appointment to get a hair cut. I planned to cut it all off (AGAIN) and hoped to have some relieve for a few months when I ran across a blog about Sisterlocks. My best friend has a beautiful set of palm rolled locs. I even helped maintain her locs in her beginning stages. I've watched her hair go from a tiny baby locs to the fab locs she's rockin' today. I thought I knew all there was to know about locs and then I saw a georgeous set of Sisterlocks. In my head I then could hear my great-grandmother saying "Baby, keep living". The Sisterlocks looked so different. I live in DC and I don't think I've ever seen (or at least paid attention to) anyone's locs that look that look like that. I was beyond intrigued.

Finding out more about "Sisterlocks" became my favorite pastime. I used every opportunity I had to research Sisterlocks. I went from never having read a blog in my entire life, to reading every blog I can find about Sisterlocks. I read about everything from true journey of patience that having Sisterlocks will bring, to "what does my husband really think about my hair", to the love affairs so many women had grown to have with their Sisterlocks. This was slowly developing into a light at the end of the tunnel for me. With every blog I read, I became more and more convinced Sisterlocks was the answer for me.

So I contacted a few consultants in my area. I decided to meet with a consultant who coincidentally lives right down the street from me and scheduled a consultation. My appointment went wonderfully. My consultant was professional, very thorough, and extremely patient. She answered all of my many questions and I left there feeling like I had made one of the best decisions in my life. I made my appointment for October 1, 2009 and needless to say I am on pins and needles! I would have had them installed the very next weekend but unfortunately my consultant was booked through September.

So here I am like a kid on Christmas Eve waiting for my Sisterlocks birthday!

I will be sure to keep my blog (I can't believe I actually started a blog) posted with my observations, ramblings, trials and victories.

Prayerfully progressing,

Peach Fuzz