One month and loving it!!

I have had my locks for a month now and I am loving it. I went to Durham last week to visit a friend of mine. The weather was nice. I'm a Michigander so it was warmer than I was use to. Hot and humid but you could not tell I was in any distress with the way my hair looked. Guess what! All I took for my hair was a few perm rods, some fashionable hair pins (which is what I'm wearing in this pic, just hard to see them), some rubber bands, and my shampoo. I was just so pleased with the looooow manintence of my hair. I still have permed ends so I put in a few braids, put perm rods on the ends, blow dried it for about 5 minutes and I was looking good. Here it doesn't look full like it normally is and that's because I found these fashionable hairpins and was able to pull my hair back around my ears. It was so cute. I got so many compliments. Honestly, I know many have said this, but I don't know what took me this long to go natural.

My little sister

Here's a few pics of my little sister that started it all. I think her hair is the bomb.

What a journey!!

The day for my installation was June 24th and 25th. What a long two days it was. I was so excited about finally getting my hair locked. I arrived at my loctians house about 8:30 am. We had booked 2 days but due to the amount of my hair, I was wondering if we needed to do 3 days. She said the 2 dys would be sufficent. Well this is how it went.

I arrived at her house at 8:30 am. I got myself comfortable while she got her son ready to go with her mom. We started about 9am. Finished the first day at 8pm with only the top of my head done. I remember thinking to myself that she has an abundance of patience because ain't no way I would take this much time to do a persons head and I'm a license cosmetologist. I guess I was always one of those beauticians that did not like to look at people sitting long. I was a "get em in and get em out" kind of stylist. If you were at my shop longer than 2 hours, you had been there too long. Well the next day I came back at about 8am and we got started about 8:30. We watched so much tv. She was new to cable so she was like a kid in a candy store with what was On Demand. I say that because I work for the cable company now and watching tv is not something I do on a regular. Anyway we watched while she worked. I really enjoyed being in her company. I'm normally a quiet person. We took a break at about 3pm for about an hour and a half and we were back at it again. We did not finish until 2:30am. Talk about somebody tired. I think I felt bad for her because she stood that long taking time to make sure it was done right. When she finished we both stretched. I gave her a big hug and made my way home. Now ladies I lived about an hour away from my loctian. She waited up until I got home. I thought that was so nice. Of course I did not make it work the next day but I was gorgeouse when I got up. She had braided it for me and rolled the ends. You couldn't tell me nothing. My mom was not a big fan of me locking my hair but she locked it. I was in love with it my self. I had talked about it so much and wanted it so much by the time my family seen it for the first time, they treated me like a new family member. It was cool. My little sister, who turned me on to it, came over my house at the butt crack of dawn just to see the finish product. I got major compliments from family, work, and my significant other. He was more excited than I was and he is not a man that really cares what I do to my hair. Take a look at a pic before and a few pics after.