I did it! Oh Yeah!!!

I got my nappy loc tool in the mail the other day. OMG!! I did my own retightening. Ok I will say this..Carmen if you are reading, I take my hats off to all yall that are doing it on a regular. Straight God given patience.Babeee, my arms hurt afterwards. It took me a whole day at work to get thru it but I did it and I am so proud of myself. Now after going thru that, I look forward to seeing my loctian on my next go around. I will do it every now and then but that was a JOB! This is freshly retightened.

2 months locked down!

My babies are 2 months old today and I am still very much in love with them. My girls and I went to the movies yesterday and after the movie let out it was raining like crazy. I walked in the rain with pure enjoyment and stayed in the rain because I know I would look good soaking wet. My babies were jealous. "Mama I'm getting wet!" It just the girls and me. I love spending time with them.

My hair is starting to get noticed. One of the ladies I work with wanted to touch them because she really could not make out what then were. She thought they were absolutely beautiful. Another lady noticed how thick they are getting and a stranger off the street says "OMG girl you have the prettiest braides!" Of course what did I say..."No honey, they are locks."

My nappy loc tool is suppose to come in the mail soon. I can't wait. The last time I seen my loctian was July 11th. She has been putting off my appointment because he schedule has been hectic. I totally understand. As of right now, my next visit is not until September 14th. That is 2 months in between retightening so I think I will see how this tool will help me out. I know I'm not going to like doing it all the time but it will at least help me with the time in between. Check out my 2 month pics.

DIY? Could I really!

Ladies forgive the lack of pics. I am at work blogging and I can't believe I am able to post from work. Its usually blocked out and all I can do is read other peoples blogs. Well since I can post on my own, I'm going to take advantage of it. I guess I could do it at home but with the kids and everything, I have been known to fall asleep standing up next to my bed. LOL!!! Don't pay me any attention. Help me out with this though...

I had a retightening scheduled for 8/11, 4 weeks of new growth, but i rescheduled it thinking I did not have enough new growth to matter. After I called and rescheduled my appointment, I washed my hair. OMG!!! I had major new growth and slippage but I didn't want to call her back to try and get my appointment back because she is so busy, once you get an appointment, you better keep it or you are s.o.l. Ok well I was playing around in my head trying to figure out what I can do to hold on to the ones that were slipping for another 2 weeks until my new appointment. Ladies I don't know how but I figured out my pattern and tightened those loose ones with my fingers. I was so excied that I referred back to Saabira's blog to get an idea of if I was really doing it right. I know it's not rocket science but before I knew it, I had almost retightened the back of my head with just my fingers. Of course you guys know my little sister has been locked for 3 years now. I had her look at the back of my head. The first thing she said was.."Oh you bout to do mine! When do you want to order the nappy lock tool?" Now ladies I am a newbie. I haven't had my second retightening yet. I know I can do it. I'm not worried about that but do I do it since I am so new at this? Do I just let my loctian continue or do I do it myself? I didn't expect to become a DIYer. At least not this quick. I even talked to another lady that I work with. She's also familiar with sisterlocks. She retightens her friends hair. She confirmed that I was doing it correctly. Again I am blessed becasue I was just playing around and next thing I know, my stuff was tightened. I even created a couple of locks.

A little back ground about myself...I am a 20+ cosmetologist. Doing hair just came natural to me. I could see something and do it. This was not going to be a thing for me to where I made a job of it. Please believe I do hair and have done hair but family has me so burnt out on it ain't no way I would have the patience to do this on someone else. Just me right there lookin at cha!

So what do yall think? Do I just do it myself or continue to see my loctian?