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?
3 comments:
A combination of both is great. I installed a client and she came for her third session for a retightening, then two after that. She knew how to do Nappylocs and winged it. Today she came for her 8th month. She combined four into two locks by accident. One fell off. Her plan is come about every three or four months. I'm a trainee and need help from time to time. It feels good to know you can have it done all at once and let your arms rest. Yet, it's good not to be dependent on somebody else.
Thanks Carmen. I want to continue to see my loctian but not as often if I can do it myself. I look at it as time away from home anyway. I ordered my nappy loc tool. We will see how it goes.
DIY if U can,if U enjoy doing ur hair. Like carmennc said you can go to ur locttian sometimes. I gave in and went for my 4th retightening.It was a relief cuz I didn't feel quite ready to tackle a head full of small locs! I know I'll Diy in the end, dropping in at my loctitians every 2-3 retightenings.
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