Lov'n my locs

My SL's are maturing nicely. Jane, my loctition was right, she said in about a week you will see a difference and start to like the look of them. Well it's been just over a week and I'm really starting to enjoy them. I curled them with sponge rollers a few days ago and at first I thought it looked a little grannie-ish but I sprayed them with some water and it looked much better. I've had some slipping of a few locks. I definitely would not be able to make it to 6 weeks without a re tightening. I'm so glad I scheduled the re tightening for every 4 weeks. One thing that's been annoying me is my scalp is super itchy. But that's nothing new I usually have an itchy scalp and have never been able to figure out why. I think it's just dryness. And with not being able to use conditioner right now it's even worse then usual. I got some elastic headbands from Walmart and I really like the way the look in my hair, I would say they are my favorite way of styling my hair right now. I will take a pic the next time I wear one and post it.

I have already gotten comments from people that they like my hair which is great! It's nice to hear positive feedback. I feel totally at peace with my hair for once in my life. I just know in my heart that I made the best decision for it that I've ever made. Even though I'm excited for my SL's to get long quickly I think I will enjoy them at all lengths.

My sisterlock journey has begun!

My sisterlocks have been done and I'm ready for my new hair! Can't wait for it to start growing. It didn't take long at all. Only 16 hours. A few bloggers spoke of 25 hours or more to get their locks put in. Now I just have to wait for them to grow and mature. I'm sure some of them will slip and come undone but that's o.k, I'm going to go for a re tightening in 4 weeks instead of 6 weeks. My hair grows quickly so I'll probably need to go every 4 weeks for the first year.

One thing about my new locks that my husband thought was cool was that when I took off my quad helmet I didn't have helmet hair! My hair looked the same! That's a sisterlock bonus.

I'm going to go to walmart and get some spongy curlers so that I can curl it and style it. It looks a little funny with the ends looking so straight because of the texturizer I had in my hair. I figured if I curled it I might have a nicer look. I will post pics of the finished style.

Itchy!! Itchy!!

My hair is so dry. I did my first wash of my starter test locks and it was weird not to use conditioner. I was surprised that my hair still felt somewhat soft but boy is my scalp dry! I'm still counting down the days until the my sisterlock journey truly begins. 7 more days to go! I've been spending a lot of time on the computer looking at other peoples sisterlock journey blogs. My favorite so far is The Making of Monica. I would love to have my sisterlocks turn out like hers, she has beautiful hair.

Well I don't have much else to say today. Had a good walk with Duke today and I managed to eat healthy all day. I made Kale Chips my favorite raw food snack and as usual I keep eating them out of the dehydrator before their even done. I'm slowly transitioning back to raw eating again and it's going well. I actually enjoy eating healthy, it just feels right and I can tell my body is thankful for it too.

I've named this blog Canadian sisterlock journey because I feel that black hair care in Canada is quite a bit different then in the U.S. Black women in the U.S have more options were hair care is concerned then in Canada, in particular, Alberta. Although I've heard that Toronto is pretty good, probably because of the higher black population. There is more trained black hair professionals and locticians in the U.S than in Canada. I became interested in dreadlocks in my early 20's and that interest diminished when I had trouble finding someone who specialized in the dreadlock process.

When I got married and had children and I became busier and busier, the less time I had to spend on myself and my hair. I started researching dreadlocks and became more and more frustrated when I couldn't seem to find anyone who knew what they were talking about. There are only a handful of black hair salons in the city of Edmonton. When I would go for a consultion about dreadlocks they had me convinced that it wasn't the way to for me and that my hair would not lock being that I'm part white. Well I found that to be strange being that I see white people with dreadlocks all the time. I think the problem was that they could make more money off me by doing weaves and other costly hair processes. So again I spent too many years and to much money on time consuming hair procedures that I didn't even really like. I always felt like it wasn't really me. I've always left the hair salons feeling excited about the new hair style but in pain from the tightness and confused because deep down I knew that extensions just weren't me. The last couple of years I started getting my hair texturized which I enjoyed the look but again it didn't feel right and my hair was breaking off and it started to get more and more brittle feeling. Again I started researching dreadlocks on the internet and I ended up on the sisterlocks website. Well I was immediately excited when I look through the gallery photos. This was what I wanted I just knew I had finally found what I've been looking for. I was shocked to see on the consultants page that there was someone in Edmonton, Alberta that does sisterlocks!! I immediately contacted her and went for my first consultation. I got my first baby test locks put in and now I'm waiting for the big day May 8th & 9th when the journey to sisterlocks begins. I will be posting pictures so watch for them and I will try to round up some pics of my pre-sisterlock days as well.

This blog will be about my sisterlock journey to hair freedom as a Canadian mulatto woman. At last I will be at peace with my hair and have more money to spend on other things instead of someone else's expensive hair, hair products and pricey hair salon fees!