Hair all done

Finally I did things slightly backward, I retightened in slow motion taking just over a week to perfect about 1 1/2 inches of re-growth. I nearly lost it at one point when I 'lost' my nappylocks tool... luckly I recovered this while crawling on a wooden floor. Usuall I wash my hair before retightening but this time I washed my hair first, retightened and a week later conditioner washed for the first time since having sisterlocks. What I have learnt is that my hair cannot take a softening conditioner yet (but I still love me some Aveda Sap Moss). The conditioner loosened some of my more locked ends reverting them to tight coils and my hair was not as moisturised as I expected. Luckily the middle of my hair downwards didn't get so saturated in the conditioner so my ends are locking more there.

I won't leave retightening this long again, some of my locks loosened to about half the length so I had to spend time putting them back, luckily the ends were sealed. I also have joined around 3 locks which are on the thin side - I wanted to do more but for now this will do.

The only thing I'll need to find out more about is moisturising my hair - I have tried the daily water spritz, the every other day oil (lavender or jojoba or olive oil) and water mix but this just dries out. Even my trusty organic root stimulator olive oil moisturizer is no match(and I used this as a staple product before SL) . For now I have found that a mist for afros just about does my hair some good - Sta Sof Fro Hair Spray with Oil Sheen. This is to coat the length of my locks (avoiding the ends), for my scalp I still am okay with the medicated cocois.

Pics taken following wash with conditioner:

A long long time since retightening

Here is a shot of my hair when I had no time or energy to retighten (after having a flu virus). Its been about 12 weeks at a guess. My hair went through quite a dry faze and not even water could sort it out. This is my first winter with sisterlocks so I am guessing the weather may not be helping and I need to up the moisture. I finally got around to retightening my hair which took over one week.

After friends B'day Party look

Here are some pictures of my hair after dancing the night away - note it may seem longer as I had cainrowed it for the night then let it free when I made it home in the morning.

Do not be late for a coach - lesson learnt

Ok so coach travel sucks but hey its dead cheap - if your on time! Unfortunately I missed my coach and there was no where to really wait apart from inside the coach station. For the next hour I had to contend with cooing pigeons with war looking injuries, flapping around and generally making themselves at home on the seats that people sit on. Ok so you know I had to take a picture right, and incase you do not know I DO NOT LIKE PIGEONS! Lol

Roti day

Today I did a bonding session with my Mum and we attempted to make Roti from an age old receipe. We put split peas in it as thats how we like it! It turned out okay - it tasted better the next day and we know that next time more split peas will be needed!

Style out of a mistakeI

I was just doing my hair as normal then got carried away and decided to do something different. It was one hairstyle that merged into another and here is the result, I dunno if it works but I thought it was different lol.

Hair wash and dry plus style

Pictures span over 2 days from washing my hair to drying to styling. My partings need some work and I lost 2 locks at the back!