Newbie Locks

Kind of late, but I wanted to be sure that she indeed had sisterlocks as of 2012. I pour through a lot of video & pictures and confirmed that she indeed have sisterlocks or very small interlocks.

I would say from the look of her pictures, she had her locks for about 3-4 years. Below are more pictures of what I believe are sisterlocks.







Lauryn Williams is a track and field sprint athlete of Trinidadian descent, competing internationally for the United States. She won the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 100 Meters Relay.  You can read more about her here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauryn_Williams

Please note these pictures are not copyright by me what so ever. If you the owner of these pictures and would like to be recognized, just email me and I will include your name :).

Example of my stickies

I don't know about others, but Sisterlocks has made me more aware of my thin and short locks in the middle. My hair is growing back, but I get frustrated when I see a bunch of short locks in one area (center of my scalp). The frustration I feel stem from questions that get asked from total stranger, which may give off the wrong impression about sisterlocks.

For example, I was walking in the Mall the other day, and a young lady asked me if I had sisterlocks. I answered yes. Then she asked to touch them and I let her. Then followed the next dreaded question. Why the locks in the front are so short? Does your sisterlocks snap easily? Usually I lie and say, my side was damaged and those are hairs that are growing back. Sometime I don't even bother lying and say, yes they did snap, but that was due to alopecia. Then they start to ask why I got them so small, especially knowing I have alopecia.

When I decided to get sisterlocks, I really didn't know I had alopecia. That finding came out from a visit to a dermatologist, after experiencing hair thinning again (learn more here).To be honest, even if I had known I had alopecia, I still would have gone the "standard small" route and that is because of  A) Awareness - I notice a lot faster when my hair start to thin out, which cause my locks to start thinning out as well.  B) I can disguise the thinning area much better due to the fullness of my locks.

If you look at my pictures in the past couple of post, do you guys even notice I have a bunch of stickies in the middle? The answer would be no, since I make sure to cover those area.




If you suffer from thinning hair like I do, you have some hard decisions to make about getting sisterlocks. Sisterlocks or any locking method will not SAVE or CURE your thinning hair. If you do decide to get sisterlocks, then you must talk to your consultant first to see what size fits your needs.

I honestly thought this trip wasn't going to happen with Tropical Storm Isaac looming around the tropics. Luckily Isaac decided to move a little faster, which made the impact to South Florida rendered down to just down trees and power in a couple of areas.

Even though I was going to Cozumel Mexico, I decided to curl my hair this time around with pipe cleaners in order to have those really tight curls that will continue to loosen during my cruise. Even though I had hope that my curls would last for a couple of days, by the second day of the cruise, the curls dropped (*sad face*).

Below are some my favorite pictures of Cozumel Mexico. I will visit again and this time I will check out the ruin.



Each night our church group had a theme event. This was me in my nautical outfit. I learn about the themes at the last minute and I just threw stuff together.


I shot this picture as we were sailing away from the port. Six hours was just not enough time to spend there.