With the way my sides been looking ever since I had my sisterlocks install, I'm been tempted many time to have them taped by a barber  My stubbornness is the only thing that has prevented me from doing so because I still want to see if they can grow back.

Below is an updated look of my sides & middle. Shout out to Jai who wanted an updated on my sides ^_^.

This was taken in 2011	This is the Current Side (2012)
This was taken in 2011	This is the Current Side (2012)

From the look of thing, I don't think my sides will get any better than this. It's definitely a much better improvement then how it was before. If you want to see the worst of it (my thin sides) click here. I believe I can live with how my sides look now. They will most likely get thicker, and I hope that will be a sign of more coverage.





I'm starting to seem my grids, and you guys don't know how happy that makes me. It has been frustrating at times, but I'm glad I didn't give up. The progress to me was painfully slow, but I can't complain, because at least my hair is growing back in. 

Back of My Head (Sisterlocks)

If you are a long time follower, you know my issues with the back of my head. If you are new, I had soft baby hair in the back of my head, which took a total of three years to locks. They were a real pain to deal with because going swimming means longer and painful retighten due to the slippages and unraveling locks.

I'm glad to say that the back of my locks are FULLY locks. I can go swimming etc. without worry about slippages or unraveling locks.






I switch to a new "popular" clarifier shampoo, and just now notice I'm retaining some buildup, and some lint. I will release the review about that shampoo soon, but seeing this makes the decision to stick with my old clarifier all the more easier.

Products I Used for Growth: Hair Growth Oil and Biotin. For moisture and softness, I still use my homemade spray.

I'm still learning about lighting and how to take a better picture with my new DSLR camera. Below are some recent pictures of my sisterlocks, the lighting is too much, but I think these came out nice.

My Damage Sides - Before & After
I continue to take Biotin & One a Day Women's. I also massage my oil (mixture of Rosemary, Sage, and Castor Oil) around that area two times a week.

First Set - Worst	Second Set - Better	Third Set - Best plus Thicker
First Set - Worst	Second Set - Better	Third Set - Best plus Thicker

Area of Slow Growth From Thinning = Success

Slow Growth Area	Now Growth & Locked

Jet Black Hair Dye - Not So Much

The areas that suffered from hair thinning late last year is getting much better. In one area I have the stickies, in another area I have slow growth. At times I get bum about the area that is slow to grow but at least it stop thinning and I'm happy about that. I also decided to go back to Biotin. You can read more on why I decided to quit here. This post will be a in dept review of my sisterlocks.

My Stickies Soon I hope this area won't be sticking out anymore.

My Slow Growth Area The hair in that area is slowing growing back.

Hair History Hair Growth, Hair Thinning, then Hair Growth Again.

My locks has fully mature for the most part. I don't need to braid and band anymore. I'm also notice a lot of my locks are sporting the fully mature look. I still have some curly tips, which for some odd reason I like better then the budded look. I still can't stand the ball ends, which forms at the end of your locks. Those ball ends signal locks maturity, and basically states you are entering the adult stage of the locking process. I still have a lot of those ends in the back of my head.

Mature/Bud Ends Finding it difficult to do twists and braid-out because of those ends.

Curly Ends Love these ends! They are perfect for holding on to twists and braid-outs

Ball Ends Yucky!! I hate these end.

Back View of My Locks Have a lot of curly ends there, and suffer from extreme shrinkage in that area

Even though the lock amount that I have is daunting, it does a great job of covering my area that is thin and may get thin in the future. So as far as sizing is concern I still believe I made the wise choice for me. All and all, my locks are doing well and I'm ready to begin a another year of being sisterlocked.

Now that my hair is growing back, and my scalp is looking healthy again, I decided not to use the huge amount of biotin I was taking these past months. I started noticing some extra side effect, if that's even possible? I notice that biotin was working a little too well, and I wonder if anyone else notices extra growth on their body, while taking biotin.

I was taking a huge amount of GMC Biotin (2500mcg), plus the One A Day Women's (500mcg), so that may be the case of what I was experiencing. I don't know if this is considering a side effect, since technically, biotin is suppose to promote hair growth etc., but I noticed that my hair was growing faster everywhere (arms, legs, etc.). I also notice white/silver hairs growing out of my cheeks, as well as dark hair growing out of my chin (horror). It was typically one or two strand at a time, but to me it was super strange!!! That is why I decided to phase out GMC Biotin capsules a month ago, and now I have stop taking it completely. I will still monitor my hair and hopefully my issue with hair thinning will not resume.

When I saw one of her client, I was sold right always. Her client had the most beautiful small snow white sisterlocks I ever seen. She also had the size that I wanted. So I asked her, who was her sisterlocks consultant? She told me her consultant name was Karen, and she gave me her number. Once I had the number, I called Karen immediately, and asked her if she can fit another client. She told me yes and the rest was history.

Below is the picture of her sisterlocks which are the same size as me. Her sisterlocks give me inspiration, and motivation, on how my sisterlocks will eventually turn out. Enjoy =).

This how her sisterlocks look on a average day. No curlers, braidout, etc.


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I'm starting to see improvement of the issues that I had last years. Like I explain to you guys late last year, I use to wear a lot of weaves and braids before I went natural. Due to that, I had a lot of breakage, and traction alopecia became apparent when hair wouldn't grow back. Some of the hair that I lost will never grow back, but the little that still had life is slowing coming back, and I'm very happy about that. Another issue I had was the back of my hair was refusing to lock and this was causing me to have unraveling locks which equal to longer time spent on the hair. Well for the most part my hair is finally locking up in the back of my hair which I notice is making my retighten time MUCH shorter.

Below are the comparison shots of my issues, and as you can see, things are changing for the better.

Successful Growth Left Frontal Side

Successful Growth ( One area is still not growing, I'm still hopeful though) Right Frontal Side

Successful Growth = Baby Locks (Left Pictures) Right Frontal Side (Right Pictures) Left Frontal Side

Successful Locking = Happy Camper :D (Left ) Older Pictures (Right ) Current Pictures Hair is still soft but it more settle then the left picture.

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