the first thing I want to say is that I have been looking at sisterlocks for a very long time about 3 years and the only problem that i had with them of course was the price. Let me just say now that I am not rich by any means which is why the cost of sisterlocks has caused me to wait for 3 years to get them. I have been natural for 8 years about 2 years after going natural I got dreadlocks and I loved them!!
But after 6 years of having them my hairline was starting too recede and the last thing I wanted to do was to mess up my hair so I took them out :.(
Of course if I had done some research on it I would have realized that I could've just stopped getting them done every two weeks and I could've saved myself the heartache but you live and you learn.
So now that my hair is out I have had the hassle of trying to find things to do with it every day. I'm sure that every other person who has natural hair goes through this same problem especially when my sister decided to go natural about 4 years ago and so she struggles right along with me. Here is a picture of me and my sister way back in our perm days...
That picture was actually at my prom and it happened to be my very last perm.
And here is me with me hair out doing a length check.
But anyway back to what I was saying, I decided to get the sisterlocks and went to meet a consultant so I could get a better idea of how much it would be. So after meeting with her for about 15 minutes (which I did not realize was a very short time frame) she wanted to put the tester locks in my hair. But only after she said that it would be $700 to install. Now i know that the price she gave me was not that bad considering that at the time i had 7 inches of hair but I had only saved a few hundred and didn't know if I could spend that kind of money on my hair. I guess I would say i'm a little cheap, when in comes to paying anything over $50 I always think twice.
But I decided to get them anyway but of course as soon as I made that decision I lost my job... So i had to put that on hold for a while.
But thank God that a few months later I got another job doing basically the same thing. So this year i have really been trying to save up for them but I have also been looking for ways to reduce the cost. One way that i saw to reduce the cost was to go with a trainee instead of a consultant and when I tell you that God is good he truly, truly is.
So one day I was searching the web for a deal on sisterlocks in the DC, MD, VA area and I happened to come across a groupon for half off sisterlocks in my area. As I looked at the coupon i noticed that she was in Germantown, MD. Seeing that definitely threw a wrench in my celebration, because I don't drive and Germantown is about 40 minutes from me, so I just assumed I wouldn't be able to do it. About a week later me and my bestest friend went out and I told her about the sisterlock coupon. She offered to take me to the appointments because she knew how much I wanted them.(F.Y.I. She is the greatest best friend ever) Of course hearing that made me ecstatic but I reminded her that i still only had half the money even with the coupon because of several circumstances that had come up through out the year. But then she suggested that I ask my mom to pay the other half as a Christmas gift, which i immediately did and she agreed. YAY!!!
So when we left the restaurant I called Faith, that's her name by the way, and we talked for a few minutes and I told her about me and that I really wanted the sisterlocks and that I had someone who could take me to Germantown. But then she told me that she actually will travel to me because that's how she does her business she travel to her clients homes which was awesome.
And I'm just gonna take a moment to say that if I hadn't taking the time to call her I never would have known that she travels. LOOK AT GOD!!!
So she came to my house and gave me the consultation. The consultation took about 2 hours in total and she was very nice an answered all of my questions. I saw the video and after the consultation she put the tester locks in my hair.
One thing I was and still am worried about is the fact that I have very fine thin hair and so I didn't want to have a problem with slippage or anything but we will just have to see how that goes. here are pics of the tester locks.
She put in four in the back and four on the side
After I trimmed my ends, because they were very uneven, she said I had 6 1/2 to 8 inches of hair. So now i'm just really excited about getting my sisterlocks in and I cant wait til tomorrow.
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