6 more days until my hair is free!

Greetings! This is my 1st time blogging ever! I decided to take a break from taking down my micro-mini braids done at a African braiding shop. Ooooh the pain and time that I had to endure to get this braiding style that is temporary along with the time I have to put into taking my hair down. The braiders braided so tight I twisted and turn and the chair and swore it would be the last time I would endure such pain for any hair style. I had been researching sisterlocks for about a year now and looking for certified and recommended loctictians after doing my homework and meeting my sisterlocks loctitian Robert Coleman-Gladdis in Kalamazoo, MI I will begin my journey to sisterlocks August 29, 2009 at 9am! As a African American woman, trying to keep up with the Hollywood ideals of beauty can be harmful to the self-esteem, dangerous, tiring, painful, etc. ie chemical relaxers, heat, afraid for others to see new growth or our hair natural. Here are the reasons I am moved to join many of the women across the world in getting my sisterlocks, kept short and sweet:


1) Freedom
2) No chemical relaxers
3) I can workout and swim w/o the stress of ruining my hair
4)Endure hot weather with no problems
5) So many styling options
6)Natural
7)My hair is naturally coarse and this is one of the style's where that is a GOOD thing
8) Low maintenance
9)My self estemm will only increase bc hair will be beautiful and MINE
10) Sisterlocks will be a journey for me, day 1 will be so diiferent form month 1 and so on.
11) Wake up and go style
12) My hair will begin to grow like weeds bc it will be healthy and chemical free
13) My husband can run his fingers through my hair and I wont have to worry about him discovering a track or painful braids...lol

Probably another 3 hours before my braids are completely down, and my hair dried. To be continued....