Wow thanks for the detail. I’m so scared to self maintain. I told myself I would eventually but now I’m thinking i won’t lol but we’ll see. I’ll definitely tell her to loosen ups next time. Usually it wasn’t this painful. I can’t wait to see what my hair transforms into as time passes. I feel like I love the stage it’s in now but I feel like I will feel like that for every stage lol Thank you watching and contributing to my journey ♥️♥️

@@queenofthej I was also scared to self retighten. Practice makes perfect. Now I can do it by feel alone, without a mirror or even sat in a dark room. I have combined a few locs by mistake. Initially I reacted like the world had come to an end. Some I managed to separate and some I did not. I have learnt to accept and love my double headed dragons. There are so many locs that no one can tell unless I point it out to them. I have self maintained my hair since going natural, to be honest being dependent on a person to maintain my hair, was to stressful for me. It's on my schedule, I control the rotations/ tention on my scalp, it's in the comfort of my own home, and it free ninety nine. I see my retightening time as part of my pampering sessions. If I plan to do it in a day, I put on comfy lounging clothes, grab snacks, re prepare meals, watch movies or YT sisterlocks videos (for motivation). Other times, I may do it sections at a time, over a week. Because I self maintain I have lost probably less than 5 locks over the 6yrs. I have heard how some people have lost a lot more locs, due to leaving to large a gap between retightening. When we went into lock down, it did not impact my hair maintenance routine. It was then, that I truly appreciated the benefits of knowing how to do it myself. But even though the retightening sessions can be time consuming, because it's once every 6 weeks (for me), in comparison to my loose natural hair, it's still soooo low maintenance. I am pro being self-sufficient, but I also appreciate the benefits of having someone else doing it for you. So do whatever works best you boo 💕👑

Yes I’m thinking about stretching them out but I love the fresh look!!! 😭

I’ve had my sisterlocks for about a year and a couple of months(: we are in this together !

Hey boo! And yeah maybe that day was just an off day because usually it doesn’t hurt it may be A LITTLE sore but nothing to mention. This time was just different. I’m massaging my head as we speak! Lol Thank you and thank you so much for watching.

Even when I do my own retightenings, my scalp gets sore. I think it's because you just get used to minimal to cero manipulation.

That’s true. It’s been a while since I’ve pulled, manipulated ect my hair like I did when I was loose natural

Yea the low manipulation may be a factor because I don’t do ANYTHING to my hair. And thank you so much! Xoxo ♥️♥️♥️

Ayyy!!! Welcome to the club! Lol thank you and congratulations!

Lolll i look at that loc like where did you come from?! And thanks ♥️♥️

Thank you!!!

Lolll every I tuck it in it comes back out eventually..on my should always tryna be in my business lolll gotta love it though. Thank you for watching ♥️♥️♥️

Thank you!! ♥️♥️♥️

Ok I’ll definitely suggest that thank you! And how long have you had your braid locs? I was going to get those if I didn’t get sisterlocks

I installed them myself 3 years ago

@@fatimamanneh9432 omg you’re brave. I was too nervous to do them myself lol

Oooo that’s a good idea actually! I’ll try that out. Thanks! ♥️♥️

Ohhhh ok that makes sense! Thanks ♥️♥️♥️

Did they just stop unraveling on their own or did you do something to help it?

I didn’t do anything with them at all I just let it do what it does but for me it stopped unraveling after my 5th-6th month but I think it also depend on our hair types as well most of my locs have matured but some hasn’t yet

@@wolepyro9779 ok cool thanks so much!