Maintenance Tips Between Appointments

At home maintenance can be very simple, shampoo and separate your locks. This is universal for new and mature Sisterlocks & Micro-Interlocks.

Starting out, I suggest my clients shampoo their hair once a week so that their locks will start swelling and settling. Everyone else should shampoo their hair at MINIMUM twice a month. For new Sisterlocks & Micro-interlocks you should be braiding and banding your locks when you shampoo them until your locitian tells you to stop or until they are uniformly locked on the ends. Budding is not an indication that you should stop braiding and banding.

You should be separating your locks  after every shampoo, this will keep your locks from matting together and will help make your retightening go WAYYY smoother.

Styling Tips Between Appointments:

• Do not keep your style in longer than 2 weeks
• Watch the tension you use to style your hair

Style Ideas to Achieve Specific Goals:

• Curl your hair to create more volume by using:
• Lock loops
• Pipe cleaners
• Perm rods
• Bantu knots
• Want your hair off of your neck? Try these:
• Twist
• Barrel Roll
• Braid
• Bantu knots

This is a brief summary of a deep dive I will do in upcoming blogs. Styling can very based off of hair length, density, and stage of lock journey. This post is the beginning of a 3 or 4 part series. Stay tuned for more tips and tricks that will focus on your hair type.