You see, mom and I are totally different. She isn't very adventurous and she's often afraid to try new things and venture out despite the efforts of my sisters and me.
I am still in awe that she actually took this bold step of liberation all by herself. I was convinced that she'd never get past the "spacy" beginning stage because she has a loose curl pattern. So, I didn't coerce her. I didn't tie her to a chair and perform SL torture (i.e. force her to read blogs or look at hundreds of SL photos or read every post on LockItUp). She made the decision on her own.
Two years ago she stopped perming. She was tired of the salon wait, the salon move, the salon attitudes, tired of damaged hair and just plain ole tired.
She gets up at 4 a.m. each day to go to work standing on her feet in a hot warehouse. She'd go to work with a hairstyle and come home disheartened looking as if she'd never been to the beauty shop.
Flash forward to this past week and her new liberated hair freedom - she gets to sleep in longer - because she just runs her fingers through her locks and her hair is beautiful. The Texas and warehouse heat had no effect on her Sisterlocks. She came home and said, "Today, I didn't have to worry about those huge fans blowing my hair all over my head, wondering what I was looking like or sweating my hair out." I asked, how did that feel mom? She said, "wonderful!"
In one week, she's already more confident and proudly sports her SL. Her spacing is very minimal and hardly noticeable. She'd been wearing a wig to church prior to locking. On Sunday, I said, mom you wore your SL to church. She said, "of course! I paid too much money for this to hide them."
I guess mom and I aren't so different after all - we now share the bond of Sisterlocks!
(Hairstyles: Blaq-Caruso set with day old highlights, Mom-freshly locked after 10 hours, Gigi-Soft Spike set up do)
