MeShi's and Magdalene's Locs

Just thought I would share a photos of MeShi & Magdalene.

MeShi Avery with beautiful, mature sisterlocks with Auburn highlights

MeShi is a licensed counselor and she coordinates the lectures of Dr. Ray Hagins when he speaks here in Atlanta, usually every third Saturday. She had mature and beautiful sisterlocks with a few streaks of color.

I met Magdalene at Barnes and Nobles Bookstore in Buckhead last night. She was gracious enough to allow me to take two photographs. But it is a small world - we discovered that we know several people in common both personally and professionally. I think she said Sophia does her hair!

Magdalene with a coiled coif of traditional locs

Her traditional locs were curled on hard plastic perm rods - she said that it takes about 3 hours to wash, retighten, set, dry and style her hair.

Nappy, Kinky, Coily, Highly Textured Hair

Well, you've decided.

You prefer the term 'kinky' to describe our hair with a little over one-third of you voting for 'kinky'. Highly textured came in a close second at 28%. Coily hair was your least favorite.

I was surprised that 'Nappy' came in at only 12% since it seems so popular these days. Websites like Nappturality and slogans like "Happy to be Nappy" can be found all over the web.

Confidentially, I have never particularly cared for all the 'nappy' rage. Anyone in marketing who has had to brand a product knows that it is much harder to 'spin' a word with a negative connotation positive than it is to 'brand' a new term!

I prefer tightly coiled, highly textured hair. The phrase is too long to ever become popular, but there you have it - my favorite.

Dr. Welsing, an old professor of ours and author of The Isis Papers, is fond of the term 'helix hair,' reminiscent of DNA. I find the term 'helix hair' very layered in meaning since Afrika gave birth to human kind and human civilization!

Hotep

(Read a more recent post about 'texturizers' here)

Amba cleaned up my kitchen!

We had an all day retightening session on Monday, but I must admit I arrived late and we took a leisurely lunch.

My next retightening will be in four weeks instead of five...and no DIY for me before then (except perhaps in the front, where I can see what I'm doing!)

Sisterlocks: How to make a hot mess of your kitchen

My hair has grown rather fast this summer and I've been getting retightened every five weeks or so instead of every three week as I did just after getting my sisterlocks installed this past winter.

I'm headed for Amba's in the morning and none too soon!

I don't care for a lot of new growth. In fact it bothers me so much that I decided to try my hand at retightening my 'kitchen' which still suffers slippage, especially when I've been swimming.

What a hot mess! Combined locs and overlapping (worse than the photo can show)!

Amba has her job cut out for her tomorrow. I think it may be a long morning. (She's always lurking - I'm just giving her a heads up! ;O)

It's a lot harder to work with a single sisterlock than you might think. Prep the area well with lots of hair clips (and to know what you're doing helps too!).

I've posted, in the past, that I have no intention of ever maintaining my own hair. I still don't. But right about now, I think I'll be checking into the next retightening course in my area - just in case I have to go an extra week or two without retightening next summer!

African Faces in Kemet (Egypt)

Mike with two brothers from the city of Aswan