My daughters and I have all celebrated our one-year locversaries in the past few weeks. I'm pretty sure I'm the only one who was really impressed by this, the girls were kinda "meh" about the situation. I was anxiously awaiting mine because I've been wanting to henna and I felt it was best to wait until my locs were "mature." I thought they'd be at the same stage my first set of locs were one year, but they're not. Thinner locs, Sisterlocks, just seem to take longer to mature. I've noticed this on both my daughters and myself. Our first sets of larger locs were just a bit farther along at this stage in the game.

And I retightened my hair last night. Ugh. It usually takes me about 4 hours to do it. I think I must have started too late last night or maybe I was tired, I don't know, but it seemed to take FOREVER. I didn't get done until almost 2 in the morning. But I can't start and then not finish. Even though I was tired, I felt the need to press on until it was over, which was probably a mistake because...
I accidentally joined two locs together. At last partially together. I hate when I do this. I spent about 20 minutes trying to undo them before I just gave up. It's near impossible to push the loc back through the
exact same place. So I decided to cut it, which I'm always afraid will weaken one of the the locs if not both, but I couldn't just leave them half joined together. The picture shows the tuft of hair that curled up after I cut them apart. Luckily, there is still a substantial base, so I'm confident this lock will be okay.
To celebrate our one year lociversaries, I decided to buy a steamer, since I've heard so many positive review about them on different hair sites. I ordered a PRO-1037a from Salonsrus.com since the black Pro-150 was out of stock at the time (though it is on sale this week).
It wasn't at all hard to set up, as a matter of fact, Bree helped me put it together. I've used it a couple of times, and my daughters have sat under if for a few minutes, but...and I hate to say this...I wasn't feeling the effects like I thought I would be. People have lauded the steam treatments and the softness afterward, but my hair felt the same. I think I sat under it for about twenty minutes (no cap!), but my hair just felt okay afterward. Nothing special. Of course I'm not giving up on it yet - I think I'll try to do a hot oil treatment under it tonight and then post the results.