Well!  I am elated to share with you that after nearly two years of transitioning to locs via kinky twists, my girl Simone has decided to let them go! As a woman obsessed with length we went through a number of chats, e-mails and things before coming to this place.  I was excited because this is such a big deal for us!  Yes, I said 'us'! LOL!

I've known this woman for some years and always knew her to wear the ponytails and braids - and that was really it (with less than five exceptions).  For this queen to make the decision to rock her natural hair was amazing!  I love the new look, Mone!!!  Love it!

Date of Kinky Twist install: October 31, 2010

Date of Locked and Lovely: October 3, 2012

Twist Date: June 23, 2012

So, the five month mark has come and gone.  I get lazier and lazier by the month.  Shame!  I went from re-twisting on the third of the month to the twenty-third.  Geez.  Oh well!

After having a conversation with my Bestest about natural hair options, she asked me about CurlFormers.  I told her that I have in fact tried them on a client (with relaxed hair), but never on myself or another naturalista.  This conversation presented a challenge.

There I was waiting on a client to arrive and with the spare moments, I decide to begin the process of inserting CurlFormers.  Using the tool, I was able to include three locks at a time.

I found this to be a bit difficult to execute on myself.  Time and time again the tool would detach leaving half of the rod in the CurlFormer.  I attribute this to me doing it myself.  I ended up getting frustrated and accidentally broke the tool!  So, now what?

I will say that the CurlFormers that I used did in fact yield great results.  I personally, would rather try these on someone else.  Check out the results (image on far right) on the few that were able to be set on the CurlFormers!