Hi ladies! I re-tightened my locks over the weekend. It's been about 3 weeks since my last re-tightening. I was initially going to try to wait until 4-6 weeks, but I'm glad I didn't.
I had several vulnerable locks in the back and front I needed to address because of slippage/unravelling, so I just did my whole head.
One thing I find interesting through this process is that even though I have traditional locks this time, I have some locks that are developing with the fat ends, just like when I had my Sisterlocks. Getting my locks to fit in the eye of my yarn needles and pass through the base of those particular locks was definitely a challenge.
I tried using a safety pin, and I ran into the problem JoyceMD mentioned in one of her videos where the hair gets caught in the loop at the bottom of the pin. I ended up having to pull really hard to get my hair out and I didn't like that.
She recommended using the coilless safety pins to avoid that issue, so I ordered some from eBay yesterday, as well as the bulb safety pins.
What I really need is something with a large enough base, like a bulb safety pin, and a pointy tip like a yarn needle that is varying lengths for my smaller locks in the back and front of my hair. But I also don't want it to cost a lot, either.
Do you ladies have any ideas or suggestions for what I could use? I needed something like that when I had SLs too but never found anything.