I’ve never had a perm, my mother never let me. I grew up dedicating weekends to the maintenance of my hair. In highschool finally able to decide the styles I wanted myself, I opted to get my hair braided in box braids devoid of synthetic hair. I’d painstakingly redo the front two rows whenever they showed the slightest bit of frizz. I dated a boy in high school whose mom was a sisterlock consultant, she was the first person I ever met with sisterlocks. She informed me that it would save a heap of time if I started sisterlocks this way, I was so close to scheduling an installation. Over…