To me, this list is a no-brainer, but to others, it may not be so. Below is what I feel is something you should do before each appointment that you set & have.

1) Wash your hair before your appointments. Some may feel that I don't really need to list this here, but I really do need to list this here. Apparently, some people feel that their hair is clean enough after a month or even two weeks of prior washing. It boggles my mind that some people feel that way, and if you feel that way, you should look up on how the scalp works. Trust and believe when I say your scalp is dirty (your locks may not be) but your scalp is. I would never understand why a person would you want to have their new growth retighten without cleaning it first...yuck. When you are getting your new growth retighten, whatever you didn't clean out, gets trapped in the interlocking pattern. Imagine if you didn't clean your scalp, and that entire dead skin cell, and the sebum oil get trap in your locks...that is gross. That is why lint is such a hard thing to get rid of! Wash your hair before your appointment! I do mine the morning of my appointment, and I think that is the best solution for everyone.

2) Time management - Arrive on time for your appointment, the same thing applies for consultant/trainee. If you set a time, please make sure you arrive on time (or inform the consultant/trainee you going to be late). If your consultant is popular, trust and believe that her time is valuable, and she may even rush the retightening of your locks, which can introduce what we call holes (or the "Ys") in your locks. Nothing upset me more than someone who is always late with everything, so be a doll, and arrive on time for your appointments. Same thing with consultant/trainee, do what you need to do prior to your clients arrival. That is including eating your food, because no offense, if you eating something that is smelly, we smell it...ugh. Also chewing around someone ear is sooooo annoying (speaking from experience).

3) The condition of your Sisterlocks - If you don't have money to retighten your sisterlocks, learn how to do it (or take the class). Don't let months of new growth sneak up on you! The longer you go without a retighten, the more likely you start to introduce lock merging (which leads to the sisterlocks grid being unrecognizable). I will never understand how someone can go to their consultant with months of new growth, and think their consultant  is going to be happy (maybe they think the consulant will earn more money?).

I don't know about others, but to me, a head full of regrowth with no recognizable grid is like redoing a whole head again. Who likes to redo the same thing over and over again? With all the YouTube & blogs out there, with ton of information about retightening, you should take advantage of that, and do your own retighten until you find the money to get the luxury of having someone else do the retightening for you. Note: I know most ladies (and gentlemen) are concern about messing up their locks, but I think you really are discrediting yourself; you are more likely to be slow, then to do real unimaginable damage to your locks. I also think any mess up, can always be fixed later down the road, it just hair ladies and gentlemen.

4) Your attitude - Watch your attitude while getting a retighten done. If certain thing bothers you about your consultant, voice them, but do it with tack. Yes you are paying for a service, but you don't have to be rude about it. Not all consultants/trainees are great, as many veterans will come to know, some have issues and may need to be told about it. Instead of bad mouthing them, talk to them. Yes it is uncomfortable, but before you do the option of badmouthing them or trying to find another consultant, informed them as politely as possible about the issue at hand. My consultant is known for taking a lot of breaks (I mean a lot), I saw one of her client keep sighing after each break she took, and trust me when I state my consultant was aware and made it even worst. I have talked to my consultant about it, and she has reduced it to necessary breaks (necessary doesn't involve stopping to talk/gossip on the phone though). I also found if I bring my daughter along, the breaks are down to normal as well. So solution can be found, if your attitude is right.

Do you have any other etiquette regarding sisterlocks appointment you want to add? Please comment below.