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Girl! You got to be the prettiest person I ever met, with the coolest vibe and the most beautiful hair on planet earth! Your DIY locks so so motivated me! See, I am one of those dumb people who fell for the sisterlocks hype. Paid through the nose for my lock - $1000 for medium length hair to a sisterlocks trainee. I did not research enough before doing it I guess, I only learned later that one can do braid locks or twist locks to start. Anyways, thank you for your videos, I thought I was never going to learn to self retight until I came across your hair. Yeah, my 1st complete retight accomplished over 3 days with little to no stress - thank you!
Priscilla Ayerite you just made my whole morning 🖤 thank you so much for the kind words! Im happy I was able to save you some coins on your retightenings
I hope you can do a video on the topic of locked hair lies they tell.....lol. especially sisterlocks lies! don't wash your hair for six weeks' braid and band', don't condition your hair, the list goes on and on of which all of it is lies, lies, lies! May apply to a select few. Maybe mixed race or those with naturally straight hair. If one spent any significant amount of time detangling loose natural, what could possibly happen to interlocked hair😁? Absolutely nothing! I tried to not wash the 1st 3 weeks. I had serous eczema for months from that nonsense!
@@Nollyfan I am a loose natural girl, but from my experience (I could be wrong) the eczema was from keeping the sebum build-up on your scalp. Your scalp needs to breathe. You don’t need to wash your hair with shampoo to get rid of it. And actually when you first stop washing your hair with shampoo, and stripping your scalp of it’s natural oils, your scalp naturally starts excessively spitting out all this wonderful sebum. I used that extra sebum to coat the rest of my hair. It slows down after a while. After using what I need for my hair, I take a little cotton cloth and wipe away the sebum and dead skin off my scalp so it can breathe. This prices has to be done with wet scalp and hair. When wet, the sebum a gooey paste, easy to remove and coat hair. Disclaimer: I am a 7 year, loose natural girl with low density, 4a/4b hair that ONLY uses water on my hair. No shampoo. No conditioner. No gels. No oils. No products what so ever. I’m loc-curious. I’m looking for a new experience.
As a professional natural hair stylist and natural hair educator I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Your skin is glowing gorgeously. Thanks for sharing your experiences.
Thank you for sharing. I'm about to get my locs (January 2023) and it helps to see many down-to-earth people talking about their locs and how they look along the journey. I have been on the fence for about 15 years, about locs. I wish I had done it when I first went natural. Your locs are fabulous!!
Well done they're gorgeous. Can't believe a year already!! I remember seeing you on Instagram when you first installed them. Still perfection. Well done!!!
Your hair is absolutely beautiful sis! I just established micro locs on May 2nd and watching other’s peoples journey’s inspire me. I can truly say I have no expectations whatsoever. I love them now and sure I’ll love them forever! Good luck on all your endeavors!❤
Omg your personality is so refreshing! Your vibe is so dope. I am restarting my loc journey and just needed to let you know how big of a help you have been!!!! I'm still learning and am still trying to NOT expect growth and anticipate shrinkage lol
Hi!! It's been at least 6 months ago since you been on RU-vid!!! I would love to hear some new updates on what going on with your Microlocs!! Thank you!!
Your locks looks amazing, I would love to see an update I absolutely love the look of micro locks started with twists because it gives a lot of volume, but since interlocking does compact the loc, I’m curious if the difference in diameter will be that noticeable as the interlock hair portion gets longer.
Your locs are beautiful! Thank you for sharing. I am a loctician in Michigan and I just wanted to let you know you're experiencing lint because you're using conditioners and oil in your hair often. These products are like magnets for lint! I hope this helps. God bless you!
the sheen ! your locs are exactly what my daughter wants, fluffy and fabulous i love your regimen and we are going to continue our 2 point rotation and only spray the hair when dry
@@NapsAreTheNewBlack congrats on the locs I want to start my journey wit like that also only thing how how long would I have to wait until I can wash them and how can I pervent thinning locs and build up/dandrift
One way to help reduce your lint problem is to cover your hair with silk or satin bonnets when you are just hanging out at home. Whenever you are cleaning, laying down etc. cover those locs! Maybe once you get to a year and a half you can try local brushing.
Great video. I am on the 12 week schedule as well. I dont interlock it myself i let my loctician do it. You do a great job with your hair! Thanks for sharing!
I know I’m late, but congratulations on one year! Your locs look incredible. I started mine about 6 months after so I just got my one year locaversary as well! We have almost the exact same amount of locs as well so it’s been cool and helpful to follow your journey as I also document mine. I’m thinking about skipping the braiding and banding when I wash soon too.
I love your locs....they are beautiful and so are you! I had my locs establishment done a week ago and I’m also vlogging my loc journey! Loving the process! 🤩
I was so waiting for this video... and now also looking forward to that henna indigo... I used it regularly as a loose natural and did my last right before i installed....
Love love love your locs! Your videos definitely helped me so much with installing my own locs 9 months ago. I’m now in the process of installing microlocs for my 12 year old🤗
Your hair is beautiful! I watched a lot of your videos and was definitely encouraged that I too could do it myself. I am 6 months into my journey & I too am loving it!! 🥰
Hey I start my 2 strand tomorrow I’m loving your hair journey I been natural for 6 years and sissss it’s time I had finger twists in 2003 they weren’t called coils then more like kitchen curls as I was able to comb them out they weren’t locd again I love them yesssss
You have such a cool vibe! Congrats on your first year! Question: has your moisture routine changed? For your two point rotation, you basically go through the same way twice but Im hearing that I shouldn't because it can create holes, any tips? And I love your hair! Your happiness and glow is so radiant.
Kraxy Kam thank you! And you dont go in the same direction back to back with the two point. For example I go up, then to the side, then up, and then to the side again. My moisture routine is just to spray my hair whenever it feels dry, which is how Ive done it the entire time!
Hey girly..love your locs..for the two point it does cause the hair to have holes in it because it's not a full rotation..I had that issue when I use to do it..I kept having holes and it was when I started doing 3 point rotation I stopped having the holes.3point allows for fullness as well..
Be careful with henna then dye. They don’t mix. Maybe try the adore rinse first. After a while, it washes out. Then if you don’t like it, try the henna indigo. Congratulations on 1 year.
Love love your locs. I follow you on Instagram as well and have enjoyed your journey. Thank you for keeping us updated and sharing your progress! Always enjoy your videos. This month is my loc anniversary as well so it has been fun to watch your progress as mine have changed. And yessss the shrinkage. I am actually having a wave right now. I was surprised too, but actually find it to be cool. Means my hair is making a lot of progress and this time next year I think the length will really show.
Found your vlog really interesting currently considering micro locs once my hair is more fully grey. I here a lot about lint but have not seen what you all refer to. Could you show us what this looks like when you next post so I can relate better as to what this would mean for my loc journey.
I'm torn between micros and small locs for my starters. You make me want micros though 😍 I have about 2-3in of hair and small twists to start. But someone else would have to start them if I go smaller cause... I absolutely could not lol
I’m glad you touched on the waves off shrinkage. 🤗💕Do you think your lint problem is due to the oils you are putting in your hair? 🤗💕 your hair is gorgeous and thanks for sharing your journey 💕🤗
Tia J i dont think it is from the oils. I tried going without product for a week after a wash. The only thing it accomplished was making my hair super dry. I was still finding new lint stuck to my hair in that week. I really think it is just because I wear alot of cotton and because my hair texture is very cottony feeling. Like attracts like, just like with chemistry I guess 😂
Lovely! I will have about the same amount of locs once I finish installing starter twists today. Random, but where did you get those earrings? They are gorgeous!
I just 6 months sisterlocked on the 30th of September and all I wanted was volume. I didn't care about length. I'm getting length & a little volume. I feel like I should've gone with a thicker type of loc. 💁
janisa reeves sisterlocks take longer to thicken up because they start as interlocks. I would give it more time. If you really dont like the look you can combine them later!
@@NapsAreTheNewBlack I figured that. I was just thinking that. I told myself I would wait at least until my 2 year mark to really give them time to mature. 😊
Yeah, I noticed that sisterlocks show more length earlier on and twist locs show more volume. The volume should catch up with your sisterlocks. I'm 14 months in and the volume is definitely visible.
I love your hair! You helped push me to start my microlocs with two strand twists. How did you manage loose hairs? I feel like my hair at the back/nape is a looser texture so I have loose hair throughout my head. Did you experience this? If so how did you manage?
I absolutely love your hair. Thank you so much for sharing your loc journey. I'm so excited to start my microloc journey soon. How many locs do you have?
My concern is, and I would like to know if anyone else experienced this? When ever I braided my hair, and after about a month, with the new growth, if I pulled on the braid, it would hurt, until I took out the braid and combed out the new growth. Will It happen like that with locs, or will retie take care of that?
Do you have the installation video please? I'm considering entering the loc family through twisting my hair first so your installation video will be helpful
Absolutely love your locs!! They are so beautiful and so neat! Do your locs still have much shrinkage when you pull them? I still have about 4 inches just from pulling them but my ends are loose so I was wondering if it's much different.
Kelly A thanks! And they do not extend as much as they used to, i might only get another half inch to an inch when I stretch them, and some don’t stretch much at all. The lack of stretch gives me hope that they are in fact maturing even if the twist pattern is still there lol
Honestly I regret waiting. I see people who started with shorter hair than I did, who currently have longer locs bc their locs matured faster. the longer your hair is at the start, the longer it'll take to loc, and the more shrinkage overall you will experience. I say go for it, and the length will come before you know it.
What is your wash routine? Do you band your hair to wash it? Your locs are the perfect size and i want mine to be very similar to your in size.just wondering how wash day goes? Also, do you air dry or us a defuser?
