7 Ways To Ruin Your Locs (Two Strand Twist Starter Locs on FINE 4C Hair)-Prevent Damage!!
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- čas přidán 31. 05. 2024
- In this video I share 7 things that can RUIN your loc journey, especially if you have starter locs. Over my 1 year and 9 months being loc'd I can confidently share these tips and tricks to help you avoid damage and prevent you from ruining your locs. #locjourney #starterlocs #locdamage
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I can’t even lay my head on any kind of surface unless I have a bonnet on. It just feels so wrong. I’ve been doing it since I’ve been a loose natural and now a locd woman. Pretty sure it’s an obsession 🤣
Same here!
Me too🤣🤣🤣
Same😭😭
Same here... #obsession😊
omg literally me 2 min ago
Ngl, I wasn’t paying attention but when you said “Don’t do anything with your hair when your hair is dry.” But when you said it for the third time, I had to look up 👀 lol I got it.
The accuracccy about not retwisting often, I’m so glad I learned that early bc I really want thick thick locks not thin. Also this is one of the few videos that’s mentioned eating healthy and drinking water, I really appreciate you bringing that up, it’s about alllll around health and when your body is healthy your hair is healthy
How often do you retwist?
i laughed out loud at the lint mob. that feels so real! also, i had locs for 6 years and never moisturized or used conditioner. ever. when i combed them out, i retained very little because my hair was sooo dry and brittle. like you said, if you plan to have locs forever, it's probably fine, otherwise you need to take care of them! low maintenance not not maintenance.
It’s lint on the top left corner of her forehead 😭😭
Girl #1.. Not wrapping your hair at night. Shhhh, not so loud lol 🙈 Ughhhhh I’m getting better with this moving forward 🙌🏾
😂 It’s okay, it’s only up from here with wrapping the hair, we in this togetha! Lol!
@@ImsimplyLC Lol yes! 👏🏾 Thank you for this helpful video! All so true & not spoken about enough. Let me go raid the rest of your content 😆
😂😂😂😂
😬😬😬😬😬😬 I'm bad at this. I DO have a satin pillow case. 🤷🏾♀️
Girl not wrapping the crown is a complete NoNo!☝🏾☝🏾
I literally started my loc journey with 2 strand twist yesterday so seeing this vid really helps😁
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching 🙌🏾🙌🏾
Same
I'm a month in too 😁
I’m 2 weeks in
Best decision to make I stared with 2 strand and it is extraordinary
Retwist also depends on your hair type and if your hair is growing outside of your locs. Everyone's hair journey is different
I started my journey one month ago with the 2 strands! I love this journey
I thank you for these tips. I’m 9 months in and I hate retwisting
Hey hey I'm new here. So happy i found your channel. We have a similar hair texture and both started with 2 strand twist. I'm 1 year and 3 months in and I'm loving it. I did notice that with my texture the length of the 2 strand twist sections are taking longer to loc in comparison to persons with looser texture. Your hair is a perfect rep of what's going on with mines.
This is the most honest advice and you did it entertaining way.
I’m literally on day 1 of my journey. I did the two strand twist coz I’m doing it myself. My grid is cute but I definitely needed this channel. Thank you ☺️
Congratulations on starting your journey! 🎉🎉 and shout out to you for doing it yourself, not an easy process lol!
@@ImsimplyLC thank you 😊
@Aminah girl me too
I’m actually starting today 😩😩😂🙏🏾🙏🏾 but I’m so sad/ hopeful
I just have to say that your presentation was off the chain good. Thanks so much.
Just started my locs 2 weeks ago, I'm going to safe the process 🤦🏾♀️. Thanks for the video
Thank you 🙏🏽 sooo much for the tips ima start mine myself your locs are gorgeous following you 💕
I just started my journey today. So glad I found this channel.
Good Luck 🤞🏾
Thank you, I just started my locs journey and this is really helpful and will be beneficial for me❤
Retwists every 2 weeks don’t hurt but are not necessary. Retwists every 10 weeks or more cause thinning. So I’m glad you said 5-8 weeks. We recommend 4-6 weeks or whenever you have an inch of new growth. Now if you see someone with tiny locs at the root and thick locs at the ends…their locs were started with the wrong size partings. Freeform is temporary but if you freeform it’s better not to ever retwist and maintenance once a year is dangerous. 😳
How would the shit cause thinning the less yu do it wouldn’t the dread strengthen overtime
@@deee8324 Hair grows every day and where 2 different textures meet is a breaking point. Where new growth afro hair meets locked hair is a weak spot basically. And slowly but surely individual hairs separate from the loc. When it finally does get some attention there will be a weak spot in all of the locs. So something must be done with the new growth to make it match the locked hair. Long story short neglect does not cause locs to thicken…it causes the opposite they thin out and break off.
@@loccdin222 my fault wait would retwisting every 2 months be a good schedule I feel like a month would be too much
@@deee8324 that’s not true, leaving your hair alone causes you hair to lock. I semifreeform. I retwist maybe every 6 months or so. I wash my hair every 1.5 month and separate the dreads, oil them and rose water spray them to keep them hydrated. Put a bonnet on every night.
@@roxywyndham wait Oop as yr hair grows does yr new growth grow within the loc or outside
Spot on sis couldn’t have said it any better!
just started in two strand twist 3 days ago!!! thank you for this
11 years in the game you Do not have to wrap your hair every night especially when short .if you have a satin pillow case that's all you need .I only started covering before year 6 when my hair was no more staying on the pillow. Now it tail bone definitely you can't sleep without bonnet
For the lint make sure your hair is covered when you do your house chores .later start brushing with a soft boar bristle brush .before washing so you remove any before it gets embedded into the loc during wash time
Lol never heard about the nails. I had nails all the time it's not that important
Retwisting wait minimum 2 months to avoid over time thinning but I know some who for 15 years wash and and retwist every 2 weeks and they have no problem .not one size fits all
I can spend a full week without moisturising cause my hair is moisturised and sometimes I need to do it daily . listen yo your hair 😊 just like you listen to the rest of your body.
Best advice is learn how to do everything yourself as not even the loctitian will know your hair better than you do .
Trust the process but also trust yourself
How do you moisturize your locs?
I laughed so hard through this video that I had to watch it again😂😂!!
You ain’t lyin!! You’re hilarious though! LOL! I just got microlocs June 4th. I’ve had my first retie already! Time is flying by and I’m trusting the process because girl, the frizzies and scalpy look is real! 😳
Great video! Thanks for the advice! ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you for all the tips and you fine I have no problem thinking about you ☺️
This has been one of my favorite Loc educational videos!!! I’m 5 months in and they are so helpful.
Ahhhh thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed it! 👐🏾🍃
Sisssss!! This video is brilliant 😁🧡🌿 Being 1 Year plus into my journey, I agree with all of these 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 You came with the knowledge! Thanks Queen
Aww thank you!! ♥️🤗🤗🤗🤗
I love your presentation you are really full of joy. I appreciate all knowledge I am 6 months in and I am in a different state from my Loctition. I am so grateful to know I have been doing everything right w/ the exception of the always moisturize. I am experiencing such a free feeling w/ my natural hair. God Bless your health as well .🙏🏿🖐🏾☺️
Really informative, engaging and funny. Thanks for sharing this, especially the note about diet and nutrition (often overlooked). New subscriber here :)
I have really enjoyed your videos so far. New subby! I just started my locs a little over a month ago. Scheduled for my first retwist at the beginning of February (almost to the 8 week mark) and I'm so excited. I am hoping I can safely have my locs retightened no less than every 8 weeks, but I have to wait and see what they need. I started out feeling some kind of way about my starter locs, but I am embracing them, me and this journey. Thank you for sharing your journey with our community! 😊
Thanks for subbing!!!!
Starter locs i would say at least monthly at least I had to get mine redone monthly. I am 4 years in now so i get mine redone every 8 weeks
This video was awesome! I had never heard about the nail thing but I learned really quickly! Thanks for sharing🖤
I like you you’re funny. 🤣🤣. The lint mob that’s coming for me had me in tears laughing. That one quote made me subscribe. I need some laughter in my life lol🤣🤣. Your tips were awesome to listen too. I am almost a year into my journey come June 2022. Boy has it been a journey. At times I wanted to scream because the two strand twist kept unraveling and the frizz is real. I’m a year in and the actual loc is loc’ed but I’m learning the roots will never loc that’s the purpose of the retwist 🙄duh. I was retwisting every week. After hearing so many videos I am at two to three weeks now. The great thing for me is because of spiritual reasons I keep my hair covered in public. If it had not been for that bye bye loc’s. The initial stage and look I would have been quit. I do little styles that help preserve my retwist. I have and continue to do my own hair and I learned everything I know listening to people like you. Lol I was subscribed to everybody initially now almost a year in I’m at like 3 or 4 locsters I am subscribed too you now my 4th😀👍🏽. I have learned to like that unkept look when my loc’s are doing their own thing at the roots, not twisted, the nappy look. I find if I style my locs then it keeps me from retwisting every week or two. I don’t want no thin loc’s 😡. My locs have grown in my journey 😃slowly but I can see the growth. I keep my hair covered for bed ALWAYS never missed a day to ward off the lit mob🤣🤣. If I don’t moisturize daily my locs dry out so I do that daily and I oil my locs with hair growth oil twice a week. I found I just have to learn my hair doing my journey and it will tell me what it needs. I love my locs and I will never comb them out. What’s the purpose of going through the journey to one day comb them out, that’s just silly to me and a waste of time. This is how my hair will be until Jesus comes for me 😳. I look forward to more videos from you because you keep me laughing.
How do you deal with the frizz?? Oh and a life saver for me to get my hair to loc and avoid all the constant two strands coming aloose I used a loc tool after 6 months of wanting to pull my hair out and after that first twist with the tool I never had to retwist the loc again. It’s just the roots that come aloose so quickly that drives me nuts.
How do you keep your roots twisted for so long to be able to only retwist every 5 to 6 weeks??
I love your channel. I recently loc’d and you made me keep going. I wanted to take my hair down but I’m trusting the process
You got thissss!
Started my loc journey today 😊 I laughed so much throughout this video you are so funny lol and very helpful biting my nails off now lol
Love this! Thanks sis!
I literally jumped up out of bed, to go find my bonnet before I started watching this video. I live with three Siberian Huskies and three cats. And don't forget my roommates with 1A hair. I only mention that because my locs literally attract every loose strand of their hair😫
I love this video 😂😂 , the lint mobb😂😂 , thanks for the info , I’m getting ready to start my loc journey 🎉
Great tips!❤️❤️❤️
Great and accurate TIPS...SPOT ON!!! Loved the energy of this Video...Thx Sis
Thank you!!!!
I'm going to start my locs hopefully this weekend with 2 strand twists. I'm gonna be going through all your videos for more tips! Thank you 😊
Thank you for watching! Congrats on starting your journey this weekend! 🙌🏾🌿✨
Same!! I'm starting on Saturday hopefully 🥰
I know this video is old but ay, the way I looked up when you went "lint mob boom boom boom" and then I laughed out loud when I read the caption bc I am from Yay 😂 I felt tricked lmao
Thank you ❤ very informative😊
You are informative and hilarious and I’m here for both! Your locs are beautiful! Planning to start them on myself soon! So I’m a NOOB…new subscriber!! I’m a Radiologic Technologist, aka xray/CT tech and work overnight so I binge watch videos and I will begin bingeing yours now!
Your hair is so beautiful!! I’m screaming!! 😂
This my first time watching and you are HILARIOUS 😆 I definitely subbed 🤗💗
Hahah! Thank youuuuu welcome to channel fam 😘
Okay. So, I’m Only half way through your video and I’m just LMFAOOOOO!! 😂😂😂You are too cute!
“Lint squad” 😂😂😂😂I almost fell to my knees!
See ya next video!😉
This was very helpful I’m one month in and thanks
Love your energy!! I bought a silk pillowcase because i know how lazy i can get lol
Haha thank you! And good for you; I need to do the same lol
Thaaats what I was stinking of doing
Glad I found your channel, subbed
It's your BIG personality for me...Keep it BIG regardless of how anyone feels (Usually because their small)...You're gonna Win 🏆
Thank you so much!
iv subbed now , just started this helped, also u have a beautiful personalit
I start my journey tomorrow 😮 I’m so glad I found this video lol 😂 thank you so much . This is my first journey at 30. My 20s tore me up but also built me up. I went natural three years ago and I have not been able to maintain my 4c hair.
I can’t wait until this summer 😊
I’m now going into my 3rd month on my Loc journey and I’m in loveeee
I'm starting my journey tomorrow, how's your locs so far?
@@Earthena1 I combed them out a couple of months ago bc I missed my silk presses but it did help my hair grow and I had colored them too. I’m going back when my hair grows a little more
I love this, so it's possible to comb out later with no hair damage? Did you start with two strand twist?
You're hilarious😂 I lost it at thumbs. New sub!
Instagram brought me here! Just got my starter locs (comb coils) on Jan 8th!
I love yo personality
i enjoyed this video so much. im going to go to your videos and hope youre still loccd so i can binge lol
This was great! I’m only 3 months in but so far so good 🤣
OMG! The lint scares me. I’m considering loc’s, thanks for the video.
did 2 strands myself finished Jan 1. I'm 16 and i struggle with a lot. this was my third recent attempt. I only use water and an oil mix for moisture and leave my hair alone. i try to wrap my hair up in a scarf. so far day 12 most my hair has shrunk incredibly. as someone with soft 3c4a hair im surprised. im not looking forward to a retwist because most my hair has come undone or grown out but I promised myself I would stick with it. im also planning to attend uni in a couple months.
I just love your humor 😅
Haha, thank you!!!
It was the lint mob that made me hit subscribe you are silllly 😂😂 love the video
Hahaha!! Thank you for joining the squad!!! 🤎🤎
This video is so apt...100% fact
Thanks for the tips babe i need to wrap my hair girl…I just put this bonnet on
I get reties every 6 weeks and I'm booked in for the next 3 months!
Thank you for the info , I agree with you about the nails and also the earrings . I keep pulling my hair from my earrings, I said wait a minute this is my real hair.
Love your video new subscriber here 💚 I'm going on five years in my lock journey and yes you are so RIGHT ON POINT
Thank you for subscribing! 🤎 and yass to 5 years, tryna get like you!! 🙌🏾🌿
Thanks Queen
5:29 im crying “they put your name on a list” nah actually 😂
The most important are hydrating and not over twisting. Wrapping is important, but not every night. I can't wrap for more than 2 weeks at a time, because my scalp gets dry and itchy from the wrap pulling moisture from my hair. And that pressure on the scalp is annoying. A bonnet is definitely a good thing, because it covers the hair without putting pressure on the scalp, tension on the roots, and irritation on the scalp.
The nail one is true!
Great video! 💖👍🏽
Thank you 🤗
Guess I'll stock up on lint rollers this weekend
I have never wrapped my hair ever. I have had locs on and off for 20 years. I only wear a bonnet lately because my hair is almost waist length and it splays out like Medusa.
you know what i found absollutely hilarious about this video...you are the kmichelle of locs...chile your hairstyle chainged so many times in this video.....and yes all the styles were cuteeee....you make me wanna go back to one color
Lol!!! Did it?? Now I have to rewatch it to see how many times it changed ☠️
@@ImsimplyLC 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Loved the video. Can you share your moisturizing routine? Nothing seems to help mine.
I just started conditioning my hair after 8 months into my journey because my hair was always dry.
thats nails tip is TRUE ASF i was snaggin the roots lol
Lol!!!! The strugggg!
Good job! Sept.
I never wrap, I don’t use oil and I don’t have lint, or build up, at all.
Thank you
I have very loose curly hair n i went the coil route and my scalp has such a bad dandruff problem even when i oil my scalp it just irritates it but when I don’t do anything it gets dry and flaky but even I wash my hair it’s like I’m starting my love journey over. Show I restart and go for two stand twist method
I am nearly a year in and I am terrible at wrapping up my locs. I do have my pillows in silk and velvet pillow cases, though! 😅😅😅
my pillowcase and bed sheet are satin and silk. i got tired or wrapping my hair every night lol
I’ve been growing mines since this April, and I swear my hair has grow a lot! I get em twisted like every four to six weeks! I don’t wash it til then. My hair is very thick so my hair started locking very fast!
Not only does wearing a loc-sock help keep my locs from drying out AND I have VERY LITTLE lint issues. 💯
You had me at lint mob 😭🧡✨
🤣🤣🤣
Starting my loc journey most likely this weekend, ive wanted locs for a while but wasn't ready for the commitment
I’m four months into my loc journey now. The Lint Mob segment of this video almost took me out 😂😂😂😂!!
Congrats on your journey!!
I’m 15 weeks pregnant and I have gotten really lazy with getting my bonnet so I started leaving my bonnet under my pillow it helps …. Sometimes
Girl I'm not even pregnant and the laziness hits me so hard sometimes, I just tie a satin scarf around my pillow. Because if that laziness hits me on a night least expected, best believe I'm not about to look for no scarf😩😂
I know about 6 of the 7. I think maybe she missed one. I've worn locs 10+ years. For a few of those 10 years, I colored my locs brighter colors. The dyed sections of my locs definitely have more breakage, brittle. I stopped coloring my locs.
Retwist is my problem i love them so much
Trust me…I get it. Lol it’s difficult.
It’s the lint mob for me 😂😂
New to your channel. I love your locs, your energy and you're also funny af😂🔥 Instagram brought me here btw. Lol. Just started my locs a week and half ago so I thank you for this🙌🏾 Do you have any tips for unraveling? Some of the twists on my looser curls keep unraveling. Not the entire twist because I've braided my roots, although 2 on my nape are just loose right now and I can't stand it😩. Should i keep keep twisting them (without combing) or leave them alone? By that I mean only twist them when I re-twist my new growth. Thank you in advance❤️
Hii!! Thank you so much!🤗♥️ Regarding your question, if yours are only a week in, I would go ahead just twist the ends back up. Within my first like 3 weeks, some of my twist would get loose at the end and I would just twist it back up. After like a month if anything was still loose or loose hairs I personally kind of left them alone and just waited until I gave myself a retwist. I hope that helps!
@@ImsimplyLC alright. I will keep twisting them back than. Thank you so much. I really appreciate your response🥰
The lint mob!🤣🤣🤣🤣
You are right i,love, your locs 👌 video, i,leard,from,you
I love your energy and advice. My loctician tried to convince me to come every two weeks for three months! I am approaching my 3rd month on the 4th of March. She told me not to mist my hair with water because it will cause my coils to frizz! At what stage did you start moisturizing your hair with conditioner? She told me to moisturize with oil! My hair texture is similar to yours so you confirm that it takes time but the my coils with thicken in time! Thanks for the advice.
Oil doesn’t moisturize its a sealant. Putting oil on dry hair only makes it feel better that’s it.
@@oliviascott3064 yup learnt this the hard way😭
Water and rose water helps with moisture, and you use oil to seal. Water actually helps the locking process. Some don’t use oil at all because it’s a sealant and once applied your follicles are sealed so putting water on top of if is pointless. I’d say try it and see how your hair responds :) hope this helps
@@sydddd3781 thank you. I guess this why my hair is not expanding like others because all I used at first was oil. I started using water and/or rose water to see if this would help. I don’t know how my buds can travel with my coils being so tight! I have found another loctician to guide me thru my journey.
@@valeriecheriece8311 yes!!!! I’m 3 months locd and started with shoulder length type 4 hair. I also started with the coil method and all of my locs have a significant amount of budding. Give it time and keep them moisturized :)
5 weeks and a few days in.... And I'm being called out for not wrapping that head! 😩😭😭
Even before locs though, my excuse was I always did put a scarf/bandana/bonnet on and wake up in the morning for it to be next to my face 😃😭
I wasn't having it loll. But I'm trying, day by day.
Hahaha it’s okay, every day is a new day start fresh 😂😂 I’m still not perfect with it but I’m trying
@ImSimplyLC I LOVE your earrings...where did you get them? 😍❤️
I have a 2-3 weeks old fade…. Should I sleep with something on my head, do I wash it once a week or what ? I’m new to this entire loc journey
I did twists on my 4c low porosity hair 2 weeks ago and did my first wash today and it is so loose at the root because I didnt use clips when I first twist them and its already looking puffy and I've had to separate almost all of the locs because the roots were tangling up together. I still leave it alone and wait a couple more weeks?
ayeee you from the bay? hahaha lets goo. Started my loc journey, i have no idea what im doing. the girl who did my twists told me to come back after a 2 weeks which was a couple days ago. Then i see this saying i should wait for longer periods before getting one ToT. i have no clue when im supposed to wash them either. Im an athlete aswell so i really sweat... I got a lil dandruff too but the girl who did my dreads said its fine, and to wait 1 week. I oil them nicely everyday but still. i feel like my hair is dirty or stinks. anyways im chilling. just gonna let them dread up on their own while trying not to worry too much
Checking in - how are the locs doing?!
@@ImsimplyLC i took them out.. They would NOT looc up for some reason and i hated going days without washing my hair. i tried everything too but nothing was working. The girl said my hair type doesn't rly work for locs which confused me. I have 3c hair so i didnt understand how my hair couldn't loc up. I just have braids now..