Thick locs? Here’s some tips for taking care of them.
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- čas přidán 27. 03. 2024
- Thick loc maintenance is a little different sometimes. Mostly because the hair that’s locking up in comes closer to the scalp, so it feels tight all the time, it’s nice to comb it off the scalp a bit. It feels great and it helps lock those hairs up in.
Crochet is different too. It’s more focused on creating that netting weaved in through the outside later of the loc.
anyway, that’s enough writing for me on this one.
Catch you next time y’all! Happy loc’ing!
I’m curious on your take on super coarse Caucasian hair with fairly new locs? I have a full head of nearly 1 year old locs, and I don’t know what my EXACT hair type is other than super thick and coarse. I’m getting maintenance done every 8 weeks on average. That first week after maintenance is beautiful! But with the hot and humid weather, I can’t stand to go any longer than a week between washes, and then after a wash, it looks like my recent maintenance is coming undone.
I don’t want super tight locs with zero texture, but I also don’t want my fingers snagging through the hairs that are backing out of the locs after every wash. I’m trying to stick with my loc journey, but I’m starting to get discouraged.
Totally understand being discouraged. If you doing mind putting in a lot of work (for a few months, then it’s a little less and better balanced as you get your own flow) there’s a lot of techniques for you to do.
My aim, is to get you, at home, to understand how locs work, so you can take the suggestions that fit your hair and go from there. You know your hair is strong and thick. So you’ll need more manipulation than most, essentially.
The thing is, I wouldn’t suggest “root rubbing” if you’re regularly seeing a crochet needle. If you decide to switch to all the work at home (no crochet, just fingers) then wait till it’s a month or two loose with growth to start rigging things up the way I explain in a lot of other videos.
I hope you go back through and watch how locs grow. What’s gaining inside of locs, palm rolling damp vs palm rolling dry and so on to get a good understand of your journey.
If the goal is to get the loose hair in the bases off the locs, then that means there’s always loose hair, by proxy. So there will still be that. Only your bases will be “fluffier” and put together, rather than tight then looser and together.
Two different maintenance, same goal. Same contenders. And one is you doing little work and the other is you doing nearly all the work.
You could even go to crochet maint. Once every 6 months and do the hand manipulation all the other 4 months after your hair loosens up. And once in a while get it all tied in if you felt like it. One year crossroads with a bunch of choices!
@@locdoctorfell thank you! I like the look and the feel of fluffy bases. My goal isn’t to have everything super tight and scalpy looking, with perfectly straight locs. I am just recently starting to feel those full bases. It’s the new growth and some much longer hairs that seem to come right back out of the locs after a wash. A lot of the problem is the home maintenance stuff that I’m terrible about keeping up with. I don’t palm roll at all, and I don’t like the residue feeling of tightening sprays.
I told my loctician about this and how I’m getting discouraged and going broke trying to keep from looking like a hot mess during the first year. She wants to try a completely new and different method, so I’ll be seeing her again very soon.
I thought a little bit on this the other day. (And please, always talk to you stylist if they are doing things. Example, crochet is too tight to go roughing up with root rubbing (or even palm rolling right away, for that matter)
Yes, we need to palm roll way more in the first 8-15 months or whatever. Just not right after crochet tightening,
Then there’s, the really course hair, starter loc stuff. Needs help flaring the cuticle more then the other hair types. This is where cool things like shampooing more often and with certifying to really get “squeaky clean” hairs (flairs the cuticle and gets em to grab on better)
Also salt water spirits. (Every surfer I ever seen has gorgeous locs) It’s great for texture and aiding in flaring that cuticle some more. Both are great when coupled with palm rolling; both damp and dry. And root rubbing, (if you take out crochet)