I’ll be starting my loc journey (finally!). I’m super excited about my hair growth and maturation over the next couple of months. Loc-ing my hair also marks my inner self growth. I’m learning to love myself and cast away the little unimportant things/people that no longer serve me. I’ll be checking in every 3 months with pictures of my locs.
But before I started my loc journey I needed to be sure that this was for me. One way I did that was to instal yarn locs. I love them! Initially they were really stiff and I considered taking them out but after a couple of days I’ve grown to love them.
I’ve received tons of compliments and some people actually think they’re real. Of course I did them bigger because I like that look and I’m not about that 3 day braiding life.
See below for my results. These already took me 8 hours which is too long in my book. One think with yarn is that, it itches. I have a sensitive scalp and I think it’s due to the yarn tending to dry out your hair. So while you have the hair style in hair care is still essential!
Before I even installed them I cowashed with this conditioner from Joe Vees from a while back and the Cantu deep treatment masque because I didn’t want to completely cleanse all the oils in my hair.
I used my Softee Indian Hemp Hair & Scalp Treatment and my African Pride Miracle Oil, which is mainly olive oil, I also used some virgin coconut oil from Target. My hair care after I installed them is water and the olive oil. I do this everyday and whenever my scalp feels dry.
SHOP THE PRODUCTS
It took me at least an hour to prepare the yarn before I started wrapping. I used 6 strings to braid my hair and then 6 strings to wrap. I’ll probably use less for the braids next time though. Then I just tied the ends multiple times and burned them.
I installed this hairstyle because I have been thinking about locing my hair and I like the look. This is a hairstyle you can have a lot of fun with because yarn can be bought in an array of colours and a lot people also use loc jewelry to accessorize.
VIDEO TUTORIAL
Donedo has a great video tutorial here:
MY RESULTS
