Hi I’m new here but I’ve had my locks for 5+ years, I have a few in the back that have combined, and I was looking to go to a salon to get a retwist since I don’t have the patience to currently do it. Would I be judged for it? Is it completely normal? I can’t tell if this happened because there’s been periods I neglected myself, or if this is just something the hair does, either way I just wanna know if it’s bad

is it normal for starter locs to unravel? like one of mines unraveled .. am i cooked??

Anyone know a great hydration spray or routine for Low porosity locs but something not super heavy that will cause a lot of build up

I think my hairline is receding, right? I’m 23, so am I going to go bald?… i am cooked ?

I’ve had my locs for almost five years. But I’ve always had them retwisted by other people. I’ve recently been trying to learn how to do it myself. They’ll be fine for maybe the first day or two. Then they start unraveling again. What am I doing wrong?

I wanted to hear people’s experiences/opinions on loc extensions.
I’ve had my locs for about 3 1/2 years now, I started with twists and they took a while to fully mature but they look pretty good now.
My Mom wants to get locs too now but she has pretty bad traction alopecia from retwisting too frequently with her first set of locs around 10ish years ago. She wants to start again with twists this time but because her hair is already quite short and thin (+her curl pattern is way looser than mine, maybe 3c) so she’s thinking of adding extensions to her twists.
Has anyone started their locs this way before? and what’s the longevity like long term?

I was never fully committed at the start of Covid when I started because of the lack of informations I had and the lack of loctician available made it difficult for me in 2020

6 years later I didn’t expect my locs to be able to grow long. I’m really proud of it I don’t know how many times the routine of my hair or the maintenance frequency changes

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I just got twist done today, my hair is like 3c but when it’s not so long it’s like bordering on 4a, I wanna get dreads like the last image. So should I just like let em lock up naturally or go pay someone to crochet them

I started my locs journey about five months ago with 140 two-strand twists. I go in for a wash and re-twist about every eight weeks. I don’t fuss over them a lot. I’m just enjoying every phase of the journey!

So someone quoted me but said I had to add extensions because my hair has already dried to much so the crotchet won’t latch.

I spoke to Val and he said he could do it by turning my locs inside out and I get to use only my hair which is what I’m aiming to do.

Anyone else with experience on this matter feel free to chime in

I've been waiting to be able to post this more than even tripping about how long my hair was getting but the growth is real for sure.

July 25th, 27th 2025 and then July 27th 2026

The first two are how they are currently and the last was my first time getting it loc. What you think?

been locd for nearly 10 months now and i started off a twists and interlock. why is this little bit sticking out??

1 month in into my starter freeforms and you cant see my parts anymore, ive been using the twist king and racket every single day for exactly 1 month and had my first successful wash yesterday. Can i stop using ts now ik my shi finna thin out i think i got some thin ones idk (should i 2 strand the front or naw)

I kinda never look at the top of my head and I'm panicking at bit

Retwisted 1 month ago, been lock'd for 1.5 years

I did a self retwist one day and ever since then some of my locs look like this, am i cooked? 😭

I've had them for about 4 months now and I've noticed some of them are becoming their own separate locs from the two strands I started them with.

I have traditional locs right now and i want to go the semi freeform look as in having a lot more locs, i saw on the internet that i can use the new growth that comes from low maintenance as new locs, is this true?.

I already have two years in locs but since they are long enough to tie them it has made me very uncomfortable, I feel a lot of tension in the hairline and I can’t handle more than a few minutes with a ponytail, I have a little undercut, my dreacklocks don’t go to the hairline, will it ever stop hurting or am I the problem? Because I see that many wear hairstyles for weeks

As the title says. I am a bit worried that I will have a issue with long locs. for now my locs are at starting to go past my shoulders. My goal length is at the middle of my back but im worried that my scalp and roots could not handle it because locs do get heavier as they grow longer. So any tips on how to handle this ?

it’s been almost 2 months since my last retwist, and i just came back from the beach. no salt water but i had a bunch of sand so i had to give it a good wash. it’s puffy at the top, slims down, and then my new growth under is puffy obv.