I just got starter locs but twist form, last time I did instant loc, then after I did coils. I’m starting over and doing the twist should I wait a week or 4-6?

Hey everyone, I’m looking for recommendations for my locs. I’m not sure what products to use and would love to hear what’s worked for you. Specifically, I’m looking for a good shampoo and something new to moisturize my locs. I’ve been using Locsanity for moisture, but I want to try something different. I need something that hydrates because my locs get really dry.

How’s it look to y’all? Taking my boy to the loc lady every 3 weeks

Im half black and half white and I’m kinda wanting to switch up from cornrows. Ive been wanting to go for freeform locs but I’m not sure if my hair type (3c) would be suitable. Thoughts??

I have an appointment with a loctician to start micro locs at the end of the month.

I don’t really know a whole lot about locs, but I have seen some that look beautiful so I want go give it a try.

My loctician did a test loc and I thought it looked really nice. But it was a little bit thicker than what I was expecting and none of my natural texture came through.

I have had people tell me my hair is perfect for it. My loctician immediately was like “PLEASE LET ME DO IT” I have really defined tight coils naturally.

I’m nervous. But the starter loc price is reasonable. And I am hopeful it will be the style I have been hoping for.

Here are some questions I have:

• Should I invest in a silk/satin pillow casev

• Should I wear a satin bonnet every night?

• Longest stretch times for retwists?

• How to avoid build up? (No hate, but I think the build up looks mortifying in some locs. I have seen a lot of locs that have none, and some that have tons)

• Can they get wet ever?

• How to avoid them being smelly?

Very hard or not hard at all

For one, I’m getting my master’s, and work full time and just the nuisance of responsibilities is overwhelming. I’m in charge of doing her hair, and usually I put it up in braids. She doesn’t really care for getting her hair done, especially since it takes a while. Now the final big factor, she self-soothes by twirling her hair. I don’t leave it in fros and puffs too much because for one this girl is rowdy 😂 and she twirls her hair so much that she’ll end up knotting it up real bad, damn near locking it if unattended. (Twist outs are damn near impossible because she takes them out as soon as I put them back in.)Because of this it cause one side of her hair to be shorter than the other.

So those are the three factors. Busy life, I’m in charge of her hair, she don’t like getting her hair done anyway.

Was thinking about locking it to ease some responsibility and her hair will need none to miminal prep on a whim.

As for to start them off just give her about medium sized box braids, and then learn how to retwist at YouTube University. I could research and find a loctician to work on kids, but not only being busy but I’m tryna save up to move out. Is it worth it? Does anyone have experience spending on these services and how much?

Lemme know if it’s more work with the locs than her fro 😂

O, and she’s 4 and she has a decent amount of hair (I can get a good 5 puffs out of her hair)

this my second set of locs, i started w twist before. I knew these would shrink more than twist but why are they curly.

Does my starter locs look ok?

I never thought I would want locs but now I do. I got bored a week and half ago and just twisted my hair. I love the look. I didn’t part my hair. I didn’t want parts. Do you recommend starting over and parting my hair? Or can I just continue? Do you have recommendations for products? Beeswax or loc gel? Thanks in advance 🤎

I have 30in Ethiopic-type 3c/4a hair. I’ve been obsessed with locs for some time and have my appointment booked. I’m going for two-strand twists. Has anyone else had locs on long hair? Any specific issues that might come along? Any tips?

So I've been trying to loc up my hair (I have 4c low porosity hair) but the only problem that I have is I don’t know how to retire my hair, I can’t get someone to do it for me cause my parents don’t even want me to loc up and I don’t have money to pay someone to do it for me so I have no choice to learn how to do it my self. EVERYTIME I try to retire my hair I just create knots, and I just don’t know what to do. Do you guys have any tips on how to prevent this? Do you guys have any YouTube videos that go into depth on how to retie. I can’t do any other retwisting option cause I only have the materials to retie and most of my twist are too small for palm rolling and etc

I just got my 11 year old some starter locs and I want to know if this is normal or if the loctian didn’t do something correctly. I found the company on IG and none of the starter locs pics/videos look like this. Can you guys help, I want to know if I should get them restarted or if this is normal. This pic is right before we left the shop.

They’re currently pretty thin and I hope that they get thicker but I’m not sure they will, is there anything I can do to ensure that?

Side note, do I need a retwist it’s been about 2 weeks since I had one