It's hard to believe, but it's been almost half a year since I started curling. Due to the overwhelming busyness, I've barely had time to breathe, let alone blog about my hair, but I can say, it's going well!
It's hard to believe, but it's been almost half a year since I started curling. Due to the overwhelming busyness, I've barely had time to breathe, let alone blog about my hair, but I can say, it's going well!
Now I have to admit that I made a terrible mistake the first few months. I knew that you have to maintain your locs regularly and not let them grow out longer than two or three months at the most before you go to the loctitian to touch up the new hair growth. In that respect it is just like braiding and even just like relaxing, new hair growth has to be touched up.
With braids you have to remove the extensions and with relaxing you have to smooth the new growth, with dreadlocks you have to twist or interlock the new growth.
Turning is quite simple and is done manually. Interlocking can also be done manually but if you have thin locks you will need a special tool.
Since I'm not very handy when it comes to locs, I have it done at the loctitian. She literally does my hair in two hours. I think it would take me 100 years.
What I didn't know is that you have to maintain your locs yourself in between. That means you have to separate them to prevent them from growing together. You do that by running your fingers along the partings of your locs and pulling out the hair that doesn't belong to one loc before it grows together with another loc.
Since I didn't know this, I didn't keep my hair trimmed and quite a few hairs got fused to locs they didn't really belong to. Ouch, I knew that! It was quite painful! Similar to when you've left your braids in too long and you have to take them out. Well, that won't happen to me again.
If you don't understand what I mean, watch the video. I think that even if you have braided, this technique can prevent extra pain.