My Yarn Pin Up Style

Salkis with Yarn Twists

 My new look, what do you think? Yarn braids look kinda cute! He He...


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How to get Product Build Up out of Dread Locs

Clean Dread Locs

 Ok, so you Dread locs have product build up in them and its freaking you out,right? Your pillows are dirty your smelling up the room with the ass-crack smell of your locs, or at least that is what your girlfriend calls them and whats worse is that she is threatening to cut them of while you sleep. So what do you do ladies/gents about this problem.

There are several methods I've tried throughout the years to get rid of product build up in locs, some of them are:

• Alcohol

• laundry detergent

• baking soda

• ammonia

• apple cider vinegar

Now, none of these are sex products to use, and most of them are not even suppose to touch the skin, let alone the scalp, but when you have YEARS of build up, it sometime requires industrial strength help to get that build up out.

Dread loc styles

Here are 2 steps method that are not common, and do work .

1. Boiling your Dread Locs
2. Using Heated Shampoo
3. Dawn Degrease Dish washing Liquid

Ok, So let's tackle the first method. OF course this will only work for dread locs that are at least longer than shoulder length. The idea here is to loosen up the trapped wax in your locs by melting it down so it will drain to the surface to be shampooed away.

If you have a big enough crock pot boil some water high enough to get a good submerge of your locs (PLEASE ASK SOMEONE TO HELP YOU), when the water has come to a boil, place the locs in one by one very carefully so as to not cause splashing of hot water everywhere, ( you should do this at a shampoo bowl so your head can rest back comfortably) leave your locs in the hot water preferably for 1-5 minutes when you start seeing the water get grimy you know the waxes are melting out.

***You can add apple cider vinegar to boiling water to increase the grease removal power of the water itself. have someone wrap your locs in a towel as you slowly come out of the boiled water and give each lock a good squeeze to help the gunk come up outa there! Now your ready for the second step.

Dr Bronner's Liquid Castile Soap

Now that your dreads locs are prepped and all the grease is nice and runny and hopefully half way gone, you can now shampoo. I love Dr Bronner's Peppermint Castile Liquid soap. It really cleans locs like a wiz just be careful, if you have color in your locs, this soap with strip it, especially the red tones. But the key step is to heat the shampoo first!
Why Heat?
 Well heating thins out shampoo and it will penetrate your locs better and faster , getting right into the core of your locs were all that funk is, the locs will drink up the shampoo and lift the already loosen grime outa there.
Just make sure to heat the shampoo about as hot as a cup of tea (that you sip on) I would say. How much to use id determined by how thick you hair is and how much buildup is there. Just be careful to coat each loc with a generous amount of cleanser. Squeeze and

Dread loc product buildup

After you've done these two steps just go and do whatever maintenance methods you prefer. But be careful of adding back the waxes you just cleaned from your hair. In my next post I will discuss products that do not leave build up in dread locs.

If you have a question or maybe some tips of your own please share them with us.
















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Carnival Hair Held up All Day!

My TWA at the Carnival Parade in LA

 I went to LA's first Caribbean carnival, I looked a sweaty mess but my TBA stayed in place with this very helpful product called "Gorilla Snot". This product in dirt cheap, around $4 bucks and you can get it at Target.

Curl Definer for 4C type hair

Its a tacky gel-like formula, no smell, dries quick and NO FLAKES! I have 4C type hair and have never been able to get definition like this with any other product and yesterday was the true test, My hair stayed put all day.

 I have to say it was so freakin fun! I was up on the stage dancing and singing, sweating. Let me tell you ladies, you have to enjoy your life






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4 Ways to damage Locs

 Back in my Loc'd hair career, I did it all and I have to admit I didn't always do the hair care part the way I should have, The styling was always fierce, but my locs did become weak and damaged from all my 'creative' ideas.

I ran across this article on the  Curly Nikki disgusting 4 ways to ruin the health of your loc's. I think this would be helpful to those trying to keep a full head of loc's for a life time, lawd knows I think I did all four of them quite frequently and did pay the cost with weak broken locs after a while. Here's the 2 of the 4 common mistakes they talked about.

1.  Not enough moisture- Im guilty as charged. I hardly ever oiled my hair and I used a ton of hair spray or my updo styles to look crisp, they were crispy all right!
2.  Tying them in knots- please stop tying your locs in knots to style them or worse to create a set. It is so stressfull to do this and over time it will thin them out.

I 'd have to add a number 5 to this list to: Over Styling

I think styles are great to do but the ones that require lots of pins and really tight on the scalp, should be left for special occasions, especially if you have thin locs already.

Sherrell Dorsey, writer of the article, is an eco-glamour expert, writer, speaker, social entrepreneur and creator of the blog OrganicBeautyVixen.com -read the entire article here: CURLY NIKKI

 

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