Do you like your Locs long or short?

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 I think we all go through a stage with our locs when we wished there were short again, especially when they start getting heavy and difficult to style. You tend to miss the fluffiness or new locs, the big hair, the way it held a curl and how easy it was to wash them, Then as time goes on you start rocking different styles and you think you long locs are just the cutest thing. But then it reaches a length and a time when you feel you've tried every style, your tired from them scraping the back of your neck and how it takes to dry. yup I think that's the natural progression of lock life.

 You are frustrated with them, you like them, you love them then your ready to let them go and start a new set of locs. When I cut mined a few month ago, so many people were disappointing, I got emails and calls from total strangers that have followed my blogs for a few years and there were devastated that I cut my locs off. I didn't realize how many people were attached to my locs that didn't even know me, lol. But I understand how personal it is, and much of a family we are as loc wearers. Its like your in an unspoken club of sorts, passing each other by in the streets and giving a head nod secret approval to all who are in the loc family. Share your thoughts, do u like your locs now or better back then..



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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.
















I love natural hair and Loc pictures and advice and I hope u do too. Thanks for reading and share your thoughts!