Organic Dred Locs or Manicured DredLocs?

Would you ever consider getting Dredlocks, like Bob Marley style? I have been thinking about doing my hair in organic locs for some time now. I don't ave a traditional 9-5 job so I could get away with doing it. I don't know of anyone who could work corporate looking like this but I am curious to see what my hair would form into.
No parting the hair. Clean lines are out.  The locs do not have to look evenly shaped or even cylindrical either. I have to admit, I used to think that people with locs that looked like this were just unkempt, nasty.

And while I have (as a stylist) met some people who's locs really needed a hazmat team to come hose them down, I truly feel that organic locs can be a very attractive if kept clean.  So how to you get your locs to free-form? Well you just leave it alone and let them loc on there own. I assume you have start with some sort of patten though as I do see some wearers will a  semblance of parted hair. So my advice would be to part them off, maybe in plaits or twists and then nerve groom  them again after that.

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Well I should say never palm roll the hair or twist the hair after the initial set up. I have known some Rastas who have use natural aloe vera from the fresh pant and rubbed it into the dreds and scalp as a conditioning /cleansing treatment but that was pretty much the extent of grooming that they did. I don't know, but I am really thinking about have my next set of locs be more organic, we'll see.






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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..



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

Pinning Up Short Dred Locs

Loc style Updo

 When you are going for an updo with your locs but you don't quite have enough hair to make it work, why not try adding some hair just like you did for the french roll in your relaxer days. I know the point of being loc's is so u don't have to do it but lets face it, some of us are impatient ( like me!) and we need to get these style option going sooner than later. 

I particularly love to use yarn when I had to fill in my locs especially when I wanted to create volume and height, All you have to do is twist portions of some yarn into a few of you locs for length and then pin it up any way you like. The yarn mimics the texture of loc's hair much better than kenekelon hair and it hold in place where ever you need it to stay put..