My hair is relaxed and stops in the middle of my back,but its always in a ponytail.It sucks that I never do anything with it unless im going out
Ladies what are you rockin up top?
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I'm having a hair dilemma... I don't know where to go with my hairstyle.
right now I'm rocking the natural twist-out. My hair is just to the tops of my shoulders when I straighten it, but I want to do something more with that length. I was thinking about a perm or just having someone give me that good blow-out, but I live in Chicago and there is a severe lack of reputable black-hair stylists in this city.
I've heard about letting the Egyptians do my hair at Ossama's or Yehia, but I need more proof of what they can do and will it harm my hair.
I also have a lace-front question... do you have to cover up the lace with makeup? or is it invisible to the eye up close? I always think about that picture of Beyonce with her lace-front coming loose in the front and I imagine that would be me 24/7 without a professional to apply it.
right now I'm rocking the natural twist-out. My hair is just to the tops of my shoulders when I straighten it, but I want to do something more with that length. I was thinking about a perm or just having someone give me that good blow-out, but I live in Chicago and there is a severe lack of reputable black-hair stylists in this city.
I've heard about letting the Egyptians do my hair at Ossama's or Yehia, but I need more proof of what they can do and will it harm my hair.
I also have a lace-front question... do you have to cover up the lace with makeup? or is it invisible to the eye up close? I always think about that picture of Beyonce with her lace-front coming loose in the front and I imagine that would be me 24/7 without a professional to apply it.
My wife has sisterlocks. She had em for 7 years and recently cut em off to start over. If you are in California and are seriosuly considering em, you should do it. I can get you the contact info of the girl that does hers. She loves em! And I like em too. I'm getting "brother locks" next month. They are really versatile. Right now they are in a short and curly fro.
Lace wigs are supposed to be applied in a manner that is undetectable. When I got my first wig applied, I had it done professionally. But I have 3 units on order and I'm going to apply them myself.
Nonetheless, my first application was flawless. It looked like it was growing out of my scalp. If you purchase a lace unit, you cut the lace to the hairline.
Buying a lace wig is a tricky process. I had to study that hairboard to get things down pat.
If you have any questions, pm me or hit up www.blackhairmedia.com and click the link to the Discussion Board.
I've also posted a few tidbits on Lipstick Alley.
Nonetheless, my first application was flawless. It looked like it was growing out of my scalp. If you purchase a lace unit, you cut the lace to the hairline.
Buying a lace wig is a tricky process. I had to study that hairboard to get things down pat.
If you have any questions, pm me or hit up www.blackhairmedia.com and click the link to the Discussion Board.
I've also posted a few tidbits on Lipstick Alley.
I'm having a hair dilemma... I don't know where to go with my hairstyle.
right now I'm rocking the natural twist-out. My hair is just to the tops of my shoulders when I straighten it, but I want to do something more with that length. I was thinking about a perm or just having someone give me that good blow-out, but I live in Chicago and there is a severe lack of reputable black-hair stylists in this city.
I've heard about letting the Egyptians do my hair at Ossama's or Yehia, but I need more proof of what they can do and will it harm my hair.
I also have a lace-front question... do you have to cover up the lace with makeup? or is it invisible to the eye up close? I always think about that picture of Beyonce with her lace-front coming loose in the front and I imagine that would be me 24/7 without a professional to apply it.
Relaxed...just past the shoulders...with some crimson color throughout my dark brown natural color...I like wearing my hair in a tight spiral set and just letting the curls fall out between washes. My hair is kinda thin so i like the curls to give some extra body....
I cut my hair pretty short about 2 years ago, didn't need perms, but I got them anyway.. Now I'm pretty natural my hair is super curly so i just wash it, throw some mousse in it and some curl cream and I get soo many compliments on my curls... In the winter time I let the Dominicans break me off with a doobie and a deep condition every 2 weeks, straightens it out way better than any perm ever did. I stopped going to the black salons bcuz it was too much direct heat, and it was damaging.
As much as I love to support Black business, I refuse to go to a Black salon. I've had nothing but horrible experiences, from over processing to cutting way too much off (once a lady chopped 9 inches off, talking about "I think this length would suit you." Did I ask you to do that?!?). I refuse to go to Europeans too, because they do not know how to maintain or straighten my hair.
Girl you wouldn't have that problem in the A. The only problem is that it takes you all day.
I started going to a Dominican but it only cut the process by 3 hours.
Yeah, I stopped going to them too, even someone I knew got scissor happy! And the reality is they don't have hair like mine, the dominicans do! And it's pretty quick, if you go at the right time. I just hate that I'm under the dryer for about an hour, that is tiring!!! All that heat makes me sleepy!
I've been told I'd have no problem getting my hair done out there; I guess it all depends on where you live. With the Dominicans, I'm in and out in 2 hours, and that's on the weekends.
Yeah, I stopped going to them too, even someone I knew got scissor happy! And the reality is they don't have hair like mine, the dominicans do! And it's pretty quick, if you go at the right time. I just hate that I'm under the dryer for about an hour, that is tiring!!! All that heat makes me sleepy!
Me too. My hair needs no more than 45 minutes under the dryer, but when I went to their salons they would put me under there for at least 90 minutes
That's exactly what my mom says
My current stylist (I go to the Imaj Salon and Spa co-owned by a Panthers player and by Fantasia Barrino) doesn't even like to put me under the dryer...he blow dries it, and then goes through with two different flat irons to smooth the texture and highlight my layers and color. I have pretty resilient hair, so all the heat and everything (for now) hasn't had any damage on my hair...
My whole hope is that it can go back to the length it was in college...past my back with some subtle highlights
My whole hope is that it can go back to the length it was in college...past my back with some subtle highlights
Right now i am totally natural. My hair is really curly but thick and i don't know what to do with it. Thought about locking it but i like to change my hair too often. Usually have it in braids, but seriously thinking about getting it texturized or permed. My hair tends to feel dry now that it's winter over here.
I don't know what else to do. Suggestions would be helpful.
. My hair tends to feel dry now that it's winter over here. I don't know what else to do. Suggestions would be helpful.
Right now i am totally natural. My hair is really curly but thick and i don't know what to do with it. Thought about locking it but i like to change my hair too often. Usually have it in braids, but seriously thinking about getting it texturized or permed
I don't know what else to do. Suggestions would be helpful.
you can change the style of your locs all the time too you know. i get all kinds of cool twist ups or i crimp them in different ways or even cornrow them sometimes. i have that problem hair too and this was the best thing i ever did(locking)
How often can i wash it if i lock it. I need to wash mine weekly.
I started doing my own hair. The more you do it the faster you get. I can twist it all over in about an hour now.
I hear you - and once you find a good one, you're scared to leave them. When I had a relaxer, I'd found a good one in Marietta (I live in the A) it was close to work at the time. Then when I changed jobs, I didn't have to go over there any more, so I tried to find someone closer. I tried three different people, they fucked up three different ways - so I figured 45 min. Once a month was worth it to keep my hair (and my daughter's hair) healthy. Now, when I need color on my locs, she's the only one I trust with that too. We moved to Boston for a couple of years and it took a LONG time to find somebody. At one place they were using ELECTRIC curling irons
and a chick tried to do my eyebrows with some clippers Ended up at a Cape Verdean spot - couldn't understand shit they were talking about, but my daughter's hair always came out right and stayed healthy.
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yeah i do my own too. my arms get kinda tired tho lol and its hard to do the new growth in the back
Do you use hair clips? It helps it to stay put until it dries...
usually what i do is make rope twists or braids with 2-6 locs and put rubber bands at the ends and leave it overnight or longer. then i get a nice crimp too.
Oh ok. Well if you have trouble with it coming down before you get to braid it, try using the clips to hold it until you're ready - then they'll stay as tight as possible.
Oh ok. Well if you have trouble with it coming down before you get to braid it, try using the clips to hold it until you're ready - then they'll stay as tight as possible.
i twist and then braid all at the same time. i find it real hard to clip my own hair for whatever reason.
Hmmmmmmmmm.. sorry call me crazy but i HATE WEAVE!!! ITS THE KOREAN DEVIL!!!! i wear my hair natual and curly during the summa.. but i rock a perm all wintah!!!!!!
Bump to ask. . . I'm interested in growing locs. . I really want to know where to begin.
Ladies with locs. . lemme know how you got started.
there are many different ways to start. i started mine actually accidentally with the 2 strand rope twists. i just left them in too long and the new growth started locking so i left the twists in til my locs had a little length. i would just keep washing and twisting the new growth.
you can go to a salon and get them started with the coils they wrap your hair around the tail of a comb.
island style you can take a wet rag with conditioner on it and just rub all over your head then dry in the sun then the next day put aloes and shake out and dry in sun again.
doesn't matter which way you start, its alot of twisting in the beginning. once they formed its alot easier. also the softer your hair, the longer it will take.
i would strongly disadvise from "interlocking". your hair will never be fully/properly locked just more like twisted and they charge you a fortune for it. avoid the "sistalocs" like the plague. african palm rolling the best.
What's wrong with sistalocs? I have a girlfriend doing it and she seems to be really pleased with the process...
well they are so tiny and they are basically tiny tiny interlocs so they charge a ridiculous price to do them every time and you are basically stuck. WAY too much to ever do by yourself. This is just another way black women rip off other black women for bullshit hair "care".
well they are so tiny and they are basically tiny tiny interlocs so they charge a ridiculous price to do them every time and you are basically stuck. WAY too much to ever do by yourself. This is just another way black women rip off other black women for bullshit hair "care".
I agree with you on that one. I think the only advantage to sisterlocks is that you can start them while you have a perm. If your hair is already natural or if you don't mind cutting the perm and starting short...I would say do it the old fashioned way.
well they are so tiny and they are basically tiny tiny interlocs so they charge a ridiculous price to do them every time and you are basically stuck. WAY too much to ever do by yourself. This is just another way black women rip off other black women for bullshit hair "care".
Gotcha...it seems pretty high maintenance. But what I'm finding from many of my girlfriends who have gone the natural route is that their hair is just as "high maintenance" if not more high maintenance than it was before they switched from relaxers to natural hair. I know sisters that spend hours making sure their "natural curls" are in line, etc. who NEVER spent that much time doing their relaxed hair. I think that's one of the fallacies out there about natural hair; a person can spend just as much money and time doing their natural hair that they did working with their chemically treated hair.
Thats true Jo but a lot of that is about self acceptance and still having some self conciousness issues. If your hair is more wooly than curly some sistas cant accept that and they will spend all kinds of time and money manipulating it to get it to look like a texture it's really not. Its the "good hair" mentality snap back. Really all you have to do is wash, condition, style- same as any other hair, but yes if every curl has to clump just right so that it looks more like a spanish wet and wavy yeah its going to be a lot of maintenance into that. If its that important why not just do like Femme and wear a wig to achieve a different look.
However I concede that many women have not even seen their natural hair since they were little and sometimes it may take a minute to get a good routine but after that it's simple.
...I'm under the hair dryer now (I work in the morning)
and the time it took me to wash, condition, and set my locs about 45 minutes and this style will last me all week.
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Ladies with locs. . lemme know how you got started.
Cutie, Bi-girl gave great advice. I started my first set with palm rolls- loved the look, hated the fact they unrolled when wet. I wash my hair a lot and that was a pain.
2nd set my loctician bailed on me. I took down the set she started and started a 3rd set with small braids and I maintained with the latch hook technique. I could wash my hair as much as I wanted without it coming undone- the downside is the look of the loc is not as smooth and if you have soft hair it can tangle unpleasantly in places.
I semi-free form now, meaning I basically just wash, condition, and two strand twist or braid to dry it and leave it alone. I tighten the roots along my soft hairline with palm rolls because its more aeshtetically pleasing to me and that hair cant hold a two strand twist. The rest I still finger latch maybe every other month.
Remember if your hair is curly, it will loc without any manipulation so its not about getting the loc its more about deciding the look you like and the maintenance routine that best fits that. I like my hair to look as close to my loose natural hair as possible so semi-free form works for me. If you want a more tight, scalpy braid look- palm rolls give a pretty cylindrical shape and appearance.
Oh and be patient. There's an ugly stage (I wore a lot of hats and headwraps the first time) but after that
its so versatile. I brush them, braid them, flat twist, rod set, get it cut into a style, etc. Easy!
My post was about sistalocs though. Those are microscopically thin interlocked "locs" supposed to look like white hair or something. Thats that real bullshit. Regular locs are a whole different thing. Mine are kinda thin but nowhere near as thin as sisatalocs. I do not go to a salon. I do mine all by myself. For me, it's much easier and nicer than anything else I have ever done.
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