- Hey everyone, it's me Hallease,
endeavoring to persevere as always.
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I just wanted to get on and actually talk my hair
because we haven't talked about my hair in a while
and, you know, I actually have something to talk about, so.
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They're starting to sort of thin about an inch
or two from their ends,
and I've been noticing this over the last few weeks, months?
Maybe months.
But yeah, my locs are all different shapes and sizes,
and it's happening on some locs that are pretty thick.
It's happening on some locs that are pretty thin.
It's happening kind of in different areas of my head,
not just all in the bottom or the back
or something like that which would make sense
'cause then it'd be like oh okay,
my hair has hit a length where
it's rubbing on my clothes a lot or it's rubbing
on my pillow and I need to just put my hair
up when I sleep like something like that, you know?
No, they're just randomly kind of fraying at different areas
and this is actually something that I went
through with my first set of locs.
At the time I thought that
the reason why they were breaking in that set
was because before I had been re-twisting way too often.
I would re-twist, guys, way too often.
I would re-twist like once a week.
I was obsessed with making sure
that my locs were super manicured,
and that was just a different time,
it was a different phase in my life, amen.
We have since grown.
I'm not the Hallease from a few years ago,
I'm in a higher place now, amen.
And so I really thought that
my locs breaking in that way then
was because of that but now I'm beginning
to wonder if there's such a thing
as terminal length or whatever
because if I think about my first set and this set,
I don't think I've ever had locs longer
than right around here.
So, I'm wondering if just that hitting
a certain length my hair just gets too heavy
or I don't know.
Speculate with me in the comments.
Anyway, I wanted to get on to say
that my makeshift solution right now
has just been to tie knots in the locs
at those weak points,
and that's just what I've been doing.
Every time I kind of run my fingers through my hair
and then I end feeling a loc, like oh,
this one's kind of frayed, okay.
I just do a series of knots
and I'll cut to some close-ups
of some of the locs that I've put the knots in,
and I did this based on another loc video
that I watched here on YouTube and if I can find it
I will link to it in the Eye of Sauron and below,
but she has super skinny locs, micro locs,
and shows how she uses knots.
I will say doing this knotting method,
it works better on skinnier locs
and I believer she had sister locs or something.
Hey so, while I'm showing you all the knots and stuff
and doing an impromptu length check
because, wow, look at this length though.
On my last video a lot of y'all commented like
oh my gosh Hallease, you're back.
And I thought oh right, I don't have a schedule here.
So the fact that y'all noticed
that I had been gone
for a minute was like, wow, heart-warming.
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Anyway, back to knots and stuff.
My main take away though with this
is that I'm just realizing
how much I really am comfortable
with just my hair kind of being whatever.
You know what I mean?
I'm just good with it.
I look at my hair now and I'm just like
you ain't gone stress me.
You not gone stress me.
You're hair, you're not supposed to stress me.
So, all I have to say I'm really leaning into
the semi-free form, free form life that I'm living, amen.
Tying knots and locs willy nilly, amen.
Something else I've been doing too
is combining a lot of locs just because.
I'll notice that one's really skinny and it's doing fine
on it's own being skinny,
but I'm just kind of like you could just be
with this thicker one though and that's okay
and then I just combine then.
So, I don't know.
I don't know.
Speculate with me in the comments
about why you think my locs
are just randomly thinning at the bottoms in certain areas.
I'm actually really curious to see what y'all think.
Do y'all think that I have
some kind of terminal length situation going on?
Do you think that there's something about my regiment
that's maybe not working?
Maybe I'm not having enough moisture, moisture.
Let me know in the comments below what you think.
I'm always curious to get feedback from the community,
if you will, and yeah I'll see you when I see you.