- I mean, how long have I been loc'd?
Lord.
April, May, June, July, August.
So that's two years and four months.
Almost two and a half, might as well be two and a half.
All right.
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Hey everyone, it's me, Hallease,
endeavoring to persevere, as always.
I wanted to get on and give y'all a loc update,
because I think the last one I gave
was around the two year mark, and it was showing
the sort of abstract way of how I wash my hair
and how that's more of like,
self-care for me now, and I really enjoy it.
So it's been a couple more months.
I wanna say I'm at that two year, four month,
two and a half month, almost two and a half years, phase.
I'm now starting to combine a lot of my locs
to get them to a size that I feel confident with,
that'll last me for the next four to five years.
Because when I first started my loc set,
I was channeling Joyce Luck Hair Compass.
I loved her locs, y'all.
Like, I loved her locs, y'all.
They were so gorgeous.
She was trying to start Sisterlocks for herself,
but what she ended up with was this awesome set of locs
that I just thought were so gorgeous.
She's not loc'd anymore.
She combed them all out, is back to being a loose natural,
and her hair is still, I mean,
she can do whatever she'd like.
Whatever she does to her hair is always gorgeous.
Like, I just, I just, I love her hair.
And so, I was watching her and channeling how
she started her set, and I thought to myself,
yeah, if I started another set,
I would wanna have around 200 to 300 locs.
When I was starting this set, I started it with twists,
and I sort of mentally went with that in mind.
My first set, I had 115 locs.
And it was a good number, but I remember
just thinking to myself, if I ever come back to this,
I want a little bit more than that.
But then, also, something I really appreciated
about the number of locs that I had
was that they were all about a pencil-width thick.
I really liked that level of thickness for my hair texture.
And so, now that it's been over two years
and I've had the time to let my locs
sort of mature in their own way,
I'm going back through and combining a lot of them.
So all the locs that I feel are too thin,
I'm going through and combining it
with another thin neighbor, or a loc that maybe is thicker
and I think it can join with that loc well.
Some of them, I even also have three-headed dragons now,
instead of two-headed dragons.
So at first I combined these two,
and see how thin these are?
So thin.
And then I combined them again,
'cause even after combining them,
I was like, y'all are still too thin. (laughs)
And I combined it with this one, so now it's three together.
And so, yeah, I'm pretty much just doing that
all over my head, because I feel like,
I'm basically trying to future-proof my locs
for the next, at least four to five years.
The thing with having thin locs,
sorta like Sisterlocks and things like that,
is you have to constantly worry about
any little bit of breakage you have,
because the locs are so thin.
So if you have any sort of additional thinning,
that makes the loc shaft that much less strong,
and I wanna try to minimize that as much as I can,
on this semi-freeform journey that I'm on.
So currently, now, I've just been going through,
and I'll feel for some of my thinner locs
and kind of, I'm watching 'em, you know.
If I haven't combined them yet, then I'm just watching them.
I'm paying attention.
So here's a good example of one.
This one used to be two locs, and you can see the edge.
I just trimmed off the other dragon.
But this one used to be two locs,
and now you can see how much thicker it is.
And I like that.
I like how much thicker this one is.
And my edges, the front of my hair,
is where the hair doesn't grow into the locs
the way the rest of my hair kind of naturally does.
It does, but just not as well as like, the rest of my hair.
So I find myself with my edges
constantly having, after I shower and wash,
constantly having to just kinda come in
and do a quick little, just an ever-so-slight wraparound,
you know, especially with this one, an ever-so-slight, just.
You know, and it's little.
It's very minor.
Boom, just to make sure that they're doing okay.
They're doing okay.
The way I'm combining it is very simple.
I'm literally just doing an interlock.
So I'll interlock going across once,
and then interlock down.
Boom, and that's it.
And then I let my hair do what it do.
In the comments below, let me know if y'all have any tips
on maintaining my semi-freeform locs,
or if I should be combining in a different way.
I think I still have about,
I think I still have about three or four more sets
that I will probably combine.
Like I might combine these two, we'll see.
I'm just meditating on it, you know what I mean?
You just wanna like, eh, let me meditate.
'Cause once you stick 'em through,
it's done, you know? (laughs)
There's no going back, so I'm still thinking about it.
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