- Hey everyone, it's me Hallease
and I'm back with a hair update.
So, it's been around 15 months
since I started locing my hair
and I just wanted to get on
and kind of one, for my own record
get an update for myself
since I haven't really been on
and fully shown my hair
for about three months now
and two, to update y'all as well
and kind of let y'all know where I'm at
with the loc journey overall.
You know, one of my friends
who has been loced for 10 years,
she came by to see me over the weekend
and she, you know, kind of reiterated,
like oh man, every time I see you,
your hair looks longer,
it's looking so healthy, so cool,
and it took me a minuet.
I was like is it though, is it longer?
And I had to like go back
and look at some of the last video I made about my hair
and realize, oh yeah, it is significantly longer
and it made me remember
why I do this, why I catalog this journey
and why I just catalog things in general
because it can be hard to,
when you're in it day to day,
you kinda don't see the overall picture
of how things are getting better
and you know, can't see the forest for the trees
kind of situation,
so that really brought to my attention,
oh man, I should probably do another hair update.
Yeah, it's been coming up on 15 months.
You know, the biggest thing that has happened
since the one year video,
I did start noticing a little bit of build up
in some of the front locks,
and I wanted to get rid of that
so I went ahead and did an apple cider vinegar,
baking soda, lemon juice soak
in my kitchen sink
and that immediately got rid of all the little,
you know, just the white,
you get this little bit of a white sheen on your locs
and it was very subtle,
and that's the big thing about doing things like that,
you know, you want to nip those types of things
in the bud before they get to the point
where you've got serious gunk in your hair
and it's taking two/three/four cleansing soaks
to get it all out.
I wouldn't recommend doing that kind of intense soak clean
all the time, it can be very drying to your hair,
so you know, it had been 15 months
and I finally did a deep clean like that.
You know, I probably, as my hair gets longer,
I'll probably do one every maybe six to 12 months
somewhere in there,
just depends on how my hair is feeling.
You know, the biggest thing for me
about my entire journey is just two things,
one, is my scalp healthy
and two, is my hair clean?
Those are the two things that I focus
my entire regimen on
and I'm not really much here for the aesthetics
of locs, you know,
like I don't need to see my scalp. I know it's there
but yeah, those are the two big things
that I focus on,
is my scalp healthy and is my hair clean?
The rest is just gravy
and to reiterate that aesthetically
I've combined a few locs, you know,
because I noticed that some of them at the base
were beginning to get kind of weak.
I just combined them because I wanted them to be stronger
and the front, you know, edges,
the front has always been sort of a problem area,
a area you gotta focus on, take care of,
be diligent with,
so you know, such is life.
You know, I do wash more often than I think
most of the other locers that I kind of follow.
I wash my hair two to three times a week
depending on how active I am,
you know, this is south Texas
and I'm currently training for a half marathon,
so I run three to four times a week
and so, I need to cleanse my hair that often.
To wash my hair I use
diluted Dr. Bronner's castile soap.
I use the peppermint one combined
with a little bit of the lavender one
because I actually don't like the smell of peppermint at all
but it's the only soap that seems to get my hair very clean
without leaving too much of a soap residue
or soap scum which in turn helps prevent build up
and things like that.
I follow it up with the Dr. Bronner's citrus hair rinse.
I stopped using it for a while
thinking like what is this really doing?
Nothing
and immediately I started noticing
a little bit more build up
and my hair just felt drier
and I was like oh man, okay, this stuff works
and I have since started using it again.
If my hair is starting to feel dry in between washes
I'll use a little bit of rose water,
sometimes with glycerine, sometimes without,
depends on the weather
and that's kind of it.
That's pretty much my regimen.
Like I said,
it's really focused on keeping my hair clean
and keeping my scalp healthy.
My scalp is healthiest when there is as little products,
natural or synthetic in it as possible.
My scalp really doesn't like having a lot of oils on it.
Even when I was a loose natural,
I didn't like that,
so now that I'm loced,
try to maintain that idea as well.
And that's pretty much it.
I don't know.
That's pretty much my whole regimen
and that's also why I also don't really make a lot of videos
about my hair anymore
because nothing is really changing.
It's more just about consistency and the journey.
Update on the last time I retouched my hair.
I still haven't retouched my hair
since December of 2016.
I haven't felt the need to.
Once the need presents itself, I will.
I mean, I've touched, you know,
every now and then I will kind of notice
that there a few sprigs of hair
that have gotten kind of wily,
like I'll have five or seven strands
sticking out that are kind of long
and so, I'll just add those to what loc
they're supposed to be in
and do like a quick interlock, you know?
And only just one go,
just enough to just lock it into the hair
and that's it
but other than that I haven't gone through
and done an entire interlock of my whole head
or anything like that
because I just haven't felt the need to.
My locs seem to be locking into themselves over time.
They just need time.
But so yeah, anyway in the comments below,
oh, in the comments below
something I would really like to know
is for all of my fellow loced folks out there,
what are you using to wash your hair?
I'm just curious.
I'm always into trying new things
and you know, Dr. Bronner's works well enough.
I'm not unhappy with it
but like I said, I'm not really down for peppermint
and the peppermint one seems to be the one
that works the best for locs,
for whatever reason,
so if you know of any other shampoos,
preferably that are you know,
very light and you know, residue free
as residue free as possible,
let me know in the comments below,
and also let me know if there's anything like specific
you want to know about what I do to maintain my hair,
locs, tutorials, things like that
because yeah, it's just kind of hard for me
to you know, like hair isn't my number one concern
in life, you know?
All I'm doing is checking in to make sure again,
is my scalp healthy and is my hair clean?
And that's it,
so you know, if there's anything specific
you want me to talk about,
any topics specifically about my hair
and just locs in general,
let me know in the comments below.
I'll see you when I see you.