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- Hey everyone, it's me, Hallease,
endeavoring to persevere, as always.
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In this video, it's gonna be more
of a tutorial about my hair.
We're going over the crochet technique.
I ended up buying two crochet hooks,
because on Instagram, I started seeing
a lotta people talking about this crochet,
or sort of instant loc method,
and I wanted to try it out on my locs,
to see if I could just sort of handle
some of the loose hairs that were happening
around my front area.
If you're interested in purchasing it,
I'll link to it in the description box,
it's not very expensive at all, so that's really cool.
And I've seen a lot of people do this method,
again, on Instagram, where essentially,
you're taking the hair, the loose hairs
that are kind of coming out of the loc,
wrapping them around, and then taking this crochet hook
and essentially looping that loose hair into the loc.
And for me, when I do this, my big goal is,
I'm not actually trying to get a super, super defined
design or anything like that.
Again, as y'all know, I'm pretty much semi-freeform.
I don't like to manipulate my hair too much.
Every now and then, there are a few locs
that kind of stick out, and you wanna just kind of make sure
that they're not going rogue or anything like that,
so this method seems to be really good
for just kind of helping those loose hairs along
to grow back into the loc and not be an issue.
So I don't do it very tight,
I just do it enough to where I feel that,
okay, the loose hairs have officially
been incorporated into the loc,
and I can tell that the next time I wash my hair,
I won't have to worry about them getting loose again.
I actually did try this method on this loc,
and it did help it a lot.
This is actually my favorite loc on my hair, by the way.
Do you have a favorite loc?
Let me know in the comments below.
Describe why.
But this is actually my favorite loc
because it started off super small,
there was actually more to it below,
it started off super small,
then I combined it with another one right here,
and there's still this little knot,
and then it got super fat.
And I just love how fat and flat it is, it's just so cute.
And you can see, I just kind of cleaned it up a little bit
at the root, not too much,
and now I don't have to worry about
any fluffies coming out of it.
Also, don't drag me if you see any flickety flakes, okay?
I'm behind on my wash routine this week, okay?
Don't drag nobody, all right?
We out here, pew pew pew, I'm gonna wash my hair,
don't judge me.
I literally have a new loc forming here.
After my last PopAndParle video,
where I talk about how I'm sabbatical-ing,
I had shown y'all that I had this tuft of hair
here to my side, and then after filming,
I realized there was more than enough hair here
to start a loc, and so I did.
I sort of just kind of twisted it up,
and then put a knot in it so it wouldn't unravel,
and now I just have a loc that's
a brand new baby loc in the corner.
Your hair just does what it wants, you know?
And you just have to kinda roll with it,
and just kind of guide it as needed,
and so on and so forth.
You know, don't overthink it.
So what you're gonna do is you're gonna put the hair
into your hand, and I kind of wrap it just a little bit.
Not too much.
And you're gonna take the crochet needle,
and you're just gonna kinda start digging in and out,
and essentially what you're doing
is creating these quick weaves of the new hair,
and weaving it into, like sewing it literally
into the loc itself.
That's what you're gonna do.
So this method is pretty simple, pretty straightforward.
One thing I will say is, when you are doing this,
you're gonna hear it crinkle and crackle
and crunching and whatnot.
So try to be as gentle as possible.
Don't force it too much.
Take your time.
I think I'm very new to this method,
so I do it pretty slowly.
If you watch other people, on Instagram, for example,
do it, they're like.
There's a few locticians that I've seen do it,
and by the time they're done,
they've figured out this amazing way
to put a grid pattern in, and all of that,
which is gorgeous, but it's just not the life I'm living.
So yeah, I hope this video helps y'all.
If you're, especially if you're one of those people
that are trying to be a little more semi-freeform,
trying to go a little bit more low-maintenance,
low-manipulation on your locs,
but seem to just have a few sort of loose hairs
that don't wanna grow into the loc,
I know a few of y'all have commented on my videos
talking about how you wanna be semi-freeform,
or only maintain your locs
once or twice a year, or something like that.
For some reason, your texture, pattern,
is kinda just hindering you from doing that,
I think this is a good method for you
to just kind of help guide that loose hair
back into the loc, and then be able to be that,
be more hands-off if that's what you want.
Obviously, there's nothing wrong
with having super-manicured locs, they're awesome too.
It's just to each their own.
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And once again, thanks for stopping by,
I'm Hallease, I'll see you when I see you.
Lemme clean my glasses off, first of all.
Lemme not look a mess in this video.
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