How to unlock dreads without cutting them
REMOVING DREADLOCKS without CUTTING YOUR HAIR
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hello and welcome to my channel y2k diva
locks today I want to talk about
dreadlock takedowns so if you or anyone
you know has dreadlocks and is or has
considered taking down their locks then
stay tuned as I share my take down
journey with you as well as the reasons
why after 13 years of being a lot I
chose to untangle my locks opposed to
opting for the big chop and also I'll
discuss some pros and cons to the
takedown method so if you're ready divas
let's get into this
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so I had had my dreadlocks for 13 years
excuse me
my mother she had dreadlocks first and
she had been trying to convince me for
the longest time to get mops and I was
always reluctant there she is
she's 75 years old my mother has had
dreadlocks for over 20 years there she
and I and my mother started her LOC
journey when she was 55 there I am I had
already been well into my Locke journey
by time in these pictures so there I am
and my mother it convinced me to begin
the dreadlocks and I did I started my
locs in 2003 and the reason why I
decided to take down my locs it was for
several reasons one of which is I felt
that I was impressed by the length of my
hair and I felt that if my hair can grow
that long with LOX why shouldn't it be
able to be that same length without
locks so I was curious to see how long
my hair could grow naturally without
being locked it's another reason why I
chose to take down my locks as I had had
them for 13 years I felt that my hair
carried a lot of energy a lot had
happened in 13 years I had given birth
to buy that at my last two children I
had given birth so I have four I have
four sons and you know that's a decade
and you're carrying the whole bunch of
challenges and and ups and downs and
friendships and and separations
discourse just up the ups and downs and
I was ready
you embark on a new decade of my life
and so I chose to start new have a new
start basically it took me nearly five
weeks to take down my loss and in doing
so it I cut my hair off first my hair
was down to my back and I cut it a
little bit above the shoulders or
shoulder length because I did not want
to take so long unraveling one lock it
took about two to two and a half hours
to untangle each lock all I used was a
conditioner detangle Iser and a comb and
a safety pin and like I said it took me
anywhere between two to two and a half
hours to take down one lock so this was
a process and during that process I did
wear head wrap head wraps to work and
just every night when I came home from
work I would try and knock down about
ten mops at the time that I took down my
labs locks
I had 69 when I began my love locks 13
years prior I had 165 and I would be
watching YouTube videos and I'd be
impressed by the larger locks a girl yup
I was just messed up any YouTube video I
was I was just doing everything with my
locks I was at one point interlocking
and then another part semi free-forming
and then free-forming I combined some
lots and at the end when it was all said
and done I got from 160 something Lots
165 lots down to just 69 so that's what
I was working with I tried to do
anywhere between 5 and 10 lakhs
each night it didn't happen
at times so like I said it took five
weeks and that's what I did as you can
see the shrinkage is real divas the
shrink is the shrinkage is no joke when
I finally finished this was the end
result I felt that my hair was a lot
thinner no it's not used to my hair
being loose my loose hair my loosen
natural hair so that was one transition
I found to be the hardest when you're
taking down your lots be ready to feel
as though your hair is thinning and I
imagine it is thinned of it I was not
prepared to knowing how to style my hair
what to do with my hair all of a sudden
I had to learn to put my hair in a style
I couldn't just roll up out of bed
spritz some moisture or some oil or
water and my hair and go I actually had
to style it and that was the the biggest
transition I've had to date with this
lot journey and reverse LOC journey was
when it's once your Lots are removed
what are you going to do and I just did
not have a plan for that I did not plan
for the next stage I had no clue I
genuinely forgot how to do my hair
before being locked my hair was natural
so I had a lot of braids a lot of twists
but in that 13 years
I forgot my hair I had to really get
reacquainted with myself with myself
without my long and lent with myself
with this thinning hair myself with this
loose hair what to do so
divas
I encourage you guys to watch my third
video so you can see my journey once the
locks are taken down where do we go from
here
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2019 bye bye divas
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