by Paula Barker | May 15, 2025 | 4A Hair, 4B Hair, 4C Hair, Blow Drying Hair, Braids, Coloring Hair, DREADLOCKS/LOCS, Hair Care, Health, Uncategorized
If you are one of those people who is saying “the products I have stopped working on my hair”, please know you are not alone. If you have used the same products on your hair for a few years, it is possible for your hair to have this problem! You may have been...
by Paula Barker | May 8, 2025 | DREADLOCKS/LOCS, Hair Care, Troubleshooting, Type 1 & 2, Uncategorized
If you are a person curious about the pros and cons of dreads on caucasian hair. Will it destroy my hair in the long run? I can tell you, there is very little that happens to caucasian hair in dreads that does not happen to any other hair type! It still amazes me the...
by Paula Barker | Apr 28, 2025 | 4C Hair, Braids, DREADLOCKS/LOCS, Natural Hair, Uncategorized
To avoid starting out on a dread/loc journey with short hair, some people resort to braiding dreadlocks with extensions. At the beginning of the dread/loc process, the hair tends to lose some length. The amount lost depends on the thickness of the hair. For those...
by Paula Barker | Apr 3, 2025 | 4A Hair, 4B Hair, 4C Hair, Dreadlocks Repair, DREADLOCKS/LOCS, Dreads/Locs Repair, Hair Fails, Hair Repair, Uncategorized
I have been seeing examples of what could go wrong when you interlock improperly with new clients. I do not interlock myself, but I do get clients who grow concerned when their dreads/locs are falling off or hanging by a strand! Interlocking, which is when the...
by Paula Barker | Mar 12, 2025 | 4C Hair, DREADLOCKS/LOCS, Dreads/Locs Repair, Hair Extensions, Hair Fails, Hair Repair, Uncategorized
Over the last ten years of my loctician career, it has become apparent to me why it is good to know how to sew. Making little repairs to clothing or adjusting the waist of pants aside, it has become a valuable skill in dread/locs repair. At first, when clients would...
by Paula Barker | Feb 28, 2025 | DREADLOCKS/LOCS, Hair Care, Hair Styling, Haircuts, Uncategorized
What if you had dread/locs and decided, like a lot of people, to do a makeover and lost almost all hair while combing out locs? It is safe to say that people change their minds all the time. They love a style today and want another the next! Many people who decide...
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