Should I Use An Afro Pick
Tangled curly hair is usually difficult to comb out but you may be wondering, when this happens, should I use an afro pick? The afro pick has been a staple of the afro-centric community since the beginning of time. It has been time tested - examples of it...
How Do You Dye Dreads Without Damaging Them
With summer coming (in Canada, we are always mentally existing in warm weather, ok) many people are asking “how do you dye your dreadlocks without damaging them? A lot of people with dreads/locs want to have a different look after a while. Some may try...
Standing For Long Hours At Work
One of the challenges of being a hairstylist is that you are often standing for long hours at work. Like all jobs that you stand for a long time, you have to take care to have good health, wear the right clothing and shoes!Before my hairstyling career, I thought...
How Often Should You Wash Your Dreads
I feel like speaking on “how often should you wash your dreads” is like starting a never-ending argument, as there will always be someone who will react in shock if you say “one week” or god forbid “three weeks”. There are very different reasons for the...
Infants And Toddlers At Hair Salons
Earlier in my career, I did work on infants and toddlers at hair salons. It was not easy because kids move around a lot. As a young hairstylist, you learned to strategically hold their attention while sneakily doing a haircut. Some kids would...
Do Dreadlock Extensions Stay In
Imagine, you decided to get the locs you have always wanted but now you are wondering do dreadlock extensions stay in? After all, the parents and some friends and relatives would just love any reason to say “I knew it was a bad idea!”Dreadlocks extensions have...
Fixing Broken Or Damaged Locs
In a previous post titled “How do you appreciate a Teacher”, I highlighted the fact that a stint in Home Economics class in high school (along with some help from my mom) helped me enormously when fixing broken or damaged locs. It is crazy to think...
Why It’s Important To Switch Up Your Hair Part
Everyone has a favourite way they wear their hair, but as you age, you will find out why it’s important to switch up your hair part. This is not a topic anyone normally discusses but it is good to know. How many celebrities do we hear of that have peculiar...
Making A Judgement Call
While I have become experienced in making and maintaining dreadlocks, sometimes the work requires making a judgement call. It is not humanly possible to be able to know what to do in every situation. You will try something and it may or may not work...
Is It Better To Go Lighter Or Darker To Cover Gray Hair
As you get older, you will want to know: is it better to go lighter or darker to cover gray hair. People react differently to going gray. In my career, I found the price of having lots of hair when you get older, is it gets gray! Those...