How To Combine Dreads To Make Them Thicker
As a loctician, It is important to know how to combine dreadlocks and make them thicker. As I always say, every head of hair is different. It presents a different set of things one is required to do. If the dreadlocks on your client is...
When You Make Do With What You Have
If things ever turn upside down in your life, you can overcome it when you make do with what you have. This year is a prime example! There was nowhere to vacation without restrictions; everyone was impacted or new normals put in place. We thought we...
Can I Sell My Dreadlocks
Nowadays, you can sell almost anything, literally, online. Therefore, it came as no surprise when during a consultation someone asked: “can I sell my dreadlocks?” This individual was going to have dreadlocks done on his long, lustrous hair, with the...
How To Know When It’s Time For A Haircut
I just came to realize that many people, especially women, have no idea how to know when it’s time for a haircut! As a hairstylist, I think I took it for granted that everyone knows this like they know they need to wash their hair regularly. Well,...
How Do You Reattach A Broken Dread
Depending on how often you maintain your dreadlocks, at some point you might have to figure out how do you reattach a broken dread. No one likes to lose hair and If you were to go through a locking process, losing a dread would be catastrophic!Over the years, I...
How To Prevent Split Ends On Natural Hair
If you look it up in the dictionary, pruning means to trim a tree, shrub or bush and if you think about it, this is what you need to do when you ask how to prevent split ends on natural hair. The hair is like leaves that grow out of the tree, which is like your...
Teaching Adoptive Parents To Care For Natural Hair
Many couples and families now are interracial and this has increased the need for teaching adoptive parents to care for natural hair. The parent who takes charge of the hair is usually at a loss of what to do if they have no family who understands it. They...
Have Dreadlocks And Suffering From Hair Loss Or Thinning
I did a post on this back in August of this year and was requested to speak more on the subject. There are many people that have dreadlocks and suffering from hair loss or thinning. What starts out as an exciting journey, can become a battle with...
Overcoming The Language Barrier
At some point in your hairstylist life, you will have a situation that requires overcoming the language barrier. This does not happen very often, but every now and then there is a “situation”. Most times you can probably figure it out because both...
Why Can Some People Handle More Pain Than Others
People with curly hair have regular “entanglements”. We can comb our hair and five minutes later, it goes right back to tangles. Not to say this does not happen to those with straight hair, it just seems to like curly hair more. After a few...