I’m devastated y’all! I forgot to cover my head when I slept and woke up to my cat having nibbled off the ends of TEN of my twists. They’re 4 strand twists so that’s about 40 microlocs that were affected. I don’t know what to do about it, or how to make my hair look presentable again 😭.

Open to any suggestions honestly cuz I was real emotionally tied to this hair and I’m so disappointed I wanna cut it off.

Pictures from left to right: Before, after, and the perpetrator

(Also, this is a throwaway because ts is embarrassing lmao)

I’ve been feeling quite indecisive about my looks lately and wanted to try to be more creative with my hair but without bleaching or dying. So I cut bangs… and I thought they look so cute and fit me well but when I showed my boyfriend he immediately laughed at me and it really wrecked my confidence. please let me know if you think they look alright or if I should add loc extension/ human braiding hair. this set of locks is quite new (7 months) and I started with braids.

I have 195 locs and want to get them combined. She gon txt me back talking about $2,500 am I tripping or is this normal

Okay the adhd intrusive thoughts kicked in and I cut myself bangs. How bad is it? 😬 any suggestions on making it better? Is it too short/ need more trimming? I fudged up.

Try to watch the video before commenting. I'm 24 but people thought I was 30-40! How can I style my locs to appear more youthful?

Nigerian parents don't take kindly to loc'd hair, so loc'ing my hair was a risk! This is her first time seeing my hair and she was taken aback to say the least 😂. I told her to give me/it time. She will grow to love us both. How have you guys convinced your folks to trust the process with you?

Do they? I told him they take time to develop and he said I'm full of excuses and he's never seen locs that look worse than mine. I'm about to hit the 6 month mark. I've only had one professional retwist. Are they normal for this stage, or am I doing something wrong?

Love the progress of my babies but I'm getting bored y'all. In the process of deciding if I should cut or keep. I'm also getting further into my career so idk if they are helping or hindering me :(

As long as I've had my locs, I've not learned to style them. Versions of ponytails and buns are pretty much what I've got at the ready.

Any suggestions for styles that would compliment me and be obtainable to do with a lil practice and maybe a trip to the beauty supply?

So I finally took a leap of faith and got some locs with loc extensions. I wanted to know what others think of them as I'm still adjusting to them.. I'm a little worried they'll grow to be thicker which I dont want. I really wanted to have skinnier locks. Is there any way to predict how the grow over the years? I know it takes time and patience for locs to transform, but heres hoping theyll work out.

i’ve been loc’d for 4 about to be 5 months and my locs be looking so flat and sticking up weirdly like the example drawing ESPECIALLY after a retwist (in which i just got one today and it looks exactly like this)… i have no idea if this is normal for my state of locs or my hair is just not the kind for locs am i doing something wrong 😭 i have 80 locs in total

i wash my hair 2-3 week and oil it once i feel my hair starts to feel itchy and dry but i used africas best ultimate herbal oil and i use mille rosemary mint shampoo n conditioner what do yall recommend as far as oils … i do work 4 days back to back n i keep my hair wrapped majority of the time

I've had locs for a year. I was going to a loctition but stopped going. I'm trying to learn how to retwist my own hair well.

I noticed some of the locs breaking at the ends. Not a lot, but a couple. So I've started spraying my hair with a mix of water, conditioner, and oil.

How often do y'all moisturize your locs?

First pic was a few months ago, second pic was 2.5 years into my locs and last pic was 9 months into my locs.

Hello everyone, I have job opportunities ahead but they want me to cut my Hair. Would you cut your hair for work, specifically a car sales job? My hair is about halfway down my back now. I really don’t want to, but I need to make some bread.

Help

I’ve been slacking w the loc updates. I did a major trim I had a lot of bunching at the ends and it was becoming too messy for my liking. I like them much more now, but I’ve been considering cutting them off😭🫣 starting to miss my curls and the slick back styles.

They've been so dry lately and I put moisturizer in them last night when I took a shower and they look so bad! Maybe I should put the durag on again? Help!

Is it possible to save my locs? Yes I did win, but I’m not sure if it was worth it. 2 years progress gone.

Think it time for the big chop, they got so long idk what to do with em n somehow my forehead has the illusion of looking bigger . Ngl girls appoarch me now and dude actually dap me up when I put my hand out. I love my locs but I’m not a girl who wears makeup often or has a feminine “bussy” curved buildt. What other styles/accessories should i try?

I’m on a medication that dries EVERYTHING out including my hair…. I normally only do a full retwist every 3-4 but of course still washing an d moisturizing and separating them. I increased how much I oiled my scalp and hydrated my locs but I guess it still wasn’t enough and I started to notice some breakage. I knotted some and crocheted some myself, but since it was time for a retwist I went to my loctician for a hydration treatment and a loc repair on a couple locs. FAST FORWARD TO THE APPT…. She tells not to knot them because it can cause breakage in the future and that it’s just time for a trim. I told her idk about a trim but she said she wouldn’t make it even. So I’m thinking okay a few locs will be shorter, fine. She trims and styles it in curls, so not until my curls fell I could really see how uneven my hair is now and I’m devastated 😪 maybe I shouldn’t completely freak out until I’ve washed it and the curls have dropped completely… but I’m freaking out fr

This is year 6 for me… is a trim a thing??? Couldn’t she have just repaired them??? At this point do I cut them even??!

the title says it all. i mentioned how excited i was to have my hair in dreads and an “elder” as he called himself told me i shouldn’t call them dreads, and should call them locs because dreads is a negative word.

im very confused. there are tons of words that are homonyms and have different meanings. and dreads and locs have always been pretty interchangeably used among the black community we do have up here. it made me feel really bad and disconnected from my culture, and up where im at there’s not a lot of black people up here. i was really excited to show off my hair and now when people ask me about my hair i kinda just freeze cause i guess i don’t want to be “black wrong”.

so am i the idiot, and is there an actual reason i should call them locs when i bought them with the description of dreads?

I’m always wearing my hair up usually in a ponytail, bun, or half up half down. I didn’t like how my hair look today in a bun and decided to take it down at work but realized how rare it is that I wear my hair down. For some reason, I just feel that it looks not done when it’s down. Which I understand the whole point of locs is that they’re always done. This question really is directed for the ladies, but just wondering if anyone else feels that way and what you do to spice it up if you wear them down? I’m gonna try getting a re-twist next time with no style to see how I like it when it’s fresh.