I just want you to know I was watching your video with my four year old grandson and the first thing he said was “I like her hair.” Then he went on to talk about how beautiful you are. Hatred and insecurities are taught. If only we could see ourselves and others with the admiration that my little guy had for you tonight ❤

Why the hell are people bringing this self hatred into the lock community? I don’t even have locks and this is upsetting to me, because locks should be the most natural and black! 🤦🏾‍♀️

Glad you’re talking about it. I really think the politics around locs boomed after the pandemic. Everyone was worried about crispy parts, baby hairs/laid edges, and even the curly ends.

For me, my loc journey was about being free. Experiencing freedom with my hair. Not having to comb it every day and literally showing up as I am. I think the politics around locs has taken away from that idea of freedom.

I saw the title and just had to laugh out loud! I had a mixed coworker with hair like Lisa Bonet and she had long locs. It should be common sense that locs with a finer hair texture and locs with a kinky hair texture are not going to look the same. 🤷🏽‍♀️

The obsession with edges and baby hairs is so strange to me. I don't have locs, but I don't do my edges; I find it stupid and unnecessary. Besides edges being fragile, constantly manipulating them with gel and product will make them break off faster.
Edit: So, I've read some replies to this comment, and I wanna clear something up. My issue with edges is not the edges themselves, right? I think it's fine to do what you want with your hair. My particular problem is the fact that there are certain people, whether on the Internet or in real life, who make edges integral to whether or not someone's hair is done or not done and passing judgment on women.
Saying that they don't care about themselves or they're not putting enough effort in because they don't do their edges or they aren't done the way they would like them to look. I've seen lots of cute styles that have edges and those that don't. In particular, my hairs are too fragile for me to constantly like slick them down. So I choose not to and I think my hair looks nice and presentable. I don't want the cultural practice of doing edges to come at the expense of overall hair health right so as long as you like continue to care for them.

I'm so glad I never suffered from a complex with my natural hair and its texture. Even when my coworkers would urge me to straighten my hair or say, "It looks like it needs a comb, pulled through it." I stood my ground. I won't allow anyone to make me feel bad about what is growing out of my scalp. They're just mad because my hair is natural, healthy, and long.

Speaking of laid edges, I don't lay my edges anymore. I just got kinky twists put in and my stylist asked me why I don't and I explained to her how I had a bias that if my edges weren't laid, then my hair looked bad or undone/unfinished. I decided to challenge and question that bias and realize it came from texturism so I decided to stop laying them to face an insecurity.

She then sent me a video where a BW on TIKTOK was saying that texturism has nothing AT ALL to do with why BW lay baby hairs which is not true! MANY BW bully other BW if their edges aren't laid CASUALLY; everyone remembers the Gabby Douglas situation I'm sure...😶 It's so hard to get black people to admit that a bias exists as a collective that plays directly into colorism, texturism, or feauturism. The denial is exhausting!🙄😑

Girl, I was thinking THEE same thing!!! Like it seems like the Loc community has the same issues as the loose natural community as far as the obsession with having curly locs, curly ends on locs, and baby hairs. Please let’s not make relaxing locs a thing, like seriously??😩 you look so beautiful, that blue makes you look Regal. Thanks for this video ❤️❤️❤️

Locs in the 70s and 80s were predominantly worn by Rastas and the whole point of it was about being natural and anti establishment. It then became more of an aesthetic hairstyle and a way to wear your hair naturally with an aspiration to achieve length. My Mum has had locs for well over 20 years and as Jamaicans it was associated with Rastas but after visiting Trinidad in the late 90s early 00s it was there she saw, very neat, manicured locs. This is what inspired her to loc her own hair. She has neat locs but she tends not to over twist her hair on a regular basis and prefers a fuller look as opposed to laid edges and partings. She hates seeing scalp.

I never noticed that beautiful brown your eyes were, so pretty!

I’m from the U.K. and my family are from multiple Caribbean islands and I’ve never seen super manicured locs. Before I got my locs I’d ask my uncles and aunties (on the Jamaican side) how to take care of them and they said they always retwisted 1-2 times per year, so I’ve always retwisted twice a year too. I know we are super creative and resourceful by nature but the obsession for perfection is really a drug 😩

Idk, Perming and locing seem very contradictory

I’ve been loced since 2000 and even back then in NYC, you saw the Sis and Bro with thick new growth. Having manicured locs 24/7/365 with pulled down front hair laid wasn’t even a thing back then in NYC.

Furthermore, I work in Corporate America and my “unmanicured” locs never stopped me for being gainfully employed during my whole career.

Growing up I feel like I know 3-4 light skinned girls with locks who are toxic af, but no one notices because they're ✨spiritual✨ 😂

I need people to work through their insecurity, instead of projecting on black women minding their business.

I literally had someone say to me today "I can't see your scalp!" Yeah, I know. That's the whole point of my locs growing. I usually get my locs retightened every 8 weeks and it's currently due. I personally love all the new growth, it makes my hair look thicker and fuller 😍. And coming from a place where I didn't know if my hair would even grow back after falling out due to an illness, any and all hair growth is cherished and appreciated.

This is completely off topic, but, you have big beautiful eyes <33 I am genuinely so captivated

I always regret it after the fact when I get a retwist (I rarely do, typically for occasions)bc of how  flat and thin it looks… locs look so much better thick and wild

Of all the antiblackness I've had to unlearn texturism is by far the hardest and it is so hard for me personally to get over. Also, its just that you get treated sooo much better when your hair more closely aligns to western standards

"Slick wet dog" 😂😂😂

Its like a gravitational pull for some frfr
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