Loc and coily hair tips

What works, what damages, and why. Clear writing on coily hair and locs.

• Starting out

  Committing to locs

  Not a decision to take lightly. Here is the time, the patience and the way of living it genuinely asks for.

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• Culture

  The cultural history of locs

  Heritage, identity, spirituality. What locs carry with them, long before they are a hairstyle.

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• Maintenance

  Maintaining your locs

  Washing, treatment, twisting. The routine that keeps locs healthy, and why consistency matters most.

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• Starting out

  The stages of a loc

  Starter, budding, teenage, mature. Knowing which stage you are in stops you panicking at the wrong moment.

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• General

  What people get wrong about locs

  They are dirty, they damage your hair, you have to shave them off. Let us go through it calmly.

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• Budget

  What locs really cost

  The install is only part of it. Here is how to budget across a year, with no surprises.

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• Maintenance

  Choosing products for locs

  Few products, well chosen. What feeds, what builds up, and what to avoid.

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• Maintenance

  Your locs in the Dakar climate

  Humidity, sea air, dust, the rainy season. What our climate genuinely does to locs.

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• Maintenance

  Sleeping with locs

  Eight hours a night, every night. The highest return habit in loc care, and the most ignored.

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• Starting out

  Moving over to locs

  From braids, twists, relaxed hair or a big chop. Where you start changes everything.

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• Styles

  Colouring locs

  It can be done, it looks good, and it asks more than people admit. Read before deciding.

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