Doing Dreadlock Maintenance On My Full Head | Detailed How To, Self Care
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- Опубліковано 14 чер 2020
- Namaste loves, I hope you learnt from my video and can now do maintenance on your own hair, if you have any questions then please leave them below and I really appreciate you watching this video and all the support you give me, love and light to you all...
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ive been watching dreadlocks video for almost four years now, and i must say, you have made the best dreadlock self maintenance video on youtube
Amazing thank you so much I am so glad its been helpful for you 🤍🙏🏼
I must say, I'm impressed that you can do all that yourself! I have a heart condition that I can't hold my arms up for very long without having issues. But after watching this I think I'll try to do just a few at a time and see how I'll do. Just amazing!
Awh thank you love, how did your journey go for you in the end? did you manage to get some out yourself? it is tiring work so always nice for someone to help. Im glad this could be of inspiration to you at your time of need 🙏🏼🤍
I'm a loctician here in New Zealand and although I use a slightly different crochet method which is more of a stitch, I do this exact process after washing my dreads too. Takes me about four hours to do all my 41 dreads, double mirroring it. Great arm workout too! Love these vids.
Ohh yes its super long doing it yourself right 😆 and totally agree to the arm workout 🙈 thank you for your support 🌞
I've never been able to do mine, YET, but I'm trying to learn - I have trouble with getting the loose hairs in the wrong dreadlocks, how do I make sure not to do that? I wish someone would show how to set up mirrors and such.
Thank you so much for this! Mine are 2 weeks old and my hair type looks similar to yours. I know care & maintenance is such an individual thing that changes by hair type so this video is INFINITELY valuable to me. ❤❤ also your hair is incredible, absolutely gorgeous.
Your dreads are friggin perfect!! And literally goals!!
Awh thank you so much lovely thats so kind you to say 🙏🏼 Sending love and light your way 🤍✨
I love 💗 WOW 🤩 I’ve just loc’d partial. I have 38 locs with front fringe bangs it’s been a week and I love the journey
Thank you! ☺️ Ahhh yesss yours sounds amazing! the beginning is so much fun!! enjoy your new journey lovely 🤍✨✌🏼🌝
Amazing how you do this yourself! Im learning to do it myself, using single loop extensions. This is my third time taking them out, and putting them back in. Sectioning in the back is a nightmare.
Mad skills girl!
Thanks so much! it took time and practice trust me haha but i just feel in my fingers when maintaining the dreads at the back ✌🏼🌝
Beautiful! I can't wait to get that good with the crochet hook!
Thank you 🌝🤍🙏🏼
You was such a great show! Thanks for the info just starting my dread journey looking forward to seeing more of your videos
thank you so much love, i hope you have been enjoying your dread journey so far ☺️
Thank you for showing how you do self maintenance and it's something I've been wanting to learn. I have a really good loctician but it seems I always get those little fuzzies, feathers, new growth lol. My hair grows really fast! I will be buying a crochet needle.
Aww im glad it could be of help love, how did your maintenance journey go in the end? did you try yourself? ☺️🙏🏼🤍
Cheers chick for the vid. It has me feeling I can learn this. My hair ain't as long as yours so I will not even begin to complain. Thanks again
Awh no problem at all lovely im glad it could be of help you you, its easier than we might think but i also know people that hated doing it themselves, i just did it for convenience and cause i had no choice haha! thanks for your support lovely 🙏🏼🤍
Omg I have 52 month old dreadlock babiesss ✨ love this video! Thanks
Thank you so much ☺️🙏🏼🤍
lovely, beautiful, thank you!
Thank you lovely 🤍🙏🏼🌝
Oh my gosh, what lovely locs! 💕
thank youuu, i do miss them 🤍
I agree, perfect vid, you are likeable, human, not boring and full of shit. You are someone I would choose for my tribe. Light and love to you! XxX 🙏
Awh this comment really lit me up!! I'm so glad you resonate with my energy, all about the authenticity right!! much love to you 🤍
Your locs are just gorgeous!!
Thank you so much Julia 🤍 sending love ✨
You have theeeee most perfect #goals dreads ever!! Wow! This was so satisfying to watch and now I’m really working towards how yours look 😍🙏🏻🤍
Awhh what a beautiful message thank you so much love ☺️ are you still on the dread journey? i have removed all mine now, i do miss them sometimes though 🤭🤍
Hey mama! Omg, i still stand by how gorgeous your dreads were. I ended my journey with dreads last March. I’m not sure I will do them again, but I did so deeply love my time with them. I miss moments too. Like beach times. Hope you’re doing awesome! Xo
You are a God send!!!!
also thank you ☺️ and thank you for your support 🙏🏼🌞
I love how it looks.
Thank you so much ☺️🤍🙏🏼
Thank you for sharing your awesome skills. I have a wooly textured type of hair and also wear my hair in a dread style. I must say your finished updating of your dreads looked totally neat and stylishly g👀d.
Thx 4 being U (respectfully)
Aww thank you so much lovely i really appreciate that 🥹🤍✨
That was such a great tutorial, the best one I have watched yet. I like how you are real about it too because it does take hours and it hurts at first but it’s so satisfying to get it done. Thank you and you have a new subscriber.
Hey Sarah, thanks so much i really appreciate your lovely words & thank you for subscribing it means so much 🤍 🙏🏼 sending love and light to you ✨
@@LaurenFleck love and light to you too dear soul 🙏🏻✨
Hello thank you so much for sharing 😊 I'm planning to get dreadlocks next month. This is a big help for me. God bless you 🙏✝️😇
Aww no problem at all, I'm so glad it was useful, I appreciate your support 🤍
what a great tutorial. well done xxx
Thank you so much 🌞
Your hair got so long!! Lovely seeing you in this video, I hope you're doing well 💕
Awh thank you so much love!! gosh its been a long while hasn't it!! i hope you have been doing well sweetie 🤍✨🙏🏼
Wow!!!!! You’re hair is aaammmmaaaaaaazzzing!! 😱. And your skin is glowing, your eyebrows are beautiful! I want to be you. Lol This is the first video of yours I’ve seen and it makes me so excited about continuing in my brand new dreadlock journey (mine are self-done and only a month or so old)
Awth thank you so much Cindi 🙏🏼 your journey sounds amazing I bet the free form is so fun to work with! much love ✨🤍
I do the exact same, even down to washing & doing the maintenance the day after. 👍🏽
Love that ✌🏼😆
I got a better understanding of how to dreadlock. Beautiful lady and beautiful maintainer. Thank you for this video!
Thank you so much! i'm glad it can help ☺️🤍🙏🏼
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Thank you so much for sharing!!
Much love to you! 🌝🤍✨
I love the bun!!!
Thank you ✌🏼🌞
Love ur videos,am just got my new dreads over a month now. I’m subs 2 ur channel
Aww thank you so much for your support love 🤍 how have your found your loc journey? are you still rocking them? ☺️✨
Thank you. perfectly explain 👍
Aww you are so welcome 🙏🏼🤍✨
Thanks 🙏 amazing content very helpful
Aww thank you so much lovely that really means a lot 🤍🙏🏼✨
I've had my dreads for 2.5 years now and I love them. One thing I will say that has helped with them not fusing together so I don't have to pull my hair out is vitamin E oil. Plus it helps let them grow
Oooo thats a great tip!! thank you for sharing ☺️🙏🏼✨
ur so beautiful! thanks for the tips
Awhh thank you so much and you are so welcome 🥹🙏🏼✨
Hi Lauren Fleck im from Philippines,i do have dreadlocks too about almost 2 years no repair..im really amaze how you maintain ur dreads specially on the roots..now i have idea but for real scared to fix it..lol thanks for the video
Hy love!! oh cool i bet your locs look amazing! did you maintain yours in the end? ☺️✨
Absolutely gorgeous locs🔥🤩💘
Thank you so much lovely 🌞🙏🏼
You Sister are an absolute star 🌟🙏
Aww thank you so much love 🥹✨🫶🏼
Hey girl!! You are awesome
Thank you so much 🙏🏼🤍
Thank you great video
Very welcome 🤍
Very good tips😃great🎉🎉🎉
thank you so much 🤍
Thanks for this easy to follow tutorial. Do you use the double hooks ever?
no problem lovely, and no just a one hook needle ☺️
I'm at about 32-33, keep getting loops, 6 months in starters 💕
Wish I had found you sooner. I have real hair extensions as my hair is short, but I do try my best to maintain it at the roots. I struggle like mad with crocheting. I try the hook you use & I also try the latch hook as I heard that is easier but nope not for me. Guess I have to keep trying fuck sake lol!!
The end of this comment cracked me up lol, it can be a pain i hear you, i dont think i'd have had any chance with the hook and latch, i did practice a lot on myself with the standard crochet needle before i got it down good though so hopefully you did! how did your journey go in the end? did you have any luck? ☺️🤍🙏🏼
Good job..x
thank you ☺️🙏🏼🤍
impressed
Thank you ☺️🤍
Amazing .. thank you for this ... I have 88 dreads and I have to do them in sessions ... also have bumps and loops and I think this will help soo much
Oh my godis, 88 dreads!! i bet your locs look amazing!! not surprised you had to do them in sessions lol thats a lot! super cool though 🤭✨
It looks so good wow ❤
thank you so much 🥹🙏🏼🤍
Gorgeous locs ❤
Aww thank you so much love 🥹✨🤍
Thank you so much for the video, best I have seen so far! Are you actually pulling through the hair and then keep pulling through where it sticks out until gone? Or are you just pulling it inside the dread and releasing it there? I always have the feeling that when I try to release in the dread, that I los it and it just goes back to where it was 😬
Aww you are so welcome lovely! and thank you for your support 🤍 so i would release it within the loc to its tucked away and tidy ☺️ i hope that helps (if you still need that advice now lol) 🤭
Absolutely love this video! Super appreciate it, you are hilarious 😂 very enjoyable to watch and loaded with good information. (That coconut oil part though 😂😂)
Outside of root maintenance one month or so, is it okay if I tidy up my locs more frequently with the crochet needle? Or is that bad for the over all health of them?
Appreciate it!
Once a month or so***
Haha awwhh i really love that you vibe with my energy love, always good to hear i can make others smile ☺️ so i dont think its bad to maintain them a lot just maybe stretch it to two months to keep the hair soft at the root if that makes sense, and as long as you are only maintaining the root 🙏🏼 i hope that helps (if you actually still need that information lol) ✨
Hey love! Love your locs!! Question: where did you get your interlock tool from?
Hey love, thank you so much!! i actually got that one from thailand in a random shop lol!! 🤭🤍
You look great, I wish I could crochet like that
Aww thank you love 🥹 did you learn in the end at all? ☺️✨🤍
@@LaurenFleck yes I know how now thank you
Amazing that’s great news 🥰🙌🏼
i really like your hair before you maintain it, honestly❤️
Aww thank you, tbh i always preferred it when it was a lil messy too, the first few days after maintenance was never my fave, always nice to have a lil bit of hair coming out 🤭🤍
Hi ya I’m a New Zealander watching lol
Awhh love that, i was in new zealand at the time i was filming this video 🥰
Why am I so excited to do all this work
maybe you love a good challenge 😄🙈
Getting ready to start my journey in a few weeks so thank you for this video it was exactly what i was looking for. How often do you wash your dreads?
Awh amazing and how exciting for you! glad it can be of help 🙏🏼 i wash them once a month now, at the beginning i washed them once a week! it will change over time and depending on your day to day life ✌🏼🌞
Thanks sista this helped ur a darling🙏🙏🙏💓
Amazing! Thank you for your support lovey 🙏🏼🤍🌞
They look so awesome. How do you manage to do the back ones. I am really struggling ☹️
thank you so much 🤍 so i actually don't need to look at the back when i am doing it, i just need to feel the needle hook! the more you try look at the back when doing it the more awkward it is to get the hang of it i find ✌🏼😁
Oh my gosh you are so amazingly talented. You keep you dreads so beautiful. I'm 60 but thinking about getting dread/extentions....why not right? My hair is silver and gray...I guess the dreads should be the same color...?
DO IT!! 😃
Ahh thank you so much Cathleen, I really appreciate your support ✨ and my advice to you getting dreadlocks is 'Hell Yeahhh!!' silver dreadlocks sound extremely beautiful and i'm sure you'd totally rock them ✌🏼😆 if you do it please send me a picture of them on Instagram 🙏🏼 love and light to you 🌞
Hey. Loved the video. Question do you think I could start dreads like this on my own from scratch
Aww thank you so much, yess 100% you could!! did you in the end? ☺️🙏🏼✨
How do you do the ones at the back of your head? Just by feeling? Your hair looks nice! Thanks!
thank you lovely! yeah i just felt it in my hand then i would occasionally need to look in a mirror. not the most comfortable but its doable ☺️🙏🏼✨
I can't seem to get the crotchet method down to fix my roots. I'm at 6 months with my dreads.
Ahhh mann, to be fair not everyone can get the hang of it right away, one of my sister creates dreads and the other can't do any of that at all lol, my best tip is feeling it in your fingers and feeling the hair catch on the hook then you just pull it back into the dread ✌🏼🌝
Is see that your locks overal dont got much lose hairs, do you maintenance it often to or do they just go like that over the years? How many time should i chrochet my whole locks?
good spot lovely, so i actually maintained the length of my locs for the first year i had them which i actually dont recommend, reason being is because i fully broke all that hair by doing that so when i took my locs out that hair was non existent pretty much, it all broke off and i had basically a bob but my hair was nearly reaching my butt before i had locs. i fit it for styling purposes though, i liked the neater look 🤭🙈
I'm trying more to maintain the bumps that appear in my "branches". I actually don't mind a bit of fuzz up top. But I'm finding it hard to find a video that helps with such a thing. I don't mind too much fuzz, it's the bumps and long pieces of hair that fall out of my dreads that bother me. Help?
Be careful with that because i did that so much that my dreads ended up being rock solid in places, and when i then too my dreads out i lost all that hair because i had broke it off!! did you find a solution in the end though?
What do you do if you hey loops in your dreads?
Hey! Same process with this maintenance technique! you just feel the loop between your fingers and feed it back into shape ✌🏼☺️
How do you start to lock your hair because I have Indian hair and I would like to know how to start it
You can use the same technique i am using here but just get your section first, backcomb it then pinch it together at the root then start pulling all the strands in together! did you end up doing locs in the end? ☺️✨
Wow you have lost so much weight! Good for you girl!
Thanks!! I was defiantly trying my best ✌🏼🌝
Comments on q persons weight, if you know them or not, can be supremely harmful.
I have new locs so this is really useful 😀
I know this will sound silly but when you wash your hair , do u wash all of it or just the roots/scalp? Thankyou x
Awhhh im so glad!! how's your loc journey been going so far love? so i would just wash the whole lot, was always a pain when it was long though as you can imagine, its not so bad when its short ☺️✨🤍
I’m getting dreads installed next week but am planning to maintain them myself. Very excited but also nervous as it’s so different to what I’m used too. How often do they need maintenance?
Ooo how exciting for you!! do you still have your locs now and how has your journey been so far? so i would say maintain every few months depending in how you like them ☺️✨
Im 2 month into my dread journey at the mo and 6 months into travelling around New Zealand, also a Brit 😁
Can you remember where you got you crochet from?
Cheers
Ahh amazingggg, are you still travelling? and how was NZ? love that you were on your dread journey, i got my hook from thailand in a random shop! iw as lucky tbf you should be able to find one in a loc salon, or get them online ☺️🙏🏼
I had my hair locked for a month now and it is growing out out FAST I can’t seam to get the hang of the crochet needle and I don’t have a maintains appointment for another month. I’m going through the messy stage. I guess I should just leave it alone and let it do it’s own thing.
My hair is about 1/2 the length of yours and I’m going crazy with the frizz.
oh bless you love did you continue your loc journey or get a hang of getting the maintenance down? there's always a wild phase the locs go through but it eventually passes, one thing they teach you is paitence right 🤭🙏🏼🤍
@@LaurenFleck
Yes, I still have my locs, and I love them they are starting to get long again 😄, they shrank up really nice. I would never go back to my normal straight hair. I think I have gotten the hang of doing the front of my hair, but not the back.
How on earth do you figure out the sections in the back?
time and patience lol, the struggle is real on the upper arms 🤭😂
You're so pretty
Thank you so much ☺️
Does 0.75 crouched needle also work or does it really need to be 0.6?
Hey! yeah 0.75 should be small enough, my sister uses 0.7 so it can't be much different ☺️
@@LaurenFleck alright thank you very much for the useful info.
Ur lockz r beautiful 😍 I have 52 in my babies are looking like crap lols 1 month old but oml I am going to attempt to do maintenance by myself HELP
Thank you so much! ahh good job though its much cheaper doing it yourself so I hope you find it works for you! ✌🏼
Hi great vid, how long have you been growing dreads? please
Thank you so much, i had grown them for about a year an a half, the bottom half were real hair extensions ☺️🙏🏼
How long does it takes for you to watch before washing your dreadlocks? I’m trying to combined mine but I can’t
i am not sure on your question here love, are you asking how long to leave it between washes? 🙏🏼
Where u got that neddle from?
I got mine from Thailand but you can grab them on amazon, mine is 0.06mm ✌🏼🌝
My dreads are still pretty new, I was wondering about how long should I wait until starting to do maintenance on my roots?
whenever you feel! it all depends on how much you like the regrowth or the tight look ☺️
So my locs are about 6 weeks old and theyre really really messy at the roots, is there a way to do maintenance myself without having them SO tight? I like the messier look on myself
How often do you do this please? Have put DE dreads that i have made myself with wool roving before but have decided i want to dread my own hair. I suffer badly with arthritis so am hoping that gradually dreading my own hair will, in some ways be much easier on my hands than installing DE dreads. At least that's the plan anyhow - body getting old but brain saying 'hell no!!' LOL x
Ooo i think i probably done it about every 6 months, its a long old process and does really ache so yeah, just a lil tidy up twice a year ☺️🙏🏼🤍
Beautiful locs! May I ask how many locs you have?
thank you so much! i had 52 altogether ☺️✨
you are gorgeous. ❤
Aww thank you 🥹
@@LaurenFleck where you from? 😊
I’m based in the UK! 🇬🇧 how about yourself?
@@LaurenFleck I’m from the Philippines 🇵🇭. ❤️
Did you say hot and humid air will help your hair dry faster?
The hot air defiantly helps with the drying, the humid not so much 🙏🏼✨
Each time I crochet mine, only one week later, there are tonnes of short hair coming out xD I'm probably doing something wong xD
It could be your hair type maybe! if i wanted my hair to look as neat as the finished head in this video i would have to maintain it once every two weeks probably but i do like how it looks when a few hairs have created out ✌🏼🌞
@@LaurenFleck yeah I have really thin hair, they always find a way to slip off my poney tail hahaha. Ive found a new way to crochet it and not perfect but better!
How much does it shrink? Some of my dreads are half their original length since last year
Im still unsure of how you see to put the loose hairs in, esp when i cant see- yours look perfect and i am so scared of getting wrong hairs in the wrong dreadlocks!! Help lol
It's hard to explain but i don't have to look, i actually find it easier to not look! if you feel the sensation of the hook coming through the loc then picking the hairs up on the other side then feeding them through its much more manageable. Try not to overthink to much when your doing it, just try and relax and feel the needle rather then watch it, you might flow better 🙏🏼✨
I can't get the hang of it either and I get frustrated cause I want mine to look good. Not matted how my roots get
That’s true I’m still a baby, but I feel like it’s easier when I don’t look.
Looks great ! I just got dreads last week. How often should I maintain?
Thank you! and thats amazing 😆 and maintain on how you want yours to look, i would say the standard is every 3-4 months depending on your hair type ☺️
MY DREADS AT THE ENDS ARE ROUNDNOT NORMAL HAIR LIKE HERS SO FROM WHERE THE DREAD ENDS AND FLOWS INTO NORMAL HAIR YOU FOLD IT OVER SO THE END LOOKS ROUND THEN YOU CROCHET IT. IT LOOK SO MUCH TIDIER THEN LOOSE HAIR. MY DREADLOCKS ARE JUST PASSED MY KNEES
PAST YOUR KNEES!!! woahhh thats pretty cool!! i preferred the loose end look as it felt more feminine for me, i think the blind ends look really great on men but then some woman defiantly rock it, and vice versa ☺️✨
And you are so Beautiful 😍
Thank you so much 🥹🙏🏼✨
Did you get them done in New Zealand 🇳🇿
No my sister did them for me, uk based ✌🏼🌝
This is why I pay somebody to maintain mine lol I can’t be sitting 4-5-6 hours I have 58 dreads man lol I’d die haha
Yeah man i can't lie its so long 🤭🫠🙈
I started my dread journey almost 3 months ago. And i need a maintenance so bad. Thank you 😊
Aww you are so welcome lovely im glad it can be of help ☺️🤍
0:51 where did you get that necklace ?? ❤ soo pretty
Awhh thanks love, I got it from Australia, brought the crystal and necklace separate though, you can get them on Etsy! 🤍🙏🏼
Is it normal for someone that you are paying to start dreadlocks to charge 1200$ inclhding extension hair, but it took her 32 hours.. about 55 dreadlocks.. im pretty sure i got ripped off
A professional loctician charges around $35 an hour. I think what you paid is the average cost.
You paid the average cost. My dread artist charges $20/dread with extensions so, 55 x 20 = $1100
Dito to the replies above, i think what you were charged is reasonable🙏🏼 It takes many many hours to make dreadlocks not just the ones being made on your head but the extensions have to be made separately also. Its super tiring band can be painful on the hands to ✌🏼
What part of NZ?
CH ✌🏼
Your so beautiful
thank you so much ☺️
Here I am thinking I could maintain my own dreads... All 94 of them *palms face*
Hahha!! 94!! blimey that is a lot i bet your hair looks incredible though!! ✌🏼🌝
i love you
Much loveee back 🤍
"When you get out the shower , I always wear towel for an hour " . Yeah lovely😂 definitely this video gets a like
so true though!! 🤭🤭 thank you for the like 🥹🤍
Can you tell me how many dreads do you have in this video please ? 🙏🌱✨
so I'm pretty sure i had 52 altogether lovely! ✨
You’re beautiful
Awhh thank you so much 🥹🙏🏼✨🤍