I initially started with Freeforms but then decided to get conventional locs Got them locced on the 7th of Sept 2024 (this month) My loctician gave me instant starter locs with the crotchet method cause, like I said, I started with Freeforms and most of my hair was already locced in unique ways and was long. I haven’t really experienced much shrinkage as of yet but I’ll keep you posted. Also, I think you have a lovely smile, the type that can make a person’s day better ❤
That's lovely! That sounds like a very interesting journey. You must have a very unique set of locs.😍😍😍 Awwwwwwn! You're so sweet. Thank you very much.😊😊😊😘😘😍😍 All Glory to God!🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙋🏿♀️🙋🏿♀️🙋🏿♀️
Hi Lilian, thanks for all your videos and for your sweet approach in all your videos. I started my locs in Oct 2020. My locs were started using neither comb coils nor crotchet, it wasn’t palm rolling either but by following the natural ‘grouping’ or formation of my hair strands. The loctician used a foam and hair net rubbing my hair….. what is this called? Anyways my has grown quite significantly but I observed that my locs experience growth ‘spurts’. For many months it feels like the hair is not growing then suddenly it adds fairly significant length and then pauses again for the next phase…. I don’t understand it but that’s what I have observed. Anyway, thanks again NB: I actually preferred my locs when they were shorter 😅 easier to style!
You're welcome, dear. Thank you so much for your support.🤗🤗🤗😍😍😍 I guess you can call it foam locs. Some people still group it as a form of freeform locs but it is not as popular as a starter loc method because it is mostly done by people starting with very short hair. Having periods of growth spurts is also normal. Most times it seems like nothing is happening then all of a sudden, it looks significantly longer. I've had a few of those myself.❤️❤️❤️
😂 my locs grow everyday oooo. I think it's because of my home made aloe vera water mist I use everyday. And for the frizzy stage de3 I've embraced it throughout my one year journey.❤ Lilian I love my locs and its journey
@@jnalocscommunity Yassssss!🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿 I'm glad to know that you're embracing and loving your journey.🤗🤗🤗 Aloe Vera is such a beneficial medicinal plant. I used it a lot when I had loose hair, love it!🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿
@@LilianOkibe Glad 😊. I took lots of lessons from you before I got my sisterlocs installed. And Lili please I want to know your opinion on trimming the ends of my locs. The ends look loose and curly
@@jnalocscommunity I'm so glad that you find my tips helpful. Thank you so much for your support.🤗🤗🤗 You can trim the ends of your locs, I trim mine about once a year but only the ones that don't look the way I want them to. I think loose/curly ends are cute though, especially on microlocks but can definitely trim them if you want more blunt ends.❤️❤️❤️
Yassss another loc girly lol you look good. I am going to be 1 month in a couple of days and can’t wait to upload the outcome as well. I started with comb coils and Patience is the key I can’t wait for my hair to get longer. Thank you for breaking down the stages 💕
@@JazzmynDesir Yay!💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿 Welcome to the family.🤗🤗🤗 I'm so glad that you're being patient, it'll definitely pay off. Thank you so much for watching.😘😘😍😍😍
Ayyyyyy. So Shrinkage hasn't even started and I'm just 3 months locs 😭😭😭😭 please, you didnt tell us on time oh. And i was already thinking that the shrinkage stage was over 😭😭😭 please will the hair still be full in the shrinkage stage😭😭😭
@@joyeseohen 😂😂😂 It'll be over before you know it. Just try to enjoy your locs in the process.🤗🤗🤗 Yes, your locs can still appear full overall if you wet it often and do not retwist too tight.❤️❤️❤️
2 years 😭😭😭😭😭 well, thank God, I look so beautiful on short hair 😌, plus i rocked really short hair from being bald for over a year and i started my locs with 3 inches of hair, so 😎😎😎
@@joyeseohen Then you have nothing to worry about.🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿 If I'm being honest, I really enjoyed my locs at the short stage. I'll definitely go back to short locs in the future.
@@LilianOkibe like...for me, short hair is really the goal😌 If I don't like the way my locs look once they're grown I am so cutting them. My friends know me for always cutting my hair so😂😂😂 There's this uniqueness that comes with rocking short hair really because most people fantasize about long hair a lot in Nigeria...
@@joyeseohenthanks for sharing I’m also 3 months and have been bald before I cut my hair off in Jan of this year started my locs in July 3 months in I’m loving it 😍 ✨❤️
This might sound unbelievable but I started mine 4 months ago and they have already reached the length of my loose natiral hair(I didn't have long hair, around 10cm long,shrinkage up to 50-60%). Just left my locs completely alone. Only washed,let air dry, retwist every 2 months and they have reached the loose length i started with
@@khanya6919 Yay! That's lovely.🤗🤗😍😍😍 It is faster to get to the length you started with if you start with short hair. This is why I always advise people to start instead of waiting for their loose hair to get longer before starting their locs.❤️❤️❤️
@@AbenaW-e7c To be honest, I don't know. It doesn't look like it has changed colour when I look in the mirror or take pictures/videos with my phone or tablet. I've also asked people in real life and they say that it looks black. However, it does look like it has a brownish hue when I film for UA-cam with my digital camera. I'm not sure if it's the lighting, the camera deceiving me or if the colour change is so subtle that only the camera can pick it up.❤️❤️❤️
I initially started with Freeforms but then decided to get conventional locs
Got them locced on the 7th of Sept 2024 (this month)
My loctician gave me instant starter locs with the crotchet method cause, like I said, I started with Freeforms and most of my hair was already locced in unique ways and was long.
I haven’t really experienced much shrinkage as of yet but I’ll keep you posted.
Also, I think you have a lovely smile, the type that can make a person’s day better ❤
That's lovely! That sounds like a very interesting journey. You must have a very unique set of locs.😍😍😍 Awwwwwwn! You're so sweet. Thank you very much.😊😊😊😘😘😍😍 All Glory to God!🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙋🏿♀️🙋🏿♀️🙋🏿♀️
Hi Lilian, thanks for all your videos and for your sweet approach in all your videos. I started my locs in Oct 2020. My locs were started using neither comb coils nor crotchet, it wasn’t palm rolling either but by following the natural ‘grouping’ or formation of my hair strands. The loctician used a foam and hair net rubbing my hair….. what is this called?
Anyways my has grown quite significantly but I observed that my locs experience growth ‘spurts’. For many months it feels like the hair is not growing then suddenly it adds fairly significant length and then pauses again for the next phase…. I don’t understand it but that’s what I have observed.
Anyway, thanks again
NB: I actually preferred my locs when they were shorter 😅 easier to style!
You're welcome, dear. Thank you so much for your support.🤗🤗🤗😍😍😍 I guess you can call it foam locs. Some people still group it as a form of freeform locs but it is not as popular as a starter loc method because it is mostly done by people starting with very short hair.
Having periods of growth spurts is also normal. Most times it seems like nothing is happening then all of a sudden, it looks significantly longer. I've had a few of those myself.❤️❤️❤️
😂 my locs grow everyday oooo. I think it's because of my home made aloe vera water mist I use everyday.
And for the frizzy stage de3 I've embraced it throughout my one year journey.❤ Lilian I love my locs and its journey
@@jnalocscommunity Yassssss!🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿 I'm glad to know that you're embracing and loving your journey.🤗🤗🤗 Aloe Vera is such a beneficial medicinal plant. I used it a lot when I had loose hair, love it!🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿
@@LilianOkibe Glad 😊. I took lots of lessons from you before I got my sisterlocs installed. And Lili please I want to know your opinion on trimming the ends of my locs. The ends look loose and curly
@@jnalocscommunity I'm so glad that you find my tips helpful. Thank you so much for your support.🤗🤗🤗 You can trim the ends of your locs, I trim mine about once a year but only the ones that don't look the way I want them to. I think loose/curly ends are cute though, especially on microlocks but can definitely trim them if you want more blunt ends.❤️❤️❤️
Yassss another loc girly lol you look good. I am going to be 1 month in a couple of days and can’t wait to upload the outcome as well. I started with comb coils and Patience is the key I can’t wait for my hair to get longer. Thank you for breaking down the stages 💕
@@JazzmynDesir Yay!💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿 Welcome to the family.🤗🤗🤗 I'm so glad that you're being patient, it'll definitely pay off. Thank you so much for watching.😘😘😍😍😍
Ayyyyyy. So Shrinkage hasn't even started and I'm just 3 months locs 😭😭😭😭 please, you didnt tell us on time oh. And i was already thinking that the shrinkage stage was over 😭😭😭 please will the hair still be full in the shrinkage stage😭😭😭
@@joyeseohen 😂😂😂 It'll be over before you know it. Just try to enjoy your locs in the process.🤗🤗🤗 Yes, your locs can still appear full overall if you wet it often and do not retwist too tight.❤️❤️❤️
@@LilianOkibe short and full soft 😎😎
@@joyeseohen I love that!😍😍😍
2 years 😭😭😭😭😭 well, thank God, I look so beautiful on short hair 😌, plus i rocked really short hair from being bald for over a year and i started my locs with 3 inches of hair, so 😎😎😎
@@joyeseohen Then you have nothing to worry about.🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿 If I'm being honest, I really enjoyed my locs at the short stage. I'll definitely go back to short locs in the future.
@@joyeseohen For the record, you'll start to notice growth way before you hit 2 years because you started with short hair.❤️❤️❤️
@@LilianOkibe like...for me, short hair is really the goal😌 If I don't like the way my locs look once they're grown I am so cutting them. My friends know me for always cutting my hair so😂😂😂
There's this uniqueness that comes with rocking short hair really because most people fantasize about long hair a lot in Nigeria...
@@joyeseohen I agree with you.💯🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿
@@joyeseohenthanks for sharing I’m also 3 months and have been bald before I cut my hair off in Jan of this year started my locs in July 3 months in I’m loving it 😍 ✨❤️
This might sound unbelievable but I started mine 4 months ago and they have already reached the length of my loose natiral hair(I didn't have long hair, around 10cm long,shrinkage up to 50-60%). Just left my locs completely alone. Only washed,let air dry, retwist every 2 months and they have reached the loose length i started with
@@khanya6919 Yay! That's lovely.🤗🤗😍😍😍 It is faster to get to the length you started with if you start with short hair. This is why I always advise people to start instead of waiting for their loose hair to get longer before starting their locs.❤️❤️❤️
@@LilianOkibe Indeed. I also wouldn't have minded starting with long hair after seeing how bomb your shrinkage looked like in the early months😍
@khanya6919 😂😂😂 I miss that stage.🥹🥹😍😍
Has your locs changed colour?
@@AbenaW-e7c To be honest, I don't know. It doesn't look like it has changed colour when I look in the mirror or take pictures/videos with my phone or tablet. I've also asked people in real life and they say that it looks black. However, it does look like it has a brownish hue when I film for UA-cam with my digital camera. I'm not sure if it's the lighting, the camera deceiving me or if the colour change is so subtle that only the camera can pick it up.❤️❤️❤️
@@LilianOkibe oh ok, it could be the lighting then. The locs looks good nonetheless:).
Thank you so much dear.😊😊😘😘😘 All Glory to God!🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙋🏿♀️🙋🏿♀️🙋🏿♀️
I started my locs at march 7th 2024 and i seeing a little bit of change
@@princesseastman5424 Yes! That's lovely.🤗🤗🤗🤗
can I put a relaxer on my dread locs
@@DanielOgban No, I don't recommend that.❤️❤️❤️
I had my locs for 10 months
That's lovely!🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿
It's been one year for me, i have sister locs, they are getting shorter and thinner
@@Nkoussou_chan The difficult part is already behind you.🤗🤗🤗