Category: Hair & Beauty

A Precious Gift: Mother’s Day Locs Makeover

Mother's Day Locs UpdoIf your mom has dreadlocks, with Mother’s Day just around the corner, what better gift to show your love, than to give her a locs makeover on this special day.

Makeovers come in many forms, whether you choose to get a new hairstyle or get a deep treatment for her locs, that’s still a great way to show your love for Mom this year.

Great Ideas for Mother’s Day Makeover

Pamper your mom on Mother’s Day with a scalp massage. She may be stressed and would love to get at least a day where she’s taken care of, instead of the other way around.

  • Massage Her Stress Away-Mother’s Day Gift

Get her a scalp massage brush for locs, and give her a shampoo. This shampoo won’t be the typical everyday shampoo, because it will be much more special with exfoliation of her scalp, leaving it tingly and relaxed.

  • Make it Fun with Dreadlocks Jewelry

Adorn your mom’s dreads with jewelry for locs.  She will really appreciate it. There are a wide variety of them, some of which are gold, silver, beads, or made from natural bamboo.

Dreadlocks Accessories Jewelry

Get Mom a Locs Gift on Mother’s Day

One gift that anyone with locs would appreciate, is something to dry their hair after washing it. You can give Mom a cap bonnet hair dryer attachment. This is perfect for someone with a lot of locs.  It is designed to hold in the right amount of heat to get her hair dried quickly.

  • Get a Beautiful Locs Hairstyle for Mom

Give your mom a nice hairstyle to complement all the pampering you’ve given her for Mother’s Day.  Re-twist and surprise her with a hairstyle that will last for a week at the most. If you’re not too hands-on with styling hair, bring her to a loctician who specializes in cool dreadlocks hair designs.

A Bold Look: Getting Natural Partial Dreadlocks

Natural partial dreadlocks are quite popular than we may think. Many people would like to test the waters by getting dreadlocks, but is not ready for that big transition. Therefore, they decide to just lock a few random areas of their head, while leaving the rest loose.

Random Partial Dreads

Some people will create dreads at the back, side, middle, or wherever suits them, and let them blend in with the rest of the loose strands of hair.

They will follow the locking process closely to see if dreads would be a good fit for their hair type. They may end up loving their “pet dreads”, and decides to lock a few more.

You can have as many dreads as you’d like, when going for partial dreadlocks, even if it’s only a single one. The key to keeping your locs healthy, is to keep them clean and separated from the rest of the unlocked hair.

Washing Partial Dreadlocks With Non-dread Hair

When it comes to washing your partial dreadlocks, you want to use the right shampoo, one that is less harsh than the ones you’d typically  use to wash your unlocked hair.

Natural Shampoos for Half Dreadlocks

The best thing to do, is to just choose a natural dreadlocks shampoo, which is milder and much healthier for both your locs and loose section of hair. Going natural, is perfect for removing excess oils, without stripping the good oils that are necessary for healthy scalp and  hair.

Maintaining Your Partial Dreadlocks

To keep your partial locs from getting tangled with the rest of your loose hair, it is best that you occasionally feel for any stray hair that’s being locked into your locs. Gently pull them apart.

If you want to just do freeform, that’s okay, but if you want them to have a more neater look, you can do the palm-rolling method, to train them to lock in that form.

Starting Dreads: Choosing Your Parting Patterns Wisely

Most people who plan to get dreadlocks don’t realize that there’s anything called parting patterns. Choosing the way your hair is parted, can make quite a difference in the way your locs will look a few years from now.

When I was starting my locs journey four years ago, I had no idea about parts. I just did them in little squares. It wasn’t until some years later, I found out that parting methods are very important when you are getting your starter locs.

Ways to Part Your Hair When Getting Dreads

The most common types of parting patterns for dreads are squares/grid, diamonds, triangles, freestyle, fan. Keep in mind that each individual’s parting pattern may come out unique in its own way. For example, your square parts may yield different looking locs than someone else with the same parting.

Texture of Hair and Parting Patterns

Parting your hair a certain way, is best determined on the texture of your hair. For example, some people with finer texture say that parting their starter locs in a triangle pattern helps their locs to look fuller.

Diamond Parting Pattern for Fuller Locs

If you tend to have thin hair and is concerned about your parts looking spaced apart, you should probably go for the diamond or triangle parting method. This will allow your locs to fall in the empty parting space below, creating a fuller head of dreads.

The Way You Part Your Hair and How Your Locs Look

Another thing you should think about when getting starter locs, is how big you want them. Big parts will give you bigger locs, or more likely will show your scalp. If you have thin hair, your parts will even be more obvious.

Thicker Texture Locs and Sectioning

For some people, parting patterns do not make a difference, most likely because their hair is thick. Others may have to wait a while for their hair to get thicker with age and proper locs maintenance.

My Locs Parting Pattern Experience

As for me, I started my dreads using the grid parting pattern, although I don’t think they were all parted in the same size. Some turned out thicker than some.

I also noticed that the locs at the sides are smaller than the rest. I am thinking that I should have parted those a little bigger, to maintain their thickness as they grow. You may want to part certain areas of your hair (thinner areas) bigger than others.

Freeform Dreads and Freestyle Parting

For those of you who are planning on getting freeform dreadlocks, parting pattern is not necessary. You can just use your fingers to grasp a portion of hair, and just twist it in whatever form you like. As your hair starts to lock, it will create its own creative shape.