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Brushing Your Locs: Safe or Not?

After growing my locs, I thought I would miss out on the typical things that people with non locked hair would do, such as brushing my hair. Obviously, I couldn’t brush my locs in the non-matured stages, but later on, I figured out the answer to whether it’s safe to brush or not to brush my locs.

Brushing Locs Has Benefits

Even though your hair is locked, your scalp still needs to be taken care of, especially if you want healthier, longer dreadlocks. Brushing your locs has a lot of benefits.

Choosing The Right Brush for Locs

You can stimulate your scalp by using a soft bristle brush to brush your dreadlocks occasionally. Choosing the right brush is very critical, so that you won’t cause damage to your hair or delicate scalp.

Brushing Before Washing Your Dreads

One of the best times to brush your dreads is before you wash them. This way, if there are any lint or other debris trapped in your hair, they can be brushed out while your hair is still dry.

What Locking Stage to Brush Your Locs?

If your hair is not fully locked, don’t brush it, because you will end up unlocking your locs. Once you’re in the matured stage, where your locs are completely locked, you can go ahead and add brushing to your regular natural hair-care regime. I brush my locs, and it does me wonders.

Brushing Freefrom Dreads With Ponytail

Another way to use a hair brush to brush your locs, is when you’re trying to style your hair into a ponytail. Sometimes between washing and retwisting, I’ll wear my hair in a ponytail. To get the frizz under control, I usually smooth the semi-freeform locs back with a brush.

Brushing After Oiling Your Scalp

Brushing your locs also helps to distribute oils throughout your hair, and maintain your parts. The brushing helps to massage your scalp, preventing build-up of dead dry skin cells, while promoting a healthier scalp, which is more favorable for faster hair growth.

To Start or Not to Start Locs: What You Need to Know

Taking the first step to starting your locs, can be a daunting one. This is a journey that only you can make the final decision. Yes, you can get encouragement from others in the locs community, but it is up to you to do your research, and weigh the pros and the cons.

Learning More About Dreadlocks

Some people do their homework before starting their locs, so they can learn all they need to know before taking the big leap. This is strongly recommended. It doesn’t matter how long you take to do your research, as long as you are confident that this is something that you want.

Changing Hairstyles With Locs

If you are someone who likes to change hairstyle often, getting locs may be an issue for you, at least in the first year or so. During this period, since your hair is still not fully locked, you wouldn’t want to manipulate it too much.

Unruly Locs Stages

Your dreads will take on a whole new life of their own, almost becoming unruly. When your hair is locked and gain some length, then you can change hairstyles more often.

You may want them to look a certain way, but during this immature stage before they are locked, you may notice a lot of frizz, weird looking ends, not looking full enough, etc.

My starters going on up to the locked stage, was all over the place. Some days my hair looked neat, other days my hair was frizzy, or even the locs looked too fat.

Choosing the Size of Your Locs

When you are starting your locs, size also comes into play. Many people who eventually cut or comb out their locs, did so because they were not happy with how they looked after they’re locked.

Trial and Error for Starters

One important thing to consider when getting starter locs, is their size. I just did trial and error when I started mine, and around my one year anniversary, I was not really happy with the size.

I started them small, but around this time they became really large. It was really hard to style them the way I wanted.

Older Locs May Get Thinner

The good news is that currently, my 4 years locs are the perfect size for me. They are way more thinner, but healthy looking. I just have to keep taking good care of my scalp by using my black castor oil to keep them strong and healthy.

Bigger Locs Grow Smaller

On the flip side, when starting your locs, if you’re not looking for small locs, you should not part them too small. However, starting them bigger than you want them to be, can still work out in your favor, because as they grow, they tend to get thinner.

Getting Rid of Bumps and Lumps From Locs Safely

When you look at someone’s locs, especially the ones that are fully matured, as in years old, you may notice that the locs are smooth and have very little lumps. How did they get their dreads so smooth? There is a simple trick that will help you achieve that look.

Maturing Locs and Lumps

Young locs tend to go through different phases when developing. If you wish for smoother dreads, unfortunately, depending on your hair texture, you may have more bumps and lumps than you really care for. This can be reversed over a period of time.

Palm Rolling Away Dreadlocks Lumps and Bumps

A very effective way to get your locs smooth and bump-free, is to palm roll them whenever you are doing a retwist. This will help train the hair to intertwine smoothly as it grows. This is a safe and effective way to get smooth strands of locs.

Sticking to Your Goal

The palm rolling method may take a while to yield results, but as long as you continue to do it on a regular basis, you will notice that as the new growth appears and your dreads start growing, your locs will be more even and smoother.

Training Your Locs to Reverse Bumps

You may notice that the upper area, starting from the roots, will be smooth, but near to the ends may still have some lumps. This is a sign that your hair is growing the way you trained it, by doing your regular palm rolling.

Rocking Your Natural Lumps and Bumps

Keep in mind that all your locs may not be smooth, but that’s okay. A few loops and lumps is not so bad after all. It just make your dreadlocks take on a more unique look. Think of it as having natural waves.