Palm Rolling – Keeping Your Locs Looking Fresh and Neat

If you are wearing your natural hair in locs or twists, you definitely want to make sure that they are looking fresh and neat at all times.

My hair is natural and I recently did the twist, but they were getting a little fuzzy, so I used the palm rolling technique to get them looking nice again. This is an easy technique that anyone can use as long as you have the right hair products. Let me explain the simple steps that I used to palm roll my natural hair.

I started my palm rolling by separating the loose section of my hair from the part that I was going to be working on. Grab your jar of locking get. As I said in my blog post “The Easy Way to Twist Your Natural Hair into Beautiful Locs” I use the Organic Root Stimulator Lock and Twist Gel, and would highly recommend it.

  • Apply some of the locking get to a strand of loc (hair).
  • Use your fingers to gather all the stray hair at the root.
  • Hold the hair, from the root, in the palm of your hands (your palms should look like when you are about to say your prayers).
  • Palm roll the hair, using a twisting motion, in the direction that the hair was originally twisted in, all the way to the ends.
Palm Rolling Natural Hair
  • Use a Duck Bill to hold down each section of the palm rolled hair.
  • Follow the same pattern to palm roll all your hair.
  • Go under the hairdryer to dry your hair thoroughly.

 

Natural Hair After Palm Roll Technique

My Decision to go Back to My Natural Hair – Part 2

Natural Hair Twist

In my previous blog post “My Decision to go Back to My Natural Hair – Part 1,” I told you about my journey back to achieving natural hair. I am having a blast with my hair. I’ve been trying out some new styles, which I will tell you about a little bit later.

My hair grows so fast. The Tropic Isle Jamaican Black Castor Oil Hair Food is one of the natural hair products that I use in my hair. I am happy to see new growths popping up everywhere. I remember how thin and lifeless my hair was when I just started out. I used to braid my hair with extensions just to get some volume.

Fast forward to now, my hair is full of volume and screaming “healthy.” I intend to keep in that way, so I am trying to find out as much as I can about caring for my hair using natural hair products. I am trying to keep everything as natural as possible.

I did the two strand twist in my hair a few weeks back, but it gets really fuzzy quickly. I decided to do the twist look, similar to dread locks (see photo above), but I was skeptical at first. I was sure that my hair was just going to get even fuzzier. Guess what happened? My hair just snapped into place and didn’t look messy as quickly as the two strand twist.

This week I plan to freshen them up by using the palm rolling method. Check back for that upcoming post. I will tell you how I did it and share photos as well.

My Decision to go Back to My Natural Hair – Part 1

Newly Natural With a Simple Updo

I have been perming my hair for years and was getting tired of dealing with split ends and hair breakage. I started to braid my hair when it was nearly time to retouch the roots. I would keep the braids in for a month or so. This made my hair grow way faster than anything else. I didn’t really plan on going back to my natural hair, but somehow, it happened. It just sort of happened accidentally, which turned out to be a good thing.

So I braided or I should say twisted my hair, using hair extensions, which were really long. After doing the two strand twist, I took the scissors and cut the ends, not realizing that my hair had grown so long. I suddenly realized that I had cut off a good 2 to 3 inches of my hair. At this point I decided that I might as well go natural after removing my extensions.

November 2013 will be one year since I went back to my natural hair, and I am loving it. My hair is healthy and strong, and I can still wear fashionable hairstyles. Now that I have my natural hair back, I feel so free. No more chemicals for me. I choose the best natural hair products for my hair.

Right now I am using Coconut oil and Castor oil in my hair. I have heard about so many great natural oils, but haven’t gotten around to trying many of them. I heard that the Jojoba Oil is a great hair product for natural hair. Recently I have been looking at a lot of different natural hairstyles and have been trying a few of them. My next blog post will cover my latest look.