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Loving Older Locs: Do You Still Have the Passion for Your Dreads?

I often wonder about people who have their locs for many, many years, if they still love them like they did when they first started out on their locs journey. If you ask different people that question, you will obviously get different answers.

As with some things in life, as your dreads get older, you may start to get too used to them, and may get complacent, losing that connection. Other people may feel more connected, especially after putting all the hard work into getting them to where they are at.

Giving Up on Your Locs Won’t Work

Having dreads comes with a lot of work and dedication. If you give up on them, they’ll eventually give up on you too. You will start to see them looking dull and lifeless. As the beauty of your hair starts to fade, you may find yourself not loving them as you used to.

Keeping Up With Daily Locs Maintenance for Older Locs

If you want fabulous locs, you have to put the right products in your hair, and take the time to do your daily locs maintenance, just like you used to do in the early part of your locs journey. There’s not much difference in taking care of older locs than there is for younger locs, except for starter dreads.

Daily Locs Prep For Healthier Hair

Your locs won’t look “ugly” if you take good care of them. However, taking care of locs is not only putting natural oils and keeping your hair moisturized, it also means taking care of your overall health, such as making sure you’re getting enough vitamins and eating healthy.

Motivating Yourself With Older Locs

It’s sometimes kind of hard to keep yourself motivated as your locs get older. You may find yourself getting tired of the same style that you had for years, but there are ways to have dreads and still look trendy.

The first and most important thing you need to do when you have older locs, is to get your regular washes, in addition to using your natural oil treatments, and keep them moisturized. Your locs will thrive and grow longer, looking lustrous and beautiful.

Natural Truth: Five Mistakes Not to Make With Your Locs

We all make mistakes at some point, even when starting out on our locs journey. At first, we are just stepping onto unfamiliar grounds, and don’t know that much about taking care of our dreads, but as time goes by, the knowledge starts trickling in.

Mistakes in the Early Life of Your Locs

When I started my dreadlocks, I must admit that I didn’t know half of what I thought I knew about having dreads. Some of the mistakes I made, I am still living with them, but I have decided to make the most of them.

Using the Wrong Shampoo: One of my mistakes that I made when I had my starter locs, was to use the same shampoo that I was using when my hair was permed. I later found out that I should have been using a residue-free shampoo for dreadlocks.

Leaving Your Locs Thirsty: Another big mistake you don’t want to do is to walk around with dehydrated locs. It might be surprising to people that dreads can become thirsty. You need to keep your locs hydrated to keep them healthy and moisturized.

Don’t over-twist: Twisting too often or too tight will be your downfall further down the road. You may feel like you’re keeping up with the latest locs trends by re-twisting your hair often, but in fact, you are weakening your roots. You may also end up losing your hairline.

Don’t cover damp locs: Having mildew or mold in your dreadlocks is real, that is if you cover up your half-dry hair and don’t let it dry properly. Not only will your head of locs smell musty, but mold will start to grow on the inside of your strands.

Don’t sleep without a sleep cap: This mistake is something that I did in my early locs days, sleeping sometimes without covering my hair. When I did cover it, I used anything I could find to cover it. Don’t make the same mistake like I did.

Spend a few bucks and buy yourself a sleep cap, preferably satin cap. Sleep caps are great for protecting your hair at night, keeping lint out of locs, as well as keeping the moisture locked in.

Important Locs Reminder

These are just some of the things that you don’t want to do with your dreadlocks. Treating them good, will leave them looking great. Never neglect your locs. The way you treat them will show, so always treat them right.

If you don’t know something, do your research. Stop by to learn more valuable information about your locs. I have 4 1/2 years worth of knowledge to share.

Locs Journey: Natural Maintenance for 4 1/2 Years Dreadlocks

Time surely flies fast when you’re having fun. I can’t believe my dreadlocks are over four-years-old now. It was just like yesterday when I decided to start my locs journey. One thing I must say, is that it was a very rewarding journey. I enjoyed all the stages, even the “ugly stages” that I went through with my starter locs.

I still try to keep up with my locs maintenance to ensure that they don’t lose their thickness. They did thin out a lot since I started my dreadlocks, but that is to be expected.

It is common to have fat locs, maybe even fatter than you’d like, at the beginning stages as your locs starts to get mature. At that stage, you may find that your hair is more stiffer than normal, and tends to stick up in the hair.

As your dreadlocks starts to gain some length, it lays flatter and flows more nicely. You will notice then that the strands of your locs are smaller at this time. Don’t panic.

To maintain the thickness, I love to use my Jamaican Black Castor Oil, mixed with a combination of other oils. One of my favorites is organic virgin coconut oil. I apply that mixture of oil to my scalp at least two times a week.

Your locs can get thirsty too, so make sure that you are giving it water regularly. Do this by spritzing your dreadlocks every day.

Enhance the smell by dropping a few drops of natural essential oils in the spritz bottle. Remember to shake up the bottle every time you are about to use it, this way the oil and water will mix together.

Massaging my scalp is something I include in my regular maintenance of my dreadlocks. You can use your fingers to do the work or you can simply let the scalp massaging brush do it for you.

When shampooing your locs, the scalp massager is perfect for breaking up all the buildup and dead skin cells from the scalp. In addition to that, massaging also helps to stimulate your scalp, which promotes faster hair-growth.