Excellent video. Your hair journey is similar to my beard journey, I was dying it for the longest until my lady said she loved my greys in my beard and now, months later I am digging it. It’s definitely a badge of honor. Coming from where we came from and what went through it’s a blessing that we are here to have grey hair. Think about how many never made it to grow grey hair. Love ya 🙏🏾
"my hair has shown up for me" I ❤ love this point! The gratitude and love you have for your crown, is showing in how it presents - really gorgeous and healthy.
Wow! What a beautiful video sis! I am 37 years old and I have had grey hairs since I was in my late 20’s. I have dyed it black so many times in the past to try to keep my youthful look, but a week or two later it always came right back. I’ve finally excepted it and haven’t dyed my hair since April of this year. It was so hard to accept at first because it did make me feel much older, but this is me and it’s part of my self love journey. I installed my own microlocs and I am enjoying the freedom. I have never had very thick hair, but it is still beautiful to me and healthy and that’s what’s most important! 😊💕
This video is so on time. I have been locked for 3 months and I had the EXACT same experience and feelings. When I went to my consultation, I had not colored my hair because I said I would do it right before my install. Little did I know that my loctician would shut that down. She said I could not color my hair at all because my install appointment was in a few weeks. Panic set in and I was wondering how would I be able to "embrace the journey" when I had not embraced the grays. It was a LOT of change at once. Like you, I'm turning 50 soon and I have a complex about "looking old." I never considered myself good looking, so I thought the weaves and wigs made me look like what I thought is "cute." So, I have been on an emotional roller coaster lately. I thought Sisterlocks would just be a convenient hairstyle, but like you, it is changing me. I am learning to accept myself, my hair, and the way I look in general. Thank you for addressing this topic because I literally googled "I don't like my gray hair" for several hours last week trying to find some type of hope and inspiration and you have provided that for me.
I really wish I could hug you because if we were in person, that’s exactly what I would do. I’n not sure if you can see it yet, but you have never looked better than you look right now with your own hair. The more accepting that you are of all that you have to work with, the more your beauty will shine through. That is a fact that I am experiencing and I wish nothing but the same for you, because it really is a beautiful journey. Thank you for being here. 💛💛💛😊🫶🏾
Great video. Around my fiftieth birthday I decided to ditch the dye. I had already been natural about eight years. What an internal process. Some days I loved it and some I hated it. I got locks sixteenth months ago and along with that process I began to really embrace the grey. No turning back!
No turning back!! I agree with you; it is an internal process..whew! The joy and sense of freedom that come with it - unmatched. I’m so happy that we’re on this journey together!!
Thanks for transparency and being authentic. Your hair is beautiful! I turned 45 in November and will celebrate my sisterloc anniversary in May. I've never had this many grey, the struggle with acknowledging getting older along with the greys is scary. I hope to fully embrace it all as they continue to grow in
Getting older along with going grey is SO much to deal with all at once. At 45 you are the youngest today that you will EVER be in life again and that is a beautiful thing. 💗 Happy journey!
That gray is poppin’ 🔥🔥🔥 God is the master artist!!! I love what you said about the tattoo. You look stunning, gorgeous darling. I’m rockin my gray micro locs and enjoying the beauty and natural freedom of it all🥰
Girl this is why I’m not coloring my gray hair , I have small - medium sized traditional locs and when I tell you I love my gray hair ? I’ve fell in love with it and I refuse to jeopardize the integrity of it and I’d too be a darn fool to mess it up … it’s not even worth it in my honest opinion…. And also your locs will thank you for it over and over and over again ! TFS !! ❤ your sister locks are gorgeous ! Stay beautiful ! ❤❤❤
Could you imagine being at the MERCY of having to color your hair CONSTANTLY when gray hair CAN’T be covered? Whew!! I agree with you - it isn’t worth it. I am grateful for the experience of having learned that. 🙏🏽😌 Your hair looks goood!! “I fell in love with it”, IKTR!! Thank you for watching and for sharing your encouraging words bc we need it! 💛💛💛
I love my locks. It’s the greatest decision of my life. I love my gray hair now. I’m always complimented because it is so beautiful. I am a proud older black woman!
I love your journey. Gray is such a complicated issue but as you said and I believe also you have to embrace your life journey and this is just a part of the process. 🎉
I love this video so much!!! I'm in my 30's and the greys are starting to come through a lot, and I am trying to not feel a way about it. I have recently been asking myself why, and i realised that it comes down to how I've seen my Mum treat/talk about her greys. I am trying to embrace them, let them grow, and appreciate its beauty.
Hello Nicole , This is 2nd time I have watched this video and it has been so encouraging to me as I embrace my grey hair journey and this new adventure of my life. I am still wavering on the decision to lock my hair, but you sharing your journey has been so helpful in making my decision , Thanks again!
You are so welcome! I have to say that I loooooove that my hair is locked. The way I get to experience my natural hair is truly un-matched. Thank you so much for watching and for sharing your journey with me. ❤️
You will sis, PLEEEEAAASE remember this moment when you get there so you can be like…dang she was RIGHT‼️…😊❤️❤️..cause you will - if not better, frfr 😘
Thank you soooo much!! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 I know Jan ‘25 can’t get here fast enough, lol! It is truly a life-changing experience in more ways than one. If I can help you along in any way, I’m here! (and everywhere at nicolelocqueen) 😊💛
Im so happy you created this video. Im 6 months loc'd and I seemed to grey overnight. I keep thinking i have lint at my roots. 😂but I was just asking myself if i was going to dye it. But I cant until its locked. So im making peace with it everyday. I felt that. We have traumatized our hair and now we need to be good to it.
The gray is beautiful! I've been going gray since my teens. I am more 63 yrs old with a head full of gray and I've been on my sister locks for 3 years now and I love it. I spent so many years coloring my hair, and when in my late 40's i stopped coloring it and I had no idea that I was so gray. The gray is definitely a conversation starter. With that being said... you look marvelous!!!
Love, love, love this video! I hennaed my hair before establishing my locs and hennaed it one time 6 weeks later and then I decided to embrace my grey locs. They are beautiful…obviously beautiful because people tell me and because I see it. I’m 2 years and 7 months on this journey but I knew 6 weeks in that I was in love with my locs hair. Your locs are beautiful…probably because they are yours, unabashedly yours. New subscriber here.
Thank you so much! It’s amazing to hear that you’re in love with your locks! AND your gray! Welcome to the community. 💛 Please let me know if there are any topics that you’d like me to cover! Henna got nothing on your natural beauty!! 🥰
Hey Nicole your gray locs look beautiful 😍 on you. The gray compliments your complexion so pretty 😍. I’m 39 months Sisterloc’d with thin fine low density locs. I too dyed my hair before installation and was afraid to see my gray hair. After 1.5 yrs into my loc journey I was growing gray hair throughout my whole scalp! So I do dye my locs twice a year still not ready to embrace the full grays. I’m 62 and need to get over it but love ❤️ my ginger colored locs, I’m waiting to turn 65 full senior retirement with gray locs lol 😂. I love ❤️ my loc journey and have learned to accept my natural hair etc. you have truly encouraged me to kick the dye bowl to the curb.
Kick the dye bowl to the CURB!! The freedom on this side is truly un-matched!! I bet your ginger locs are beautiful..! Oh thank you for sharing your story and for your kind words. 🙏🏽😊 Isn’t this such a beautiful journey? 🫶🏾 If only I could be a fly on the wall when your day to fully embrace the gray arrives. 😍🥰🥰
I read somewhere that acceptance is the action of having peace with what is, and if that’s true then you are on your way. 💛 Embracing your grays is a journey worth taking. Ohh, I’m so happy for you!!
I am 2 1/2 months into my loc journey and before that I was natural for over a decade. My hair is fine, and edges thin and missing. I will be 56 tomorrow and have some greys. I didn't like them until I started my loc journey. Nowim cool with them and can't wait to see the grey throughout the lengths of my locs. Like highlights 😊 i am glad to finally be all natural ✨️ 😊
I needed this video. I am starting my microloc journey next week and I am so concerned with my low density hair with gray (around the edges) hair. I hope I feel good about how the gray looks after the install. Thank you for the video.
I came across your video today. Inspiring! I'd been uncertain about my decision to just let my locs be. I'm 52 as well and have watched my hair slowly turn gray. Your video is a confirmation that I made the right decision. Thank you!
I appreciate you sharing your journey with us. You give me something to look forward to. You wear your grey hair beautifully. Leave it to society to to take away our valor from us. Our grey hair shows that we went through life's challenges and we have made it through. Keep on rocking your locks and continue to stay positive. Blessings.
I'm getting loc'd tomorrow. I wanted to color but loctician didn't recommend. I even mentioned henna. We share so much in common. Thank you for sharing.
Whew!! Tomorrow is YOUR DAY!! You must be so excited!! You’ll be fine w/o henna should you decide not to use it. My loctician felt it was ok, though it didn’t help all that much in the end, lol. You really do have a beautiful journey ahead. 😊💕
What a wonderfully honest, beautiful, and sincere video. It was an awesome journey to self-actualization. You inspired me to accept the unique nuances of my grey hair lock journey as a gift in finding "me"!
Awesome video. We are sooooo use to what we are use to that we become resistant to change. I decided to embrace my natural highlights (grays) and haven’t colored my hair for 4 months. All I can say is that the journey is just that a journey - not a sprint and I’m excited to see what my hair will do 😊 Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for sharing your journey. It's such an inspiration not only for those with greying locs but those approaching 50. Gurllllll you SLAY. Please post a video on where you get your fabulous earrings. They always compliment your locs so nicely.
Excellent video. It has inspired me to just let my hair go which ever way it would wanna go. I have been contemplating dying my hair for two years. And now I have made a decision to just let it be. Thank you so much, Nicole. Excellent video.👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Thank you, thank you, thank you for this video. I was just thinking about dying my gray Sisterlocks. I almost forgot how beautiful they are. Thank you for the reminder. I’m embracing my gray hair again 💕💕🥰
Love it. I started my micro locks on 3/28 with low-density greying hair. You have encouraged me to embrace the journey! I can relate to your hair journey at 51. Thank you for sharing your story ❤❤❤
Your Loc’s are beautiful. My Loc’s are grey around the edges. And I can see it growing through out my hair. I love it and can’t await until it turns completely. It’s going to be so beautiful.
This video for me is so therapeutic. I am going to start my Sisterloc Journey sometime next month. You have captured every feeling that I have felt. My hair is a mixture of gray and dark brown and hardly no one has ever seen it. I am the sew in queen. Definitely ready for the locs, but I was not fully ready for the gray journey just yet. I feel like I am only 46. That is too young for a head full of gray!! I know, silly right. But, I am going to get this together. And be thankful for this. You have helped me tremendously. We are blessed. Thank you!! Your hair is so beautiful!!
We are SO blessed!! Amen. I’m excited for the start of your journey. It really is an exciting time! I feel you bc when I was 46, you couldn’t pay me to show my grays, lol. You are going to have a beautiful journey of discovery and change. Please check back in, I wanna hear an update! Thank💕you…
This video is showing me i have a lot of work to do. Thank you for making this video. I have been trying to hide my grey hair. I started greying in my 20s now i am in my late 30s and still have not embraced it. I came across your video because i have been thinking a lot about getting sister locs or micro locs. But thank you again. ❤❤❤
This was an EXCELLENT video!! I’ve been graying since my early 30s, I’m now almost 45. I came across your channel because I’m in the process of researching- I’m ready for microlocs. I struggle with embracing my grays sometimes, but I will NOT dye it. 😊
Thank you so much for sharing this raw and vulnerable video. It was just what i needed as i struggle to embrace my gray traditional locs. You are an inspiration and I'm thankful to have come across your video ❤
“I” am grateful that you came across my video. Your words mean more to me than you will ever know. Acceptance will set you free….that’s a fact. 😊🫶🏾I’m sure your locs are Beautiful!!🤩
I am thinking of doing sister love in 2025. I have gray hair, but I truly love me some colors. I am about to turn 50, I’m not afraid of grays, but I’m not ready maybe in 10 years. I love your hair ❤
Hi Tonja, Oh I can relate alright! At one point I did try using that hair color that looks like a tube of lipstick. I got mine from the beauty supply store but it’s probably also online. I’m not sure if that’ll help, but you never know. Dyes (even henna) have potential to loosen our curl pattern which is the exact opposite of what you want to have happen to your hair especially when it hasn’t locked fully yet. Stay the course sis…it’ll be worth it and as SOON as your hair locks, you’ll be off to the races! 😊💕💕💕
You are rocking that gray‼️ I love your hair! I too have gray and have had it since I was 12, gray does not mean old!!!! Whenever my hair was parted in the middle, there was always that one gray that would stand up😀 I learned at an early age to embrace my gray!! So now at age 67 with a lot more gray and just recently got sister locs, I love my look‼️
I’ve been loc’d one month and 49 in a few days and have been struggling with dying my locs. But your video help me make a decision against it! ‘Hair tattoo’ I love that! ❤thank you😅
Thank you soooo much for this video, I just started ANOTHER loc journey, I think this is my fourth try, but just like you embracing your gray, I am ready for it this time around, but I have to admit, that at 58, I have not been ready to embrace my gray, but after hearing this beautiful, coming of age story, I am going to have to face my fear....baby steps.
Nicole you and I have the same story. We both started our sister loc journey the same year and I have been torn between dying my gray hair or embracing it. So many people have told me not to dye it. I have decided to embrace the gray!! 😊. Your gray is beautiful.! ❤
Come on Stephanie, yesssss!!! You wanna talk about hair FREEDOM?! It is an amazing journey..you will see! 🥰 Please check back in with me bc I want an update!! 😊🙏🏽🙏🏽
Thanks so much Beautiful Queen 👑💞🌹 You have helped me tremendously by opening my eyes in accepting my regal Greyness. I'm so glad I watch your awesome video 💯 Real talk. Thanks Queen 👑🌹 You look Beautiful
I love this video it made me feel so much better. Unlike you my entire head is gray and I have been this way since 30. My gray hair stated when I was 18, I had sisterlocs befoe and they were dyed blonde. Now, i'm going back and I've been wrestling with keeping them my naural gray so i'm so glad I ran across your video.
You're a rockstar sis! Pre-mature gray is beyond beautiful! I don’t think you wanna go on the, “I gotta cover these grays” journey because you will be in a chokehold trying to re-cover all that gorgeousness. Thank you so much for being here. ❤️
Thank you for sharing your story. I can relate on so many levels. From not seeing the women in my family natural hair color because of the use of wigs. They had a wig for every week of the month, lol. I went thru a period of hating my hair at a very young age and as I got older, I wore perms, weave, braids etc. Hair damage😢…At age 37 I decided to get traditional locks and loved them and learned to love my natural hair. Then at 50 decided to go with Sisterlocks. 🥹Didn’t know I could love them even more. I struggled for a long time with my hair turning gray at age 30 and only on my edges. I would get negative stares, comments. But once I embraced my gray hair and owned it, I noticed others embraced it and loved it. I work with high school and college students and have received compliments on how much they love my hombre gray🥹 Need I say more. I appreciate your transparency and it’s so encouraging. I’m not alone in this journey😅 Your hombre and hair highlight are gorgeous. ❤
You are so not alone in this journey! It hurt for me to hear how you’ve once hated your hair, but not as much as I know it hurt you to admit it. 😞 Today you and I can both smile at how far we’ve come. 😊 It makes me so happy to be apart of our evolution bc hopefully, the younger people behind us won’t have as many obstacles in the way of their own acceptance. 💗 My hombre and hair highlight both thank you. 🥰😊💕💕💕
This is such a beautiful video. I smiled all the way throughout. I locked my fine hair 3 weeks ago and I didn't get a chance to color it before, so I have quite a bit of grey too. Your video truly inspired me to embrace my hair as it is. I have gone months without coloring my natural hair, especially during covid but I always go back to coloring it. However, I am honestly tired of coloring, so I think I definitely need to own my greys at 55.
Love your story. I started my locs with a headfull of salt and pepper hair. Almost 5 years later I have a crown of salt n pepper bra strap length traditional locs. Just go with it, you are beautiful
I started going grey in my 30s. Everyone around me responded to it negatively. Friends called me old. It had an impact on me. 2 years ago, I got locs. I had a bad perception of my hair as well. I thought it just didn’t grow. It was falling out and I had no idea how to take care of it. Getting locs changed my perception of my hair and my greys. My loctician told me that people pay to get their hair grey like mine. I kept it grey for 2 years. I fell in love with my hair. Last month, I dyed the ends black and left the roots grey. I love it. I kinda have the best of both worlds now.
I really wish I had started my locs without coloring my hair.... Now I'm past shoulder length and I've decided to let the gray come on out and now I have to transition from this dyed brown/black to almost a full head of gray. I too have low density hair and the grays on my sparsely populated scalp looks like it's just bald! I've had to just choose to not really look at those areas right now. I'm still struggling a bit but I know I'll get there! Your locs are beautiful, thank you for this video!!
Not looking at those areas is HIGHLY recommended! That’s what I did in the beginning. Now it doesn’t even matter, lol..probably got used to it. All of my edge hair is gray, making me look completely bald there too. Smh..too many journeys on one head. Your gray will come in beautifully now that you’ve set it free! 💕💕 You’ll see..😊❤️
I'm 63. And still not ready for grey hair!! Foe aome crazy reason before i got Sisterlocks...I rarely saw any grey! But man when i loc'd up it showed up like gangbusters😮. I wasnt ready and I'm still not! Yours does look beautiful! Mine's came in Very patchy and i didn't like it at all! So until I'm ready it will be colored😊
That’s right, do what works for you. It’s so true about the grays showing up once locked, lol. Thank you for the compliment and thank you SO much for being here and sharing your story with us. ❤️
I love your hair. Its beautiful. I am 56 and I have small locs that are interlocked. I am debating letting my greys grow in to see how I like it. Watching this video has made me look forward to how my greys are growing. My locs are almost 3 years old and the majority of my hair is black, I am wondering how this is going to look. I am not cutting my locs, I am loving the length. Thank you for this video, it has helped me alot. 💚
Hey Nicole you're greyish locs are looking beautiful, absolutely stunning!!! I have starter braid locs and um 52 and I wish I had your length right now especially in my front bags. I'm a fine hair gurl and I can't wait for my greyish locs to become longer 😂😅
Can I tell you how I love that you said “greyish”?! 😍 Thank you so, so much for all of your kind words. 💗 Your length will show up.. especially if you’re a little shrunken right now. You’ll see…😊
I didn’t. Know if when you loc your hair if the gray would move down the length of the loc or not because I never see women with gray locs they all color them. So I was going to wait until I went all the way gray to loc. thank you so much for this video ❤. I’m gonna loc when I’m 50
Yesssss!! Now THAT’S how you enter your 5th decade!! My gray strands are shimmery so they’re woven throughout. Certain parts of my hair appear to be going gray from the bottom. When I tell you I’m in love with my hair, chiiiiiiiiile🥰
The reason am here! My 14 year daughter challenged me by saying that "mummy am sure you will appear so beautiful with grey" Stop dying in please! The was amidst my questioning should I let it be grey or keep dying. I have a good density. It's time I five up and cherish the grey am 45yrs!
Because…why not?!💕💕 (don’t take it from me but I’m beginning to feel like the gray looks better, shhh! lol!) 🥰 Also, please tell your daughter that she is absolutely correct! 🫶🏾
Excellent video. Your hair journey is similar to my beard journey, I was dying it for the longest until my lady said she loved my greys in my beard and now, months later I am digging it. It’s definitely a badge of honor. Coming from where we came from and what went through it’s a blessing that we are here to have grey hair. Think about how many never made it to grow grey hair. Love ya 🙏🏾
It is a blessing that we are here to have grey hair. Your greys are poppin’!! Love ya🙏🏽
"my hair has shown up for me" I ❤ love this point! The gratitude and love you have for your crown, is showing in how it presents - really gorgeous and healthy.
wow, thank you so much for that.
I’ve never thought about it that way…thank you for turning this light on for me. 🙏🏽‼️💛
Loved this video. I think grey hair looks so refined and elegant
Thank you!!!
Refined and elegant - oh yesssssss! 😊💛
Girl, 50 where!?!
Thank you, friend💕💕😊
I needed this. Im 46...finally decided to let the dye go. This was so motivating❤
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Wow! What a beautiful video sis! I am 37 years old and I have had grey hairs since I was in my late 20’s. I have dyed it black so many times in the past to try to keep my youthful look, but a week or two later it always came right back. I’ve finally excepted it and haven’t dyed my hair since April of this year. It was so hard to accept at first because it did make me feel much older, but this is me and it’s part of my self love journey. I installed my own microlocs and I am enjoying the freedom. I have never had very thick hair, but it is still beautiful to me and healthy and that’s what’s most important! 😊💕
This video is so on time. I have been locked for 3 months and I had the EXACT same experience and feelings. When I went to my consultation, I had not colored my hair because I said I would do it right before my install. Little did I know that my loctician would shut that down. She said I could not color my hair at all because my install appointment was in a few weeks. Panic set in and I was wondering how would I be able to "embrace the journey" when I had not embraced the grays. It was a LOT of change at once. Like you, I'm turning 50 soon and I have a complex about "looking old." I never considered myself good looking, so I thought the weaves and wigs made me look like what I thought is "cute." So, I have been on an emotional roller coaster lately. I thought Sisterlocks would just be a convenient hairstyle, but like you, it is changing me. I am learning to accept myself, my hair, and the way I look in general. Thank you for addressing this topic because I literally googled "I don't like my gray hair" for several hours last week trying to find some type of hope and inspiration and you have provided that for me.
I really wish I could hug you because if we were in person, that’s exactly what I would do. I’n not sure if you can see it yet, but you have never looked better than you look right now with your own hair. The more accepting that you are of all that you have to work with, the more your beauty will shine through. That is a fact that I am experiencing and I wish nothing but the same for you, because it really is a beautiful journey.
Thank you for being here. 💛💛💛😊🫶🏾
The gray makes your hair even more beautiful 😍!!
Oh thank you!! 😊😊
Great video. Around my fiftieth birthday I decided to ditch the dye. I had already been natural about eight years. What an internal process. Some days I loved it and some I hated it. I got locks sixteenth months ago and along with that process I began to really embrace the grey. No turning back!
No turning back!!
I agree with you; it is an internal process..whew! The joy and sense of freedom that come with it - unmatched.
I’m so happy that we’re on this journey together!!
Thanks for transparency and being authentic. Your hair is beautiful! I turned 45 in November and will celebrate my sisterloc anniversary in May. I've never had this many grey, the struggle with acknowledging getting older along with the greys is scary. I hope to fully embrace it all as they continue to grow in
Getting older along with going grey is SO much to deal with all at once. At 45 you are the youngest today that you will EVER be in life again and that is a beautiful thing. 💗 Happy journey!
Thank you…I’m 66 1/2 locing for the 2nd time without my color. I feel like I’ve been to church needed this
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This video made me very teary eyed and emotional by the way. Very touching and honest! I really appreciate this beautiful video!🥹🙏🏾❤️
I love love the grey on you. Just gorgeous!! My locks are turning grey, and I'm 65 greying proudly and beautiful 😍
That gray is poppin’ 🔥🔥🔥 God is the master artist!!! I love what you said about the tattoo. You look stunning, gorgeous darling. I’m rockin my gray micro locs and enjoying the beauty and natural freedom of it all🥰
Thank you for your kind words! 🙏🏽💕Rock those gray microlocks, I know that is RIGHT!!🙌🏾🙌🏾💛
Girl this is why I’m not coloring my gray hair , I have small - medium sized traditional locs and when I tell you I love my gray hair ? I’ve fell in love with it and I refuse to jeopardize the integrity of it and I’d too be a darn fool to mess it up … it’s not even worth it in my honest opinion…. And also your locs will thank you for it over and over and over again ! TFS !! ❤ your sister locks are gorgeous ! Stay beautiful ! ❤❤❤
Could you imagine being at the MERCY of having to color your hair CONSTANTLY when gray hair CAN’T be covered? Whew!!
I agree with you - it isn’t worth it. I am grateful for the experience of having learned that. 🙏🏽😌
Your hair looks goood!! “I fell in love with it”, IKTR!! Thank you for watching and for sharing your encouraging words bc we need it! 💛💛💛
And thank you!! 😊
Such a beautiful and heart warming vision of your story. God bless.
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I’ve been going grey since elementary boo…… I love it‼️🤣🤷🏽♀️🤎😍🥰🔥🔥🔥💯
I love my locks. It’s the greatest decision of my life. I love my gray hair now. I’m always complimented because it is so beautiful. I am a proud older black woman!
AMENNNN!!!
I love your journey. Gray is such a complicated issue but as you said and I believe also you have to embrace your life journey and this is just a part of the process. 🎉
We really do have to embrace our life’s journey. 😊😊💛🙏🏽
I love this video so much!!! I'm in my 30's and the greys are starting to come through a lot, and I am trying to not feel a way about it. I have recently been asking myself why, and i realised that it comes down to how I've seen my Mum treat/talk about her greys. I am trying to embrace them, let them grow, and appreciate its beauty.
Embracing your greys is a journey (so) worth taking! 🥰🥰
Thank you for watching! 💗
Hello Nicole ,
This is 2nd time I have watched this video and it has been so encouraging to me as I embrace my grey hair journey and this new adventure of my life. I am still wavering on the decision to lock my hair, but you sharing your journey has been so helpful in making my decision , Thanks again!
You are so welcome! I have to say that I loooooove that my hair is locked. The way I get to experience my natural hair is truly un-matched. Thank you so much for watching and for sharing your journey with me. ❤️
She said she turning 50?!?!?!???😮😮 WHEREEE 👀 👀 SOMEBODY SHOW ME WHEREEEEE❤❤❤ I hope I look THIS good at 50 🙏
You will sis, PLEEEEAAASE remember this moment when you get there so you can be like…dang she was RIGHT‼️…😊❤️❤️..cause you will - if not better, frfr 😘
Thank you for such a thoughtful, inspiring, lesson. Your hair is beautiful! 😍Your journey, though fraught with obstacles, was well worth the trip.🤗🥰😉
I'm looking forward to locking my hair in Jan 2025! This was lovely and your highlights are GORGEOUS 😍🔥🔥🔥
Thank you soooo much!! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
I know Jan ‘25 can’t get here fast enough, lol! It is truly a life-changing experience in more ways than one.
If I can help you along in any way, I’m here! (and everywhere at nicolelocqueen) 😊💛
Im so happy you created this video. Im 6 months loc'd and I seemed to grey overnight. I keep thinking i have lint at my roots. 😂but I was just asking myself if i was going to dye it. But I cant until its locked. So im making peace with it everyday. I felt that. We have traumatized our hair and now we need to be good to it.
Amen sis, amen!💕
The gray is beautiful! I've been going gray since my teens. I am more 63 yrs old with a head full of gray and I've been on my sister locks for 3 years now and I love it. I spent so many years coloring my hair, and when in my late 40's i stopped coloring it and I had no idea that I was so gray. The gray is definitely a conversation starter. With that being said... you look marvelous!!!
Thank you SO much sis! I’ve always thought that people who went gray at a young age were special. 💕
Love, love, love this video! I hennaed my hair before establishing my locs and hennaed it one time 6 weeks later and then I decided to embrace my grey locs. They are beautiful…obviously beautiful because people tell me and because I see it. I’m 2 years and 7 months on this journey but I knew 6 weeks in that I was in love with my locs hair. Your locs are beautiful…probably because they are yours, unabashedly yours. New subscriber here.
Thank you so much! It’s amazing to hear that you’re in love with your locks! AND your gray! Welcome to the community. 💛 Please let me know if there are any topics that you’d like me to cover!
Henna got nothing on your natural beauty!! 🥰
Hey Nicole your gray locs look beautiful 😍 on you. The gray compliments your complexion so pretty 😍. I’m 39 months Sisterloc’d with thin fine low density locs. I too dyed my hair before installation and was afraid to see my gray hair. After 1.5 yrs into my loc journey I was growing gray hair throughout my whole scalp! So I do dye my locs twice a year still not ready to embrace the full grays. I’m 62 and need to get over it but love ❤️ my ginger colored locs, I’m waiting to turn 65 full senior retirement with gray locs lol 😂. I love ❤️ my loc journey and have learned to accept my natural hair etc. you have truly encouraged me to kick the dye bowl to the curb.
Kick the dye bowl to the CURB!! The freedom on this side is truly un-matched!!
I bet your ginger locs are beautiful..! Oh thank you for sharing your story and for your kind words. 🙏🏽😊 Isn’t this such a beautiful journey? 🫶🏾
If only I could be a fly on the wall when your day to fully embrace the gray arrives. 😍🥰🥰
Thank you for sharing your journey, it is helping me as I’m accepting it is time to embrace my gray journey, mentally and physically!
I read somewhere that acceptance is the action of having peace with what is, and if that’s true then you are on your way. 💛
Embracing your grays is a journey worth taking. Ohh, I’m so happy for you!!
This was an extremely honest and vulnerable video. Thank you for sharing this with us ❤
Thank you so, so much Janet. ♥️
Your gray locks are absolutely gorgeous!
I am 2 1/2 months into my loc journey and before that I was natural for over a decade. My hair is fine, and edges thin and missing. I will be 56 tomorrow and have some greys. I didn't like them until I started my loc journey. Nowim cool with them and can't wait to see the grey throughout the lengths of my locs. Like highlights 😊 i am glad to finally be all natural ✨️ 😊
I needed this video. I am starting my microloc journey next week and I am so concerned with my low density hair with gray (around the edges) hair. I hope I feel good about how the gray looks after the install. Thank you for the video.
I came across your video today. Inspiring! I'd been uncertain about my decision to just let my locs be. I'm 52 as well and have watched my hair slowly turn gray. Your video is a confirmation that I made the right decision. Thank you!
I appreciate you sharing your journey with us. You give me something to look forward to. You wear your grey hair beautifully. Leave it to society to to take away our valor from us. Our grey hair shows that we went through life's challenges and we have made it through. Keep on rocking your locks and continue to stay positive. Blessings.
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Your gray hair is beautiful! U Rock it, Girl!!!
It looks better in gray to me. I LOVE it!
I'm getting loc'd tomorrow. I wanted to color but loctician didn't recommend. I even mentioned henna. We share so much in common. Thank you for sharing.
Whew!! Tomorrow is YOUR DAY!! You must be so excited!!
You’ll be fine w/o henna should you decide not to use it. My loctician felt it was ok, though it didn’t help all that much in the end, lol.
You really do have a beautiful journey ahead. 😊💕
I love this video! Your hair is lovely. I have had tons of gray for decades. Lol. I love my grays/whites! 🤍
Thank you SO MUCH! I feel like a whole new person with my gray hair. 🙌🏾 I love connecting with a sista who can relate! 🤍
What a wonderfully honest, beautiful, and sincere video. It was an awesome journey to self-actualization.
You inspired me to accept the unique nuances of my grey hair lock journey as a gift in finding "me"!
Love the gray on you. ❤
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Awesome video.
We are sooooo use to what we are use to that we become resistant to change.
I decided to embrace my natural highlights (grays) and haven’t colored my hair for 4 months. All I can say is that the journey is just that a journey - not a sprint and I’m excited to see what my hair will do 😊
Thanks for sharing.
That’s what it’s all about! 🎉❤️❤️
Thank you for sharing your journey. It's such an inspiration not only for those with greying locs but those approaching 50. Gurllllll you SLAY. Please post a video on where you get your fabulous earrings. They always compliment your locs so nicely.
You are so welcome and I will!!
I am going gray and I have SL and I am learning how to embrace my gray. I have had sisterlocs for about 13 years now.
Excellent video. It has inspired me to just let my hair go which ever way it would wanna go. I have been contemplating dying my hair for two years. And now I have made a decision to just let it be. Thank you so much, Nicole. Excellent video.👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Thank you, thank you, thank you for this video. I was just thinking about dying my gray Sisterlocks. I almost forgot how beautiful they are. Thank you for the reminder. I’m embracing my gray hair again 💕💕🥰
Ohh, I love that for you!
And they are beutiful😍 and so deserving of their time to shine. 🥰
Love it. I started my micro locks on 3/28 with low-density greying hair. You have encouraged me to embrace the journey! I can relate to your hair journey at 51. Thank you for sharing your story ❤❤❤
Thank YOU sis 💗😊…happy journey!
Your Loc’s are beautiful. My Loc’s are grey around the edges. And I can see it growing through out my hair. I love it and can’t await until it turns completely. It’s going to be so beautiful.
Oh yes it will!!
This video for me is so therapeutic. I am going to start my Sisterloc Journey sometime next month. You have captured every feeling that I have felt. My hair is a mixture of gray and dark brown and hardly no one has ever seen it. I am the sew in queen. Definitely ready for the locs, but I was not fully ready for the gray journey just yet. I feel like I am only 46. That is too young for a head full of gray!! I know, silly right. But, I am going to get this together. And be thankful for this. You have helped me tremendously. We are blessed. Thank you!! Your hair is so beautiful!!
We are SO blessed!! Amen.
I’m excited for the start of your journey. It really is an exciting time! I feel you bc when I was 46, you couldn’t pay me to show my grays, lol.
You are going to have a beautiful journey of discovery and change. Please check back in, I wanna hear an update!
Thank💕you…
This is a absolutely beautiful video. Thank you for sharing this remarkable video of your journey. You have helped me. My God bless you. ❤
aww thank you so much and God bless YOU❤️
This video is showing me i have a lot of work to do. Thank you for making this video. I have been trying to hide my grey hair. I started greying in my 20s now i am in my late 30s and still have not embraced it. I came across your video because i have been thinking a lot about getting sister locs or micro locs. But thank you again. ❤❤❤
I love my gray. It’s uniquely me. Great video. Self confidence is everything. Enjoy your❤ journey.
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Gurll nawwww I kno you didn’t say 50 ❤❤ shout out to you this the second video I’ve seen of you and never would have guessed 50 you look amazing ❤❤
Thank you sis! 💗Correction: 53 in August #LeoGang✌🏾
This was an EXCELLENT video!! I’ve been graying since my early 30s, I’m now almost 45. I came across your channel because I’m in the process of researching- I’m ready for microlocs. I struggle with embracing my grays sometimes, but I will NOT dye it. 😊
Thank you so much for sharing this raw and vulnerable video. It was just what i needed as i struggle to embrace my gray traditional locs. You are an inspiration and I'm thankful to have come across your video ❤
“I” am grateful that you came across my video. Your words mean more to me than you will ever know. Acceptance will set you free….that’s a fact. 😊🫶🏾I’m sure your locs are Beautiful!!🤩
Powerful, Authentic...Thank you
I'm so glad you enjoyed it! 🙏🏾
I am thinking of doing sister love in 2025. I have gray hair, but I truly love me some colors. I am about to turn 50, I’m not afraid of grays, but I’m not ready maybe in 10 years. I love your hair ❤
Thank you so much for sharing your journey. I also am 50 and struggling with not dying my hair in the initial stage of my loc journey. ❤
Hi Tonja,
Oh I can relate alright!
At one point I did try using that hair color that looks like a tube of lipstick. I got mine from the beauty supply store but it’s probably also online. I’m not sure if that’ll help, but you never know.
Dyes (even henna) have potential to loosen our curl pattern which is the exact opposite of what you want to have happen to your hair especially when it hasn’t locked fully yet.
Stay the course sis…it’ll be worth it and as SOON as your hair locks, you’ll be off to the races! 😊💕💕💕
Love your story! Your hair is so pretty!
Thank you so much!!
I just stopped coloring my locs….thank you for the inspiration to embrace my gray….your hair is beautiful
You are so welcome and thank you!
Wait! You over 50?????😮 you look fabulous
Thank you!! 🙏🏽🎉💃🏽😊😊
Right there with you sis. Was not trying to to have them unravel and now
You are rocking that gray‼️ I love your hair! I too have gray and have had it since I was 12, gray does not mean old!!!! Whenever my hair was parted in the middle, there was always that one gray that would stand up😀 I learned at an early age to embrace my gray!! So now at age 67 with a lot more gray and just recently got sister locs, I love my look‼️
Love it!!🥰
Amazing video...thanks so much for sharing your story. This was very inspirational for me. Thank you!
You are so welcome! Thank you for watching! 🙏🏽❤️
This was a great video. It helped me put words to some of my hair struggles, which are very similar to yours. Thank you for this, Nicole! 😊
You are so welcome!
And Another One!!! Great Video! Thanks for sharing your story! I'm starting to embrace my gray hair more also!
I know your gray is gonna be gorgeous!!
loved it well needed to hear
Thank you…🫶🏾😊
I’ve been loc’d one month and 49 in a few days and have been struggling with dying my locs. But your video help me make a decision against it! ‘Hair tattoo’ I love that! ❤thank you😅
Happy birthday!! Come on, hair tat!!🤌🏾🤣🥰
I am SHE.. This is truly a humbling experience. I am meeting my natural hair for the first time and learning to love her.
Thank you soooo much for this video, I just started ANOTHER loc journey, I think this is my fourth try, but just like you embracing your gray, I am ready for it this time around, but I have to admit, that at 58, I have not been ready to embrace my gray, but after hearing this beautiful, coming of age story, I am going to have to face my fear....baby steps.
Baby steps indeed. Have you faced your fear yet? 😊
Nicole you and I have the same story. We both started our sister loc journey the same year and I have been torn between dying my gray hair or embracing it. So many people have told me not to dye it. I have decided to embrace the gray!! 😊. Your gray is beautiful.! ❤
Come on Stephanie, yesssss!!! You wanna talk about hair FREEDOM?! It is an amazing journey..you will see! 🥰 Please check back in with me bc I want an update!! 😊🙏🏽🙏🏽
Thanks so much Beautiful Queen 👑💞🌹
You have helped me tremendously by opening my eyes in accepting my regal Greyness.
I'm so glad I watch your awesome video 💯 Real talk.
Thanks Queen 👑🌹
You look Beautiful
Regal it SURE is! You are beautiful, as well and I wish you all the vibes for your grey journey.💕💕💕 #WeLit🔥🔥😊😊🫶🏾
I love this video it made me feel so much better. Unlike you my entire head is gray and I have been this way since 30. My gray hair stated when I was 18, I had sisterlocs befoe and they were dyed blonde. Now, i'm going back and I've been wrestling with keeping them my naural gray so i'm so glad I ran across your video.
You're a rockstar sis! Pre-mature gray is beyond beautiful! I don’t think you wanna go on the, “I gotta cover these grays” journey because you will be in a chokehold trying to re-cover all that gorgeousness. Thank you so much for being here. ❤️
Thank you for sharing your story. I can relate on so many levels. From not seeing the women in my family natural hair color because of the use of wigs. They had a wig for every week of the month, lol. I went thru a period of hating my hair at a very young age and as I got older, I wore perms, weave, braids etc. Hair damage😢…At age 37 I decided to get traditional locks and loved them and learned to love my natural hair. Then at 50 decided to go with Sisterlocks. 🥹Didn’t know I could love them even more. I struggled for a long time with my hair turning gray at age 30 and only on my edges. I would get negative stares, comments. But once I embraced my gray hair and owned it, I noticed others embraced it and loved it. I work with high school and college students and have received compliments on how much they love my hombre gray🥹 Need I say more. I appreciate your transparency and it’s so encouraging. I’m not alone in this journey😅 Your hombre and hair highlight are gorgeous. ❤
You are so not alone in this journey! It hurt for me to hear how you’ve once hated your hair, but not as much as I know it hurt you to admit it. 😞 Today you and I can both smile at how far we’ve come. 😊 It makes me so happy to be apart of our evolution bc hopefully, the younger people behind us won’t have as many obstacles in the way of their own acceptance. 💗 My hombre and hair highlight both thank you. 🥰😊💕💕💕
Great video! Alway good to hear another sisters story!! I'm loving my grey hair too and living it!!
Thank you! I could’t agree more - it’s always good to hear another sister’s story!! 🥰🥰
This is such a beautiful video. I smiled all the way throughout. I locked my fine hair 3 weeks ago and I didn't get a chance to color it before, so I have quite a bit of grey too.
Your video truly inspired me to embrace my hair as it is. I have gone months without coloring my natural hair, especially during covid but I always go back to coloring it.
However, I am honestly tired of coloring, so I think I definitely need to own my greys at 55.
What a beautiful statement. And thank you.
It’s your time to shine. 💕
You WERE turning 50?! I didn’t even think you were 50 now! Beeeeaaaauuutiful you are!!
Aww, thanks Alexis! I’m 53 now! 🥰
Love your story. I started my locs with a headfull of salt and pepper hair. Almost 5 years later I have a crown of salt n pepper bra strap length traditional locs. Just go with it, you are beautiful
Oh wow!
Thank you so much!
Amazing video!! You and your hair are lovely. Thanks for sharing😊
❤️❤️❤️🙏🏽Thank you!!
Thank you so much for your response. Your personality is so beautiful and encouraging ❤
you are so welcome and thank YOU so much. 😊😊🫶🏾
Thank you for sharing your awesome story! 💕💕💕
Thank YOU!!💛💛😊😊😊
I love your hair! Beautiful!
Thank you so much! ❤️
Your hair and you are beautiful
thank you so much!
This was sooo good! Thank you Sis!! I needed to hear this!! Bravo!🙌🏾 👏🏾
💗😊.. thank ‘you’..
I started going grey in my 30s. Everyone around me responded to it negatively. Friends called me old. It had an impact on me. 2 years ago, I got locs. I had a bad perception of my hair as well. I thought it just didn’t grow. It was falling out and I had no idea how to take care of it. Getting locs changed my perception of my hair and my greys. My loctician told me that people pay to get their hair grey like mine. I kept it grey for 2 years. I fell in love with my hair. Last month, I dyed the ends black and left the roots grey. I love it. I kinda have the best of both worlds now.
People can be so mean and I’m so sorry that you had to experience that. Here’s to FALLING IN LOVE with your hair!!!🙌🏾💗
Seriously ….thank you!🙏
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An interesting and enlightening story...... your greys are popping🥰
Whewwwww! Thank you!! (my grays are poppin…) 😂😊💛
Thank you for this video! I needed this
You're welcome! 🙏🏽
I really wish I had started my locs without coloring my hair.... Now I'm past shoulder length and I've decided to let the gray come on out and now I have to transition from this dyed brown/black to almost a full head of gray. I too have low density hair and the grays on my sparsely populated scalp looks like it's just bald! I've had to just choose to not really look at those areas right now. I'm still struggling a bit but I know I'll get there! Your locs are beautiful, thank you for this video!!
Not looking at those areas is HIGHLY recommended! That’s what I did in the beginning. Now it doesn’t even matter, lol..probably got used to it. All of my edge hair is gray, making me look completely bald there too. Smh..too many journeys on one head. Your gray will come in beautifully now that you’ve set it free! 💕💕 You’ll see..😊❤️
Thank you, Nicole for telling my story.
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I'm 63. And still not ready for grey hair!! Foe aome crazy reason before i got Sisterlocks...I rarely saw any grey! But man when i loc'd up it showed up like gangbusters😮. I wasnt ready and I'm still not! Yours does look beautiful! Mine's came in Very patchy and i didn't like it at all! So until I'm ready it will be colored😊
That’s right, do what works for you. It’s so true about the grays showing up once locked, lol. Thank you for the compliment and thank you SO much for being here and sharing your story with us. ❤️
I love your hair. Its beautiful. I am 56 and I have small locs that are interlocked. I am debating letting my greys grow in to see how I like it. Watching this video has made me look forward to how my greys are growing. My locs are almost 3 years old and the majority of my hair is black, I am wondering how this is going to look. I am not cutting my locs, I am loving the length. Thank you for this video, it has helped me alot. 💚
You are going to LOVE them when you set them free. 💗..thank you so much for sharing your story. 💚
OMG! I was turning 50 when I started my loc journey also! I colored two weeks before my install!
hey twin!🙌🏾
You definitely wear it well!
Hey Nicole you're greyish locs are looking beautiful, absolutely stunning!!! I have starter braid locs and um 52 and I wish I had your length right now especially in my front bags. I'm a fine hair gurl and I can't wait for my greyish locs to become longer 😂😅
Can I tell you how I love that you said “greyish”?! 😍 Thank you so, so much for all of your kind words. 💗
Your length will show up.. especially if you’re a little shrunken right now.
You’ll see…😊
There’s a sister at my church who has all gray sister locs and they are so very pretty!
IKTR!! Silver locs are other worldy. 🤩
I didn’t. Know if when you loc your hair if the gray would move down the length of the loc or not because I never see women with gray locs they all color them. So I was going to wait until I went all the way gray to loc. thank you so much for this video ❤. I’m gonna loc when I’m 50
Yesssss!! Now THAT’S how you enter your 5th decade!! My gray strands are shimmery so they’re woven throughout. Certain parts of my hair appear to be going gray from the bottom. When I tell you I’m in love with my hair, chiiiiiiiiile🥰
Love this!
Absolutely they are natures highlights!
Amen!
The reason am here!
My 14 year daughter challenged me by saying that "mummy am sure you will appear so beautiful with grey" Stop dying in please!
The was amidst my questioning should I let it be grey or keep dying.
I have a good density.
It's time I five up and cherish the grey am 45yrs!
Because…why not?!💕💕 (don’t take it from me but I’m beginning to feel like the gray looks better, shhh! lol!) 🥰
Also, please tell your daughter that she is absolutely correct! 🫶🏾