4C Hair - Semi Freeform Kinky Afro Locs: Update
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- I had the best time in Jamaica. Beach sand in my locs wasn't an issue AT ALL. Other than that, my hair routine is the same. I wash it weekly with a clarifying shampoo and I use NO CONDITIONER and NO OILS EVER! Kinky locs are the easiest, softest, fluffiest hair to manage. Get some!
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You HAVE been such a role model! I cut my last set of locs off and started again on Jan 1, using your method: NO PRODUCTS. I wash weekly with African black soap, no conditioner. I get my hair wet every day in the shower: first hot, then cold. What has shocked me is that my own natural oils are indeed sufficient to keep my hair soft, just as you promised. I LOVE this set of locs, and owe much of this to you! ❤
Wonderful! It's great to hear that you're loving your new set. Woohoo! Good for you. I'm happy to help ❤
Georgeous! I’m freeforming too… when family members say you need to Re twist and get the “fresh “ look, show your length… I simply say I like looking at All my textures and just keep keeping on . 😊
Excellent! Good for you you for being the example of self acceptance. Thank you for posting and all the best!😊
I love that you are here in this space giving us black women an option for an easier, calmer, more beautiful way to allow ourselves to be, Ingrid. Sending love 💕. Thank you ❤
Thank you so much. I appreciate you saying that and I'm glad I can contribute to the community. All the best 💕
I found you in 2021, and you have been my absolute guru! My hair started off at ear length, now it reaches my back, the front of my head is various lengths, but it frames my face. I am so happy I went with your method. My scalp actually wouldn't allow me anything else. You are so awesome. Coolest RUclipsr I could have ever stumbled across! And yes, you have set a good example, I will continuously testify on your behalf!
Fantastic! Thank you very much. I’m so glad that to know that you found a guru! That’s the best! Well, it takes one to know one so good for you too! Have all the fun with your hair.
Your hair looks soOO GUD !
You’re really getting some serious length. I recall your saying you just wanted it to cover your breast🤭… KEEP GOING ! Good decision on combining as well 😊
Thank youuu! 😊 I appreciate that. Cheers!
Started from the bottom now you’re there ! They grew so much and as yours grow I see mine grow as well it’s a wonderful process.
I took the no oil thing seriously and I’m never going back to oil, yes sometimes I’m still brainwashed and I feel my air is dry, but as you said or Adette Bennington years ago it is ok that my air is dry and is looking dry, I noticed that it looks dry but it is soft and very light, I don’t have itching anymore on my scalp from oils clogging my scalp, my hair got thick and full looking, I don’t have the opportunity to wear my hair out a lot because of work but I really notice my hair is thriving from the low maintenance and growing and doing it’s own thing.
All I do after a shampoo is spray my hair with aloe Vera juice, that’s it, and cover my hair at night with a satin bonnet because I love how my hair feel softer when I wake up, that’s it.
Thank you for the inspiration my dear!
( writing my comment at the moment you speak about hair going dry very fast and girl this is true ! )
You are welcome! Good for you for embracing the dryness of your kinky hair. Don't be fooled by commercials or influencers who refer to it as 'moist' or needing any kind of moisture. It's not true. Afrolocs are best when dry. I hear you with wearing a satin bonnet too. I actually wore one at the hotel in and if I spend the night away from home I'll wear one too. It just seems appropriate then. Thank you for your comment and all the best!
Yes! I thought I was losing it. I would only put a little oil on the edges, vit e and lavender and my scalp would itch like crazy. No oil, no itch! Whew, had to learn that one the hard way.
Hello,it’s good to see you. Happy you enjoyed your vacation. Your locs looks beautiful. Thanks for the information. Thanks for the beautiful smile you share . May you have a blessed week.
Hello Dorothy. Thank you so much for your comment. I appreciate that. You too, all the best and stay blessed.
@@ingridfromtoronto 😌
Missed you! Your locs look lovely 😊 they have grown so much. Welcome back 🎉
Thank you so much! I appreciate that 💛💛
Absolutely stunning! The fact remains freedom hair is very beautiful and gives the soul a certain type of confidence no one can take away! Glad you enjoyed that lovely trip JA shall see me soon lol.. beautiful skin, hair and soullll:)
Thank you very much sis! Enjoy your trip to whenever you go!
It's so nice to hear from you! Just wanted to say, thank you soo much for sharing your journey. Because of your example, my own loc journey has been a wonderful process!
Excellent! I’m so glad to hear that. Thank you for your comment. It means a lot. Keep going and have fun!
Same!
@@candacelashae4236 Excellent!
Your hair is so long and luxurious😊🎉❤. I am just in the beginning stages of my free-form loc journey. I have an afro maybe almost 4 inches in length and I haven't combed my hair since January 2, 2023. I pray that TMH YAH will bless me with the patience I need to go through this well worth it journey. You're 💯% class with Pizzazz! Thank you so much for uplifting us, especially for my 4c hair texture sistas. Shalom 🤗
Thank you very much sis. I'm glad to know that you've started your journey and I'm happy to help with these encouraging videos. I wish you continued patience and success. Shalom 😊
@@ingridfromtoronto Todah Rabah Sis 🤗🎉🎊💐. Many blessings and shalom.
It's always great to see a video from you - your locs are my favourite on all of RUclips! Your knowledge and advice have helped my hair so much, I'm eternally grateful that I found your videos early enough in my loc journey (about 4 months in) and stopped using all products and committed to weekly washing. I'm now 2 years and 7 months in and my locs are healthy, soft, thick and lightweight! I can't wait till I get to a length like yours though - I'm just staying patient and enjoying the journey...
Woohoo! That's great! I'm so glad to hear that. Thank you so much for letting me know. I'm glad I can help. Wishing you a beautiful journey!
So wonderful to hear that sis, I bet it's gorgeous!
Ingrid!!! You have come such a long way with your locs!! I remember when you used to play in your hair all the time. You were so excited when you started this journey and you have remained excited. Good for you, sis!!! Your locs look amazing!! Keep on keeping on. ✌🏾🫶🏾🙏🏾
Hi Aletia!! Thank you very much sis. I appreciate that. All the best to you! 🙏
Good job sis! I was with you when you started! It's amazingly beautiful! I cut mine off after 5yrs of freeform and started over a year later, but this time i started myself with 2 sts. I'm a yr in and am loving it. I could care less how long it gets and I'm 65. Im so glad you love your hair, I love mine too, so nice we can absolutely love our hair, its been something growing up with 4c but this is delightful! "Do what you wanted to do and still look good" Love it!
This is definitely the best way for me, no twisting, no oil, wash 1x wkly, no conditioner. I use the lemon clarifying shampoo from whole foods or amazon or a dreadlock shampoo bar. I never wear a silk bonnet and I love to feel it like you Ingrid, it's fluffy and never smells.
Yay! Thank you glad heart! It’s great to hear from you! Congratulations on starting your new set. Semi freeforming my locs has liberated me in so many ways and I’m so glad to know you’re loving your hair too. Here’s to soft, fluffy, beautiful and EASY hair where you can do what you want and still look good 👍🏾
Your hair looks amazing. I have had locs in the past and started freeforming after the birth of my second child but ended up cutting off my hair due to post partum shedding. Now I am starting semi freeform locs again after keeping my hair short for 4 years. I bought Adette Wellington's book years back and it's such a gem. Thanks for sharing your personal journey and encouraging black and brown women to embrace their hair. We have so many of these labels 4a, 4b, 4c but when we can just come to love our African hair without assigning it any labels its so freeing. Keep up the good work and look forward to following your journey to waist length! ❤
Awesome. Thank you very much, sis. I'm glad I can help. Best of luck to you with your new journey too! ❤
BEAUTIFUL set Black Queen. I cant wait until I hit that length.
Thank you King. The length will come before you know it. Power to you.
Love this. Started my locs and don’t think I’m ever gonna retwist. ❤
Wonderful. Good for you. Enjoy it.
Thanks for the update Ingrid so great to see you, you are looking well!!
Your locs are flourishing.
Thank you so much! It's my pleasure. I'm glad I can help. All the best to you!
Your content would go viral on tiktok, there’s not many people with locs like yours 🔥
Good to know. Thank you very much 👍🏾
Wow. This comment is like the comment that nasty Cardi-B made that black women can't grow their hair long. She said this statement over a year ago. She was dead-wrong! And here you've said that 'there's not many people with locs like yours'. Do you all ever Research?? On Instagram, there are 1,000's of people with locs and long locs pass their bottom! There's THOUSANDS of black people and white people on Instagram with dreadlocs galore. Smh. My people fail for a lack of true knowledge....Heck, even here on RUclips, there are THOUSANDS of people of all races with dreadlocs. Smh...
Freeform and separate! Thank you, your locs are gorgeous 🫶🏽I appreciate you sharing and for the encouragement to not retwist
Wonderful Ingrid!
Thank you so much!
HAPPY to see you again. Love to follow your advice and as a result my locs are luscious
FANTASTIC. I'm glad to hear that. Thank you for posting and I wish you all the best
Good to see you. Your Locs look Marvelous 🙌🏾💖
Thank you very much! 🙌🏾
Dassit!! Dassit!!! This , YOU!! Are my sign to semi freeform!! Girl!! You are the most knowledgeable person Re locs! ESPECIALLY the actual logic and science of locs! THANK YOU GODDESS !!!❤❤❤
Wonderful! I'm so glad to hear that MZ-X. You are most welcome, sis!❤❤❤
Yaaaaaaaaaaay!!! I literally woke up this morning wondering if you will make another video!!
You've been an inspiration 😊
Woohoo!!! Your wish came true! Thank you for your comment and I wish you all the best 😊
Great video🎉 how many locs / sections do you have . I’ve just started mine. ….wanted thick locs so started with 25 twists . Still early stages. ❤
Thank you very much. Good for you for starting your loc journey. I hope you enjoy your process as much as I have with mine. I have around 55 locs.
Missed you. So good to know that your routine is still consistent. I admit I get dragged back into the oiling your scalp mantra, but I just end up with an itchy scalp no matter what oil I use. Thanks for reminding me about sticking with the simplified hair routine❤
You are welcome. Thank you for sharing ❤
Beautiful and powerful
Thank you
Beautiful!!!!
Thank you!!!!
I also watch all of Adette Willingtons videos. But...she hasn't been on here in years! I bought her book off from Amazon last month...
I hope she's ok
I hear you. I think she's doing alright. I see that she's mostly posts her thoughts on life and politics these days. Her content is different and she goes by Bernie Tree now.
You inspired me to semi freeform. I have been doing it for a year and I love the fullness.
Fantastic. I’m so glad to hear that. Thank you for commenting. It’s encouraging for folks to hear this.
Ingrid ,I love your tresses,the thicker & the longer they become makes them look better, I can’t wait for mine to grow longer because it gives someone more options for more hairstyles
Thank you very much. I hear you. I'm always looking forward to having a longer length. It's so fun
Also, I have 42 locs now.
I nearly spoilt the fluffy look in my locs last December, I visited my relatives & they we so keen to twist them bt my younger sister refused them to twist even once & said it will change the look of fluffiness in the roots, now you have slso reminded me
Gurl, you are mid back length! When it gets waist length we gon have to make an appointment to talk to you 😆🤣
I blowdry as well, on the cool setting.
I have always loved your locs. I wish I had the hair texture to just freeform. I do go long periods between maintenance. I also did the same thing with my locs I crocheted too much and my Loc broke off. I won’t do that again with mature locs. I’ll let them mesh at the roots and have two headed dragons.
Indeed. I hear that. Thank you very much for your comment and enjoy your journey too.
@Angela Elaine. I was told that my hair cannot free form because I have fine hair that’s straight on the crown of my head, and my texture in the back and the left side is curlier. I got to thinking🤔why is it that white people can free form lock their hair and I can’t? So, I decided a year ago to stop retwisting, and only wash with Dr. Bonners peppermint soap once a month or when I feel like it. I made a sage rinse out of fresh sage boiled in water strained it and made a rinse. I sprayed once a week with this rinse and water rinsed every other week. I donot use products on my hair. I am still amazed at my hair. They are free forming and thicken. I get so many compliments on my locs. So, your hair can free form. Leave it alone. Do not use products, just keep it clean and separated. If your hair grows away from your locs, just insert the grow away part into the closet loc, or just leave it alone and let it form another loc. I allowed mines in the top to do that so I don’t have any scalp showing. Try this and be patience, and don’t expect your locs to look like someone else’s locs. Your hair knows what to do. Just let it do it’s thang. ☺️
You inspired me to do semi-free form without any products 3 years ago, and it was the best decision ever! I love my locs! I can't believe how long your locs are now. How many years has it been now?
Wonderful! I'm so glad that my videos inspired your journey. That's exactly why I post them. Thank you so much for your comment. It'll be 7 years in January since I started mine. I know right??!! Here's to loving our locs more and more everyday!
I'm here watching your video again now that my locs have grown. I want to try sleeping without covering them without a silk scarf, but I'm worried about breakage..
Your hair won't break off. I wouldn't worry. Just imagine what we would do if we were in the wild. Without oils and butters and bonnets...our hair would grow and grow and grow.
So happy to see you again ❤
I wish I could freeform but my roots grow away from my locs. Love you hair. ❤
I hear you. It sounds like you would have to start over and let your locs grow where they want to. Thanks for commenting and all the best ❤
Beautiful as always! 🤗 I'm curious on your opinion on the use of essential oils for the purpose of DIY hair perfumes. Like a few drops in a spray bottle of water. I know they are technically still classified as oils even though only a few drops are used vs heavily oiling your hair, so I was just curious?
Thank you Brie! 🤗 Save the oils exclusively for your skin. I suggest you use NO OILS EVER on your hair. I spray my perfume onto my hair as I spray it on myself. My locs smell like Chanel Noir right now! That’s why I keep sniffing them Lol. It’s great.
@@ingridfromtoronto That sounds amazing lol. I never thought to do that! Thanks for the tip! 👍
Missed you! Your locs look lovely. I feel like I am almost stuck twisting.. do you provide consultation services and/or can I email you to ask you some questions?
Thank you so much sis.
I hear you about being ‘stuck’ with twisting. Once you start, your locs take on the size of the twisted hair and it’s tough to start free forming b/c you’ll see the difference. The ends will look like how our permed hair looked when we all went natural. Remember those straggly bits? Another option is just start over.
Feel free to ask your questions on this platform. It’s easier for me plus it’s helpful for other people who might have the same questions.
@@rodalyndavid2622 Some of your hair will grow 'outside' the loc because remember, you've been designing it through twisting it all this time. It knows what shape suits you best but you would have to allow it to do what it wants. That's the main reason why some people start their locs over. At the end of the day, what's important is that you feel attractive to yourself.
It might help to redefine what 'attractive' means for you. As my sister once said, 'you have to start seeing yourself with your African eyes.' Health and strength is always beautiful no matter what shape or package it comes in so I would start there. Also, I find that people tend to see themselves in others so, those women are only seeing their shadow in you. I wouldn't take it personal. All that matters is how you feel when you look at you and if it feels better to focus on the compliments you are getting, then do that until you don't care what people think. It's not necessary to brush locd kinky hair. It's easy enough to remove any little piece of fluff that might be sitting on the surface. Anyway, "rough" can be a fun look too.
@@rodalyndavid2622 you are welcome!
Hi there we talked some years ago about me getting locs. I finally had it done. But I want my hair like yours hoping it won't fall out if I don't oil it lol. I'll send you a picture of my retwist from this morning.
That’s great to hear. I’m glad you were inspired by my locs. I hope you have a wonderful and fun journey. Good luck.
Your hair is GORGEOUS!
Thank you very much!!
@@ingridfromtoronto Yw.
So beautiful! I too have 4D hair ☺️Thank you so much for sharing your journey. Do you ever use color? If so, what brand do you use?
Thank you so much! I'm glad I can help 😊I never use color. I've been there done that and then some. Besides, the sun will dye the hair over time.
Thank you for sharing your journey. Do you mind sharing which clarifying shampoo you use? ❤
I use a brand called Avalon Organics. It doesn’t have to be clarifying though…just natural with no parabens or sulphates etc. The peppermint and lavender is really nice.
Mash’Allah beautiful locks
Thank you very much. Jazak Allahu Khayran
Nice.
Thank you
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How many locs do you have?
I have 41 locs