Friday, 4 October 2013

Loc Takedown



I must have been living under a rock all this while because I never knew you could unravel locs! I first heard or rather read about it a few weeks back through a comment someone left on a blog I was reading. Then a few days ago I clicked on a link that led me to a blog that had a video of a loc takedown process. Now usually I watch any YouTube videos I come across on blogs on YouTube itself so I clicked on the “watch on YouTube” link and boy oh boy was I surprised there were a few more loc take down videos! Here is one;

She used a dental tool to pick her locs but any sharp metal like object can do like the metalic tail of a rat tail comb.

Loc takedown is labour intensive and takes a lot of time one of the ladies took three weeks to get her entire head done, another one six days. It all depends on how many hands are taking down the locs and how much time you have in which to do it. The people who took longer did a few every day or every other day. Some of the ladies had their locs in for a year or two others nine years plus. The amount of shed hair that came out of those locs was crazy years and years of shed hair! You could possibly make an afro wig out of the shed hair from locs seriously! Since I get bored of one hairstyle quickly and love to see my hair every now and then, I think I will stick to temporary kinky hair locs should I feel the need to get locs but this is some great information for anyone out there who like me never knew this was possible. 

If this video is no longer available by the time you read this post just type "loc takedown" on the YouTube search bar to see more videos of the process.
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7 comments:

  1. Candice4 October 2013 at 00:22

    I learned about this some years ago, people who do this have a lot of patience! I don't think I have that in me.

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    1. LYDZ4 October 2013 at 16:43

      Not only patience but a few days/weeks off work to undo them would help too Lol

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  2. Andrea4 October 2013 at 01:02

    I did used to think that you could not undo dreads but someone once told me that people have taken down dreads without cutting their hair. I agree with Candice. As much as I would hate to lose all that hair, I think I'd rather just cut it off. That is way to much time.

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    1. LYDZ4 October 2013 at 16:42

      It does take a lot of time but if I had them for like three years plus I personally would consider undoing to cutting

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    2. Neisha Jo7 October 2013 at 15:44

      I'd just cut too. First, because I'm impatient, but also because I've heard the hair is a little thinner after removal.

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  3. Bebe4 October 2013 at 17:54

    I've been definitely living under a rock because I always thought that those locs need to but chop off when you decide to stop locing your hair.
    Thank you for this information. I have learn something new todsy

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Thank you for reading...feel free to add a comment, suggestion or question. I am always happy to hear from you! Lydz.

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