Latching Locs

Short demonstration on how to finger latch locs

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• latching
• locs

[HealingHerbsByRene]

I've been reading that crocheting and latch hook is very damaging to locks, it looks really good for a while but putting the medal through your hair Slowly brakes off the Roots..

Now I had locks for ten years now, I was like you, i palm rolled for years, then i fingered it like using a latchhook, then the last few years i started using the latch hook tool.. Slowly seeing my locks thinner and alot of loose or broking short hair at the roots,now i'm going back the palmroll.

seen any thinning?

[amiraaamon]

@HealingHerbsByRene....i don't see any thinning...but i alternate mehods as well

[GAslickmouf]

Ok I started my hair by twist, not 2 stran twist but the reg twist. Now I latch it, the root of it is nice but the dread it self is frizzy. How do I get the dread itself to not be so frizzy???

How will my hai look of 2months of reg twist then 3 weeks of latching???

How often do I re-tighting my hair?

[amiraaamon]

@GAslickmouf .....locs=frizz....the locs will always be somewhat frizzy....more so before they mature..

i alternate methods...twisting and latching.

i re-tighten as necessary.

[naemealah]

Thank you for the demo. Your hair is beautiful. How do you do the back of your hair. thanks again. It did help me.

[amiraaamon]

@naemealah...i just feel around...i never use a mirror.

[kyleismrsmiley]

African Americans have such beautiful well maintained hair! No wonder a lot of white ppl have crappy locs, they don't know what they doing! Its settled, I'm gonna ask the black dude with locs in my class where he got em done tomorrow at college. :D I'm afraid to ask the nappy hippies. xD

[Chloe3086]

not only is that responds rude but so unnecessary. Get a life!!!! Please purchase one if you must! palm rolling is far from the only way and my boyfriends mom is a professional loctician with a lot of clients adn she latches all of them and they also get nothign but compliments. I do to...Broken hair... You mean new groth adn loose hairs. I have never broken a single strand and mine does that... cause its growing genius!!!

[originalathena]

Hey, just saw that video again, and she´d had her locs for 8 yrs, and palm rolled most of that time except the last 6 months, when she started latching......So that explains a lot:)

[originalathena]

@amiraaamon I thought I just saw here on youtube someone who rundid long latched locs.

[MrAlabamaBoy91]

This was the first video I saw on latching locks which inspired me to start getting interlocks or latched locks whichever you prefer to call them. I am glad I got em and saw this video.

[Tiphany757]

@HealingHerbsByRene maybe you were latching too frequent? I'm latching every 2-3 months. Some people do it too often causing the hair to break.

[Zaebolista]

Oh yeah, I also wanted to ask would latching be a better Idea than twisting?

[Zaebolista]

Sista you are a lifesaver! You did a great demo and I tried it on a couple of my locs but I have two strand twists but the ones I did don't seem as loose so I THINK I'm doing them the right way..so thank you again! :-D

[cboink7800]

OMG!!! Thank you so much girl!! I started my locs about 3 months ago, and I've seen plenty of "how to do" latching videos with the latch hook tool, but it just felt awkward to do it in my own head. I've been agonizing over the last 6 weeks, trying to find a locktician to do it. This is the best ever way I've ever seen. It's so easy!! Thank you!! You just saved me sooo uch $money$!!!