Updated Boho Faux Locs, Using Human Hair And Synthetic Hair.

Kill me hi welcome to my YouTube channel. My name is Karen Prince I'm going to show you how I did my hair. I'Ve been wanting to do some locks for a while now so here we are. I have some locks on my channel already, but I wanted more of the Bohemian soft Carefree lock and I'm not gon na lie to you and say it's easy, it's easy, but it's tedious, okay! So it's not gon na be a quick hairstyle, but it's very much worth it um. So if you want to see how I did this go ahead and stay tuned, okay, so let's get to the human hair so for human hair. I use two types all right now. I use some old hair that I had. This is the first type of hair. This is what it looks like now. This hair I actually bought on Amazon, I'm going to link it down in the description and I'll kind of show you like what that hair looks like how I would wear it right here on this side. Now this hair um, I do hair, so people be leaving here with me, and I found this okay, but this is the texture of it. You can see. This is the length so yeah I'll, put the length and stuff in the description box, but this hair um that I used. I will use in all different types of lengths, but you want to get something - that's at least 16 to 18 inches, because the type of look that I was going for. I wanted the hair to look a little bit full, so you can go shorter. That'S on you, but I would suggest at least 16 to 18 inches. So this is the human hair that I use. You don't have to use exactly what I use but for texture reference. This is what it looks like and when you get this hair, please wash it before. You use it, because it comes in like a Jerry, curl pattern, and you don't want it to look like that. Okay for the synthetic hair. This is what we got here. It'S the Janet Marley style. I will put the information in the description box, but this is what it looks like Indians and then for the Waterway here. This is what I use. This is called the the freezing three times water wave. This is what it looks like. It'S basically um, you know the passion twist hair. I love this hair more than the um. You know the. What is it you know what I'm talking about the one, the passion to his hair, that everybody is this hair is extremely soft and it doesn't have that coating or that castle. Okay, so that's the type of hair. I use, of course, you're gon na need. You know your stuff, this is what I like to use. Focus focus focus. This is what I like to use. Okay, there is. This is what I like to use: okay, Organics Edge, smoothing gel all right, of course, you're going to need your right tail comb and your um Clips all right. So I already took a section out - and this is my hair here, so we are going to just first attach the Marley hair. So this is what the Marley hair looks like out. Excuse me, if I'm looking in two different directions, I'm trying not to look at myself, but this is what the Marley hair looks like out. The pack I'm going to use about this much. This is the size of the piece I want to use. I don't want to put too much hair because I don't want the locks to be overly thick now. This is the front piece and I don't want this one super long. I like for my Locs to be layered, so I'll just cut that in half okay. Now what I'm going to do is take it apart and then I'm going to do that thing where you cross the layer like that. So this is about the length that I want now I am going to put some of the edge smoothing gel on my part. This is what I always do: okay and then I'm gon na go ahead and attach it now I'm going to braid down Loosely until I pass my natural hair, you can either braid or twist I'm going to braid and switch over to a two strand twist. Switching over now, when I do my hair, I always try to keep you know, keep them the same, so keep the links the same. So I'm gon na stop this lock right. I'M gon na stop this Vlog right, where the other one ends so about right. There twist it down, I think the lock ended right here and be aware that this hair has a little stretch. So when you wrap it, it's going to stretch a little bit, I'm just going to cut off a little bit of this extra hair. See it's too long, so I'm gon na cut it off and I'm gon na go in and add in some of the curly, the curly human hair at the end, so you can use whatever size. You want it's up to you, but you know the the more hairy, the more human hair you use, the Fuller it's gon na look, so I just cut off a piece: I'm gon na pull out that extra hair, that's usually on the hands. Now I'm gon na start to braid, I'm going to start to braid the end of my hair, I'm trying to block my face, so it doesn't focus on me. Okay, yeah start to break the end of my hair in a small braid, and then I'm going to add this hair in at the end, just like adding in just like, as if you would add in you know, hair throughout and just keep braiding it down. Can you have your piecing at the end now one thing I do recommend you do. I recommend I don't have any hair glue, okay, but I recommend you glue this with hair glue and then roll it. Okay, I didn't do this don't be like me. Do as I say, because I do okay now, you can add in hair also throughout the lock. That would be easy, like just like how I added it in at the bottom. I mean not the life of your braid, just like how I added the hair and at the bottom you can add hair in like tree braids, but for whatever reason I was being slow and didn't do that. So I'm going to add as much hair as I feel I want using the crochet needle. So I'm going to take two pieces of the human hair. I mean two pieces of the curlier human hair and then I'll just take one of the longer pieces of the other type of hair and I'll just cut it off. Okay. So what I'm gon na do here is I'm going to use the crochet I'm going to use my crochet needle and I'm going to put it through. My braid grab the hair and pull it through like that. Now I don't recommend you do this. I recommend you add the hair in as you go, okay, for whatever reason I wanted to try something new, I'm just here to tell you. This is not the best tech best technique, but this is what I did and it worked. They worked. Okay, so again, I'm just going to kind of loop this through like this and then catching the human hair and pulling it through all right, so you're, basically making tree braids without you know before you put the um, the lock in all right. Okay. So now we are going to wrap the lock, so I'm just going to use one piece and again I like to cut this hair in half it's easier to work with when you cut the hair in half, so I'm cutting it in half and then I'm going To separate the hair, now, what I'm going to do is I'm going to start to wrap the lock just stretching it a little bit and then laying it flat against my head. You want the short piece flat and then the long piece like this and you're going to start to wrap at the root you can crochet into the root. If you want to, I just decided not to do that, but now I'm going to wrap wrap it. A good five to six times: okay, okay! Now we can see what we have going on there now you're just going to start to wrap down the lock, just keep it a little bit tight at the root so that it doesn't unravel make sure the hair is spread out. Okay in breath now here comes the annoying part. You want to make sure the human hair is out of the way so move it take a clip and clip it out. The way I'm struggling right now because I'm using the phone to see not a mirror, but that's out of the way so we're going to continue to wrap. Now you can start to wrap a little bit looser. You know to get that more distressed, butterfly, not really butterfly locked, but you know that distressed. Look, I'm not wrapping too tight. It'S going to loosen up eventually, okay, we're almost to the next piece, which is right here. Just keep wrapping okay! When you get to this piece, you want to wrap over it, so it's pushing it downward just a little bit wrap over it. So it's pushing it down if that makes any sense. Now that we've met the next piece, we're gon na grab it with a clip and move it out of the way. Okay and just keep wrapping down wrapping down wrapping down. Here'S the next piece remember go, go over it, so it's not like you know that, go over it, so it can secure it a little bit more okay, wrap it wrap it, wrap it and then pull it up and pin it out the way and then keep Wrapped it um just a quick shout out real quick. I want to say thank you to the young woman that I met in Houston in a bathroom at um, Chapman and Kirby y'all. I was late and she came up to me. She was like. Are you from YouTube and I'm like yeah, and she just really encouraged me to keep going, I'm not getting emotional to keep going into not give up so shout out to you. Thank you for supporting my channel um, I'm gon na cut here. Excuse me why? What is wrong with me, so I'm getting to the next um piece right, but I don't want to use all of this, so I'm just going to cut it in half and I'm going to stretch it out again and then I'm just going to continue to wrap. Just make sure get it as fluffy and stretched out as you can that's going to help it um Wrap better and look better to me in my opinion, so now that we're here we're just gon na fold. It like this. Have that short end laying on the lock and then use the longer end to continue to wrap wrap this a little tight? If you want, you can add some nail glue right here too and then start to move down start to wrap down okay and then, once again, I will add some nail glue right here. Add some nail glue glue, wrap it around. Like I said, please do, as I say, not as I'm doing and then start to wrap the rest of the hair, the remainder of the hair back up the lock, and then you want to Palm roll it just a little bit and there you have it. Okay. There you have it all right. So then just take the clips out and there you go. That'S what it's looking like. Okay, it's like a tree braid, but a lock. Now sometimes the hair will stick out in ways that I didn't care for. So I will take my crochet hook: stick it through my lock and grab it close the hook and pull it through. So let's face it down or something not all the hair didn't come through, but that's okay grab. It again grab it with the hook, pull it through, okay, okay, but that is pretty much how I did my hair and I love it um. So I purposely left all this hair out. Okay, that's done on purpose! I like to do that and I like to save what edges I have left. Okay, let me see what should I tell you guys about this style that you may have questions too. So, once again, I layered my Locs. I don't like for my Locs all to be one length. I love layered braids because it frames the face better, in my opinion, um, but the ones in the back the longer ones. I didn't cut the hair when I first added it. So I would just take one full piece: add it in the back and yeah okay and then, as I got higher up, then I will make the locks a little shorter, a little shorter and so forth and so on. Okay, that's how I did that um. Let'S see, okay I'll, let you guys know how many locks I have. I know most people usually use like how many braids or boxes in your head here it is right here. Um, these locks are not heavy, they are not stiff. They are very lightweight the hair that I show you that I that I use. I really really absolutely love that hair and whenever I do my hair, that's what I'm using um yeah period, um I'll link some stuff from Amazon that may have good or similar reviews. Just in case uh most sometimes people tell me that this hair is not in their area, so you can always find stuff on Amazon I'll link some stuff in the description box. So you guys can look for it. Um yeah! I don't really I y'all this. Is it okay, you guys um, I love my hair so much. I really really love the hair. So much I don't know what else to say. If you have any questions, I'm here to answer those questions, so let me know what you guys think of this tutorial and I will see you later but before I see you later I'll show you my parts, so you can kind of get a gist of how I parted my hair. This is what my parts are looking like and once again my hair is about a week and a half old okay deal with that as you will, this is like what they look like from the middle. This is, the middle action is given. Okay, excuse my belly so when you're putting these human hair pieces on, you want to put anywhere from two to four, maybe even five pieces of hair on each one. So, of course, I've alternated how many pieces I use per lock, because I wanted it to look. Of course you know not uniform, so sometimes I will put you know, maybe just one two pieces and then I'll have the tail end at the end. Okay, but like the one I showed you um, I put three pieces on that um. I believe this one has like four pieces on it and, like the closer I got to the top of my hair, I put more um pieces on there because I wanted to be a little bit more full looking. So keep that in mind when you're doing your hair, depending on how full you want it to look with the human hair, then that's how much hair you want to put on each lock. I will say throughout time that the hair will start to um. The hair. Will start to compress so when you wake up when you first do your hair, it's going to look really full and pretty, but then, when you put your Bonnet on and take it off the next day, you're gon na be like what the hell happened to my Hair so just spray your hair with some water, um scrunch, the locks, don't run you or rake your fingers through. This is not natural hair, scrunch it with some water, and then you know do one of these things and then the hair will come back to life and look a little bit more better. I won't say more full, it's not going to look as full as those first couple of days um, because the hair is going to start to get way down by like oils and stuff you put in your hair and product and all that type of different stuff. Um, I did put a little bit of foam on there, because the human hair that I used was older hair and it was really frizzy. So I did put some foam on the curlier pieces just to get it to shape back into. You know a little curly thingy, but yeah okay, you guys thank you for stopping by thank you for tuning in. Thank you for supporting my YouTube channel. I know I've been back and forth and haven't been on here. I'M really contemplating about keeping it going, but I don't know no, let me not say that I'm gon na I'm Gon na Keep it going just watch my other videos. Let me know what you like in the comment section: what type of um content you like for me in the comment section, but I'm also going to put content up here that I like or things that I feel like I want to share with you too. Okay. So bye, you guys I'll see you next time. For me,