How To Make Dreadlock Extensions With Afro Bulk Kinky Hair

So I'm going to be doing a tutorial for how to make natural LOC extensions. These are for dreadlocks that are mature and done with natural hair. So this is actually afro bulk afro kinky bulk 20 inch hair that I'm using to make these LOC extensions. Sometimes people need extensions when their hair has, you know, grown on evenly other times when you're moving your hairline from shaving the sides and back to maybe wanting a full headed dreadlocks when you only had locks on top, so this method is applicable for anyone in any Of those situations and again I'm going to start with this afro bulk kinky hair. So this hair is 20 inch and bulk hair doesn't really have a beginning and end it's just kind of all shoved in the bag. So you're, going to just kind of take out a section make sure that your section is kind of an equal width or approximate equal width, and I have some proclaim dread wax. I don't usually use dread wax for like retwist or for dread maintenance. However, when starting a lock, it can be helpful just make sure that you don't use too much because wax buildup is something that you have to kind of wash out later. So you don't want a lot of wax buildup. You want just a little bit, so I'm going to start at the top by kind of rubbing that together just to get a little base - and I just like to put my little wax container just right on top of the end of the hair, so something's holding It and then just do a little bit of back combing you're, not really back combing for the typical purpose of back combing. What you're, using the comb for in this case is to make the hair, even in width, because you want that lock to be even all the way down so you're kind of back combing to just arrange the hair or kind of pile. The hair in an even width so that when we kind of twist it and do the pulling needle to really get that dread solid and tight in the center, then it's going to be an even with all the way down and not be fat, fatter and thinner. In different places, you also want to make sure that you have an even width of hair for the purpose of structure. You don't want a spot in the in the lock where you don't have a good connection of the hair or it can actually pull apart or kind of break off, and that happens with natural locks as well. Sometimes, when they're not done really evenly, whether that means they were started with a sponge or just freeform or whatever, maybe the maintenance on them has been inconsistent, sometimes they'll develop little thin thin places on the lock and those can become structurally unsound so that it could Break or kind of tear apart so after I do the back combing, then I'm going to just palm roll. This is called palm rolling, just kind of going back and forth, and you should do it with enough friction to where you feel the heat of the friction. This should warm up your hands, so you want to really do an aggressive palm roll on that hair, and you can use your comb to kind of touch up some little spots if needed. Just once again, you want to make sure that this is even in width and thickness all the way down before you start with the little pulling needle. Now I have a couple of pulling needles that I'm gon na be using. I have a point: five millimeter and I also have a 0.75 millimeter and you can kind of see like I'll, show the differences in those two. So the larger the number that are the larger the hook on the end, the more kind of Mack pulling it does and the more micro pulling is with, of course, the smaller pulling needle and so really teeny pulling needle. This is the 0.5 really will give you a very solid, very secure Center to that lock. That is going to be very good for a permanent, lock extension. So it looks like all I'm doing is just pushing the needle back and forth, which, honestly that is pretty much all my right hand, is doing it's a an extremely repetitive motion, pushing it back and forth and then, after about 50 pushes back and forth, I am Lit more towards a vertical alignment with the lock and and pull it out, and then you can see there when I held it to the light that that is creating a compression of the hair to form a tight lock in the center. So what I'm doing, though, meanwhile, with my left hand - well, I am just going back and forth with the pulling needle is I'm you can see. My thumb and forefinger are kind of rolling the lock back and forth because you really want to be able to feel that the pulling needle is pulling on some hair if you're, just jamming a pulling needle in and out of a lock. It'S not going to accomplish anything. You have to rotate the lock so that it finds different hairs so that it can really kind of create a web of those hairs inside of the lock, which is what the dreadlock really the nature of a dreadlock is basically tangled hair. That really has formed a solid mass, so you're really forming that solid mass with you're pulling needle going back and forth and making a nice tight area, and you can see that it already has structure. There'S no light showing through your your dreadlocks, should not be hollow and by the by the way I mean I'm using the term dreadlock, not in the in a political sense. Of course. Historically, anyone who is familiar with the history of of Lux knows that like dread is, is a term. The part of the dreadlock term of dread is kind of negative and controversial in a sense like a lot of people kind of banned. That part of the word, however, some people don't know what just locks are so for the purpose of clarity of language. Sometimes I use the terms in term. You know interchangeably, so you can see that this lock is firm and it's solid and it's also at the same time very bendable. So you can, you know, like wrap around your finger. It'S just like a natural lock and again. This is made with human hair you're going to leave out that little piece that I was putting under the wax container that little piece you're gon na, actually need for installation that little piece of hair and you're going to use your you're pulling needle. Similarly, for that little piece of hair, so these are some other locks that I have already made some other lock extensions and the ends are semi finished on these. I actually am going to be cutting these to match the length needed when I install them. So I'm not really obsessing too much on finishing the ends, but I will do a little portion of this tutorial to show you kind of how I finished the ends. So if you have carpal tunnel, if you have any kind of nerve damage in your hands like I've, permanent nerve damage of both my hands, this particular motion will definitely set that off and give you some numbness and make your hands fall asleep that night. After doing it so kind of a labor of love in that regard, if your hands are brand-new and you don't do braids all the time or use them that often then you know hopefully they'll be fine. So once again, we're going to use a little bit of wax to start that lock off and the palm rolling and the back combing a little bit and then we're going to be using that pulling needle, which is a tiny little crochet hook to solidify that lock. In the center and to do it from the side and then I'm kind of like showing you just really slow here, like you're just going in and out, but you really do have to hold that lock with your hands. So I'm going to try and give you an overhead view soon, so that you can see it from a little different angle. You can see the veins popping in my hand, because I use my hands so much. I have very strong hands just from you know, using them for everything, art and hair, cooking and cleaning changing diapers mowing the lawn whatever it is, I'm using my hands all day long. So again, this is just a back and forth motion that you're doing with the pulling needle just back and forth, and you want to really kind of pay attention to the feel, with your left hand, of the lock making sure that you are grabbing hairs and not Just you know pulling the needle back and forth for no reason, so it takes a couple times to really get the feel of it. The first time you do it. It feels like you're doing nothing, but it actually does work once you kind of figure out how to roll that lock and you're in your left hand and meanwhile use the pulling needle back and forth with your right hand. So here I'm going to show you over top again, I start with a little bit of wax put it on that section, we're going to palm roll it and then I'm going to just take the the wax jar and put that little end. That'S gon na be left out for the installation process put that little end under the wax jar and then just go ahead and start the pulling needle process to solidify the lock. So this is what you're doing what's palm rolling you're just going back and forth, and once again you want to really feel the friction to the point where your hands get almost sunk, a little bit uncomfortably shaped or hot. From doing this back and forth, you want to do it aggressively enough to force the hair into starting that shape for the lock, so that you can get it nice and even all the way down if it's a little thick in a spot, just go ahead and Pull it a little bit to even that out, if it's thin in a spot, you can kind of add a little bit of hair in there and pump. You know palm roll back and forth a little bit more now, if your end at the top is a little bit too long like this has a little bit too much. Hair I'll probably trim that off a little bit later, but once again just put your wax container on top of it and go to work with you're pulling needle. So you can see that my back combing comb for this has like a lot of different little teeth. In it - and I feel like it really does help even out the width of that lock. Just all the way down - and you can see that you know it's accomplishing something before we get to the little pulley needle part, so palm roll and then back home. And then palm roll again and then you're going to take your micro pulling needle and really go ahead and get those hairs super combined together. So you don't want to pull the needle out of the lock. You can see I'm going back and forth, because what we really do is tangling up the hairs creating a web inside of the lock or not actually jerking the hair out of the lock. If you do that, then you're going to end up with a very ragged a dreadlock, because you're going to literally pull those hairs, you can kind of see the how you could pull those hairs out. So don't do that. Just go ahead and keep kind of within. Like an inch or so going back and forth in that motion, so that you're really tangling those hairs securely within the core of that lock, you really want to make a court inside the lock so that it's nice and firm and hard and not hollow not transparent And not able to be pulled apart, so you're just going to go ahead and go back and forth. This is going to be very time-consuming. It is probably super boring to watch and I apologize if you're, not a hair person watching and you're watching this video. You might want to, you know, watch something else at this point, but yeah just going back and forth you can. You can see if you are a hair person, it's probably somewhat interesting, to just kind of see the techniques, but if you're, not a hair person, I can understand why this would you know not be super satisfying to watch just because not a lot of big. You know changes are happening super quickly, so I'm just a lot of repetition and a lot of slow progress, and it does take time and the reason why I don't actually offer a full head of locs pre-made, like this LOC extensions. If I have a client actually ask for a full head of LOC extensions, I just kind of require that they purchase them online or purchase them somewhere else, because it takes a lot of not only just time, but it takes a toll on my hands to do It so I do this only for the purpose of repair or replacement of you know a few. A few locks not like a you, know, 80 or 100 locks on an entire head of hair. So you can kind of see how, with the pulley needle it'll get to a place where you feel like. Okay, it's starting to become a dreadlock and then you'll kind of also feel that that lock is not solid. It'S still a little bit hollow and that's where you want to keep going. You want to keep pushing that needle in and out again it takes about 50 times for it to start locking up, and then you know you want to keep going down that down. Not lock so one inch at a time all the way down and there I clipped off some of that hair. Like I said I was going to because you only need a little bit of hair at the top for the installation. You don't need a ton of hair and part of the installation, I'm going to depend on whether you're installing it to like an inch of hair. That'S grown out from the sides of the back of the head or a spot on the head hair where the lock is torn off or whether you're actually attaching it to a de red that has kind of snapped off, that's, maybe just short and so you're. Actually, attaching it to the end of a dreadlock versus attaching it just to a spot of hair. So, if you're, attaching it to you, just some hair on the head, you're going to want to either twist or braid that little piece down and then go ahead and use your you're pulling needle and the hair. That'S left out on these extensions to really get those all the hair on the extension and that little piece of hair on the head really fully combined and inner woven make a you know a really tight web with that. So it's never going to come off if you're, actually attaching it to the end of a lock, then you're going to want to kind of spread out the top of that hair and put the lock kind of in the center. And then you know use that hair kind of up an inch or an inch and a half, or so the lock to really get that all super combined and inner woven. So, once again, your installation process is very similar to the actual process of making these locks and if you can figure out how to really get the the pulley needle to work for you in terms of making a nice solid, dense, lock, then you're gon na have No problem actually installing that lock on your hair or someone else's hair. So once again, this is just a for a bulk twenty inch. Some places call it afro kinky boat and there are different lengths of hair that you can buy. Make sure that it's human hair in particular, if you're going to be bleaching the hair at all or dyeing it in any way, do you want to make sure that it is actual human hair and not synthetic fiber, synthetic fiber, of course, as I showed in my Previous LOC tutorial LOC extension tutorial. It'S so much easier to work with just because it heat sets and with that hot waters that you can really you know take out. You can really twist it and just hot water set it where you don't have to do a lot of webbing and back combing, and you know threading needle work. So. But the advantage of course, of this method is that it will blend with natural locs, as opposed to looking like a synthetic or faux lock. So these are permanent, faux locks or temporary. So it's just a little different process in making the locks as well as wearing them really so here I'm just going ahead, smoothing out or evening out that lock you want to make sure that you continue with your palm rolling if you get any kind of bumps In the lock, you can resolve those with a combination of the technique of palm rolling and the you know threading needle. So once again, I'm using mostly my 0.5 threading needle because the client he was getting these locks kind of added to some that have been tauf or kind of you know, cut off of of his hair. His locks are very mature, they're, very dense and that point 5 is going to give you the most dense kind of mixture of the threads or of the hairs inside of that lock. The larger needles, the larger pulling needles, even the 7 5, are going to like still give you that look, but it's not going to be as dense. It'S not going to be as solid or as mature of a lock. So you really want to just use the right pulling needle for the locks that you're matching your extensions to. If you want it to look like the same dreadlocks that the person has on their head, you know otherwise. So, for many locks are like a kind of an identity symbol or for some their religious symbol, for others they're more of just a political statement and for some people it's just a cosmetic. You know, look something that they like visually. So whatever your purpose is in. Wearing locks, they are very beautiful, very textural, and very easy to maintain overall as compared to trying to detangle natural hair everyday or you know, even just styling natural hair of any texture on a daily basis. They really do require less frequent maintenance than that. So you can see here that I just have a little little further to go on this lock, I'm continuing to use that little pulling needle to continue to create this lock all the way to the end and just a little another little side. Note I mentioned this in one of my other LOC tutorials for folks just that there's kind of a civil rights situation going on in some countries with regard to lock theft. So you definitely want to - and this is the 0.75, so you can kind of see the difference in how it acts with the hair. So, with regard to like people being mugged and their locks being stolen off of their head for the purpose of selling, for people to have LOC extensions, so definitely you know make sure that your locks are fairly sourced, that you have a local person, make them from Bulk hair - or you know, if you order them, there are people who actually grow out their locks and then cut them and sell them on eBay, even our Etsy or Amazon. I mean there's just so many different places to get locks, but you might want to look into the source of your lock extensions. Just you know so that you have get jew-jew in your head and it's not like you're, not wearing somebody's locks that have been stolen from them. You know that just would not feel very good, so you want to have like good, karma, good, good vibes, and there are people who you know really are happy about selling their locks like they just want a different style. They want to change, they want to start over or whatever and so they've cut their locks off and they just don't want to throw them away because seems like a big waste after all that time, and so you know, they'll sell them or there are other people That make these lock extensions from bulk air just make extensions to sell you know, so you can also find find just a variety of things online to get the extensions that you need. So I also would recommend that you get the hair links correctly so that you don't necessarily make you know, spend so much time making a lock. That'S long, if you really don't need a long lock. So once again, these are locks that I have finished and you can kind of see that they are very solid and very mature, lock, wise and I'll kind of stretch. One out for you, I'm going to show you the the finishing of the end, so you can use once again. You know to 0.5 pulling needle to finish that end. Sorry about my fingernails, like one of my nails, came off and that's just because I've been working with a lot of oils recently so yeah I sometimes oils can get those nails destabilized but anyway, so you just want to like go ahead and pull it this time. It'S more of a vertical pulling of that hair and go ahead and roll it back and forth with your fingers. Get a little bit of that wax and put that on the end, and then you're gon na just go ahead and really roll that, in the palm of your hand in a circular kind of way and just palm roll it and just kind of like do that. Back and forth to really get that that end nice and solid, and then you can just clip off if there's like a little teeny piece of hair sticking out, you know always just clip that off and reroll it again to get a ticket that solid, so that Your ends are nice and mature as well and finished, and not like just you know: curly hair on the ends or some kind of loose hair. So that's a really nice, like extension, and once again you have that little hair on the top that you can use to combine and permanently install this. So you've got all of your locks and they will look very natural they're, going to be a little bit stiff before they're washed. Once you can either wash these before installing or you can actually, you know just install them and then wash all the locks together. It will take a little bit of that stiffness out help them relax a little bit but they're just nice and solid, and that's what you want and if you know a lot of extension. So once again, I hope that this helps someone who needs you know to either repair some locks, or maybe you want to move your hairline a little bit and you don't know if that's possible because you have locks on top or whatever just some little hair solutions. Tips and tricks - and you can try it out like I am actually didn't order. This hair, this particular afro kinky bulk hair, was brought to me by the client, so I'm but I've seen similar hair on Amazon and on other online sources. So let me know if you have any questions and once again my apologies to anybody who's, not a hair person. If you watch this video all the way to the end, then congratulations to you because I would think it was probably a little bit boring for a non hair person. So anyway, more videos to come stay healthy, stay, strong, everyone,