Loc Talk: Talking All Things Locs, Beginning Stages, Patience, A Journey, Lessons, Thankful |Cv

What'S up babes, it's karlisa victoria, i'm back with yet another video. If you are new here, hi welcome to the channel if you've already been subscribed, thanks for coming back, i'm trying to get my life real, quick, like literally real quick um, so i'm trying to film this video real quickly um. This is going to bother me. My laptop is behind me my phone's right here, but just like being able to see it like right there behind me. It'S definitely gon na bother me 7 35 right now, and i just wanted to make this video about my hair. I'Ve already obviously made a great takedown video um you if you guys, can hear like noise in the background one. I have the event on in the kitchen, because it's drying my floors. I told you guys in the vlog that i was cleaning um and then, if you hear like noise over here, it's because bricks is playing with his bone and if you guys are new here, bricks is my puppy. If you don't know who bricks is, i talk about beauty, fashion, lifestyle, entrepreneurship, real estate, um, you name it fashion. We do clothing, hauls talk about travel, vlogs, all that um. So if that's something that you're interested in luxury, i can and the list can continue. Um make sure you smash the subscribe button, so in this video, specifically i'm going to be talking about my 33 month old locks. We are approaching 34 months long on may for jesus may 1st 2022. Your girl, your girl, being me, is hitting 34 months locked and i don't know what to do so baby this hair right here. Did you see that flip? Did you see that flip sis now i'm in a really tight space like where i'm sitting right now? Is it very tight, so i'm going to do my best just try to turn all the way around, so you guys can kind of see where my hair is. I just took my braids out. I braided my hair yesterday added a little bit of pure snail moisturizer to my roots and i did it right out, and this is what it turned out like and obviously when you do bantu knots, braid outs, any styles like that, it's going to make your hair Appear shorter because, obviously it is in a style that is more crimped. Okay, opposed to what my hair looks like when it is straight, but let me show you guys from the back okay, so that's my hair from the back. I didn't mean to turn on the tv. Hopefully the tv doesn't start playing, because we don't need no copyright issues. This we don't need no copyright issues anyway, if i haven't said this already, which i'm pretty sure i already said it smash. The subscribe button says bro. What are you waiting for? We are trying to hit 1k subs before the end of summer, so i'm my goal right now is to try to do by august 1st. What are we in april? That'S about three to four months. I know that's a stretch, but if i'm consistent and y'all are telling people who y'all know about my channel, then i don't see why we can't pull this thing off to hit our 1k before august um. But anyway, i definitely want to hit 1k by the end of the year, but i'm trying to strive for august. But anyhow, let's get into my luscious lux my sister calling i'll call her back because by the time i answer the phone, the lighting's gon na be gone. But anyway my locs i've been growing my hair now for about to be three years july 1st hold on. Let me just say um i was i wanted to answer her call, but i feel like by the time we get off the phone it's gon na be dark. The lighting is gon na change, everything's gon na change, so i'm gon na just go ahead and film. This but i started my locks one july first 2019. Now this is my second set of locks. Okay, i had lots when i was in undergrad i'm in college and now i have locks again and i knew i would always go back to lots at some point. So that's no question i just as i said in multiple videos in the past. I repeat myself a lot of times when it comes down to my lock journey and that's just not because i want to be repetitive, even though in certain instances repetition is key. But i really repeat myself because i do understand that there are new people who come to my channel um, whether you subscribe or you're, new and you're, just viewing my channel for the first time and to save a lot of the questions that could come about about. My block journey, i just go ahead and answer them without being asked to inform the new viewers, but also to just remind others of maybe some forgotten information um. I think it's good to periodically rehash things about my start of my journey so that people can understand where i'm at and how far i've come. So i started them july, 1st. 2019. The second set now mind you, i always say this, but my first set of locks was just something to do in college. I wanted to do something different with my natural hair and that's the the road i took going back to locks. I'Ve always felt like when i hit the second time having locks, it will be a journey. It will not just be an experiment, and for me this has truly been a journey like i'm talking about it's not over the journey's not over, but i'm talking about the patience that i have with myself with my hair is ridiculous, like sometimes i can be so Impatient but to be so patient with this journey because i already one i've been through locks before so, i know kind of what to expect with the process and it's not overnight, and you know what i mean, but i feel like i've been more honed in on Truly just becoming, and i think, when you're becoming as an individual, you do not focus on the um, the the actual full picture of what, for example, when a butterfly goes, there is stages. It has to go through that cocoon that larvae, that all that you know what i mean it has to go through those stages before it becomes a butterfly before it becomes beautiful before it, you know, does what it needs to do. Um and oftentimes people want to be the butterfly before they want to be go through the stages, but it's like no go through the process enjoy the process, because every component of the process is going to be a part of that product, so that beautiful butterfly that You see flying around it, it might be beautiful, but it had to go through those phases to get there. So that's the way i look at this uh journey, it's been so rewarding, it's been so fulfilling and i think because my perspective and my um just openness to embarking upon my locks again as a journey. I think it has literally opened me up in so many positive ways: um, that's how i'm hitting three years in in a couple of months, and it doesn't even feel like three years because i have not focused on the length of time. I haven't focused on the length of hair. I focused more on the journey and really embracing everything that came and comes with. So i remember some people and even now would say, oh girl, if you would have kept those locks from the first time you had them. Maybe you'll be like down to your butt or below, which is true. If i was the cat, if i were to have kept my first set of locks, i would probably be now about 10 11 years in and yeah they probably would be gorgeous, but i think to everything. There'S a season and when i had those first locks, that season was a season that i didn't wish to carry. I think you know in our journey. We can't go back and we can't erase anything that happened, but we can choose how we want to write the future and we can choose what we will and will not accept. We can - and i just feel like like your hair - is literally a part of who you are it's a big thing. You know women, our hair are everything like that. Like it's truly a thing you know, and i just feel like energy, i look at my locs as like just energy frequency. You know like all on the same vibration like energy, so i feel like my hair thrives, and it does all of that and i'm not just like i'm not like a big person who tries to you know attach everything with everything to make it. I'M. Just speaking on my own behalf that i believe that this journey has been so fulfilling and so rewarding and i have not even had moments where i'm like i'm gon na get rid of my hair. I haven't had moments like that now when i have my first set of locs yeah, there will be moments because you want to go back loose natural and you want to see. Oh, how long would my hair be now if i was loose natural or can i do braids? Can i do weave you wanted versatility? Why? Because you didn't see it as a journey and you i'm speaking hypothetically, but i'm referring to me. So i'm going to say i i was looking at it as a you know, just something to do so, the patience it wasn't there, the you know, um trusting the process and the journey. It wasn't there these things, that these components that i have um now that are comprised in this journey is because i see it as a journey um and there's nothing wrong with getting locks just because it's something to do, but i just think that it's a it's A much deeper level when you look at it as a journey opposed to just something to do um, because i definitely feel like it. It goes alongside it's literally parallel to what it is that you have going on in your life. When i look at my skin when i look at my hair, when i look at you know just different components in my life, i just see all of these aspects are thriving now i might have specific things in my life that i feel like. Oh, i need to go a little harder here, because i want to do this. I want to do this and then more more so maybe i'm like um speeding up the time frame that it takes me to accomplish something, but it doesn't necessarily mean that i'm not progressive progressing and i feel as though everything seems to be flowing forward moving forward. I'M propelling i'm um, and i see that from my hair to my goals, to my skin, to my life, to my everything and it can feel overwhelming some days yeah i can, but at the same time my eye is on the prize. I see the vision and it is what it is. So i know that somebody's probably looking at this video like girl, is not that deep and that's your that's your opinion. However, i can speak for me and i can let you know that i have people ask me: how do you have the patience? How do you have it that three years almost, i would have probably been done already like that, but i'm trying to tell you it's the difference when you just do a style just to do a style and you do a style, and you say this is a Journey you embrace it. You take care of your hair in a different manner, not to say that i wasn't taking care of it then, but you just start to you just start to see things a lot differently differently and from like a clearer perspective, no breaks! No! A clear perspective and uh um, you just start to see things like more clearly. That'S all. I can state um when you're doing that and i'm super grateful. So i i'm thankful for everyone who says: oh your hair's, so gorgeous. No, i want mine to look like that older, your hair. It was a process, still a process and you have to be okay with your process. You have to understand that everybody's journey everybody process is different, so you can't expect your locks to take the same roller coasters that mine took, or you can't expect your locks to be exactly the same as mine or a lot of times. People try to say. Oh, we got similar or same texture, so my hair should look like this. It will not because you know we're all just made up differently and that's what makes us so unique you'll. You know what i mean. We might not have the same amount of strands of hair on our head, so no matter, if we have the same amount of lots, mine might look fuller. Yours might look thinner, we are all made up of. You know a different we're all just different, and i love that about us. It'S humans, you know what i mean um and especially just being in the black community. I just feel like it is so gorgeous when i see so many other men and women with locks, and you just see how it's like this. We all have locks, but it all looks different of all different people and all different features are brought out in all different. You know what i mean: um goddess locks, and then you got the like sister locks and then you got the smaller locks and it's just it's just beautiful. I don't know it's just beautiful um, especially when you're embracing what you're already naturally made of get right. There says that right there that'll do it. Y'All got ta worry about me. You don't have to worry about me because one thing about scissors we're gon na be natural. Well, we could be natural, okay, um, don't like. I said just because i speak a lot about my natural because i remember somebody said something in a video a long time ago and they were just like. I don't know they tried to make it. They commented they were rude, but they commented and basically was trying to say something about. I was, i seemed, i don't know if it was. I don't want to say the word is upset, but it's just like i don't have. No, i can't explain it, but i have no issue with anybody who decides to not be in their natural state. So when you guys hear me talking about naturalness natural, bad naturalness, it's not to shade people, it's just letting. You know that i am so such a woman who's, so grateful in her skin and i'm so grateful that god has made me that way. I wouldn't choose to be anything other than black women and i wouldn't choose to be anything other than myself. You know because i feel like we were all created uniquely for a reason like just think about it. It'S only one of you, it don't matter who goes and try to go. Look like you be, like you do the same things you do it's only one of you is one of one, so it's like. If it's only one of one of some things. That means there's only one original, so no matter what somebody tries to duplicate, no matter. What someone tries to do? They will never be you, so i'm super grateful that as an individual. I feel that way - and i know this video kind of is going a little bit all over the place's hair than its confidence than it's this that it's that i just want to say that if you ever watch my videos - and you hear me talk about my Natural skin, my natural hair, my natural nails, my natural, it's not to shade you, it's never to shake! That'S not what i'm my channel is about positivity, good vibes and being able to truly use my platforms to make a difference and impact other people. So don't think i'm shading! You just understand that your girl is grateful in the skin that she's in, and i i too hoped that by you watching my videos. You would understand that you should be grateful in the skin that you're in i don't care what skin tone you are. I don't care what hair type you have you're beautiful, embrace it. It'S a part of who you are um, and i wish that we could just do more. Of that continue to do more. Of that, you know what i mean. Um multiple people can win, multiple people can be beautiful, it doesn't have to be one person like so in the end of the day, be the best version of yourself love who you are when you can love yourself through every state in which you look and you Go through not even physically but mentally spiritually. All of those things, the more you can love yourself in many other areas, the more you will continue to raise your level of confidence, self-awareness and a whole array of things, and also it also. While you are building and boosting your confidence, you also are simultaneously eradicating certain behaviors and people and things in your life that shouldn't be all because of self-confidence, knowing your worth and all of that, so i would definitely encourage you embrace the natural cease. So that's me talking so much on my natural. That brings me to another point. A lot of people said well, you know, like did you protective style while you were going through the starter, lock phase? The answer is no. I literally rocked my locks from the day that i started them day, one all the way into here, almost three years in the state in which they were maturing, i didn't wear weeds. I didn't wear um. What are they called? Okay y'all, so the camera? Basically, storage filled up, so i'm about to end the video but yeah just like no, i didn't protective style. My hair, i wore it in the state that it was because again it goes back to the butterfly. You got to embrace every stage, be beautiful in every stage. Um trust the process and just understand that, like i mean that's, who you are the more that you can rock with yourself in the states that you're less comfortable the more that you're going to build stronger confidence, you should be able to be good with yourself in Every capacity when it comes down to wearing your natural hair when it comes down to wearing your natural skin, your nails, your being you just be you and when you be, you you're not afraid to embrace those natural features about yourself. You know, like i look at like makeup, i'm not against makeup, i'm not against lashes. I'M not against things like that, though. These are beauty, enhancers lashes for me, i used to be like i'm not spending money on lashes like that could be. You could be doing something else and spending money on lashes and then boom me. I have our lashes now all the time, and i think, for me, lashes was just something that it's easy for me when i have to get dressed for business, or i have to just go about even wearing my natural skin, because i feel like it just gives A um, it's almost like that thing of like if your hair done, then you don't have to have on makeup, or if you have my makeup um, i don't know like your hair might not be looking a bit. You you just feel like one got ta be. Is one or the other okay? Something got to be on point, but i think lashes are just an easy go to when i have to get ready for business. Nobody'S trying to put on strip lashes and nobody's trying to put on mascara trying to rush out the house, and even if you're, not rushing, it's just a lot. It'S a lot. So, for me, lashes, is something that i can just go get my lashes done. I can wear my natural skin like now. I don't have on no any makeup, or i can put on makeup in my makeup routine, be like five minutes, because all i'm doing is foundation and highlight, because i already have my lashes done, which is one of the most time consuming factors when you're trying to Get dressed because i feel like i can't do a face of makeup and then my lashes either the mascara or the strips aren't coming through, because then at that point i'm going to feel. Like my face. Looks ball headed. I can't explain it but y'all. If you know you know, but i'm gon na go ahead and end the video, because i'm going out on a tangent, but i was trying to give you guys an example. These are just beauty, enhancers, no breaks, i don't need them to be beautiful, but it's just you know just know the difference of beauty enhancements. Just you know, because you wanted to upgrade yourself real, quick and and knowing your natural beauty but yeah. I hope you guys enjoyed this video make sure you like comment, share, subscribe and i'll see you on the next video i got. Ta go get mr bricks because he's chewing the cotton out of his bed now bricks is getting dark, but i can still see you i'll see you on the next video make sure you like comment. Share, subscribe.