Loc Talk | Diy Microlocs Install | Her Journey

Hey love and welcome back to another laptop i am pauline and on this channel we talk about all things: lots of beauty and wellness, and i am so happy to have my client here today to talk about her life journey y'all y'all in for some interesting stuff. So come on in take a minute and chat with us. Well, not necessarily chat, but listen, listen to what we got to share and be sure to put all your questions and comments in the comment section. So go ahead. Oh i forgot to tell them your name. This is solange hello, guys so go ahead, we're going to go and get started and we're gon na talk. While i do her hair y'all know how we do y'all know y'all know, but i'm so excited to have her here today. So the interesting about solange. Is she started her own life journey? She started her own hair, so i'm gon na. Have you share about why you decided to start your own life journey and how long you've been doing the research? Just let us know about your experience, um well, to start off. I always had a thing for locks growing up as a young girl. We were always when i looked at a young woman with locs as a young age i always felt like, and this is no shade - and this is honesty um. I always feel like she came from a family of wisdom, um, and even if you ask me what you mean by that yeah um, i felt like their hair was more um special in a way, and i didn't quite understand that. But i at least had that perspective on it um and as i grew and seen, a different how versatile locks are and the different sizes of them and how they look and how they stand and rise. I think that was one of my biggest things. I love how your locks kind of speak for you um. You don't have to manipulate your hair to do certain things. Your hair does what it wants to do and that freedom kind of brought me into locks um. It took me a long time to start them, because i changed my hair up so much and with me not knowing as much knowledge about locks. I'M like yeah, i'm not gon na. Do that cause. I'M gon na cut my hair off. I'M gon na cut them off on the start and cut them off start them cut them off um, because i've done every style. There is that you can think of i've been completely bald shave, size um. You had shave sizes, okay, girl, tapered, back um, pixie, cut bob long, hair, braids um micros, like i've, had literally every style every color, pink, green, blue. Really, yes, girl, yeah! You were eclectic. I'Ve done everything. It is that i could do to my hair and locks in a funny way. It didn't come in a moment in my life, where i'm like. Well, i did everything i did with my hair. So now there's blocks. It came at a time where i'm like i'm ready to be at one with myself, um i'm ready to get to know myself, i'm ready to learn about myself. That'S when lots came up and um that was honestly about a year ago now i've been locked since december 19th of 2021 um and we're now in july 21, yeah 25th yeah today's the 21st july 21st 2022. So we're what seven months in here, um eight months in actually december eight months in so i kept looking at locs, i kept researching it meantime, i'm still getting my hair cut, pressed, died, brave and but i had a interesting. Let me reword that i gravitated to lox every time i seen a woman wearing them or a man wearing them. I wanted to get real close up and look at them or i know everybody is funny about touching their hair, i'm one of them um. So if i knew you like that, you know i would ask like, may i touch your makeup at your lock um? I just felt like they spoke to me, but i was still nervous to get them. So i start researching prices once i realized what type of locks it is that i was going for and wanted um, because i'm so versatile. I wanted micro lot sister locks, so i can do a lot with them still be able to do. People don't understand how versatile locks is until you actually get in them until you get them. I would say you can do a whole bunch of researches on styles and have other people tell you what they do to their hair, but until you actually get in this battlefield and go through the transition of your locs, that's when you will feel like. I feel like you're, most best um with knowing what you can do to them, how you can do them, what they will and will not take um. And i say that to say, because everybody here isn't the same and that's something i had to learn before and during my journey, my hair. Don'T look like hers, my hair. Don'T do that like hers, my hair is, you know, um, but to make a long story short um. You saw the price. I saw all the prices. The prices said. Oh you said. Yes, i want lies and then i'm practicing? Oh no! No, you don't know so. My hair is very thick. I have a lot of hair. Yes, you do and um i went to two ladies to get a consultation from on pricing and the one lady said. 1900. The other lady said 21.50 um, so it kind of it threw me it shocked. Me because i wasn't i i wasn't expecting that i was probably expecting you know you go get braids done. That'S three! Four hundred dollars you go, get a weed done with tracks a sew-in, that's five, six hundred dollars at the most, depending on the hair and so forth. So for them to tell me, it was above a grand anything above that grand kind of played tricks. With my mind, um and for me, and how i do things, i'm like there's no way i'm paying something that at that price for something i can do now granted, i understand 100, why they charging they charge what they charge. You have every right to charge what you charge and i'm only able to say that, because i did my own installation so now you appreciate it. I appreciate i would have gave her that 21.50 with no problem. If you knew winnington, if you knew what you were going to sign up for, yes with the big tip like where you deserve it um, so in the process of me, then figuring out that i'm going to do my own installation now mind you. I work at nine to five um. I work five days a week for 11 hours, and so i was trying to figure out. How am i going to put my work life into my actual personal life to be able to do my hair um? So it took me, i'm gon na say full time. It took me five and a half weeks to do my hair and it only took me five and a half weeks, because once i completed my hair, i was unhappy with a section in my hair, which is my right front, so i took them all down crazy. I know suggest that just that side you took all that down. I took all that down okay and redid them, so it's technically two sections right here. The way i did my bantu knots, i put them in in sections, and this was considered two sections, because my top is so full and thick um. So i redid two sections and i wanted to say honestly. This section alone has about a good two to three hundred likes um, so that speaks volumes. So how many locks do you have in your hand, total? Currently i have 885 locks in my hair yeah. So i actually want to do a recount um because really still has the same, because we only combined two - oh my god. Yes, so 885 locks close to 900 locks in my hair um, and i can't believe it take me this that that, and i don't take a long to do it, it takes you three hours to do every time. I'M surprised, that's another reason why i haven't done my own hair. My own retirement tell them about their experience with doing your own lives um. My experience was very, i was excited um and i believe i was so excited because i did a lot. I did a lot a lot, a lot of research before i decided to make this decision to do my own hair. I know you did girl, because these parts - so i was looking up um parts uh mechanisms on how to do it efficiently, how to put your hair in certain sections. So when you're done, it'll flow and drop and they'll all still be symmetric to one another um. The size of them now what i actually learned, which my dietitian is pauline, actually taught me. This is most people when they're doing the installation, they would do small around the perimeter and a little a little bit bigger in the middle area um. I aim to do all my locks the same size. What did you like about doing your own uh install your diy uh mod? So did you did not what didn't you like about it? The best thing i feel any regrets. The only regret i will have is um. Ah you know what i don't really have any regrets doing them to yourself. Um, i'm actually happy that i did that myself. It taught me a lot and it actually it kind of put me in an aspect of life. Knowing that i can do something so tedious, technically it's so this this drastic job, because this was not something. This was an easy job, um that i can mentally put myself in a position to continue to tell myself i can do it. I can do it. I can do it, it wasn't like. Oh you do this for two hours, then you're done no. This was every day for five and a half weeks having to have a pep talk with myself to say you can do it, you can do it. You have to think i was working 11 hour shifts and then i was getting home to do my hair for at least four to five hours a day. That'S how long it was taking me to do one section and she started off with two strand twists and i started off with two strands, so you weren't even writing or interlocking so so i braided, i did braid um half an inch down starting at my roof And i twist it the rest of the way down um. I actually got that method off of a youtuber that i seen i like how her locks looked um, but i will say this about youtube and researching for locks. You have to really go off of your hair tight and do a full overall. For me, what i had to do is do a full overall research of all hair textures, because i feel like that, because just because you're doing someone else locks this type of way. They may have a different grade and you have to do it this type of way and they may have a different density, so you have to do it this type of way. So i looked at every density hair grade. I didn't do too much of length. I kept it in a medium to short length due to my hair fullness of it. It was just. I did a lot a lot. A lot of life had a lot of research before i put my hands in my head um, because i feel like if this is something that you're going to do by yourself. This is something that you should not play with um, because you can actually destroy your hair trying to do this. If you don't, do it the correct way, um, and if you don't treat your hair with care, i notice i had it. I had to be very patient and soft with my hair in this process, because the strands are so little. I can easily break yank, tear anything um. So in the process of me doing all this i felt liberated. I felt happy i felt like i was accomplishing something many people don't accomplish and that kept me going um. The only part that was irritating was my arms kept getting tired, so i would lean. I would literally lean my arms up against the wall because i didn't want to drop them because i feel like once i dropped them. They weren't going to go back up, so i i just lean them up against the wall, so they can get a little break and then i just keep twisting. I keep going lean them. Rest. Keep going, keep going next, section, um! That'S what worked for me. As of now, i really don't have any regrets. My hair is still in the transitioning um stages and i'm just watching it flourish to what it wants to be um. So why did you decide not to uh maintain your own locks because of my installation? Would it taken me five and a half weeks to finish and once i got to that five and a half weeks, i started seeing my new growth. Well, i've been seeing my new growth, but your hair grows that infection. You finished it's like you got number one section, that's how you i didn't realize how long it took me to do my full installation, i how fast the hair grows in the process. So by the time i finished it was time for a reason, and i was not having it. I was like nope not going to happen, fingers going to fall off arms, almost just dangling, just not going to happen um and two um. I did so much re research on the installation. I didn't do that much res research on my reties so because i wasn't as confident to do them myself, knowing all the work i just put in for my installation, i'm like no, i'm not going to ruin this. So i wanted to find a loctition that fed my soul that i gravitated to and most people try to go to someone that they feel like is popular um or has a lot of clientele and followers or someone that does everybody here. My thing was, i want someone that actually i want my hair to pick the person and somehow someway i went through no name drops um. I went through three lactations before i actually got to the gold one here miss pauline um and i knew that my hair spoke to her because the first time she did my hair, i didn't feel you know when you go into something new and you're, not really Used to it and how it's supposed to feel and how it's supposed to go, you just hope for the best. When i came into your aura and i sat in your chair in your wash bowl and you started washing my hair, and that very moment. I knew that i was in good hands, so it helped me to relieve the stress of finding someone finding someone yeah, because i remember when we had the consultation. We had a video conference. Yes, yes, and you were like, are you taking no clients? Will you do my hair because someone told you they wouldn't do your hair because you started them right yeah i had a um a loctition. Tell me that, because i started my hair um first, she asked me how many likes i had in my hair and i told her and she made me as if that was just a horrible decision. You'Re. Not what did she say? You don't have a sister like credentials to be putting that many locks in your hair. You don't know what you're doing, there's a possibility that will fall out so forth or this negative energy um, and i didn't feel that within my heart, so i'm just like. I know i know what i was doing, so you just ain't the one for me and i'm not gon na lie to you um. I did start to get discouraged after so long. Like am i gon na find somebody that can actually do my hair because they ain't nobody touching 800, something ain't, nobody touching it yeah they're like i'm, not doing that, and if they are they're going to text you a big amount because in their head you have 800 and some many people don't have that many locks in their heart. That'S what you have so most of my clients got four something um, so it i won't say that i would never get to a point to where i'm doing my own self-re-ties, because the great thing about my lactation is, she actually wants to teach you how to Do them yourself, she actually wants to teach you how to take care of your hair if she's not able to do sir herself um. So i just feel like, overall, with the pick of my loctition and learning the reti. That'S where i'm in the process of doing i'm learning. So when she does my hair, when you do my hair, i look in the mirror and i watch how she goes in and loops it, and it's just a learning experience for me so right now. I am definitely fine with you, i'm doing my resize. I don't see me doing it no time soon, yeah, i'm still recuperating yeah and then and then i don't think i want to do that. No time soon, yet with the with the installation. It took me a long time guys it's a lot of sleepless nights. It was literally like a baby to me i feel like i had to, and then i had to make sure my hair was still because you know five weeks is a big stretch. You got to make sure your hair is still moisturized right, scalp ain't, dandruff enough and drip dandy, because you don't wash your hair. I didn't wash my hair and i was dealing with dandruff. I started dealing with the itchy phase. I started dealing with um one side. Growing in the other side brand new, like it was just so much going on that i didn't, i didn't even realize if i could withstand this honestly. I didn't know what i was getting myself into, but i seen the end result and i know i wanted to get there, so that was my biggest focus. Okay, girl, i must say, as i do her hair, it does not feel like 800 something locks. It does not feel that way, but i guess because we busy talking and yeah, we just enjoy just enjoying your appointment. It just goes by. We schedule her for three hours, we shampoo and tighten, and that's it and that's it and it flies by just like that. Honestly, people take longer getting braids in and i'm sure they're not getting 800 some braids in her hair, rather than getting a full wash and a rita, and she does it she's, not rushing. I want to make that clear, even though she's doing it in three hours and i have 800 something like she's, not rushing she's taking her time and it's still getting done at an efficient time. It'S just it's working out. So no, i don't see me doing my retards no time soon, because baby you do your own retire, be prepared to take a month to do your reading yeah. I see that being the thing yeah be prepared. It'S going to take me about a good month. I actually follow a young lady that do her retires and it seemed like every time she finished she's still getting in the works of it, but it seemed like every time she finished that last section of her retirement time. I don't want to be that person, yet that is hilarious uh. With all of that said, please uh. If you have 800 something like don't come to me. I caught her. It'S just just the nick of time. Y'All, i'm talking, i'm just kidding, i'm just no longer taking new clients. I don't have room in my schedule because but that it is booked out so but yes, i just thought her journey was interesting. On my end, when she came to me the only thing um, i think that could have been done differently with her install. She did her two-strand twist like rope twist and with rope twists because of the how it's done you twist, then you twist it roll it. In your palms and your fingers then twist it that creates uh, it kind of restrict the hair from wanting to expand and move around and do what it needs to do to lock. So her locking is gon na you know take a little bit longer because the hair is, i mean all it does, because it's so tightly twisted it just wants to unravel which they all do. But when you do just a regular twist, because people ask me all the time, do you rope twist to install or do you two shrink, the regular twists? I do regular twists because it gives it more room to grow and breathe a lot quicker. So, with her hair, it's going to unravel because it's stretched, it's tight is confined, and it's like. I need to move to do what i got to do so it's going to take a minute with every wash it is able to. You know stretch and move and um not be so confined, so it will lock. But that's the only thing i think she could have. You know done differently, but other than that the back is locking the first row first right. So, but what i like about her is you know, because she did so much research. She know what to expect so she's, not like girl with my life's unraveling. What is why that you know so, just letting them be what they are yep, let it be it's going to do its thing yeah, but that's it! That'S all. I got anything else. You want to share um uh one thing uh when you're doing your research like she said on the twisting um mechanism. I didn't know about that, because there's no video out there that says twist this way twist. That way, so i literally was learning as i was going um and the beautiful thing about miss paulina. Is she actually wants to educate you on it so again, try when you are getting to a point, if you are that person that wants to do their own installation or two, if you want to go somewhere for someone to do your installation for you and you Have certain guidelines of things that you want them and how you want them? Do your research and figure out, what's for you what's best for your hair um and what's going to actually get you to mature at a timely fashion? The great thing about that is, i almost dyed my hair. I almost bleached my hair right before doing my installation, and i thank god that i didn't, because i didn't know if i would have put those chemicals in my head, it would have stopped my process of my maturing. It would have slowed it down a lot and it would have changed my hair texture. So all i would say is just continue to research figure out what type of hair you have research, your hair experiment in your hair. So you, you know what you have going on. Your hair is never going to be like someone else's and then go for it. I call it for everybody to lock their hair up same here. That'S why i educated do what i do because baby luck is the it's a lifestyle. It'S a lifestyle, it's a beautiful journey. I love it and y'all. If y'all watch my channel y'all know, i just love to educate people as much as i could so yeah, but y'all. Thank you so much for watching be sure to subscribe. If you have not subscribed yet, please go ahead and subscribe. Subscribe, subscribe and leave a comment. 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