Locs Tutorial: Crochet Braids Over Locs! Oprah Curl

Hello all and welcome back to my channel if you've been here before, welcome back and if you haven't been here before hit that subscribe button, because you won't want to miss out on my videos. I give you lots of luck too, to rules and lots of options of things that you can do with your locks, so stay tuned. I'M gon na be talking about how I crocheted over my locks for different hairstyles. I haven't given you all of them yet on this channel, but they will all soon be coming with new things and try things out. A lot of people want to try things out a bit scared too, with locks, but I'm willing to do so and share it with you guys. So I was on. Where was I on Instagram, and I saw this cute curly hairstyle and I thought oh, what it must feel like to sometimes flip it up and maybe have like a curly weave, and here I crocheted my hair. What I did is, I did this braiding pattern, as you can see, it's quite bulky at the back, but, however, I managed to get the cleanest hair so that you would not notice how bulky and maybe odd shaped my head is with this braid in pattern. However, it went out really well, you can see. I'Ve got about 7 flats across the front and in the back I braided into one kind of big braid and took it round and just try to compress it at the back of my head as much as I could. I did use a few bobby pins as well just hold it down firmly because, as you know, I've got a Thundercat at the back, so I haven't got hair all the way to the back of my neck, so it was hard to hold the braid down at The back because half of that hair is gone. If you want to see about my first undercut, I'm gon na put the link here, so you can see what happened when I went to the barber shop. But, however, back to this yeah I got the braid hair from pack supermarket and the hair that I got is not preferred there. It is the hair that I got. Is this 8-inch, I believe curly Caribbean fall, Remi, fiber hair and I'm going to show you the container. It looks a bit like this. It wasn't much to the front. There was three bundles in the front here and that's how the back looks and the cowl pattern that I got is called Oprah curl and it's eight inches. As I said before, and it's called the Oprah curl and I got three packs of this. So it's a potentially three packs of three bundles. I don't know how much people usually get in a bundle, but I would say there's at least fifteen strands like this in a bundle and some of them. I have especially at the back to give it this volume and make sure that I cover up my braids at the back. I have one of these into two and then I crocheted it into my head. Now I'm not going to go over the crochet technique because I think there's many videos and how you crochet into braids on YouTube. So I won't tell you my technique, but if you want me to share that, please comment below and I can go through that for you. However, I used the same crochet hook that everybody else uses and I was it through. Let me see if I've sort of actually know my crochet hook is not in the bag. I don't know where it is, but yeah I use the same crochet hook, everybody else uses. I started at the back because I didn't want to get tired at the front and then my back is just bulky and out so I started at the back and I began to crochet into the big braid at the back. Like I said splitting one strand into two and then as I come more near the front, I decided not to split them so much because I didn't want them when you split it instantly gets more bigger and more frizzy, and I didn't want the front to look Too frizzy too quickly. Now this is my hair, after having it in for how many days five days - and it looks like this - I have been covering it over - I have been wearing my silk bonnet to bed and around the house when I'm not doing anything, because I just think it's Best to keep it as covered as possible, so it doesn't get too frizzy on the camera. Don'T think you can see how, when I say frizzy, it is but obviously there's loads of strands that are out of place. But for me that just makes it look more natural. So I'm not I'm not hating on the frizz at all and it hasn't been a week yet, but I can see that this hair would last, maybe I'm just guessing depending on how much you care about the tidiness to three weeks. It could last as long as you look after it and obviously cover it up at night and whatsoever, and also I'm going to be spraying it with water and using a little bit of styling mousse just to hold down the frizz. I'Ve done it once already and it didn't make a bit of a difference to the top top, especially because that bit was getting a bit out of control. So that's what my plans are to maintain at this hairstyle, but otherwise it's so easy to do, and at night I literally just slip on my bonnet and push it all up into the bunny and sleep well and then in the morning I wake up. It was quite compressing, looks a bit weird. I let you shake my head like this and um it's back into style. I actually made this with a center parting in the beginning, which I can't wear it like this. Sometimes, if I want to, but due to my forehead, it just depends what kind of look you want to go for? To be honest, but the way I crocheted it with the center parting means that I can bring some round to the front and have a nice little curly, bang, which I'm think I'm feeling at the moment just to cut down some of the forehead. Do you know? I mean: do you, do you do yeah so this? Is it guys, simple, short and sweet? The hair is short. How long did it take me to do maybe about two hours? Actually, mr. back and then went to sleep and the next day I wore a hat, went to the cinema of my kids, sat in one movie and did the rest, and I didn't do it throughout the whole movie. So I'm trying to put it all together. I say two and a half hours max to do all of this. That wasn't with me taking my time not having done this before I was seeing the more I got into it, the more quicker I got and I was quicker in every each and every way, and there is a technique of how you can do your Parthians, so That they are invisible. Maybe I'll do another video to show you that, but that, like I said there are many YouTube videos and I'll link a couple below that I used in order to see how I should put this crochet into my hair, especially at the Parthians and yeah. This is it and I just wanted to share with you, because a lot of people believe because she have looks you have to be boring and you know what would they do if they want a change? Well, here's a change! Please! Let me know if you like it, if you want to know any more details about it, please comment below. Let me know what you think and if there's anything you want me to try it over my locks or on my locks, and you know you just want to see what it looks like or see if it works. Please let me know give me ideas. Give me inspiration it's 2019. Let'S come together, let's collaborate on this ish okay, so I hit the subscribe button, turn on your notifications and keep supporting your girl. What'S up yeah, all right thanks everyone for watching peace and love. Ah, oh yeah, I forgot to say that I did these two. These are two of my locks right by my ears and I just beaded over them at the ends like this, because I saw one girl was a hairstyle like this, and she had like two bits beaded here and I thought that's really cool, because it has so Big and I don't own many big earrings, so I thought, if I put beads on just these two here, it kind of acts like an earring and also it's you know. Just you just like the hairstyle gives it some color and you can change the color beads whenever you want. I'Ve actually had brown and golden, and now I've changed it to clear and silver. And it's so simple guys, it's just so simple and if you don't have dreads, you can always do two plats here and just you know you can make them shorter by just and once you put the last bead on doubling up and put in the head, the Elastic band to hold them up as short as you like, or as long as you like, whatever you like, whatever you want to do, but it's just an idea just to go with this hairstyle as it's so curling in big and earrings could be hard to be Seen these are acting as my earrings thanks for watching. Once again, I you