Lightweight Crochet Faux Locs Feat. Freetress Braid - Hipsta Loc | Slim Reshae

Hey guys welcome back to my channel today's video is another protective style so before we get into it, I'm gon na go ahead and cover the frequently asked questions. The FAQ first and foremost the hair is the shake-and-go freakish braid wrapped in lock. This is their hipster. Lock 18 inch in one beef and I will show y'all. This is what the packaging looks like. So it's there hipster lock 18 inches and I am in the shade 1v. Now I used about three packs total ahead. One two three: I had four locks left over from the third pack, so I used three packs in total. Let me count how many Lots I have my hit currently all right, so we got 44 locks over my entire head. I will say the density of my hair. I do not think my natural hair is really that dense, which is why certain areas you have to kind of evaluate your hair type to know like how many locks you're gon na have on your head. So basically, I'm saying if you got a lot of hair and your braid is like chunky when you part it, that's not necessarily gon na be the best way you're gon na have to you know, give you up in your parks a little bit more to have Some more locks in your head, because this little this little hole is what your braid has to go through to use this hair. So you want to make sure your braid is small enough to get through this little hole. I'Ve had these locks in for about two and a half weeks. At this point, I usually don't keep in protective styles that long. These Styles look great over time, because the more like worn your hair is the looser the locks look, the more natural they look in. My opinion - and all you really have to do is keep touching up your baby hairs. But when you touch up your baby hairs, you got ta wash your baby. Hairs got ta, wash your baby hairs. At least you know once every two to three days: cuz when you're, taking up that edge, control and gels stuff like that, it can get real like cakey and dirty. So you want to make sure you're washing your baby hairs. It hasn't unraveled the only like sliding that I've noticed is like up here, crusty but like up here. This is my hair, the braid and like this is the hair that I wrapped around it, which will show you the application process momentarily. But that's the only sliding I've had so I slid down I like that, but if I see it all I got, ta do is Boop and then it's covered same with over here. It'S really only in the areas where I've been like, manipulating the hair, more octaves. I'Ve been switching my part from left to right and all that stuff, but other than that, like I have no complaints the hardest parts for me with this hairstyle was one up it took me: some tries to apply the hair. So, although it's an easy method, you have to kick the hang of it first, because if you don't get the hang of it, then it's gon na seem like a very hard method to apply this hair. Second, I did struggle in the back of my hair. So a lot of times people asked like what does the back of the hair look like, which I can try and show y'all. This is what the back of her hair looks like, and I wanted to it to be very loose again. I was going on a little vacation, so I wanted it to look very loose natural and front. She knows him, and so it was hard for me to get the back of my hair, because the way you have to crochet your hair in the lock it's hard to do from back here. You know I'm saying so. If you have someone else doing your hair, it might be able to be easier or you can. You know wing it like me, trial and error, and also it does take a while to do this. So I have 44 locks. I started my hair at 9:30 p.m. and I finished my hair at about 2:15 a.m. now that wasn't me like working working, working, working working. That was me, like figuring out how to properly apply the hair and then move it forward from there. That also includes braiding. The hair, so I'm starting with the Lister's pink super moisturizing curl definer, and this is what I use to moisturize my hair, underneath these hips the lots, and I made sure that I worked this in down the shaft of my hair as well as the ends and Then you want to make sure that you're not like grabbing up your baby hairs when you're doing this, because you want to leave your baby hairs out, so you don't have to pull them out later when you're styling them so we're just gon na start off. By doing a three strand, braid your traditional braid and I'm just separating my hair into three sections and then I'm going to proceed to braid the hair and we're gon na braid it down about three to four inches. I think that's far enough for you to go. I don't think you have to braid it all the way down to the very end. So this is what the brain looks like. We have a little bit of space at the root. We didn't do it too tight, so we'll have enough room to crochet the hair. In so this is what the hip still looks like. It has a little curlicue at the bottom, a little bit of extra Marley here at the top and we're just going to put our crochet needle through the base of our braid. Then we're gon na hook. The little loop that's on the hips, to lock on the crochet needle right here then we're going to pull the loop under the braid also pulling through that Marley hair to the other side. And then, once you get the Marley hair through, you can pull the opposite side of the faux lock to get the loop back towards the base and from here you want to keep the loop on the crochet hook and then you're gon na hook. Your hair on to the crochet hook as well, so you can pull it through the loop and you want to make sure you hook your hair kind of towards the bottom, the lower second half of the hair and then you're gon na pull that through the loop. So this is an important step because you want to make sure your braid is thin enough to fit through this loop, because if it's too thick, then you're not going to be able to pull your hair all the way three. So if you have more dense hair, you might have to part your hair a little bit smaller in order to compensate for your braids fitting through the loop. So once you pull it through, I'm just tightening the loop all the way at the root of the hair. You may have some excess product kind of build up when you pull that loop down, but you should have your hair on one side, the marley hair and then the hipster LOC hair from here. This is the part that is a little bit more time-consuming. You want to take your crochet hook and needle you want to feed this up through the center of the hips to lock, and you want to make sure that none of the crochet needle is kind of slipping out and shining, because once you pull your hair through. That'S where the braids will show, so you want to make sure you're kind of keeping this in the middle of the hips a lot so that your hair is fully concealed when you pull your hair through. So I'm starting about halfway down the hip, still a lot pushing my crochet crochet needle up through the lock all the way to the top. So again, when you do this at the back ear here, it may be a little bit more difficult versus the front of the hair, because you can fully see and make sure that you have that crochet hook fully enclosed in the hips the lot and then once You get to the top, we want to open your crochet needle, and you want to hook your hair on, just as we did before kind of between the middle and the lower half portion of the braid. You want to hook your hair on you wan na make sure all your hair is hooked in that crochet needle then you're gon na close the hook and then you're gon na pull your hair through and for me it was easier to kind of shift and scrunch The hipster LOC hair up on my hair versus just pulling it straight through. I was kind of pushing that hipster lock up on my hair, as I was pulling my hair down with the crochet needle and then once you see your hair on the other end, you can start pulling that out. So you'll see the end of your hair. Now you're gon na have to do this. If you have hair about my length, you'll have to do this two times unless you have an extra long, crochet needle or something. But what I did was make sure my hair was still moisture eyes on the ends and then I went coming towards the curlicue at the end of the hip slot and I began putting my crochet needle in again and repeating that process. So we're just gon na push this crochet needle up to the point where my hair sticking out we're gon na hook, my hair on a crochet needle and then we're gon na pull that through and you'll see by scrunching the hair up making sure that we're feeding It through more of the hipster lot than the length of my hair, it's very beneficial, because once you pull it through the second time, all you have to do is pull the end of the hips a lot and your hair will bounce back into the lock. So once you do that now you can pull the Marley piece to make sure your hair is kind of tight at the top and then you're gon na use this to conceal the quote-unquote knots at the top of your foot lock and another thing about this hair That I really like is that the hair looks like natural locks when they're in like the budding phase and they kind of have like they're, not a super straight shape, and then the way I'm twisting the Marley hair is in the same direction. That the faux lock is twisted, and I'm just driving this at the top of the hair, and when I get to the end, I just separate the end. So it can kind of mesh a little bit more with the full lock. And then I rub it in between my hands, and this is just how I keep this piece of hair locked and the more you kind of brush it out or separate it. The better it'll kind of adhere to itself versus having to burn the hair. If you want a super secure look, you can definitely attempt to like burning the hair as if it was your regular, full, lock wrapping method, but this is all I did. I just rubbed it between my hands and I was good to go so here. We'Re gon na do the same thing on this second braid, all right, so, first height down again, I've had these in for about two weeks. I'M just gon na do the two locks in the front right here, so you want to let's see if we could get closer, so you want to kind of fun where you wrap that hair around and then start kind of trying to get it a loose. So I'm just like doing this kind of deal and see now that is loosed from the lock and I can just unravel that all the way to the top, and once we get up here, let's see if we can find the braids. So there's my braid we're gon na go ahead and pull that bad boy out. So that's my hair, oh nice and moisture Roz, yes, and then from here you got to find the loop that you pulled your breakthrough from and you want to be careful because, like I just got nails and I kind of found it so actually that's my and I'M just kind of like pulling this. I honestly I'm not in front of the muse. So this is not like. Okay, there we go focus. Okay, so yeah, I did pull the loop and then you just pull that excess hair out and now we just got my mogul braided piece of hair and it is more oh girl and it is just as moisturize. So that's that my hair is out. So I'm gon na do one more just because that was my first time taking one of these out and I just went with a my widow's be here. Why is this something that one anyway so we're gon na do one more? So that's basically the take down. So, which is going to jump into the outro and that's it so what I'm basically saying here is to preserve my hair at night. I just used a setting mousse and put it all over my hair, and then I put a do-rag going. I'M also mentioning like at night after I put a do-rag one, I might put a jump up on it on it, which you can find at your local beauty supply store. When I go in the shower, I use a jumbo shower cap. One other thing I forgot to mention is that this hair is super lightweight. It is very lightweight it moves very easily and then also I style, my hair, a few different ways. While having my hair like this, sometimes I would do have a path down like that, or I would do like a top ponytail or like a side or a middle part in here. I'M just just realizing like yes, it is super lightweight, because a lot of people ask me: are the faux locs heavy, whatever whatever, and then I decorated them with these hooks and little clips from the local beauty supply store. I hope you all enjoyed this video make sure you all give it a huge thumbs up like this video and subscribe, if you're not already subscribed enjoying the gym squad. If you have any questions, the links to all this hair will be in the description box below and y'all, never forget at the end of the day. Without regrets, love yourself and bu tiful bye, guys