Storytime | Loc Haircut

Foreign tician, my name, is Natasha Wright for those of you who are brand new to the channel, welcome and if you've been rocking with me since October. Thank you so much for all the support before I start this video please take a moment to subscribe to the channel and don't forget there is a current promotion. Once we get to the 2500 subscriber that individual will receive a dreadlock extension establishment. Remember that we are located in Long Island, New York today, I'm showing you how I cut my clients hair in a salon. I get a little stressed out when I see haircuts on the internet because it looks like locticians are buying scissors from Michael's and then cutting their clients hair straight across. Whenever I see this, I know they didn't receive formal training. So, on this day, I detox my clients hair. Even though she's not a product junkie, detoxing allows you to remove any buildup from conditioners or shampoos. Sometimes the product you use regularly is no longer effective because you're not flushing out old products. The rule of thumb is that you should never put anything in your locks that you can't see through and don't apply product to your hair unless you have flushed out the old product. This is inclusive of leaving conditioners and oils after the detox. I trimmed my clients, hair, and this video will walk you through my process, while I'm talking you'll also hear about my personal stories and my journey, but let me know what you guys think of the video. Let me know what you think about my process and definitely share if you're interested in watching Future YouTube videos like this, don't forget, I offer a microlux 101 class. You learn how to establish repair, maintain and attach extensions to micro locks. I have a one-on-one class. That'S available through the vanity Hair Studio, NYC app. That class is 1500. There'S a group class that I also offer for 6.99. The next group class is in December of 2023. You work for yourself, your HR, okay, all right! All right, hey guys! I wanted to show you a haircut hey winter, so yeah, it all depends on all right before I start this conversation, so we just did her detox uh it took about it took an hour to detox. It took almost an hour to dry we're going to do a trim right here, we're just going to take a little bit off. Not so much we've been talking about this haircut for a while, not really sure. I think I don't want the haircut. I don't want the haircut, that's what it is. I don't want the haircut. I want her to keep her length uh, but it is at her waist and it's heavy and it takes a long time to shampoo dry. It takes a long time for everything uh. Well, we've invested: these are our locks. This is me chica how many other people it's all of our locks, so for now, what we're going to do is we're going to trim it. So I'm gon na gon na get rid of like some of the stragglers put a little a few layers right here and I'll show you how to do that. I know on some of the videos that you've seen you see people just cut straight across. That'S weird! That'S not of the client is like no, no um. That'S you know, that's not how you cut hair, but you know with locks. You have to be cautious, like I always cut it in small sections and after I finish I have the client stand up. So I can actually see it and how it's gon na lay when she's walking. I also want it to be manageable, so she puts it in a ponytail it should it should fall easy and there shouldn't be hair sticking out so I'll show you guys how I cut the hair, I'm hoping that this is a good view. Let me see if I can lower it a little bit hold on for a second, so the first thing that I want to do is I want to separate it. I want to separate it in four sections, because her hair is long. As you see, she has like a million towels here, let me tell y'all she comes for her own drapes. No, I'm telling you see this Jay Frank. She comes with her own stuff, it's ridiculous. She feels like what we offer. Her is not sufficient. They can't see your face, there's no evidence, there's no evidence who's, a photographer that won't work with you. I don't know she's she's referencing. What I said earlier. I told her. I bring my coffee because it's not in a budget for me to get coffee from outside and it's not see people think that, because you make money from your business that you have this infinite number that you can just spend. I can't you know what my quality money goes towards gas, like that's what I always have so I'm going to take this off and remember when you're cutting you never cut past the the second knuckle. This is just a little bit, and even though I didn't cut much it'll make a big difference when she's styling it well, when we're styling well, Chica Chica usually does her hair. This is this is one of my my loyal clients, she's been with vanity for a minute. Did I tell you a story before on one of these lives? No, not with me here, okay. So this is her story. She um! Oh, do you mind if I tell it? Okay, I'm over here just talking your business right, not in locks. She comes from afar right. She was living Upstate for a little bit. She had gotten locks, they were supposed to be sisterlocks, but they were micro locks, not sure it. She has a sisterlocks grid parting grid and she also has a sisterlock size. So she can really say that she has sisterlocks, but she went to someone they called on. Michael Locke, so that's what we're going to reference so she gets them done. She was getting it done at a place in the Bronx. You know it's in a barber shop right who's in a barber shop - uh! Yes, okay! So it's in a barber shop! The person is running a booth which is fine, but there just seem to be some issues the she would get there and it would take all day and uh. She felt that getting her hair done. She understood there was an investment in time, but she didn't want her entire Saturday to be consumed with just hair. So she asked the girl if she could um figure out a way to cut down on the time, and the girl agreed that she she had a solution. Well, guess what she did. She combined all of her locks. So after she combined all of her locks, the person who uh, who was doing the checkout the person at the front desk, said you know this is not. This is not like uh sustainable solution. You just combined. You got your last combined. How are you going to undo that, so my client was a little confused about what the expectations were right, because if you're combining locks - yes you're cutting down on time. But now you have less locks. Well, not technically not less, but it's uh less work to do once you have to re-tighten it so now uh. My client is a little panicked because she realized that whatever it is, that was done needed to be undone right. She knew something was wrong, so she calls she calls her Salon. This was like what, like seven years ago and uh she's in a panic. I don't know. If I don't know if you were crying like you were in a panic, yeah, you're kind of rough. You rough with me, so you ain't, he wasn't crying, he wasn't crying yeah, so she um she was stressed out and she knew that she needed to like undo the combining. But this this was the hit. It was combined. She needed she needed a re-tightening and now she needed to transfer to a different person. So there's a lot going on. I told her, I would do it and we on I don't. I don't even think uncombined is a word, but we undid what was done and, of course she had New Growth, so her whole service, I think, was like 10 hours that day and ever since then she's been coming here and now she lives in Connecticut and she Still comes, and we were talking about it earlier, you know I know there's somebody in Connecticut that can do your hair, but she said I just haven't looked and I guess I understood, because finding a a logician just has its challenges. I, when I had my locks, if somebody at the salon wasn't doing them, I I wouldn't get it done, because trying to find someone in the area was stressful, so I get. If I couldn't find somebody to do my hair. I can understand how you guys like go through changes and part of the reason why people aren't doing locks as much as they they were before covet is because it is time consuming um. No one says this out loud, but when you're doing locks you can't use cheap products in comparison to loose natural hair or, I would say, processed hair like weaves and relaxers. You can use synthetic products and it'll look shiny, but when it comes on to Locks, if you use a uh, a subpar product or a a product that is cheaply made or doesn't have the right ingredients that complement one another, your locks will look like it's falling Apart, so you can't go cheap with with naturally curly, hair and uh. I think because of that people don't find it to be as lucrative. So yes, you make more money doing relaxers, especially weaves. You make more money, but you have space yeah, okay, but I don't feel the same way about um doing relaxers and weaves the way I do with locks. It'S just a different experience and I'm not trying to be judgmental. I just found that people that were wearing weaves, including myself, we don't take care of our hair the same way. We don't make investments, we destroy our own hair and we take care of the weave hair. Let me tell y'all a quick story before my phone died, so so one day I'm at my job. This is years ago, I'm at my job and I get a phone call from the Beauty Supply guy. Now the fact that the guy at the beauty supply store. I had my personal cell phone number, tells you how addicted I was to my weaves right. He says Natasha, I have bad news, they're discontinuing it and what he was saying to me was that they were discontinuing the brands of weave that I was using. When I tell you my heart dropped, I felt like I could never get what happened. Oh thank you. Oh, she is being my cameraman. Thank you when uh, when they told me that I wasn't gon na have my weave anymore. I was so tight. You hear me so guess what I did. Can you see? Okay, okay, let's go! Thank you. So what I did was, I got off of work. I left work early. Yes, I did. I left work early, ran down to the beauty, supply and bought every last pack of hair. That was left the hair that I bought. It lasts me for a good year, and after that I didn't know what to do. This is when I started to uh. This is when I started to find out about Brazilian hair, but it also made me feel insecure about the fact that I was so committed to getting these weaves and I wasn't as committed as getting my hair healthy now. At this time I was dealing with alopecia. You know my edges were gone and this this hair was part of my protection. You know I could cover up these, these deficiencies that I had and it looked real and it bounced really nicely it shed crazy. Like I mean it was horrible, with the shutting. I had to walk around with a a lint brush, but it looked real. I'M gon na I'm gon na post a picture of it. So I realized that I had to make some changes and uh you could pass. You got space. Thank you, foreign, so I had to make some changes and that's when I ended up doing my first hair transplant surgery and on one side, once I did the hair transplant surgery. That'S when I said you know what I'm just gon na lock my hair. So that was that's when I started locking my hair and locking was one of the best decisions I could have made. It was good having you I know. I know you were entertain from this time. Yeah all right take care. Have you have a good Saturday um? So so I had my surgery. I ended up uh having a hair trans hair transplant surgery. It was money well spent. It was just it was such a good investment uh. I would suggest if anybody wants to stop wearing weaves and and just transition into your own natural hair. It really does make a difference. Okay hold on hey guys. Thank you for joining. Thank you for joining hold on. Let me just acknowledge everybody: foreign nope, okay. This is good, so uh, so I have my first hair transplant surgery I ended up with. I did traditional locks initially and uh. I didn't really like it. I felt like it put too much stress on my hair, so I cut it off and I wore a pixie for a little bit, but I got so used to having a lot of him on my head from the the weaves that I started to feel uncomfortable Again so I started wearing wigs, so this is now. I already did the natural thing had this surgery spent ten thousand dollars and I went into the wigs so I'm wearing wigs. The wigs are perfect because it's easy, you slap it on you're good got too accustomed to the wigs and uh fell right back into that same cycle of relying on the wigs as a hairstyle ruined my edges. Again, one of the things that I've learned about my hair texture is that I have fine hair and I think that I have this thick robust hairline, and I don't that. That'S not part of my jeans, you know everybody has a soft and thin hairline and I'm not supposed to be wearing braids or anything. So you know after my hairline disappears again after it disappears. I uh. I realized that I messed up so yeah. I put locks in my head at this point. My hair is, is long because I've been wearing these wigs and unfortunately uh you know it. It didn't look good because I had to wrap up the edges and because I had to wrap up the edges, yeah it put more stress on it. I was uh using those African scarves and all of that right, so I decided that I have to go through the surgery again surgery. Well, by this time they had a sale, they had a sale on the edges, they had a sale, so I have to pay this 10 grand again uh, no, actually the first, the the first month. I think I paid like 85, because that was what my dermatologist and the second one. The original price was 10., but they had a covet sale right like yeah, they had a Kobe still, and it was. I want to say that I spent like 69. It was either 69 or 79. It was somewhere around here. It wasn't more than eight thousand dollars and you only had to put a thousand dollars down and then you can either Finance the rest or uh. You know you can pay the rest in cash. However, you want to pay it right, but they always had appointments available, that I did it at Bosley. It was so worth it because when you get it done, when you get it done with a dermatologist going to a dermatologist to get your hair transplant is like it's like getting a BBL in the United States. Legally, they can only suck out a certain amount of fat, but when the reason why people go abroad - yes, it's cheaper, but they also are more aggressive with how much fat they can remove, which is why, when, when women go abroad, there are ways to really small And then your hips are really big, but if you get it done here, you're not going to see those drastic results. So I'm comparing it to going to a Bosley versus the dermatologist. The dermatologist is um, not regulated. It'S they're more conservative, with how big the part is that they they cut uh how many graphs they do versus at Bosley. Bosley is like a machine. You know it's a factory, so they they cranking out transplants all day, so you're in a room with a few girls who are working with you on the transplant, but he's just like slicing you open pulling the scalp off sewing you back up. I I you know. I see you in a little bit yeah and then they have a nurse on staff to uh. Give you the injections once you start feeling the pain again now the pain is subtle. Initially because it's a it's like a pinch, it's a needle and it's not that bad. It'S just like a regular shot right for anything, but after they take out the strip once the is it local anesthesia that they give you whatever it is. I think it's local and sorry guys, uh once they uh give you chica. No, I think that that's a client yeah, I don't see anybody at the door um once they once that starts to wear off. That'S one chica! I think your client is here uh once it starts to wear off. That'S when um it feels like you have the biggest headache in your life. It feels like a hammer hit your head over and over again. So that's how I can describe it. The goal is to tell them when you're uncomfortable so that they can apply even more right before it gets too bad. So that's the only thing you have to anticipate, but I was able to watch TV. Do computer work. Do my social media you because you're up so you see these here, I like how solid that is, but you see how this looks like straggler. Forgive me guys. I have to get my nails done, hey. How are you all right? I think this is good. Come on, let me just see what's going on so far, I see one straggler, so what I want to do is I want to just take off some of the the ends and then I'll have her stand up, so I can reshape it with locks. I take my time you can't just and when you're cutting, you should always cut at an angle. If you need to cut your own locks or you don't have uh shears that are expensive, it's perfectly fine. What you can do is go to a pharmacy. Look for a company called tweezerman tweezer man has scissors, of course they also have tweezers. But what I like about that company is that you could send it back to the company to get it re-sharpened and I don't think all you have to do is pay for shipping, so tweezer man get those also get. You know cheap scissors, but I don't want you to use cheap scissors for too long use them a few times and then dump them. Some of the some of the stairs that you can buy can cost you a thousand dollars, so it does range from um. You know ten dollars to a thousand dollars, yeah yeah. I thought it was gon na start to lock up more. If I, if I was someone who only did Cuts haircuts, I would invest in good shares, hey guys in the background, the new client that's working with chica is talking about her experience with braid locks. Now, A couple of years ago, she had braid, lock extensions. I don't know if they shared with her that braids do not transition into a matted lock, but she's noticing it now so she's sharing that information when she got. I think it's just a good idea. If you air hustle a little bit. I'Ve been talking about this. On Instagram, forever braids and double strand twists, never mature into a lock. You can see when someone got an expensive haircut right. Oh sorry, okay, we almost done with her. So what I'm doing is I'm looking at the shape here you see. Can you tell so I want the shape possibly like this, but you don't force it into that right. First, you take off some of the excess stuff you assess it. Haircuts shouldn't feel, like you know, a take out of a Chinese food takeout experience. You know where it's just rushed and and hurry up and cut it takes time, and the reason why it takes time is because there's a way that you learn when you go to cosmetology school and we try to apply it to everything they teach you on loose Natural hair on straight hair, but it's something that you can apply to Locks as well. You can also cut with the hair dry or wet. Don'T let anybody tell you that you have to get a haircut with the hair blow dry straight. It doesn't make any sense, because if your hair is naturally curly, you run the risk of burning your hair with the blow drying. So if you need a haircut and you have loose natural hair, don't don't force, don't let them force you into blow drying and flat. Ironing and straighten it to death just for a trim. We almost done guys because I got ta, do her retightening, so you see all of our hair all of our hair, I'm living I'm living through her. I want lock so bad, but I want instant locks and I want. I want the large ones and I can't get it, but it's cool can't get everything in life all right. You see that I'm gon na take some of this off. No I've had locks already, but the what I want my hair to look like is not what it can produce. I'M very realistic about that. I want those big Bob Marley locks that are like sitting there and you just wrap it in like this bun. I want that and instead you know, my hair looks like it's holding on my my Locs look like they're holding on to their life, and I just don't want to walk around like that. My hands as well when I have sisterlocks, but I just don't like retightenings. Oh, you know I just I don't I'm doing it every day and I don't want to be tighten my hair on my day off, but I'm not a good customer. I keep telling you that I'm a horrible customer, because I want everything done in one hour or less I'm. You know I never get my hair whenever I got someone to do it. I never get a finish because I'll I tell them look whatever you could do in three hours do but then whatever's left is left and we we figure it out, because I just don't want to sit and do it. I'M not 15. yeah. I don't. I don't want to sit in a chair. I want to sit in a chair all day. I don't want to do that. I know it's weird because that's what I expect for other people to do Kathy. I know what you thinking, I know, but it's a the thing is I'm not gon na make up the stories? It'S just not my experience. I people, I will sit in a nail salon for three hours: no complaints, because that experience offers me a type of satisfaction that I look forward to not the hair salon. Experience say that again we can give you that experience. I enjoy you doing my hair, you because I talk crazy. The whole time you know it is entertaining it's it's being around. Clients is satisfying being around certain clients to satisfied, but I think that what we were saying earlier that works for everyone and is positive and we all get along and everyone is courteous. Some of the clients recognize each other and yeah. A lot of friends come here. So it's a it's a nice family type of environment, but I'll just say this. When, when you were first doing my love, I enjoyed looking at the way you're. Looking really, you never told me that, but I enjoyed the little the different Creations. You have. Oh really, but you never said that you liked my locks, you you never talked about my hair. You just said it was an inspiration, Kathy Kathy. Just she asks weird questions. Let me tell you she won't say your hair looks nice, she's gon na be like you did something different to your hair like like she'll, say stuff like that, but she won't say I like it. No, I don't. I, like all of my hairstyles, her she's supposed to child for locks, because everyone loves her hair and when uh, when she took the class, people were asking her if the if the ends her ends were burnt, which is a odd question. But it's it's perfect. It'S because we trim it, you know we trim it. So everything looks uniform, okay, guys now, I'm going to shape the end up good stuff. Oh my you guys see so here I want to just trim that part all right. Let me show you because my phone is about to die anyway, so this live is about to go all right, so you see how it flows hold on. So you see how it flows like this is. This is how you trim the hair and then, when she stands up stand up for me, it's not going to show you uh stay right there, so you see how it flows. So what I'm gon na do is I'm gon na clean this up right here? So I want to just soften this right here and then her trim will be done so the trim, the trimming process, all right, you're good. The trimming process doesn't have to be complicated, but it definitely shouldn't be a blunt cut. That'S always look weird to me and you got ta take your time. This is the reason why uh people charge the same amount for trims as they do a haircut. But if you come to this Salon, we don't got no openings. Let me just say that right. We don't have no openings, I'm just saying it uh. If you come here, the trims are included in your service. So if you want to trim, we don't charge you for it and we don't charge you for a trim and we don't charge you for like a basic hairstyle. We don't charge you for the shampoo, of course, and that's because over the years we've had to increase our prices, blame it on inflation and it's important that clients feel like there's some value in what you offer. But when you go up on your prices and then you just offer the same ordinary services, it's not really helpful, it's hard for the buy-in, you know, but once you go up and they see okay, you've invested in better equipment and the space looks nicer like we're. Moving into a nicer space, I've invested in new furniture and I've invested in uh new equipment for the hair, so that the client can have a better experience they own scarf at the at the the increase they see where the money is going. We offer snacks, but right now we offer Hood snacks. We you know. I know that I can't do that anymore. I have to get better stuff, so, okay, so that is her. That'S her um trim. Let me set up for her retightening if my phone dies guys. That'S the no. They teach us how to okay, how to um. Okay, don't forget the spray okay, she's sensitive come on, I'm going to turn off the heat, because this is feeling cold yeah. I think it's just me moving around it's still some famous I enjoyed that. It was so silly now I am spraying her hair with uh distilled water, and this is the spray. I usually don't do this. I really hate when I'm trying to sell something but uh. This is a spray called con leche, it's a coconut and lemongrass scent. I use distilled water because it doesn't have as many impurities and uh I sprayed on a client. It doesn't leave any hard deposits like tap water. I'M cheap, I'm, not drinking, no bottled water at home, I'm just not cool. I mean I'm not cheap, I'm just Frugal with certain things to see these prices out here for just for food eggs. Have you seen the price on anything? Yes, yes, I have. This is disgusting. Everything is high, we're just all trying to keep up. You know goodbye. How much is it going for here, like I went to this place where it's discounted and the eggs were like four dollars or something like that? Yes, people were complaining about like 13 for oh, so once I separated from Stone. Yes, yes, ma'am the key to retightening. The hair and those parts that you guys see on Instagram is really just sectioning off the hair, so that you can see so I want to be able. I need all of the light to be in the area that I'm working with, so I need to be able to see this. My the mistake that I used to make the mistake that I used to make was putting all of the hair up and a ponytail, because what happens is it creates a shadow so hold on? Let me show you so let's say you put this up right. Ponytail! You see this area right here, Kathy why you got all those two boats. What is, is she overdue? No, this is six weeks. I'M telling you all right. So, oh, no, it's right here! I know. Okay, right here is where the shadow would cast and you won't be able to offer clean parts right because you can't see so I'm working like this right. If I'm working like this, I can't really see what I'll have to do is keep doing this. Stopping doing this clipping it moving, then, because it's heavy it falls down and that eats up time with your client right. So if this client is supposed to be her, her retightenings don't get intimidated by the by her fullness and her retightening takes about what three hours right - 3.5. Okay, so her hair is longer that's her hair used to take three hours, because I remember I used to take three hours, but her hair got longer when your hair was longer is a longer shampoo process. Is the longest setup so factor that in guys - but I can see right here so I'm gon na start here, but most importantly, I'm sectioning. So I'm going to start here and then what I'm gon na do is find, maybe about three or four that I can start with across and work like this. I like to work horizontally because I like to clean up the. Why you keep saying? Oh, you are so I'm just saying this. I'M gon na use the African parting tool for those of you who have been purchasing the tool from my Etsy store the lock shop NYC first, I want to say thank you, but some of you have been like. Oh it's not that sharp! It'S not a knife! It'S a handmade stick and this stick is supposed to Glide against a person's scalp if it's too sharp you're going to break the skin, and that's where you end up opening that client up to bacteria infections, because yeah we may wash our hands prior to working on A client but we're not washing it every five minutes, so I need you to just be realistic. You can sharpen the tips of it using an emery board, but it shouldn't be so sharp that it behaves Like a Knife. So you have to keep that in mind. We have sent out replacement tools, but I I just want to say to you: it is not a knife, it should not be, but so sharp you can just spray these with alcohol after you use it. But again it's a natural piece of wood right. So it does not behave like a plastic tool, so today she doesn't have as much New Growth as I thought right. So she has normal New Growth uh. I'M gon na use this parting tool and I think I'm gon na use I'm going to use a couple of tools. It all depends on the section around her ears. It the hair, is straighter, so I'm going to use this tool here around the the ends and I'm going to use this one till he's tighten her her hair and guys. I already showed you how to use these tools on another video, so I'm going to end the live now because I need to hover over and I don't need y'all staring at my my big chicken chicken thigh arms. Oh we'll talk about that behind the scenes. All right, you guys have any questions hi locked by AJ, thanks for watching thanks for tuning. In I'm glad you guys enjoyed the haircut I'll try to go, live as much as possible when I'm working on clients. It all depends because some people want to preserve their privacy, which I get, but if you guys have questions when I do these lives go ahead and send them in the comments section I'll make sure to answer it. As I am working on a client - and you can always you can always comment underneath a post on Instagram, I know some of you guys are asking about part four for my sisterlock video I'll, be posting that maybe sometime tomorrow, because I'm still editing you know, I Try to make it short and that's it. Thank you so much for tuning in BB Roxy really you're in the other room, getting your hair done. How are you commenting on the live? Bianca get off the live dude. What are you doing? I thought you was doing work all right: okay, bye, guys,