![]() ![]() Distressed Butterfly Locs With Copper Accents Butterfly Locs With Neon Green Peekaboo Color Split-Color Black and Silver Butterfly Locs Just make sure your hair is hydrated prior to installation and you know how to properly take them out, and butterfly locs may be your new favorite protective hairstyle. If you want to try butterfly locs, I highly encourage you to do so. That’s how I removed the rest of my butterfly locs.Ĭharles also suggests “going in with a leave-in conditioner or a water-based detangler to soften buildup so that you’re not losing much or any hair in the detangling process.” Then, you can cut the loc off and pull the extension out much more easily. Depending on your style and how long you’ve worn it, you can sometimes find your braid in the loc and pull it out. Though it didn’t work for me at first, I just needed to be a little more patience and use a mirror to help me unravel the loc. “Once the end of the loc is cut, unraveling is so much easier.” Plus, your own strands will remain in tact. “Be careful cutting the locs because it’s very easy to snip your hair,” Charles advises. It was extremely difficult to figure out how much faux hair was wrapped around the root, and I ended up cutting a decent chunk of my hair. Thinking it would save time and effort, I decided to cut the strands wrapped around the root of my hair creating the foundation of the loc. It took way too long (around 30 mins) to take out one, and impatience got the best of me. For some reason I struggled to unravel the loops and twists of hair creating my locs. ![]() Prior to grabbing my scissors, I neglected to research how to remove the style, and figured I would take them out the same way I do braids - cutting them from the bottom and unraveling the strands. Pro tip: don’t take out a protective style you’ve never worn before while angry, unless you’re willing to risk accidents. I took out my locs in a moment of frustration. Another week later, I couldn’t take it anymore. Not knowing this, I tried everything to help the irritation: hot towels, leave-in conditioner, sprays, oils, prayer. Soaking the extensions in something acidic prior to installation, like apple cider vinegar, can help strip the hair of alkaline lye. ![]() Many are allergic to the formula, which can cause small bumps on the scalp, extreme itchiness, and tenderness. I later found out that the irritation may have been caused by alkaline lye, a chemical coating sometimes sprayed on synthetic strands to make extensions wear and heat-resistant. The chunkiness took some getting used to - the two front strands kept swinging in my face, which was annoying in the beginning - but once I figured out how to hold it back (I found a small scarf worked best), I was happy with my new look.Īfter barely a week of wearing my locs, my scalp started feeling extremely itchy and tender. I loved the way my butterfly locs looked. It was relatively painless too, which my scalp appreciated. My shoulder-length, jumbo butterfly locs took almost two hours to install at the salon (a significant difference compared to the several hours it usually takes to get braids installed). I wanted to try butterfly locs because the promise of a minimal-tension protective style was alluring, as was the opportunity to channel Ciara, Little Mix’s Leigh-Anne Pinnock, and other celebs who’ve worn the look. The spring twist hair or the loc being wrapped around your braid can be drying, so it’s necessary that you moisturize your hair the best way you see fit.” “Since your hair is being completely covered by the butterfly locs, you would prep your hair differently than you would with regular braids,” says celebrity braider and Darling Hair ambassador Xia Charles. Low-tension styles are of top priority (my sensitive scalp won’t accept anything else), which is what recently led me to butterfly locs.Īccording to Black Beauty Bombshells, butterfly locs are “are a variant of faux locs achieved using the crotchet method where wavy hair is looped into a braid using a crotchet needle and then loosely wrapped to give it a distressed/unraveled look.” Prepping your hair before getting the style looks different than prep for other protective styles. As an adult, I’m now experimenting with other hairstyles to give my strands (and arms) a much-needed time out. When I was young, I was devoted to braids - cornrows and box braids in particular. Like many Black women, I grew up wearing protective styles to give my natural or processed hair a break. ![]()
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