Protective Styling is my great hair agenda for 2014, and I’m going to have a lot of fun with this, I can tell.
Top of my list of styles I want to try is… Genie Locs! Also known as Loc Extensions, Wrapped Extensions, whatever you want to call it, here’s what I’m talking about.
Tell me, whose locs are real? And who’s wearing extensions? Can you tell?
I’m a big fan of dreadlocks, and I love anything that would let me key into my inner rasta without the commitment. Genie Locs are it yo. Closer than kinky twists, Havana twists, these ones are right on the mark.
A few weeks ago, I youtube’d for a how-to, and I found this really good tutorial by vlogger, ImShineStruck.
Really simple, and no special extensions needed- just good old regular braiding hair (Expressions, Darling, any Kanekalon hair of your choice) and some Kinky hair.
I’ve even seen some locs with Yarn instead of Kinky Hair. Good too, but I prefer the way the Kinky locs look.
I’m SO looking forward to trying this. I need the weather to be much much cooler in the daytime though. Harmattan here hasn’t decided what it’s going to be, and I just got box braids today anyway, so I’m holding onto this thought for a while longer.
There you have it guys!
What do you think? Have you tried Genie Locs? Would you be trying this style out?
Till next post,
Love,
AB
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P.S. Only Ayo is wearing extensions (Image 3)
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I would really love the hair but who to make it…
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I love them!!! Goshhhh
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You go girl, please post when you have them in, bet they will look gorgeous!!!
Smiles!!!
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These are GORGEOUS! Makes me miss my locs
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They look awesome tho I wonder if my regular hair dresser would be able to….. oh and the major setback my front hair :-(…..
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You’re stalking my thoughts, right? This is the #1 thing I want to do this year!!!
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I am holding on too..my yarn braids are only a week old and I love them and cant take them out yet…..I will be doing the locs myself in march, cant wait!
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Lovely but would take forever to get it done by yourself. Plus i fear my hair isn’t long enough for this. Finally, they would chase you out of the regular salon should you take this to them cos to twist my hair alone, most of them start preaching to me or they tell me Outrightly that they can’t do it.
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I think I’d set aside a whole weekend for this. Until it catches on and becomes a trend here, no way I’m taking this to a salon
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any idea where these extensions can be gotten in Nigeria?
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I have these in currently. I did them myself and man I shall never do them again. It took me 18 hours, over the course of three days. I’ve had them in for a week. The youtube tutorial I followed was Knottinikki.
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I can imagine! Such a long thing, but so pretty. Thanks for your comment Moji! The shakara you must be doing no be small. All those hours!!
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The woman in the first picture is actually a loc’d sister, she doesn’t have genie locs. Those are actual real microlocs.
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Hii, thanks for visiting the blog! Yes I know Loccrush’s locs are real. See the very last line 🙂
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