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Articles, Health, Loc Care & Styles, Mental & Physical Wellbeing

Rejuvenate Matted Locs – Life After Illness

Recovering from illness is a journey. Illnesses like depression, lupus, and many more can take everything out of you. This includes taking your strength and/or willpower for self care. The impact of this is that you can end up with matted locs that make you feel embarrassed or negatively about yourself. However, it is possible to rejuvenate matted locs. Congratulations…

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Articles, Health, Loc Care & Styles, Mental & Physical Wellbeing

Exercising With Locs – Everything You Need to Know

If you’re thinking about locs or have them there are a few things to keep in mind when exercising with locs.  Time Between Washes How often you wash your locs depends on how often and how intensively you exercise. The more often and intensely you exercise the more often you’ll need to wash your locs. If you exercise regularly and…

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Top 3 Methods to Combine Your Locs

Sometimes you start your loc journey and realize, “I have too many locs.” The feeling may come from the greater maintenance requirements of a higher count of locs. Or it may come from just deciding you prefer the look of larger locs on yourself. You may think you need to start your locs journey all over again, but stop right…

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Articles, Loc Care & Styles, Starting Locs

Are Locs Low Maintenance?

Are locs low maintenance? The answer to that depends on a few factors. However, in general yes they are low maintenance.  Before going into detail, you should keep in mind low maintenance is a relative term. You’ll likely be comparing it to how long you spend on your hair now vs with locs.  You may also consider the timing of…

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15 Amazing Knit & Crochet Pieces by Black Designers

There are so many black creatives out there, and the knit and crochet space is no exception. Below I’ve created a list of knit and crochet pieces by black designers that sell or showcase their textile creations. If you’re getting into slow fashion as well, this is a great place to start. There are handmade pieces from clothing to dolls…

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