3 Ways To Style Faux Locs

August 30, 2016 Uloaku Enyingwa 4 Comments

Hey, beauts!

I finally get to take down my faux locs tomorrow. It’ll be a day shy of 8 weeks.

Whew! 8 weeks! I can’t remember having a protective style for this long. This time I did set the challenge of rocking it for 6-7 weeks, but life happened and gave me an additional week. I’ve been busy lately and although I miss my natural hair, to be honest, I was a bit reluctant to take these down because I’m not looking forward to a real wash day. For the past 8 weeks wash days has been so easy peasy that I’ve almost forgotten what a real wash day feels like. Well, I’ll be back to wash day reality soonest!

Having a boring hair is one thing I didn’t want while I had my locs, so I tried switching to different styles. Some peeps have been asking how I style my faux locs and here’s my last chance to show them how before the takedown.

Enjoy!

1 | SIDE SWEPT

I’ve tried this style on box braids before but it’s awesome with faux locs.

STEPS

1. Do a rectangular part i.e one side of the part should have more locs.

2– 4. Hold it in a ponytail using an elastic band.

5. Take out a piece from the ponytail and wrap around the elastic band to hide it, if you want a cooler look.

6-7. Choose the side you want the sweep to fall. If you want it on your right take the ponytail to the left and vice-versa. You get?

Now sweep the ponytail to where you want.

8–13. Take few pieces (usually 2 pieces works well with my faux loc) from the left and right sides, the ones closest to the rectangular part and tie at the back to secure the sweep.

2 | CHINESE BUNSomehow the pieces of faux locs left out of the bun reminds me of chopsticks. This style was inspired by my sister and it’s really easy to do. Do I even need to explain? Maybe just step 2 and 3.

2-3 After putting the locs in a ponytail, keep the two chopsticks pieces apart from the rest, so they don’t get lost while you do the bun.

3 | BRAIDED BAND

Or as a friend calls it: “the ninja look”.

STEPS

1-3. Take 3 pieces of locs and braid it down.

4. Take it across your forehead

5-7. Take a few pieces from the left and right sides to tie at the back, so as to secure the band.

And there you have it! Wishing you a fabulous week ahead!

Which style will you be trying soon?