Most people at this stage have about 1 inch of unloced hair at the root before the loc begins...
This where my locs were beginning to get thinner. I wasn't sure whether it was because this part of the loc hadn't loced yet or if it really was gatting thin. I didn't want them to carry on growing thin and breaking off eventually...
Experimenting again!
I decided that I wanted to make the base of my loc as strong as possible. Remember that as your locs grow, the weight of them gets heavier and you'll need a strong base to hold them. But before I decided to join them, I waited a month or two until my locs were really firmly loced. I wouldn't recommend joining locs until they seem loced enough...
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ARE YOUR LOCS READY TO JOIN?
*Look for the weaker locs on your head, the ones that look like they are going to fall off...
*Take the weaker loc and wrap around the base of the nearest loc like this: Wrap once around the base of the nearest loc. Make a hole and thread it through. Keep wrapping like this until you reach the beginning of the loced part. Secure it with a little rubber band. Do this to all the weak locs.
*Now you need to wait until the wrapped up part has begun to matt together over time. I waited about 2 months before I did anything... 2 months later, the wrapped part of the joined locs were locing, the rubber band was still in place. DO THIS WHEN YOUR JOINED LOCS ARE LOCING TOGETHER ONLY -before that, may be too soon to start cutting...
*Some people leave their locs like that, whereas I decided to make it into one loc...
*To make the locs into one: Take a sharp scissors, cut the weaker loc BUT make sure there is some length left of the weaker loc at the joint.
*So, you ae now left with a little bit of the cut loc sticking out...
*CHOOSING YOUR THREAD :Find a matt (not shiny) thread (your hair colour). Use wool thin thread if you can -it won't show as much, it will blend in with your locs shape and be part of it whereas synthetic thread may always feel 'present' .
*Neatly sew this loose part into the loc. The thread may show now but over time, the thread will dissappear and blend.
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Thats it! Hope that made sense!
-Sounds complicated but its not that bad... just don't rush things. This process took me time to finally get done, simply because I was waiting for the joined locs to loc together before cutting. I can't put a time of waiting on it, but once they've loced together nicely (and only when that happens...) do you begin to cut and sew. I first started this process in month 17. Its month 20 and I just finished the sewing part. Took a while!
