Do you value your African Textured Strands?
If Yes! Please continue reading.
Before you decide whether Knotted Locs is for you, read my thoughts on Why Knotted Locs is crucial to the African Hair Locs Care Market.
Since 2011, I have been working with African Hair. Together with oil, water has been an important part of my locs cultivation and creative process.
My experience is, creating and supporting my clients face-to-face and online with their small size locs journey.
95% of small size locs wearers start their small size locs journey with fixed grid parted lines and quite thin locs in the hope that their Sisterlocks or Microlocs looks as full as possible. This process involves a lot of continual tugging and pulling of strands and against follicles, eventually uprooting follicles which long term become dormant due to relentless scalp trauma.
Do you want to save your follicles? If Yes! Please continue reading.
As a Certified Sisterlocks Consultant, I was taught this torturous process. I practiced creating small locs placed in a fixed grid line formation on client's head. I installed thin backward braided locs, using the Sisterlocks tool for 2 years. I became uncomfortable with strands getting caught in my clip tool, together with seeing the white follicle roots appearing along the locs.
In 2013, I began exploring solutions to creating beautiful small size locs without pain to my thumb which had become dented because of the pressure of pushing down the Sisterlocks clip tool, together with white head highlights of follicle roots appearing all over my client's locs.
I commissioned my jeweller to create a bespoke ergonomically friendly tool that was pain free allowing me to use oil and water through out my locs installations, which Sisterlocks teachings do not allow but at this point for me, my hands and the individual characteristics of my client's African Hair Texture became my priority.
How can I showcase the diverse beauty of our African Hair in Small Size Locs Pain-free?
In 2018 I created Knotted Locs, initially I started experimenting on my locs which did start of as Sisterlocks.
Eventually I began trying out my personalised knots on my client's heads, with great results and thumbs up from my clients who initially did not understand the process but loved the results because, they were sitting in my chair less and wetting their small size locs more often.
As a result of COVID 2020 when we were forced to isolate, I began teaching Knotted Locs to online initially Sisterlocks clients, then subsequently and currently Microlocs, Braidlocks and all other Small Size Locs clients.
As a result of the way I work, I have been able to begin to understand the true nature of African Hair and it's connection with our Ancestors and our hairs ability to communicate clear information, on what our strands need and how we should live with our hair, only influenced by our individual selves.
I began to understand through my work, that each head of hair I work with, reflects the true nature of it's owners personality, each texture hair is gifted to crown.
The nature of your African Textured Hair matches your personality. This is what makes our curl strands precious, they are a reflection of ourselves.
African Hair honours our body, it affirms our existence it tells us, 'I see you, I honour you, I celebrate you, because we are perfectly formed for our earthly purpose.'
Our African hair is not a fluke, it is not an accident, each is gifted to us with divinely given intention compatible with our purpose.
When disturbance is minimal and not rushed, the revelation will come to each of us. Accepting and celebrating your hair's true nature and the information it gives you is crucial and will affect and change the way you navigate your life moving forward.
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How we wear, and what we choose for our African Hair is a great example of how we see ourselves and how we live.
This is the abundance we have been searching for, it is right here, it crowns our head. Take care of your African Textured Hair in the right way and it will take care of you.
I recognise this fact as I create, build on and teach my craft. When I was directed in 2018 to create Knotted Locs for small size locs wearers with African Hair, (Icreate a fusion of diverse knots placed along sections of interchangeable small size strands), my purpose with working with African Hair in it's purest form became clearer.
To illuminate, enhance, showcase and celebrate each African Hair wearer's uniquely wavy, coily and curly strands and their individual characteristics. It's like saying to it's owner, 'You are exquisitely made / created.'
When I place the knots along my clients strands, I teach them about the importance of water and how to touch their locs and subsequent months later (3 months+), I see their small size locs form into these firm coily knobbly tubes. I observe with amazement how strong, glossy, shiny the new growth is, that sits beneath their locs.
Why have we been trying to hide these stunning new, wavy, strands before they become strong enough to form their unique curls? New growth is exquisite.
I continually am in awe of the incredible nature of our African Hair and what it teaches us about our character and the art of reflecting our personal identity. Until you understand and accept this African Textured Hair message, the competition, comparisons, shame, sadness, dissatisfaction, inner conflict, dismissal of your strands' strength and power, inner hair self-sabotaging, damaging pulling and tugging, over checking hair obsession, self denial, devaluation of your African Hair and therefore yourself will continue. This negative path, will lead to the depletion of your African Textured Hair.
The addiction to tap into these low level thoughts about your hair, forces black women to allow full and regular scalp trauma on your heads, with pain being an acceptable experience during and after your re-locking or styling sessions together with you punishing your scalp for being 'over sensitive and tender headed,' and therefore, ignoring the warning signs of pending spreading hair loss.
Whilst sitting in our stylists' chair and whilst we style and care for our curly strands, we hurt ourselves using words like, our African Hair is difficult, ugly, challenging, a nightmare, impossible, weak, stubborn, very tangely, untidy, unmanageable, 4C, messy etc. One of the most negative sentences I continually hear whilst others are complimenting my locs is, 'If my hair was more like yours, I would ...' The sentence always ends as a justification of why they continue traumatising their own strands and follicles.
The only problem with that thought process is, the pending presence of wide spread hair loss, simply because they need to change what ever bad hair practices they are forming to allow their hair to thrive. We need to change the words we use and what we think about our African Hair before it is too late.
Women justify the pain they inflict on their heads because they believe their hair is less ideal for what they want it to be, the tugging, pulling, tightening, heat straightening, relaxing, braiding, wigs, weaves, tight cornrows and extensions are all systems used to match the negative thoughts directed towards our hair. The end result of this process of thought is eventual wide spread slow balding.
When you change your words about your hair to *words like my gifted, unique, ancestral, stunning, rich, fabulous, perfectly coiled and curl, full, abundant, healthy, easy, effortless, luxurious, simple, very special, amazing, pleasing, uncomplicated, divine, beautifully dense, lovely, pretty, soft and strong, precious* African Hair, your behaviour and choices will change towards your hair.
My hope is you read this in time to save each one of your precious strands. I hope it isn't too late for you and dormant follicles can be revived. It is time for the changing attitude towards your African Textured Hair which you have been thinking about to start right now.
If you continue to practice negative thoughts and behaviours towards your African Hair, premature hair loss is inevitable and when this trauma sets in, be accountable, because you are the owner of your head and you choose your Stylists and Consultants or Locticians and each have been consistent with how they have worked with your hair. Outgrowing together with strands & scalp allergic reaction to the wrong hands on your head will be very obvious. Stop & Think. Do not continue a practice because you believe you have no option. No hairstyle option, is when you are bald.
Give yourself time to think to understand, you always have a choice with your hair. Choose the transformational path, the path that allows 100% freedom of choice when wearing your small size locs.
When you choose Knotted Locs to transform your hair into beautiful, full and strong small size locs with extremely good hygiene practice and maximum hydration. You are ensuring that your locs are in optimum condition, with pain-free, re-locking sessions chosen by yourself through out your Knotted locs journey. Like fine wine, your Small Size Locs will get better and better whilst you accept full responsibility for how you take care of your precious African Textured Hair.
Below is up to date evidence of my personal, face-to-face and online clients experience of wearing, learning and living with Knotted Locs.
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Knotted Locs is your smart solution to wearing sustainable, healthy small size locs.
Knotted Locs Services
Follicles 1st ALWAYS
KnottedLocs Creating (Brand New Locs).
Loc Maintenance Re-locking (All loc sizes are welcome).
Online 1-2-1 Classes DIYers Only, (How to re-lock your locs).
1-2-1 Online Consultations Locs Care Support (Hair Loss Prevention Reducing & Reversing).
I am a Small & Medium Size Locs Expert based in London.
12yrs Loose Natural.
18yrs Locked Up.
13yrs Hair Locking Experience.
7yrs 100% Interlocking.
4yrs Sisterlocks.
5yrs #KNOTTEDLOCS Practice.
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Melissa Blake Continues to Create & Teach
KNOTTED LOCS
Re-locking should not hurt.
My Vision for African Hair in Small Size Locs.
Knotted Locs is a hair locking method to keep your Small Size Locs separated for longer. It is not a hairstyle.
Each Knotted Locs head looks different.
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Thank you for expressing an interest in Knotted Locs.
To begin the process of registering your interest in Knotted Locs, please follow the instructions below.
Send a clear video of your locs.
1. State your request.
2. Show how much growth you have with your thumb/finger pressed against your growth. *2/3 months of growth is ideal.*
3. Highlight any hair/locs issues.
I need to understand your Locs texture, density & growth. Please show me the following:
1. Your locs density.
2. It's texture and condition.
3. Your edges, your crown area and the back of your locs.
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Kindest,
Melissa Blake
CREATOR /Independent Loctician /Teacher
Sole Practitioner Training DIYers Only.
Reasons why I am teaching Knotted Locs. The scalp trauma has become exhausting. Thinning and white follicle heads have become the norm..It's time for accountability, self-empowerment & our right to choose how we want to live with our Small Size Locs. You totally can CHOOSE #KNOTTEDLOCS & Heal
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