All About Hair & Locs

Hair & Locs 101

This is a course to help you on your loc learning journey. Knowing the fundamentals of hair & locs & the different locking techniques, will help you start, manage & repair locs with ease. Please note, our hair & locs are like fingerprints so what works for one might not work for another.

This course is based on the health of the hair & locs & not the fashion of hair & locs.

Our goal is to Inspire those without locs to come on the team. Assist those with locs in maintaining them in a natural and healthy way, heal locs that have been damaged & need repair and teach those who want to learn how to start, maintain & repair locs in a natural & healthy way.

In this course you will learn:

• *What hair is

• *How it grows

• *The basic types

• *The basic textures

• *The anatomy

• *The porosity of the hair

• *What locs are

• *Some history about locs

• *The three stages of the locking process

• *Why locs swell

• *The difference between a loctician & a loc stylist

• *How to maintain locs without gel, wax or heat

• *Three things to consider before styling locs

• *One basic protective style that works well with any length, texture & size of locs

This course will give you a skill set that can help you earn a sustainable income or just maintain your family's locs in a natural & healthy way.

This course will give you a fundamental understanding of the locking process to assist you in starting, maintaining & repairing locs without gel, wax or heat.