FAQs

Dreads, or locs, are versatile, and semi-permanent.  You can trim and redefine your locs with the seasons of your life.  One may desire to color, cut and style according to occasions and the length of your hair.  To insider knowledge, one can comb out locs that are under 3 years old.  With a good comb, and patience, your hair will survive anything and it’s possible.  Alternatively, just as you went natural, you can cut the locs completely, resize them, or even restart—beginning a new crop of dreads. 

 “I have been natural for a year now and I love my afro but now it is rather large.  Remaining professional is rather hard with such a pronounced hair style.  What should I do?!! ” 

Many admire the looks that you can create with locks and the low maintenance that come with the style, but they fear the commitment.  You should lock your hair when your maintenance schedule says that you are ready for the change.  Locks take up to 3 months to bud—that’s 2-3 maintenance sessions with your loctician.  If they are skilled, you will have budding locs in 6-8 weeks.  Budding is when you start to feel the first sign of knots and matting.  Your loctician will cultivate the sprouts in the next month and you will be on your way to maturing locs.

Natural hair is integral in American society as it affirms Black culture.   African American hair is big industry and for people to denigrate their texture to pursue a façade of dollhood, only demolishes the sense of identity that we have as an intrinsic ethnicity with and within a diverse cultural make-up.

It is wrong for corporate America to ask you to deny your intrinsic racial identity for the job you qualify to work based on the merits of your education, training, and skill level.  As long as your hair is practical, kemp, and presentable, and you produce the quality of work you are required to achieve, natural hair should not be a problem in any workplace. 

“The Big Cut” is that first step in a transformation in the way you see yourself.  Once you look in the mirror free of all the insecurity and self neglect that conformity requires, you see a beautifully clear, self-defined person.  Be bold enough to wear natural hair; your inner beauty automatically shines through.  There are no thick weave extensions and fluff covering you, but rather your hair becomes a testament to your natural beauty, your self-assured identity, and your comfort in deal with your hair as if it weren’t a burden, but a joy.

For your Big Cut, you should wait until you have an inch or so of new growth, you can transition through styling, choose to barber to an afro or sexy short tapered haircut.  Either style offers freedom and appeal that can be dress appropriately for the workplace, casual, or evening dress.  Short hair is low maintenance all time of the year, and flexible to work your accessories in every season.

The Big Cut is a specialty experience.  More like an induction, once you cut your overprocessed and damage hair, you will feel a sense of freedom from the slavery of chemical processing.  You will be treated to a Wash and Deep Conditioning, your Big Cut, and intensive consultation, and one maintenance product for the road.  I suggest you just commit to the journey.