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Art Every Day: Easy Yarn Hair Wraps

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I’ve been wanting to dye a few of my locs pink or purple, but in order to do so, I’d have to bleach them. I don’t want to bleach my hair because it’s not the healthiest or the most natural choice. I’d be a hypocrite if I said, “Oh, my hair is natural and unprocessed.”, when clearly it would not be. Well, I already kinda dyed my hair black when I first started my locs because they looked bad (to me) brown. At the same time I feel like I should live my life to the fullest and go for it, but that little voice inside my head keeps nagging me telling me not to go near the darn bleach.

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Since I decided not to dye my hair, I decided to wrap some of my locs with yarn instead. I found a cool turquoise and brown soft boucle yarn on Ebay that I used to wrap two of my locs with. I started by wrapping up each loc, and then down to get any gaps I may have missed. Oh, and of course I tied the yarn around the loc a few times and cut off any excess yarn. Some of my hair shows, but it blends in with both colors well. I’m loving the look. I’m thinking about picking up a few more color varieties, maybe the brown and orange combos for a Fall look.

To my non-loc rockers, you can still do this. Just make a braid and get to wrappin’!

Some Lucky Dog

Thursday 4th of November 2010

Love the way the boucle yarn looks! Great idea wrapping a braid, I'll have to show this to my daughter-in-law!

Dawn

Wednesday 3rd of November 2010

Never thought of wrapping a braid, that would be cool. I love your dreads and the added color pop is awesome! ~Dawn

Lala @ lenzlove

Wednesday 3rd of November 2010

I love it Sheena! The grey {LOL} is just not workin these days. Thanks for the hair tip because I will not be coloring this winter.

Renee Stam

Wednesday 3rd of November 2010

this looks great, good job!

Michelle Pendergrass

Wednesday 3rd of November 2010

Dude--I could wrap a braid?? I want to!!!!! (Glad you're going to try Art Every Day!!!)

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