Questioning Knotted Locs With Melissa Blake
- Melissa Blake
- Sep 30, 2023
- 6 min read
Updated: Feb 6
Q. What are Melissa Blake's reasons for creating
Knotted Locs?
A. As a Super Fan of Locs and our curly hair and what it gifts us, I am passionate about African Hair & attitudes towards evolutionary
actions & behaviours when it comes to information & action for and towards our hair.
Q.When would you interlock
Knotted Locs?
A. When there isn't enough room
to knot and leave space to
avoid tightness.
Q. I have extensions at the end of
my microlocs. Can I still have
Knotted Locs?
A. Yes. Knotted Locs is Created
for extensions to not be a
problem during your
retightening sessions or for
me your relock sessions.
Q. Is Knotted Locs Hard?
A. KNot for me.
Q. What inspired Knotted Locs?
A. Working with #CassiesLocks
larger size locs, I wanted
Smaller Size Locs to have the
same locs care choices.
Q. What is Knotted Locs?
A. ↘️⤵️↙️
Q. Do I need established
Sisterlocks to learn
Knotted Locs?
A. Yes! You need established /
mature Sisterlocks or
microlocs, small
size locs to LEARN
Knotted Locs.
Both online and face to face clients, saw baldness in their horizon through their growing micro bald patches and thinning crown areas. #MemesLocs below had significantly regressed hairline. So they transitioned to Melissa Blake's Knotted Locs personalised practice. Now their Sisterlocks THRIVES!
Q. Should I Have Knotted Locs?
Calm Down & Continue
A. Researching.
Q. Do you Teach HOW TO START
KNOTTED LOCS?
Q. How do you deliver Teaching
KNOTTED LOCS?
+44 7494 036 113
100% of my clients have scalp zero scalp issues.
Q. Do you teach how to start
Knotted Locs?
A. No I Do Not Teach Starting
Knotted Locs.
Q. Do You ATTACH LOCS?
A. No I Don't.
Q. Would Knotted Locs suit my
Locs and hair type? What do
you do to the locs?
A. You Decide. #iKnotLocks
Please Watch This Video ⬇️
Q. How often do you oil your
locks?
A. Daily.
What does Knotted Locs look like on other Learners?
DreaC is a Knotted Locs Learner Taught Online early 2024.Please Subscribe to her channel for updates
Q. Do You Do SISTERLOCKS
RETIGHTS?
A. Tight retights. Instead I RE-LOCK with KNOTS for Scalp Healing. Follicles 1st ALWAYS
Q. What's the difference between
Sisterlocks and Knotted Locs?
A. Sisterlocks is backward
braiding, newly retightened
strands can easily unravel
when wet, water is avoided.
Knotted Locs reduces the risk
of unravelling because strands
are looped & knotted because
I recognise the importance of
water for small size locs to
thrive and remain strong with
maximum elasticity.
Q. What Is The Purpose of
KNOTTED LOCS?
A. More Hydration, Less
Unravelling. Sustainable
Maximum Density.
Q. Can I use conditioner rinse on
my Knotted Locs?
A. Yes conditioner rinse help
keep strands soft, silky &
separated, reducing tangling.
Q. What Is KNOTTED LOCS?
A. FUSION of KNOTS.
Q. I used to have hair loss along
my edges. What do I do with
my newly recovered hairs?
A. Leave them alone. Allow them
to strengthening. Don't lock
them in until they are
extremely long and stronger.
Be cautious.
Q. What Is needed to learn
KNOTTED LOCS?
A. Your own Small Size Locks,
Hands, Water, Oil &
What's App
+44 7494 036 113
Q. What Service Do You Provide
#iConsult Online
Q. What the feedback on Melissa
Blake's 1-2-1 Knotted Locs
Online Classes?
A. Please Google Knotted Locs
and click reviews.
Q. What's reasons do Sisterlocks
wearers give for transitioning
to Knotted Locs?
A. Travel, tightness, over
retightenings, bad scalp
hygiene.
Q.
You might have the strand type that moves extra curly, more rebellious than the average head of small size locs Locs. Therefore settling into being locked can take a long terms and whole though can be closed with excessive effort front & edges can take longer. The problem will tight pulling to close holes is follicle uprooting, leading to thinning and ultimately bald patches.
Closing your holes is detailed meticulous work. As an ex Certified Sisterlocks Consultant the pressure to finish retight sessions quickly means holes are not prioritised. They 100% should be, but it's the nature of Sisterlocks Consultants' work.
A lot more pulling and tugging happens with strands that move to help hold interlocking patterns in place, tightly done. I became uncomfortable with the stress on the hair to achieve Sisterlocks finish. It was not sustainable.
This is why Knotted Locs exists, all holes are closed effectively right at the beginning of knotting.
I even teach you how to cope with future wholes.
Q. What Happens if I make a mistake when learning Knotted Locs?
A. Don't be hard on yourself, ask yourself the right questions about the mistake. What did I do wrong? What should I have done differently? Why did this mistake happen? How would I do it different next time? What should I do now? Calm down. Relax. Your solution will show up at the right time. Remember, mistakes are breakthroughs.
Q. Can you please start my
Knotted Locs with a grid.
A. No. I am unavailable.
Q. Will I be able to learn
Knotted Locs?
A. Yes you can, my teaching
method is very practical.
You simply need to change
your fear based narrative I
your head. Change it to trust
& hope.
Q. Can you convert from Sisterlocks to Knotted Locs & recover from thinning edge and crown filled locs?
A. Yes. She did! That is because she reacted very quickly when she noticed her hair loss.
Q. What Does Knotted Locs look
like on fine, thin & low density
strands?
A. It differs as each African
Textured Hair is different, you
cannot find a replica of your
hair. Here's an example of low
density strands.
Q. What does 2yrs+ Knotted Locs look like?
A. It differs for each head, depends on density, strand type, coil & coil patterns. Here's an example. 👇🏿
Q. What do I need to learn Knotted Locs?
A. Your own Locs, a bowl of WATER with a little OIL, What's App & Your Hands. https://youtube.com/shorts/iwnEQggqHWk?si=6a_NMx-mrpePwg0Q
Q. Do you Teach Knotted Locs to
those who only have
established locs?
A. Yes, I Teach only those with
established locs how to knot
their locs.
Q. Can Men/Males have
Knotted Locs as a
starter locs?
A. Yes. I create & re-lock men's
locs using my Knotted Locs
technique.
Q. Do you work with LARGER
Locks Sizes?
A. Yessss. I do & I love it!
Please keep visiting this space
For more Questions & Answers
Q. What oil do you use on
Knotted Locs?
A. Whichever suits your strand
type you decide. I like to
suggest 1 ingredient, right now
argan oil is being used.
Q. What's involved in a
Knotted Locs Re-lock
Session?
A. Re-Knotting, checking along
each lock & reviewing Locs size
to ensure sustainable, full
health Small Size Locs.
Q. Do you so Men's Locs?
A. Yes Men's Locs are created with my personalised Knotted Locs Technique.
Question For You. When was the last time you did this?
Take 1 pic or 3 & check your crown, edges and back areas.
Even better record a 10 second video. Do this each month.
Q. How would I get information for Melissa Blake's DIYers 1-2-1 Online Knotted Locs Classes?
A. What's App +44 7494 036 113
Pls send a video of your Locs (show edges, crown & back), stating your enquiry.
Q. Is There A Knotted Locs
Podcast?
A. Yes there is!
You can Spotify Knotted Locs.
Q. How Do I Connect With
Knotted Locs?
A. What'sApp Melissa Blake
CREATOR of KNOTTED
LOCS.
How do you feel about your hair in small size locs being Re-locked less often?
My Wish is Less Obsession, More Relaxation, Re-locking our Small Size Locks Less, Allowing The Organic Textured To Come Through.
Showing up as we are meant to, accepting our African Textured Hair regardless of external opinions liking or loathing our Small Size Locs when re-locked less often.
All that matters is how you feel about your African Textured Hair in Small Size Locs.
About
Melissa Blake
I am the Creator of #KnottedLocs
I am a Small & Medium Size Locs Expert based in London.
12yrs Loose Natural.
18yrs Locked Up.
12yrs Hair Locking Experience.
7yrs 100% Interlocking.
4yrs Sisterlocks
5yrs #KNOTTEDLOCS
QUOTE
'Pain during re-tightenings, confirms that your follicles are not coping with how your locks are being re-locked. STOP iT!'
MY
THOUGHTS
About Fixed Partings
&
My Work
I do not like any form of permanent lines because it is unnatural. I do not believe in placing lines permanently along scalp just because you are wearing Locs when you initially had hair growing along those natural lines. Fixed permanent lines is hair loss. Even the one line.
Centre Partings
No permanent parting especially in the middle. This is where hair loss discreetly begins. I've observed how partings gradually widens, exposing more scalp. It's one of the worse practices with Sisterlocks & Microlocs. I refuse to contribute to any form of hair loss in the guise of any fixed parting.
With my practice, it either you commit to the organic nature of how you hair wants to grow or you don't.
Let's Connect Via What's App.
Send me a VIDEO of your Hair / Locs / Regrowth.
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