HAIRSTYLE REVIEW: FAUX YARN LOCS (YARN WHIP)

PICTURES BY @THEMAKOGRAPHY

Hair Style: YARN WHIP/ FAUX LOCS

Attachment type: Baby Wool / Yarn

Colour: Black & Whine

Price: N70 - N100 per piece

Amount Used: 23 pieces

Stylist Charge: N3000

Total Cost: 5500

Duration: relatively 10 - 12hrs (1 & half days)

you know what they say about beauty being pain? well this hair is the exact translation of that statement. 

It took me so much of emotional stabilization to finally decide to write a review.

Overall:

Like I mentioned earlier in my  yarn twist review, I fell in love with the yarn movement sometime last year and even before I had the twist I wanted to try the whip but my hairdressers in Lagos don’t know how to make it so I settled for the yarn twist instead.

So when we went home to Badagry for the weekend to visit my cousin who had just put to bed late February, I decided to visit my braid hairdresser , she is the same woman who does all my braids because she is actually quite good and Badagry is known for its skillfulness at making braids so i like to kill two birds with one stone every time i visit the family.

Anyways I went to her shop with the mind of making the yarn whip like they made the local rubber whip (Kiko) the type that a lot of people had in primary school.

On getting there, i decided on the lenght and colour and all the other things i listed in the previous yarn review and proceeded to making this hair.

I made it in two days because I didn't have the power to continue with it on the first day and it was running too late.

PROS:

• i would say the length and colours of this hair gave a beautiful effect
• everyone wanted a piece of me and my hair
• its super beautiful
• It gives a nice locs effect.
• kept my hair safe and aided its growth
• weighs lighter than normal synthetic weave attachments but I had 23 pieces of yarn on my head so that wasn't necessarily light.

CONS:

• ITS SUPER PAINFUL…this hair hurts
• i never had good enough sleep all through the time i had this hair on.
• the sleeplessness led to emotional stress and fatigue.
• i had neck, shoulder and back sprains
• it was difficult to style and pack the first 3 weeks because it was super stiff and extremely painful.
• this hair is extremely painful!
• this hair style causes extreme pain!!
• it is imperative and important that you understand that this hair causes quite a lot of pain.
• except you don't feel pain, which i thought i didn't.
• you will feel like loosening this hair mid way through making it.
• only the grace of GOD helped me through the pain of this hair.
• you can't use the shower because no shower cap can cover this hair.
• no night cap or scarf can keep this hair in till morning.
• you are prone to headaches.

  NOTE:

I had this hairstyle for about six weeks and it could have stayed longer.

no one wanted me to take it out.

It was extremely neat till the end with really firm roots.

As usual everyone thought I was mixed race.

THIS HAIR IS EXTREMELY PAINFUL!!! 

i will advice you stick to the alternative yarn style check here

would i do it again? maybe with a bucket of Ice by my side but definitely not this year, I have had enough pain to keep me human this year.