DIY Faux Goddess Locs — Purposed to Inspire

So, if you know anything about me, you know that I’m constantly on YouTube, trying out different hairstyles.

Hair is my passion! I love all types of hairstyles, and I’m happy to announce that I’ll be doing a lot more hair posts on my blog. Yaaaay!

I decided to try Faux Goddess Locs for the first time. After a long day of dyeing, washing, deep conditioning, blow drying, and sectioning off my natural hair in individual sections, I was STRUGGLING to get the hang of these locs. Ya girl was tired and trippin!

After basically wasting a half a pack of hair that day, I attempted it again the next day. It wasn’t 100% smooth sailing, but I definitely have some info to pass to those who do their own hair, or want to try this style on someone else.

So, let’s get into the details of this style…

Hair Used:

6 Packs each

purchased from My local beauty supply store

advice, tipS & mistakes To avoid:

A mistake I feel I personally made, was using the water wave textured hair. In most of the techniques I watched on YouTube, the Freetress Deep Wave hair was used. For some reason, I wanted to try a different texture…lesson learned.

The water wave hair is a curlier texture, while the deep wave hair, as it’s name implies, is more of a wave. Many of the curlier textured synthetic hair, seems to tangle more easily.

I’ll definitely pass on the water wave texture for this type of style next time.

(Side Note: I may have experienced tangling with the deep wave hair as well, since both are synthetic.)

HOW CAN YOU AVOID TANGLING?

I would suggest finding a different texture of synthetic hair, using human/virgin hair, or possibly not leaving as much of the loose ends out as I did, to help prevent tangles.

DOES THIS STYLE PUT TENSION ON YOUR NATURAL HAIR?

For the first week and a half, this style was EXTREMELY STIFF & HEAVY. (Similar to how box braids feel initially, but way worse!) It felt like I had heavy tree branches all over my head, 🌳🌳🌳 and I was ready to take them out the next day.

I feel like this style does put some tension on your natural hair.

HOW CAN YOU AVOID TENSION?

One way of course, is to not manipulate the twists too much until they loosen up some. Another way to avoid so much tension, is to not wrap the Cuban twist hair so tightly at the root of your scalp. You want it to be secure, but not too tight.

ANY SUGGESTIONS ON WRAPPING THE CUBAN TWIST HAIR?

Yes! Y’all I’ll try not to get too technical with this, but…

If you…

(A.)Have too tight of a grip when wrapping the Cuban twist hair…

Or

(B:) The thickness of the base (the hair that’s being covered) isn’t thick enough…

Your twist may end up curling up, like some of mine did. It may look intentional, but it definitely wasn’t what I was aiming for.

WOuld i try this style again?

Not exactly. Next time, I definitely want to go for a more “softer” Faux Goddess Loc look and feel.

All-in-all though, I like the way this style turned out!

Check out a few ways I styled these…

Look #1:

Look #2

LooK #3

Look #4

Look #5

Look #6

Did you enjoy these looks?
Have you ever tried to DIY this style before?
If you have your own tips, leave them below. Would love to hear from you. 💋 💋💋