8 Ways To Wear Goddess Locs To Your Next Music Festival
Faux locs are the unsung hero of protective hairstyles. Typically it takes months to loc hair and years until the locs reach shoulder length. But with a few hours and packs of Marley hair, you can get the same effect. And like many other protective styles, you won't have to worry about styling for a month — at least.
One of our favorite takes on faux locs is the "goddess" style, which was created by Dr. Kari Williams. Williams previously told Refinery29 that goddess locs use various types of human hair to create a lightweight, lived-in finish. And in particular, it's the wavy ends that distinguish goddess locs from the classic faux-loc look. Your stylist can also integrate loose, wavy hair throughout your locs using the waterfall method, which requires pulling pieces of wavy hair out of each loc as you go. This results in sporadic curls throughout your entire head.
Before you go on vacation or hit up the grounds at Coachella, we rounded up some of our favorite takes on goddess locs to inspire your spring protective style.
When you're torn between box braids and passion twists, go for goddess locs instead. They style is a happy medium.
A few loose curls throughout this protective style give the locs extra wow factor.
If you have a backless dress moment that you want to show off, you can toss your goddess locs up into a bun or updo to give your outfit a chance to shine.
Wrap your locs with metallic cord and accessories to add some bling to your style before hitting up a music festival.
You can wrap your locs into double buns when you don't want to keep your hair out of your face and the focus on your eyes.
What we love most about these wavy locs is that they stay fresh a lot longer than other protective styles, so you can stretch them out for weeks before needing a touch-up.
You'd never be able to tell that these goddess locs were done using the crochet method, which saves hours since you don't have to wrap the hair from root to tip.
If you're not here for lots of length, you can ask your (faux) loctician to style your goddess locs in a shoulder-grazing bob.
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