The Dreadlock Blog

In August of 2020 me and Alin from Dollylocks hosted a Loc / dreadlock class for locticians that want to become master locticians.

Follow along with the preparing of the class in this video:

We begin the day with going through loctician business things, what you need to think of to run your loctician business smothly. 

The different loctician shares different storys from their lifes of working as a loctician.

We had people from all over Usa to join us in this workshop.

Alin showing some of her technique of maintaining dreadlocks.

Knowing how to maintain dreadlocks for your clients is important and you need to know how to fix some problems that might show up for you.

Now the locticians will get to work.

We are talking about different problems that might appear and how you need to be holding your body to be able to work without getting issues in the future.

Ann-Marie talking about posture of your body and hand holding, what happens to the different parts of...

Lizz and Kerin from Lizz Kidder studio https://lizkidderstudio.com/ in Massachusetts decided to come and see me and do a one day VIP training to work more on their dreadlock techniqe and be more afficiant in their work.

 We are hanging out in the back yard and working on their dreadlock techniqe, I give them tips on how to work in a better way without having pain and without overworking the dreadlocks.

Follow along the full day in this video.

Our model for the day is one of the Seienstyle affiliates Veronica from Diosa dreadlocks situated in California and she does travel alot in her buss doing dreadlocks while traveling. https://instagram.com/diosadreads

The dreadlock creation process ins in the making.

We are doing dreadlocks with extensions for Veronica.

Follow along Liz and Kerin on their jounrney to come and work with me.

Liz, Veronica, Ann-Marie and Kerin

The finished product Veronica finaly have dreadlocks again another dreadlock...

Do you want to learn how to make dreadlocks? Find out more about the courses that I offer here: https://www.seienstyle.com/Seienstyle-dreadlock-courses

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Do you want to learn how to make dreadlocks? Find out more about the courses that I offer here: https://www.seienstyle.com/Seienstyle-dreadlock-courses

Do you want to learn how to make dreadlocks? Find out more about the courses that I offer here: https://www.seienstyle.com/Seienstyle-dreadlock-courses

Zarah practicing some of the Seienstyle techniqe of doing dreadlocks before her first hairmodel arrives.

Zarah taking before pictures of our hairmodel that came to get dreadlocks with extensions of human hair.

Here is her hair before her dreadlocks started to be created.

The first dreadlocks are being created.

Alot of concentration is going on.

And some laughter! 

Zarah is enjoying her creation of dreadlocks with extensions

Taking different photos from different angles is very important so that you can share the work that you have done! 

Here you see our creation of dreadlocks with extensions

Me and Zarah together! 

Do you want o learn how we make dreadlocks with extensions join one of our courses find out more here: https://www.seienstyle.com/Seienstyle-dreadlock-courses

I get asked this question all the time Ann-Marie how can I become a loctician? It looks so cool what it is that you do and I would like to do that kind of work aswell!

By just watching a few videos on YouTube, you will definitely not be able to call yourself a loctician.

This might trigger you when I say that?

Let me explain my view on what it takes to become a loctician.

For the past 20 years I have made dreadlocks and maintained dreadlocks for people from all over the world, from the very beginning back in 1996 when I started to figure out myself on how to make dreadlocks and I am 100% honest that my own very first attempts on doing dreadlocks was not a beautiful sight…

The very best decision I did was to find a mentor and become trained by someone that had the experience that I wanted, so in 2000 I went to London and got trained by Sonia Petersen the founder of Hairpolice.

This opened me to a whole new world, it didn’t need to be that hard to make...