So I have been itching to color my hair with some purple highlights for a min now. I was going to do it with a temporary spray, but then I ran into a post on the sisterlocks fan page (Ms. Bacchus) that suggested using weave. Now I never thought I would be putting weaves on my hair again, but hey, to spice up my locks, I'm willing to do anything that is considered SAFE.

I have not found my purple weave yet, but I did have an old package of honey blond hair left, and I tested the water with that. The result was pretty and can only improve when I do decide to set a time for it. This method of adding highlight to sisterlocks vs. the spray, takes a whole lot longer, but I would imagine this would last a lot longer.

Material Needed
Color Weave or Embroidery Thread
Hair Bands
Scissors
Hair Pin

Step 1 - Pick where you want your highlights to go.


Step 2 - Use your hair band to tie down your locks. Since I have a lot of locks, I found splitting my locks into two section helps keep the stray locks from coming around the section I'm working on.


Step 3 - Pull out a small patch of your color weave/strands (or 1 thread). The amount  of the weave will depend on how thick your individual locks is, especially if you going to do it with with one or more locks. Note: I suggest doing it with at least two locks, which helps with the undoing of them.


Step 4a - You will need to create a magic knot. To do that, you will need to twist one of the strand (tread) over the next one.


Step 4b - Then you going to take one of the strand, and pull it through the hole you just created from the twist on 4a. You can see a live view on how to make the magic knot via curlynugrowth).



Step 5 - You are then going enter your lock into your hoop, and then when you reach the roots, you are going to tighten it.


Step 5 - Using the hair clip, you are then going to hold down the hair at the root. Note: If you don't do this step, the knot will not hold still, making it difficult to do Step 6.


Step 6 - You than going to wrap/twist the weave starting from the root to the end. This is seriously time consuming, and you will need time to do this. I did this quickly to do this post, but I will be taking my time for the result post.  Note: If your locks are longer then your weave, try making your weave strand uneven ( longer at one side) to extend the length.



Step 7 - Go past the length of your lock (not much, since you are not trying to extent it). Then you going to tie the ends in a shoestring knots. I did this quickly, but when I do this again, I will make sure there is no black hair poking out.

This was easy to achieve, but will take a while to do, and that is why I'm going to wait until I find my purple weave in order to do highlights on my locks. Will release a result post soon. Below is me taking the weave out with no issue (Note: it does take a while to undo though).