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Melissa you are absolutely right. The hair that does this often is 4a or 3c hair meaning it has not only a looser curl pattern but often is a bit silkier and has a high pliability (snaps back to a coil very quick and totally) I have this kind of hair. it never can be completery locked and sealed at the ends and some of my locks will not lock. That is just the way it is and will probably always have open and coiled ends. If the hair is unraveling there a few things you want to be very careful about doing: 1. Two strand twist the hair that is loose if you like, and some use lemon juice and water or aloe vera juice and water. These things help to raise the cuticle a bit so the twisted hair sticks better. 2. Be judicious with the use of oils or conditioner. I don't use these unless I have no other options and my hair is dying. I have open ends to my hair and they are very coily and have been from the beginning. The silkier your hair, often the longer it takes to fully mature or lock and it may NEVER lock totally. Be ok with this. Locking is NOT a hairstyle it is a hair state. A consultant can lead the client to locking and create the grid and locking superstrands but she can only marginally influence what you hair will naturally do. Due to my own curl pattern which is looser in the back and coily in the front my sisterlocks are almost 1/3 shrunk and crinkly no matter what and the ends are coily and loose. When I want a neater look I wet my hair then put them on hard rollers. When I want neater ends I twist each end carefully. this only lasts until the next wash. IF your hair's ends are increasing in unraveling (meaning it is going up the superstrand, that is often indicative that the locking was not started with a R4. All locking patterns should start with a Reverse 4 and end with a Reverse 4 to limit unraveling and slippage. If you wish, if your hair is not very long, you can have those with creeping unraveling combed down and relocked IF the locks are still soft and not mature. If the locks are mature , that is another issue. CONTRIBUTORS to unraveling: 1. Looser natural curl pattern and challenged choice made in the actual locking pattern. (I rarely use the 3 pattern on really loose hair because it WILL SLIP) 2. Failure to backcomb or create a beginning knot to rest the rest of the lock on as it progresses 1 and 2 are pretty rare. 3. Excessive use of conditioner or oils, these products create slip, slip SLIDES, sliding hair comes undone. Looser type textures slip more 4. use of heat, heat not only damages but also straightens. As a newbie and for the first 2 years, heat should not be a part of your lock regimen 5. Use of lifting color, again this straightens, straight hair slides. Any combo of the 5 makes the problem worse. if your locks are mature and previously you did not have unraveling issues, you can fine braid the loose part and eventually the shed hair will wind around it and it will lock again. If your locks are not mature and you want a neater look, then twist or even braid if you can the loose hair and ask your consultant to do reverse 4 all the way on your hair and to be vigilant for tension issues because using reverse 4 can create bunching if the tension is not consistent Try to find a consultant and stick with her if she is willing to try to work towards your own vision for your hair. If you switch consultants immediately review her work (don't wait) the main cause of bunching besides improper technique is varied tension, this usually happens when more than one person has worked on the same locks and they have different tensions.

Hello Hello from New York! Love your videos. I've had my locks for almost four years and I can honestly say it is a way of life and not a lifestyle. it is life altering(for the better) decision and I can never see myself going back to twisting, braids, perm, hot-combing(insert here any other torturous things I've done in the pass).Sisterlocks challenges one to accept the beauty of our hair, it gives freedom from commercialization that many of us fell pray to. It must be experienced, when ready

You are a crazy cookie in a nice way lol Love love your hair, you are lucky to have found a solution that works for you :-)