flat locks! Oh no! Stay tuned. Hey guys welcome back to my channel. It's your girl Essence of Shay. Let's get started! Let's go. I got a question and it was a dope question because I noticed I had these when I was starting my lock journey. So let me just shed some light on you. The question was, Shay, I am three months into my lock journey and I've noticed, hold on, and I've noticed that I've seen some flat locks. If you don't know what flat locks look like, here's a picture right here. I don't know where I'm going to put it but it should be right here on the screen. And don't get discouraged, don't get worried. Don't try to pull your locks out. This is a natural thing that happens especially when you start your locks. Why does this happen? Because your locks are literally, literally just forming. So they're still kind of soft. They're in the baby stages. So imagine when you flatten your like a baby, when you go to sleep, when the baby goes to sleep, they always go to sleep on the back of their head. So you notice all the rest of their hair, their head has hair, but that particular spot is bald. This is because they keep laying on that back, the back of their heads. And this is the same thing, but in a different way, when you have baby locks, you keep laying down whatever position you lay down left, right back, forth, back, back, forth, then forth. It's Friday and I'm ready to sing. Kick up my girls and head to their bodies. Tonight, oh, it's all right. Back to what I was saying. So if you go to sleep, whatever direction you go to sleep in and you lay on that those locks, because they are still baby-ish, they will flatten. The key is to every time, not every time you get back up to twist it, but every time you do your retwist, you just make sure that you form your locks properly as to how you want it to be. If you're free forming and you're not twisting your hair like normal, then your hair probably will stay flat. But if you're not free forming, when is that time to do your maintenance? Just shape your locks, simple as that. Another thing that can happen, this is later in the stages, is when your hair is wet. We have a tendency of going to sleep with locks and not completely drying our hair, which then we go to sleep with our locks wet. And when your hair is wet, it is subsypses. It is susceptible to forming different shapes easier. Not only will it cause mold and mildew, but this also will cause your locks to flatten. What also can happen too is you, if you started to get like, can I find one? Started to get like double headed dragons, meaning like locks that you're combining. Maybe I could show you. Up. Like this lock for instance. This is a double headed dragon. There's like a split in the middle. Get your mind out of the gutter. It's split in the middle, but with that, it's also forming a little flat because of just how I formed them together. I don't remember how I did it, but if it's not formed together properly, it can come out in a flat shape. I'm fine with it. It's in the back. I'm not too worried about it, but if you're stressing about why your locks are flat, these are reasons as to why. I hope this video helped you guys so much. Don't forget to like. Let's get this to 50 likes. If you haven't already, I don't know what you waiting for. Click that subscribe button. Share my video. Let's get this family big. Okay. See you guys next time. See you later, Tagelilies. Tudos!