Starter foundations
Starter Locs Tutorial
Parting, foundations, moisture, and the practical details behind a considered start.
The Empress Locs guide
Understand your locs
before you decide.
Practical, first-party guidance on starting, maintaining, repairing and extending locs. Use it to prepare and ask better questions; your loctician still confirms what suits you.
Know where guidance ends.
Pain, wounds, bleeding, swelling or a suspected serious reaction cannot be assessed through educational content. Seek appropriate medical support for urgent symptoms and contact the salon separately about an appointment.
Explore by question
Guidance for every chapter.
Choose the subject closest to where you are now. Each answer explains what is known and what still needs a personal review.
Assessment-led corrective care
A photograph can start the conversation. It cannot make the decision.
Major or uncertain thinning, breakage, detached locs and previous repair work should begin with a Corrective Loc Assessment. The condition, roots, number of locs and desired result all help shape the recommendation and quote.
Book the first stepCommon questions
Clear answers, with room for you.
These answers reflect public Empress Locs guidance. Where suitability, preparation or scope can change, the answer keeps that boundary visible.
Need help choosing?See the craft in motion
Continue in the Loc Journal.
Watch selected first-party tutorials and real client journeys, then return to the service catalogue when you are ready.
Retwist
How to Retwist Starter Locs
A practical look at clean partings, root care, palm rolling, and avoiding dry retwisting.
Interlocking
Interlocking Made Easy
How tool choice, direction, thickness, and root movement influence an interlock result.
Your next step
You do not need to guess.
Use the guided finder for a close starting point, or explore the complete service collection at your own pace.