I attempted locking my hair almost two years ago, i had LONG hair, and let some girl "try" to start them for me because I thought you had to start them on your own....man wish I'da found this site! But they failed misserably I washed them out pretty much immediately. NOW I have short almost shoulder lenght hair. I did Backcombing, found your site, then did tnr in the back, just a few rows....but If I were to just use bs/asv on my hair and let it go....will short layers lock up on their own? i'm finding it hard to continue doing them myself...lol. :D it's kinda going against my entire, "don't try so hard" mentality I kinda have...but yeah. But my daughter is six and she totally wants her hair to dread up....she has one baby in there I put some string around and she ADORES IT....i think this summer i'll help her embark on that journey. au-natural of course. :D ( don't need her hair to have one biggun...i guess i can help it section out a little right?)