Thinking about chopping off my locs and just staying natural, cutting my loc length in half or starting over fresh because nothing has kept lint from building up.
Its been almost six years since i started my locs and i've been so proud of my them but some time early 2025 i started to notice some lint in the ends and that led me to diving into all my locs checking and the bottom half has a lot of lint with in the shaft and I was devastated, but i was told it was salvageable I just had to be more vigilant.
But at the time I already I used a lint roller daily, picked any lint on the outer shell, I wash every 1.5 - 2 weeks. used only no build up products (but I feel like even those can leave a bit) I've tried the detox (but i know that's more for gunk than lint), satin bonnet and pillow cover, try to keep my hair up when wearing certain clothing materials and its still so much lint in there. I'm going to try dying it but knowing its there and some is embedded just makes me worried about my locs integrity and potential breakage.
I mean i know there is no way to 100% keep lint out of locs I just thought I was doing a better job.
these are the things i'm considering.
Chopping it off and just sticking with my 4c coils
cutting off the bottom half (top half isn't bad)
cutting them off, wash them/detox/etc to see how they fair and re-installing if viable.
Starting completely fresh
Starting fresh, but adding some hair because I'm not a fan of the really short phase. I was really self conscious about it.
Thoughts?