Rihanna Explains Her Locs Hairstyle Choice In Oceans 8

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#8220;She wasn’t just going to be some American girl in this movie.”
Her hairstylist gave us the inside scoop.
Filming With Locs

As we filmed, we had to thin the locs out. People that grow locs have been with them, and have time during the growth process to strengthen their core and whatnot. When you just throw 12 years of locs on somebody overnight, it feels like you have a fucking Toyota on your head.

We used tons of Shea butter and black seed oil to keep her hair strong. Those are our go-to's: olive oil, lotion, anything to keep the hair moisturized. For her edges, I used a lot of black seed oil. I'll mix that with a little bit of gel or pomade and then smooth them up also letting them kind of curl up when they wanted to, just to create that realness.

After the hair is braided, I like to soften it up by soaking it in apple cider vinegar, hot water, and then drying it so it can have a little bit of movement to it. And then we wrap the braids. You can also braid the hair with yarn and then wrap it with the Afro hair, which makes it less heavy. We tried that towards the end, because it was just easier for her to be on set all day, robbing the Met and whatnot.
Rih's Loc Love

[Rihanna] channeled her inner Lauryn Hill and those other dreadlocked girls from back in that day who kind of just did their thing. You know she's from Barbados — she knows what to do with dreadlocks. It probably was the easiest style she's ever had, since she got to be free and cool and see herself differently. She's a huge pop star, and then we kind of stripped her down and gave her locs that we didn't make super, super pretty. She made them glamorous when she wanted, and then super casual when she wanted. I thought it was cool to see her locs own the night whenever she went out. You will be seeing her with locs again, for sure. I don't know when, but it will happen.