The experience also offered a lesson Victoria Davis hopes other parents of textured-haired children will embrace.

The most common reasons for removing locs are the desire for a new hairstyle or scalp health concerns (like buildup or dermatitis). You can remove locs by cutting them out or combing them out.

Z's recent hair transformation. Jay-Z grew his locs for eight years to help his daughter Blue Ivy embrace her natural hair texture. The rapper decided to comb out his locs in honor of his father for a ...