Welcome & thanks for visiting. With over 10 years of experience, Lockstar is a lifestyle brand with award winning salon services for locks and loose hair, natural & handmade products for your hair & body, lifestyle accessories, & a BLOG. Schedule an appointment or let's consult online. We provide all hair services with a range of starting & maintaining locks, styling, coloring, cutting, repairing, blow outs, & extension services for all textures of hair. If you have hair questions, send us an inquiry below & we will respond promptly. Lockstar only uses the best products on your hair & we retail everything that we use. You can order online or take home our hand selected products from different lines THAT WORK. Lockstar carries the best HANDMADE products that are made by yours truly. #I’m a chemist….…& lastly, get your accessory shopping on. We carry only the coolest, cultured, sophisticated, earthy, & bohemian accessories that we all need in our lives. candles, incense, hats, tees, and finds from all over the globe. We love offering finds that I think you will enjoy. These are a few of the things that encompass Lockstar Lifestyle. We have a lot going on. Visit us in the Camp North End area of Charlotte and take advantage of all that Lockstar has to offer.
Rock Your Locks. Become A Lockstar!
Welcome to LOCKSTAR EDUCATION. We have trained successful stylists for the last 15 years. Our next All About Locks Series starts on 9.19.23. It consists of 6 classes, next is our All About Loose Natural Hair Series, & lastly, our All About Color Series. Sign up for 1, 3, or them all. If you are a stylist seeking new skills or a hobbyist, you have found the best place to learn. Our classes include theory and practical hands-on instruction.
Meet the talented stylists of Lockstar here.
LOCKSTAR ADDRESS: 4906 N Graham Street Charlotte, NC 28269
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4906 N Graham Street
Charlotte, NC 28269
United States
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Please visit us at our new location as of 07/01/2023. We have great retail products & accessories for purchase, innovative hairstyles, & events and classes that you surely will want to attend. Become a LOCKSTAR!
Meet April, creator and owner of Lockstar Lifestyle.
Hello! I wish I could say that my dad is from Jamaica and my mom is Cuban & they met while my moms family was on vacation! I wish I was born in Italy and raised there for most years and then came to the states as a military child living in Colorado, then Cali, and finally on the east coast. But, no, I was born and raised in Charlotte, NC to parents born in North and South Carolina. They still live in the house I was brought home to at birth, and they have the same home phone number! I was raised a Jehovah's Witness, going to service at least 3 times a week with extremely traditional values. My parents are one of the most "square/old school" couples around & bless their hearts, they tried really hard to raise another square. As a child, mom, who was briefly a hairstylist, says that I had strong opinions for my hair such as no more than three ponytails. We shopped a lot, not every Saturday or anything scheduled, but shopping is a part of my life fabric. I tagged along with her to boutiques and resale shops and learned how to recognize quality. I pushed those straight lines of the square OUT and rounded those corners to a smooth circle that let me spin through expressing myself with clothing. I have a few memories of days when I took a chance with clothing choices & I won. They worked, I got good attention. That was fuel for my style development and trusting myself and my eye. I don't have any bad memories of getting my hair combed or brushed with my thick, course, overly curly hair. Mom took me to the salon from time to time & I remember riding home from the salon with the windows down after getting my first relaxer. I enjoyed the wind on my face and going through my hair.
I became a mother at 17, the summer before senior year, so while constructing my life I also had a beautiful new life project - my daughter, Ky, to dress up & raise. She is now 20, a Lockstar, and has developed her own unique life: a Junior in college, she is an Honor's student, a published artist, owner of a clothing line that utilizes her art on clothing, and a flight student that recently took her first solo flight. My first job out of high school was at Wachovia. It was a very impressionable time of life and at that time I read the autobiography of Malcolm X. It changed my life and let me know that I was only making Mr. Wachovia's dream come true. I learned that there, I was replaceable. I began to realize that one goal at a job and in life is to be irreplaceable.
photo: @contemporad
Create some value in yourself so that there are qualities only you have or that you teach others that come from you. I needed to hone in on a skill that I have. Every time I got my hair done, I was never satisfied until I did a,b, & c to it. After, I did those things, I would get a million compliments and set trends. I looked up to my stylist at the time and decided to quit Wachovia and go to cosmetology school. While in school, after a series of events, and reading many books about my history and my culture, I decided to present myself to the world as myself instead of the thing I was with colored contacts, false nails, and a hair weave. I know that when you make that transition, you are spending time with yourself. You're shedding all of the things that society deems acceptable. You are trusting yourself, your brain, & not hiding or changing, or fighting who you are. This was not common in 1998.
