Sunday, December 4, 2011
Sunday, October 16, 2011
What do you think? [...About Our Hair Issues]
I came across this trailer about our hair 'issues' today. The woman at the end of the video finds that hair is not a significant issue in her recent experience. I find that there's quite a divide --- more women with coily, helix hair who are comfortable natural (meaning without 'texturizers'), and many who haven't seen their natural hair in decades, haven't a clue what it's like, and who can't imagine finding out what it's like any time in the near future. I think they had to invent 'lacefronts' for the unfortunate sisters whose hair got burned out by perm, pulled out by micros, and tugged out by glue, leaving nothing left to 'weave' to. "You can do whatever you like", she says, but we don't make choices in a vacuum, and to significant degree, the outer reflects the inner...What do you think?
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Julia Stewart Stackhaus ~ My Sisterlocks Consultant
"I love my sisterlocks consultant," posted Naturally Sophia on her blog back in 2008.
Well, I love MY sisterlocks consultant too!
And Sophia and I happen to have the same consultant - Julia Stewart Stackhaus.
Julia re-tightening Sophia's Hair at the 2009 Natural hair show in Atlanta
Julia has a degree in journalism from Clark-Atlanta University and is a Sisterlocks consultant, mother, business woman, AND a competitive body builder and fitness athlete.
She proudly rocks her sisterlocks at competitions across the country!
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Friday, September 23, 2011
Saturday, August 13, 2011
Happy & Nappy, Kinky & Free ~ A Poem by Ebony Andrea Clark
Happy & Nappy,
Kinky & Free,
I'm proud to be natural and free to be me!
I'm proud to be natural and free to be me!
You can wear other people's hair on your head 365 covering your kinky roots, not bearing to stand the sight of them............Then you see me, a reflection of you, not exactly but our hair is the same, the difference is I"M NOT ASHAMED!
Happy & Nappy,
Kinky & Free
I'm proud to be natural and free to be me!
Friday, July 29, 2011
Just a little competing imagery...'Loc'd Beauties'
...and for additional 'competing' imagery click on the link see my post from spring '08 entitled, "Natural Beauty Queens"...
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Monday, July 4, 2011
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Photos of DocsLocs...It's been a while
How long has it been? This is a 42 month post. I see a post labeled 39 months, but those were yukky iphone photos that were under exposed. (I got a new camera :o)
My routine hasn't changed. I washed 3 days ago with a clarifying shampoo. Hot six oiled my scalp. Used a bit of a 'cholesterol-like' or 'mayonnaise-like' conditioner as a leave in. I rolled my hair in fairly small sections on perm rods (grey and white size). When I ran out of perm rods I used some sponge rollers sans sponges. I sat under a bonnet dryer - the kind you attach to a blow dryer...I'm more careful since I think I burned out 5 locs last fall...a post for another time...
I still hate to wash and do so about every two to three weeks or so. This set should last me a couple of weeks or until I shampoo again.
I know my ends look as if I bleached them. I think it's just their age and perhaps the sun. In fact, I put in a bit of dark brown color - mostly at the roots and perhaps 5 inches out - so the ends weren't covered with color. Been fighting those greys around my hairline, but I mostly rely on the mascara fix as I am particular about maintaining as strong and full a hairline as I can.
Hope all is well with y'all. Love your feedback.
DL
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Who knew they made lacefront wigs for babies?
SandraRose blogs:
"A loyal reader sent me these pics of her precious infant daughter wearing her first lacefront wig. She writes: “It’s never too early for my baby to start looking glamorous like Beyonce!” Awww, she’s a cutie. Normally I would frown on this sort of thing. But I try to keep an open mind and remember that hoodrats raise their children differently and I can’t knock their unconventional child rearing methods just because I don’t understand them. Mom said she had the wig custom made with human hair to match her own lacefront. “I wouldn’t be caught dead without my lacefront and my baby won’t either!”
[smh...]
__________________________
Dear Lord,
I’m saying this prayer to you today,
Please help me get away.
The parents you gave [me] were rejected by you,
I came out the womb with no clue.
You created me grand,
Tiny and precious and not in command.
These pictures will live in infamy,
A pretty baby made to look ugly.
My mommy and daddy are too stupid to know,
That my hair will eventually grow.
Dear Lord, Please help me leave.
My idiot parents gave me a weave.
Composed by Tracy Mendoza
__________________________
(link to full post)
Who knew they made lacefront wigs for babies?
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Tonya's Sister's Natural Hair Color Experiment
I'm FINALLY posting some photos of my friend, Tonya's sister. She shared these with me MONTHS ago, but better late than never.
Really cute coils and curls, don't you think?
Friday, February 4, 2011
3 Years Sisterlocked :o)
39 months sisterlocked!
I've posted a couple of fuzzy cell phone photos below.
Peace.
I've posted a couple of fuzzy cell phone photos below.
Peace.
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