Loc Rocker

and this is a journey...so sometimes, probably sev...

2010-07-30T13:37:05.527-04:00

and this is a journey...so sometimes, probably several times we will change our minds. that is a given, fo sho! i know i have, but its a journey, like life is and marriage etc. A journey...

Hey girl i am glad you found your 100% love for yo...

2010-07-30T13:34:19.719-04:00

Hey girl i am glad you found your 100% love for your locks again! Though i have had my locks for only like 5 months, i have learned some things(also thru the holy spirit)!
Lesson 1: Beauty is way more than skin deep, i know it sounds cliche, but for real. I was concerned how i looked 24/7, now i still wanna look good, but i know that i gotta take care whats inside as well as the outside.
Lesson 2: Patience, i wanted my hair to be long now! but with locks i got to wait.. and wait, but it will get there!
Lesson 3: to do me! Even if people prefer that my hair be this way or that. I DONT CARE, CUZ I WANT LOCKS! LOL and in do time, my hair will be longer than theirs. oKAY just joking**
Anyway be blessed Ms. B.***

Same story here, my hair is also a way of telling ...

2010-07-29T12:35:41.164-04:00

Same story here, my hair is also a way of telling society fuck what your perception of presentable is, just because i wear my hair in locs i dont look presentable?.. fuck that!

My story is about the same, lol. Today (because I'...

2010-07-29T11:08:09.065-04:00

My story is about the same, lol. Today (because I'm taking it one day at a time) my locs and I are getting along quite well :-)

my locing process taught me patience, listening to...

2010-07-28T19:33:04.298-04:00

my locing process taught me patience, listening to myself, freedom, expanding my concept of what beauty is, confidance and, and, and....My locs still teach me I'm now venturing into new territory in my life and with my hair (growing it long) and it's teaching me trust, faith and strength. yes locs are deep man

what a gr8 post. i'm so happy 2 hear that u've com...

2010-07-28T14:21:17.380-04:00

what a gr8 post. i'm so happy 2 hear that u've come 2 a place of satisfaction. i can honestly say that i'm super almost there. i looked in the mirror recently & said "wow. i really luv my hair." i would c others w/braidlocs & compare there's to mine, which is a big NO NO! i wanted 2 start from scratch soooo many times because i liked the look of someone else's opposed to mine. but 4 a few bunched ends, that i'm going 2 repair simply becz i'm a perfectionist, obsessive/compulsive, whatever u wanna call it, i would b at 100% satisfaction.

thanks for the post. i never thought about this b4.

My locs have taught me to just do me. In the begi...

2010-07-28T13:37:19.322-04:00

My locs have taught me to just do me. In the beginning, ERRYBODY had something to say. I shouldn't lock my hair....they're too small.....they're too thick....the ends look crazy...they look dry.....they look greasy.....they're too frizzy.....they're too neat....etc. I used to get so caught up with all the "advice" and was doing WAAAY too much. Now, I just make sure I'm confortable with how they look and feel, and I just smile and nod at the critics.

Not sure so much if it has changed my thinking, bu...

2010-07-28T12:02:03.098-04:00

Not sure so much if it has changed my thinking, but I do like how it has taught me to be patient and to gain more control in how I take care of my locs. A part of me wishes that my loctitian could have started off my locks thicker, and that I could have had more control in regards to how I wanted them, but since I've combined and just let my hair freeform, I realized that it doesn't really matter. I'm glad that now I control what is put in my hair and how I take care of it, while also letting my hair do what it do. We all have "funks" throughout the locking journey but overall I really love it and wouldn't really have it any other way.

When I was locking it taught me that some things a...

2010-07-28T12:00:41.251-04:00

When I was locking it taught me that some things are just beyond my control!! I have to let it go and let it happen

yay!!!!! I am uber excited to get my cool new loc ...

2010-07-28T10:38:26.786-04:00

yay!!!!! I am uber excited to get my cool new loc jewel!

Thanks!

Ooh they looks so soft and fluffy...like yarn :-) ...

2010-07-28T04:02:09.748-04:00

Ooh they looks so soft and fluffy...like yarn :-)

Where do you get your hair bracelets from?

OK, the gratuitous slow-mo hair caressing with the...

2010-07-28T04:00:37.123-04:00

OK, the gratuitous slow-mo hair caressing with the background porn music at the end had me crackin' up! lol

Your locs are looking LOVELY!!

2010-07-27T21:15:50.018-04:00

Your locs are looking LOVELY!!

i'm at the infant stage of my locs and I love your...

2010-07-25T20:13:26.667-04:00

i'm at the infant stage of my locs and I love your hair. I love your blog. I am impatient about so many things but my locs is helping me with in the patient department. You are truly a blessing B. Keep the blog rolling. You are my loc-shero!

L.Rucker

i have never combined, but that's because i have t...

2010-07-24T17:03:16.394-04:00

i have never combined, but that's because i have thicker locs than most newbies (I have 66 of them). my first set of locs were fairly thin, and due to the maintenance involved with having so many, i undid them, and vowed to never have thin locs again. it never occurred to me at the time to combine!

This is completely off topic B, but check out this...

2010-07-24T01:12:06.002-04:00

This is completely off topic B, but check out this clip of the woman with the longest dreads washing her hair: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzYaFhZD5s0&feature=player_embedded#!

I love this pic of you. Hey where did you get your...

2010-07-23T21:14:12.764-04:00

I love this pic of you. Hey where did you get your blog layout from, I really like it.

He's a cutie! My son had alternating ponytails and...

2010-07-23T18:07:17.061-04:00

He's a cutie! My son had alternating ponytails and two strand twists until he was 2yrs old. Then his dad (WHO HAS LOCS!!!) took him to the barbershop and got it all cut off. Needless to say, I was ticked. Right now he's rockin' a way-to-curly, 5" mohawk, with a design in the scalp on one side - he's almost 5 now.

First time commenting, but I dig your site! I've ...

2010-07-23T10:41:28.696-04:00

First time commenting, but I dig your site! I've had my locs for 8 years now and they've started to thin around the edges, so I've been combing the innnanets looking for a solution and found your site. I have about 6-8 double headed dragons througout that I take pride in. They're like the rebels of locs that refuse to do what the other 100+ locs are doing. I love em! Combining allows me to maintain length (my hair is about 3-4 in beyond my brastrap), and anchor thinning hair to a thicker, stronger loc. Also, in the 8 yrs that I've been loc'd, no one has ever noticed a double headed dragon except me, my loctician, and my lil' cousins that insist on playing with hair (after they wash their hands, of course).

Looking good, looking great B! I'm in the middle w...

2010-07-23T09:25:44.182-04:00

Looking good, looking great B! I'm in the middle when it comes to the freshly twisted and non-freshly twisted look too. The only thing I don't really love is the fuzziness of the shaft of the loc. I wish they would just come on and smooth themselves out already, lol. Other than that, I love my 17 month old locs!

By the way, fierce face, go girl!

I'm a follower of LJ on Twitter and FB @Munecalocs...

2010-07-23T01:18:10.979-04:00

I'm a follower of LJ on Twitter and FB @Munecalocs

I love y'all. Like fo real fo real.

2010-07-22T21:46:26.437-04:00

I love y'all. Like fo real fo real.

I have followed and liked LocJewelry.com. @HappyN...

2010-07-22T09:49:04.919-04:00

I have followed and liked LocJewelry.com.

@HappyNowNappy

I can't see the video at work, but I can only imag...

2010-07-22T09:32:12.207-04:00

I can't see the video at work, but I can only imagine what it's showing...but to answer your question about long hair, I think it's taught to us at a young age. I know I can remember my grandmother ALWAYS telling us that our hair was our "crown and glory" (which it is) and that we should NEVER cut it. When I was growing up, of course I wore my hair "natural" (I was a 70s baby), so I had the funky braid designs that my Mama would come up with, the afro-puffs, you name it. But it was something about getting those BEADS on my hair and having that "swing" effect. I can look back now and see how I was unintentionally, mentally brainwashed into believing that if I could "swing" my hair in those braids, I was pretty. My Mama didn't brainwash me, society did. Thankfully though, it's something that we have to recognize and understand before we can overcome it, and thank goodness I did!

They are looking great!! I too have several drago...

2010-07-22T09:20:10.400-04:00

They are looking great!! I too have several dragons around the back area and it was something that I had to do, so I'm cool with it! I'm planning to do some coloring in the next few weeks, I just haven't decided WHAT color to do yet. Thanks for keeping "us" motivated B!!