Natural Heads at Blogalicious

I love that I keep my beauty and hair blog separate. They're like siblings. Clumps of Mascara is the older and wiser sister and Loc Rocker is the budding younger sister who doesn't fight for the spotlight but has her own and unique style.

Can't believe I just humanized my blogs like that but um, yeah...lol, we digress. Aside from the Blogalicious Conference being the hot spot for women of color in social media, entrepreneurial ventures and blogging, it was also Natural Hair City.Twas a beautiful thang. I managed to snap shots of a few of them.


That's Akilah from Execumama.com. She's one of my favorite people in the entire world. And that was before I met her in person. I absolutely LOVE her locs.

Lauren from Lola Gets Life is such a sweetheart. She 2-stand twisted her hair and curled them. Later in the conference, she ended up untwisting her hair and had gorgeous curly hair.

Takeyah from Core Connection Lifestyle was my official conference roomie. Her locs gave me life.

That's Latoicha from Luxe Tips. I've been calling her Auntie Luxe for over a year now. Yes, she's natural. Proof of that would be her fleeing from an outside party because of a good 7 raindrops. HA!!

The ladies behind LA's Beauty Beat and Afrobella. They've got such stunning curly heads.

Luvvie from Awesomely Luvvie rocks her almost year old locs. Sessy pic of the Luv, uh?

Adria Richards is now my Go to Geek. She's so brilliant that it hurts. Love her curls!

My best friend Sam and her Sisterlocks. They are growing so thick and luscious!

Celebrity make-up artist Tia Dantzler (did a post about her on Clumps here) and her beautiful curls. I love this shot of her and Takeyah.

Natural Head Spotlight: Liane's Summer Spritz

I know there loose some natural heads who read Loc Rocker so I'm going to do a better job at posting content that can inspire and help them out too. Liane is  fabulous reader who emailed me some time ago about how she can keep her afro nice and conditioned on her trip to Jamaica. She told me that she would be doing quite a bit of swimming in salt water and chlorine.

I suggested a daily spritz of glycerin, water and essential oils.

Here's what she said:

The glycerin/water/mint/rosemary mix was fantastic. I preconditioned my hair before every swim with some free sample cream of nature jojoba moisture conditioner (I don't use the stuff normally but it's a whole bottle of free sampler). Then I did a co-wash with the trader joe's conditioner and then a spray of the glycerin/water leave in and rub down with olive/coconut oil. My hair and scalp sing your praises. Thank you so much for your suggestions.


My fro LOVED that little mixture. Remember to use a liberal amount of glycerin as too much of that stuff will make your hair a sticky mess.

Rock on my afro sportin' sisters!