next month will be a year!

that is all! Can't believe it! WOW!!!

-August was crazy busy for me and so is September!
-Will post pics and updates next month in celebration of reaching a year with locs!

Hope you all had a fab Summer!

peace,
B

LocJewelry.com winner!!!

So back in July, B of LocRocker sponsored a contest by this great new site/company, LocJewelry.com, for a pretty LocJewel- "Loc Rocker"!!  I knew I had to have it since it was purple, my favorite color and it featured a light green stone, which is like my birthstone - peridot!

(picutre from locrocker.com)

I entered and yay!!!!!!!! I won!!! Thanks Dinika!! I just got my LocJewel yesterday and put it in my hair:

So cute!

July - 9 months!!

Super crazy! I am telling you time is FLYING by me! It is August and I'm starting my 10th month of locs! *yay*

Pictures (taken from my HTC Evo) from my 9th month and some things that are happening with my hair!!!

- My hair continues to get stiffer and needs LESS maintenance! (this is awesome because it's the summer and I go swimming, the beach, workout, wash my hair often so yeah, no latching! I did a quick retwist at the end of the  month)
- 95% of my ends are sealed!
- I can get my hair in a pony tail! a tiny one, but I can tell my hair is definitely growing!
- For clarifying I am using baking soda, acv and I read about using vodka (O_O) in the shampoo so I've got to try that too!
- I've noticed that with the heat my hair is feeling a bit dry lately so I wet it often through out the day
- I tried out a couple of styles that I found on blogs and you tubes (I will update when I download my other pics at home)
- um pretty much just loving my hair! and looking forward to what 10 months will bring!

That's it for now! Ciao and thanks for reading!!!

DC Carnival

My friends and I participated in the DC Carnival again and it was a BLAST, as per usual! Hot as hell, but OH SO MUCH FUN!!! We played mas with the indulgence band again and were covered in paint and glitter by the end of the day, SUPER FUN!!!

This year I decided to do some fun make up and PRAYED that it would last all day through the water, mud, paint, glitter and sweat! This is the look I liked, so I tried it out a couple days before Carnival:

Here is my version:

Not too bad, aye? lol! Well anyways, the test would be the actual day we jump down the road! Here are my pics from Carnival! In our kit we got these fun jewels so I incorporated those into my makeup look!

Look! The makeup lasted all day and I only lost a couple of the jewels!

Since it was SO sunny and SO hot, by the end of the day, my locs had gotten a few shades lighter ha! I love it though.

OH! and check out this man's GORGEOUS head of locs! OMG iDie! So luscious!!

8 months

Hola! So June marked my 8th month locking! *wooooo hooooo* I definitely saw some changes as far as my ends sealing up and my hair becoming harder and stiffer.  I mainly wore my hair straight, no twisting the roots or latching, just letting my hair be.  I rinse my hair daily and wash it 2-3x a week. Keep it moisturized with my rose water  & glycerin spritz and that's about it! Keeping it simple and letting my hair grow and do what it wants!

Below are just some pics of me and my hair!

7 Month Hair updates!!

B-a-n-a-n-a-s!!!! Wow! 7 months already! *big grin* Fabulous! Can't belive it..at.all! I have been slack this month with posting, but here are my 7 month hair updates! **Click the pics to view larger**

Look how my hair is filling in! Lovely! And those locs in the back are moving along quite nicely! :-)

This is how I have been wearing my hair all month.  I love wearing my hair curly! it's so cute and playful! Plus, it's a good style to wear in between re twists to keep the new growth semi-tamed lol! I appreciate my new growth though! It adds fullness and thickness to my fab head of hair!

Up next is my hair before and after twisting, LOL!  The pictures speak for themselves! I had a good inch or more of new growth in the front that I re twisted.  The back I leave alone, because the new growth locs up on its own.  I don't know what I'm going to do with my hair since the pool is opening and I want to go swimming more! I don't want to be re twisting my hair everyday - which I NEVER would anyways - but at the same time I don't want to interlock the new growth either, because I don't want thinned out locs! I will figure it out, but headbands, clips, bobby pins will be my bestest friends this summer!

As always, thanks for stopping by!

Ciao,

*B*

I want to dye my hair! (7 months!!!)

But I can't! So...I use Sun In instead!! I haven't had my hair this dark in a LONG time! I am used to dying my hair at least three times a year, blonde, and red. Well, I just couldn't take it anymore, LOL! so at the beginning of this month, on one of the hottest weekends here in DC, I laid out with my baby oil on - hey, I like to tan, and sprayed in some Sun In! Below are the pictures to show you how Sun In has lightened my hair so far this month. Enjoy! **Click on picture to make larger**