Loc Turban - Head Wrap

I love headwraps, they have really come in handy these days as my dreads have become increasingly crawling down my neck. So regal, so beautiful.

I also use them because i believe, our hair holds a lot of energy. Have you ever noticed that when someone touches your hair, it makes you shiver, sometimes in a good way depending on the person doing it :-) !!

On the other hand, being from Europe stereotyping still exist, we still get the odd negative vibe, and when those vibes touch the locks, i feel it takes some of your energy too. So the best thing to do is to wrap it up and protect them from prying hands and eyes.

On a lighter note, I'm sending love to those who compliment them and have true interest in starting locs and look at mine as a n inspiration, i have to remember 4 years ago i was in their curious shoes too.

Wraps are beautiful, with all different styles, lengths, colours, heights and individuality

Head wrap/ Turban How to

The Natural Hair Obsession

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Greetingz Sista and Brothers


the current obsession of natural hair

As mentioned previously, My family and i have being natural from as long as i can remember, if anything i was the rebel who went and relaxed my hair during my late teens, and fearing from my newly straightened hair would be totally chopped off buy my strict parents, and as a teenager in the 90's that would have not been cool (compared to today)

 The bottom line, its is all about hair types and how curly we are trying to get our hair to be with the help of 50,000 different products on the shelf, which are full of chemicals and plastic. We have been obsessed about, finding the right product or gel to make our hair curly so we can abandon the tightly coiled napps some people have been born with, there is no shame in that. I find natural hair in its natural state just as beautiful as a curly big fro, how come the majority do not think so? Why do people believe the looser the coil the more beautiful the fro?

This obsession does not stop with just the afro, i believe it continues on with Locs too. Whoever reads this and is easily offended please click the x button on the top left or right of your screen, if you haven't already! I freeform, because i want my hair to follow its natural pattern, i love my hair and always have, never at all been ridiculed for it, ever felt i was beneath those who had silky straight hair, to me it was all i knew.

However as locs are growing more and more popular, i feel there is also an obsession with high maintenance. I thought locing was about giving your hair a break from all the stresses and strains of vanity. Leaving it to be free. but all people tend to do is concentrate on those few fuzzies at the nape, WHY? enjoy it, let your mane grow!! enjoy seeing them coil around each other and intertwine its natural.

Its the same theory as the relaxing process i think, soon as you see a few fuzzies, we reached for the box of 'lye'..Why?

Anyway i agree totally with Saxygurl8, she put it out there  and i salut her hopefully more and more females will embrace what they already have and not try to change it or enhance it, isn't this the reason for the natural journey in the first place?

Peace and Blessings

Natural Hair Obsession

The most beautiful thing on the planet

Is the natural black woman?z hair

So it was so unfair

To tell u it was unattractive, unprofessional, and uncared

Truth is

We was scared

Because black womenz hair

Representz diversity and strength

Whether u rocking a teeny-weeny afro

Or something shoulder-length

Black women be goddessez

Tressed in coilz and kinkz

And if our African women are going to be treated as queenz

Then we need to recognize that it?z their natural hair

That breedz confidence, pride, and self-esteem

Napptural hair is about more than fashion

It?z about physical and spiritual well-being

Afro puff equalz self-love

And you?d be surprised how a head full a twistz

Can connect u to what your history is

And if we took the time to learn about corn rowz

We wouldn?t call y?all queenz hoez

Because you?re worth so much more than how u look

And yet u still keep holding up the whole community

Despite all the mistreatment you?ve took

So go ahead

Take the plunge

And do the big chop

And let?z raise these shortyz with some Bantu knotz

Because this is the last generation of black women

That are gonna be raised thinking

That what they were born with isn?t beautiful

U are beautiful

U are intimidatingly beautiful

And I?ll give my life fighting anyone who tellz u different

U can search the universe

U will not find anything more diverse

Than the natural black womanz hair

So I wanna spend my life seeing yourz grow

Whether u want to loc it or pick it out in a fly afro

I wanna see it grow

Because every day I see another natural woman

I see the black community growing in strength

I know sometimez u get frustrated

Thinking how long?z it gonna take to get back to this length

Or damn

What would my napz be like if I never relaxed?em to begin

Keep ya head up

Cause that don?t matter

If u a natural black woman

U are royal and respected

Tightly coiled

Highly textured

And as the leaderz of the black community

You?re gonna dictate what this future?z gone be

So never be ashamed of who u are

U represent everything in life that makez me care

U possess the most beautiful thing on the planet

The natural black woman?z hair. . .

Hair style is the final tip-off whether or not a woman really knows herself. ~Hubert de Givenchy,

Hair style is the final tip-off whether or not a woman really knows herself. ~Hubert de Givenchy,

Photo: Nattures Parlour

Lov my locs

I cant stress how much i love my decision to loc. I have a number of conversation with previous loc rockers who have chopped them off due to the avoidence of attachement issues. Man, all i can say is that i am totally attached to them and i cant see myself taking them down anytime soon. Other people i have met who have taken locs down, always tend to start again within a year. its one of those things where you get so used to having locs and used to not having to comb your hair every single day its that total FREEDOM.

The myths and stereo types that people have in europe still exists. Examples such as people with dreads, do not wash their locs and that they smell, people couldnt be so far wrong, right? Us naturals have come so far in finding ways to nourish our roots!! its great and i cant wait for my locs to flourish and continue to grow...

Photos: Lecoil

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