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Hello Everyone, I'm probably just recovering from the adrenaline of Loc Appreciation Day, Lagos which held yesterday. The rain almost gave me hypertension, my God; for those who are in Lagos if I say it rained lions and elephants out of the sky, I won't be exaggerating. However, enough loc heads and loc lovers were determined ,despite the rain and puddles on Raymond Njoku to make it to LADLagos and to everyone I say a big THANK YOU. Whilst waiting for the official pictures (hopefully they come in tomorrow) I thought it nice to share the "Wetin be Locs Sef?" video by Battabox.com  and the LAD collaboration videos. Wetin Be Locs Sef? - By Battabox LAD Collaboration Video 2014 by Knot Locks LAD Collaboration Video 2014 by LockedLooneyTune LAD Collaboration Video 2014 by Ibyl - Click here . I made it into the LAD collaboration video by LockedLooneyTune. :) To participate in LAD collaboration videos next year like the official Loc Appreciation Day fa

Hello Everyone, I have talked so much about the Lagos Maiden Meetup of Loc (Dada) Appreciation Day that I feel like my friends and family would probably hold an intervention for me on the 28th of June, 2014 to deliver me from Loc Talk. The truth is so much planning has gone into the event and I can't help but pass on some more information on what will happen at Loc Appreciation Day, Lagos 2014. Anchor. I am honoured to announce that the beautiful and soulful Bassey Ikpi, Loc'd sister for 14years, poet, writer and presenter will anchor our activities of the day. Meet Bassey Ikpi in the video below. A very short film - "Wetin be locs sef?" will premiere on L.A.D, brought to us by Battaxbox.com . The video seeks to define locs and also for the first time ever reveals what the average Nigerian thinks about Dada. I have seen the first cut and mehn - my fellow Nigerians, why now? Dada isn't that bad. Panel Discussion To correct the impressio

Hey Beautiful People, I can't help but remain in an up-beat mode. L.A.D. is around the corner, there's still tons to do to make sure everything is intact however the idea of L.A.D makes me so so happy. Ooopss! I'm beginning to go off track. The Updo. I posted the below picture of a gorgeous loc'd sister with a beautiful updo on Locitude Instagram and Facebook pages and got a comment saying "That must have taken forever" and I thought to myself - "challenge accepted!!!" Of course, with the help of Google and my good friend Chescalocs (I've watched too many of her videos, I feel like we are best friends ;p), I came up with the Locitude version. Barrel rolled locs, just before styling. Parted my hair into 8 sections, Barrel rolled and styled taking a cue from Chesca's video embedded below.  My hair is only about half the length of Chesca's and probably a quarter of the length of the first picture so I didn

Hey Everyone, If you haven't heard about Loc Appreciation Day, Lagos, 2014 then click here . There's tons on my mind and I see this week being full of posts, Yaaaayi. Firstly, I'll start with a product review. I noticed having a lot of split ends with my locs of late even though I have been moisturising and sealing my locs every other day. Deep conditioning appears to be the next solution to my dry-strands problem. Unfortunately, the thermal cap I ordered on Amazon  hasn't found it's way from the UK to Nigeria; so I found this "Self Warming Conditioning Cap" at Naija Hair Can Grow Salon Day Out and put it to test. Conditioning agents 1. Shea Butter 2. Avocado Oil 3. Olive Oil I damped my hair with water, took raw shea butter and rubbed between my palms to make it oily/dissolve the white-ish-ness of the butter, parted my hair into sections and gently massaged the butter in from the roots to the tips; repeated the process with coconu

Hey beautiful people, It's a lovely Monday morning after a fulfilling and exciting weekend and I want to quickly share want I got at Naija Hair Can Grow blogiversary (Yes there's such a word) and salon day out yesterday. From Left to Right. 1. Savvy & Chic Satin Sleep Cap - N1000 - Sold by Savvy and Chic Hair/Beauty Hub 2. Evolve conditioning Cap - N1200 - Sold by  Savvy and Chic Hair/Beauty Hub 3. Eldo's hair pins - N250 -Sold by  Kinky Apothecary 4. Maybelline's Colossial Kaja - N1,200. - Sold by My MakeUp N3,500 - Sold by Savvy and Chic. I love, Naija Hair Can Grow Length Check Tees. I wouldn't want to put pressure on my self checking whether or not my locs are growing, but for the love of blogging this is worth checking. (Length check post coming soon.) Launched my Savvy and Chic sleep cap last night :) Got a large sized one, my hair can be all over the place when it's not packed. The cap was comfortable and didn't come com

Hey people, I've been talking about dyeing my hair for the past couple of weeks, so maybe I'll just suck up my anxiety and get it done; not today though but hopefully before my next post. Anyway for now, I'm back with one of my sevens. This seven has been the hardest list I've had to come up with, this insinuates that it may not be a good idea to dye your hair at all, but wait up there are some compelling reasons to do it anyway. 1. Cover up Lint. Yep, before I realised that lint was a problem it already was a big problem for my locs. Lint is the tiny wooly strands of fabric that come off cloth, especially beddings, towels, wool.. e.t.c. If you don't protect your loc strands well enough they'll pick up lint; and when lint gets in it never gets out. It makes your hair seem unkempt and if you attempt picking them out you may weaken and or lose some hair strands. Colouring your locs helps lint blend in ;). You wouldn't need to worry that you have go