The Locitude Blog!

Hey, Here's my loc journey in pictures. I wasn't proud of my hair in the beginning so there aren't many pictures of my earlier days :(. Thanks to Facebook you can see baby loc photo, I owe two thirds of the pictures to friends and family who tagged me. Permed me about 3 yrs before going natural 1 year and a half before I went natural - Definitely was into weaves at some point. 5months old - The only picture I could find with unformed baby locs. The 6th month mark - I'm 2nd from the right The awkward phase. The 1year mark!!!! Yaaaayi  1 year 2 months -ish - Rocking a hair band. 1year 6 months - ish - That's me on the far right  Somewhere between the 1st and 2nd year - Pinned down on one side. Escaped the awkward phase. 2nd year - I was still slim and sexy and an urbanknit model 2nd year - Passport photograph of Life :) 3rd year - Cousin Ronke and I, rocking the side swoop. 3rd year - Rocking my new growth a...

I guess a Do post naturally follows a Don't post, hence this post. You all know that "too much of anything is bad", so please don't over dose on the "DO" information else it becomes a don't. 1. Do Use Natural products on your hair only. A loc sister once told me, if you can't put it in your mouth, don't put it on your hair. Sounds crazy but I use this as a guide for what I put on my hair. Most of the essential oils I have read /watched video's about are no where to be found in Lagos, so it makes this do a bit difficult to adhere to. You don't have to cut out unnatural product all at once but the more natural you go the better. You can find some of these fantastic natural products in a market or super market here in Nigeria - Ori (Shear butter), Coconut Oil, and Olive oil. I use only shear butter for my twists now, but still use the Jamaican Mango and Lime Shampoo and conditioner which is not 100% natural. Some loc heads d...

In this post I have gathered the worst 7 things I have done to my hair that I will try to never do again. A bit of background, I don't do my loc maintenance myself; never did, always used a salon. The fact is that most Nigerian hairdressers* really don't know a damn thing about locs. I couldn't control a lot of the Don'ts I mention below because I didn't know better. So hope you can take one or two tips away from this. 1. Do NOT use foam* (Mattress block) on your hair. Run from a Hairdresser that uses foam on your hair! I'm serious run very far because the consequences last the life time of your locs. For some weird reason, many hairdressers in Nigeria use a block of foam to aggressively rub your head especially in the early months of locs. The ideas is that it makes your hair loc faster. The truth is it makes your hair break faster. Particles from the foam block fall into your strands, they remain there forever and literally form a road block t...

Hello Everyone, Welcome to the Locitude!  Yeap, it's going to be all about locs with an attitude :). My inspiration for this blog has come from a few loc heads on youtube. I have decided to start with words and pictures, maybe I'll graduate to video eventually. My locs are now 4 years 4 months old and I have fallen in love with them all over again, and if you have baby locs trust me "the falling in and out of love" with your hair is the normal process. The aim of this blog is mainly to provide local (Nigerian) content on what has worked best for my hair and what hasn't, as I have noticed that most of the content online is from loc heads outside Africa and sometimes the oils and accessories recommended are no where near to be found. My locs at 4years and4 months. I will try as much as possible to go back into the past to give tips for those just trying to start out their locs and will share styling technics I have learnt so far. I am hoping thi...