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Can you be Christian and Muslim? Very random, but I will find a way to relate it to hair 
I grew up Episcopal. I did not get very involved in my church because I felt like an outsider. While it is an all Black church, it is very conservative with a lot of elite Black folk. While this is a great thing, my perception was I couldn’t be apart of all the exclusive groups because I was not rich enough. In college I grew very close to a Baptist Bell that converted into Islam. She taught me so much about religion and life. Reading the Qur’an and learning about Islam, I understood why many people convert to Islam. What disappointed me is at the age of 22, she postponed her dreams, dropped out of college, got married and had kids. She had big goals that I think she put aside for reasons I cannot understand.
Any way, Rev. Ann Holmes Redding caught my eye. This loced queen is an Episcopal priest of 20-years. The confusing part is that she puts on a Hijab headscarf, prays five times a day and worships one God Allah. She states that Jesus helped her find Allah.
I meet Ms. Shawnta on Twitter. (The internet is a beautiful thing.) Her story enforces the fact that there are no rules in how you should go natural, or limitations to any style, even locs. Shawnta can be described as a queen foraging her path in life, student sometimes… work all the time, internet junkie, a writer, a mother, a book-a-holic, a shop-a-holic, an artist, and loving life! She has been on all sides of natural rockin the ‘fro, locs, taking them out, wearing twist outs or even a flat ironed wrap. Wow! You may visit her youtube channel or blog, Peace, Love and Namaste.
Writing Addict has a great blog On the Road to Queendom that I enjoy reading! One of the many things that make it special is her focus on locs!! She too concentrates on the positive, everyone should embrace their natural beauty to be a queen!! We appreciate you sharing your story!!
~Lady Kinnks
My mother was not thrilled when I decided to go natural. Why don’t you just press your hair, she would suggest. The funny thing is that two of my brothers have locs. I would always go and watch the Little Mermaid in my brother’s room over and over until I feel asleep. He would take a loc and tickle me in my ear to wake me up.
In the early 90s my older brother had his locs on the top of his head. The sides were shaved. Now, locs for many have transformed to almost a metro sexual style. Don’t tell him I said that!!
Locs, in my opinion have “levels”. When deciding to loc, it’s super important to plan ahead to achieve the desired look. Please note that one level is not better than the other, just different styles!Read More
On December 30, 2004 I began the process of locing my hair. Before that day I had been considering the drastic change from head full of perm to a head full of locs.
Growing up I was always told by my grandmother that “your hair is your beauty” and for her that meant long straight permed hair down your back. Growing up my home was filled with women and each one of them in my opinion was addicted to the perm. Since the age of six, every six weeks or so my mother and I would make the hour long trip to New York from Connecticut to visit what was known to us as the queen of hair dressers. I can remember watching as she would mix this white cream and then apply it to my mother’s hair and an hour later she would walk out with nice straight bouncing hair and a huge smile on her face. I remember wanting the same feeling and wanting that lovely bounce. I thought that was the only way your hair should look. I begged and begged my mother at the age of ten to perm my hair, eventually she gave in and I was introduced to the world of not only bouncing straight hair but a burning scalp to go with it. So from the age of ten to the age of nineteen I was what I now know as addicted to the feeling and look of what the perm did to me and my self image.Read More
