11 month update...OMG

So this is my 11th month..WOW, I know, I know, its already here and next month on this very day I will be unto the ONE YEAR MARK! I can not believe it!!! It's been quite an eventful 11 months full of growth, cuts and a major combine overhaul... But it all been worth it. I literally wouldn't give up even a nano-second. Even the days when my little nubbies at my temples were hardly growing and looking rather ugly AND I though about shaving it off and starting again...even then I still hung in there because I knew my hair would grow and evolve and mature. All of which it has done and is doing and it makes me sooo happy at what I've got. I love love love my hair and can't wait for more years...Thank god for begin a black women, ya digg! NEWHO PICTURES! and check out my youtube channel CHLOE3086










This last one is just funny as hell!!!! lmao!!

So I found this wonderful article from the NY times...

So I just caught a wonderful article even natural lady should read talking about the complexities of being natural. IT was cool to see the opinions and outlooks on so many different sisters! I can't wait to read prof. Banks' book and I hope you all do too!!!
Check it out at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/fashion/27SKIN.html?pagewanted=1
and do the interactive hair link too! its very cool to hear and see other women's opinions about their hair!
That is at:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/08/27/fashion/20090827-hair-interactive.html

And speaking on the subject of hair... I've got slight updates on my own!!! I just finished a retighten a few days ago and boy can I say It was not a moment too soon. I had a bout and inch and a half new growth and it felt like forever to finish... but having brought some locks together doesn't hurt. It defiantly helps the progression of the project. I love my locks and I now this is weird but I literally feel bad for those who don't have locks in their life. I think its the mixture of self-loathing that comes with altering ones hair and the simplicity of my mornings while doing my hair. I just love locks so much I think their beautiful but i guess I'd rather everyone didn't have them cause then they'd become some sort of fad like the Afro. OH NO SHE Didn't...its true it might just... Newho I'm gonna leave y'all with this wonderful vid I made. Mind you I only highlighted a section of my hair after I thought to show my hair stylings. I love my hair and am blessed to have been enlightened eough to make the descon to switch it up!

Hey braidlockers

Can we all get some understanding... what is it: braidlocks, bradelocks or braidlocs....Let the battle begin! It's gonna go to the death...of the other vernacular terms for this hair style. lmao



BTW...its funny to know that when you type in Braidlocks (or whatever) in Google images...A cock-eyed picture of me shows up! lol sad!

Ms. ChloeBee is back!

BTW I just love her..That's all~

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From Kenya to Kansas by Denise Campbell

One Vote By Bisa Butler

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Emma Amos, ZORA’S CHILDREN, 26 x46“, collagraph with etching

Equals,1992

Emma Amos (b. 1938) Sand Tan, ca. 1980

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Hey all!!!

I know I'm checking back in and it's been a long time....So much for my Brunsli move, ay! But I've been dealing with dreaded finals so I have some type of excuse. I'm sitting here while my booski is playing one of those video games...you know, one of those killing types. Its got all the most, savory concepts. Vulgar language, guns and blood spewing at every turn and giant worms. Oh goody... Times like this really make me realize just how much I despise these types of activity's.Why is killing via digital graphics a form of entertainment....But I digress...

How is everyone.

I'm well and my hair...The true reason for the blog, is doing very well. I'm really starting to love my hair. I've got shrinkage, a little bunching, a few awkward sized locks and all but I still can help but love them. I'm definitely OVER due for a re-tightening...But that's another story entirely. Due to all my other obligations I've really neglected a through haircare day! That will be soon trust and believe cause I've got to have about an inch of new growth! Love's it!!! Even though my hair is like honey I shrunk my massive fro'. Lol Conversely, a lot of people have commented on its growth and thickening...Me on the other hand would like to see a combo of both but whatev. They don't know what I've researched it to be and what it was to start....Wooo I still get shocked. I'm definitely all up in my hurre. I can't help it. It's so frickin cute and has little blondish peach fuzz...Which i used to despise; now with my locks its kinda cute! I'm just growing so much. Like nowadays I'm no longer pressed to make sure my hair is styled and some days i look a little "boyish" with my short fuzzy do', but my boyfriend has been supportive. He even told me the other day as we went out that I looked goregous and wearing my straight clean locks was how he like to see me best. Not all the bells and whistles. I think I still need more convincing but hey, I am a DIVA what can I say.

As for my art obsession I got a chance to go to this thing...Only the quintessential Black art community event THE Porter Colloquium! It's an event held by Howard Every year, speaks on the art progressions and challenges, debuts new and old greats of the field and highlights the accomplishments of an artist in the field. This year Ms. Emma Amos (inserted pictures above). Also all you DC residents and people who may visit the Washington DC you gotta check out two cool things! 1. You have got to go to the Scurlock Exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum of American art. 2. You all have go to Quilts of Obama, the Historical Society of Washington, D.C. and the Women of Color Quilters Network have partnered with The Group for Cultural Documentation (TGCD) to present Quilts for Obama: An Exhibit Celebrating the Inauguration of our 44th President, opening Sunday, January 11, 2009, and continuing through January 31, 2009.

There are also so many more things to be looking out for in the art department but I will keep you all posted! Have a good one!