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Apr 29, 2010

Cy Clothing!


 Our very own Loc'd Beauty of the Week alumni Hazel "China" Ward is seen here modeling CY clothing! Get it Chyna. Not only do we love the clothes but we adore her luscious free formed locs!


I'm loving this t-shirt its too cute!



 Check out the rest of the Rasta inspired roots clothing here!

CY Clothing describes their product as such:

CY is translated into “see why” as in see why we have let go of yesterday in order to embrace today. It is an analogy of learning from experience in order to shape the future.

It is the partners of CY Clothing Inc. who are enbarking on a new journey, in a new greener direction, with the creation of the 'CY Clothing Line'. CY is for all people of all nations, with natural Bamboo and Hemp fabrics, printed with green friendly inks and dyes. CY will feature exclusive hand drawn designs as they embark on a fashion evolution geared towards uniting all people as one, while supporting the global conscious evolution towards healthier lifestyles.

As music and fashion walk hand in hand with personal style and self expression, CY is inspired by the faces, races, shapes and sizes of all humanity. We are all interconnected and CY is expressing that realization of truth threw fashionable creations. Out of many nations, comes one people who stand united in change and acceptance. It is from the darkness that CY evolves into the light of the world inviting all to enjoy their self expression with true art on healthy non soul blocking fabrics.
Stay Blessed & Happy Locin

Apr 28, 2010

Black Don't Crack!



I have been back on my fitness game, which means going to the gym at least 3x's a week more if I can squeeze it in. Still nothing prepared me for the video I ran across at Worldstar Hip Hop. I will let you watch it for yourself, and leave me a comment. Better yet, tell me again why you can't get fit?

Here is more info on Mrs. Ernestine found from Black Fitness Blog written by Ericka Blount Danois.
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On this rainy day, only the resolute are in Energy Fitness Center on Liberty Road in Randallstown , getting in their evening workout.



In the corner of the gym, Ernestine Shepherd is quietly training a petite client, Cynthia Evans, who weighs 110 pounds and is 4 foot 11 inches tall. They are working on their rear delts, lifting 5-pound weights and stretching their arms into a ‘T’ before they move on to the 30-poundweights.

It would all seem pretty dreary — the rain, the routine of weightlifting — if it weren’t for the fact that Shepherd, at age 71, is so dazzling to watch. Wearing red sweat pants, a red-and-white sports bra and a baseball cap that reads, ‘Determined, dedicated, disciplined to be fit,’ she is a unique figure in the world of fitness.

Shepherd’s attitude lends credence to the adage ‘age ain’t nothing but a number.’ Five days a week, she trains women of all ages — three days at Energy gym and two days at her church, Union Memorial United Methodist Church , 2500 Harlem Ave. , where she has a class of 25.



ERNESTINE SHEPHERD
Age: 71

Profession: Certified personal trainer and retired school secretary at City Springs School in South Baltimore.

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Training grub: She drinks 16 ounces of water and eats a light snack that includes a bagel with peanut butter or two hard-boiled eggs before starting her workout.

On the run: SusanG. Komen Breast Cancer, Turkey Trot, Women’s Classic in Baltimore, Resolution Run at Patterson Park, Race for the Kids, the Dreaded Druid Hills at Druid Hill Park, Baltimore Marathon.

Other acclaim: Has appeared in Essence (1991 and 2003); The Baltimore Times (2002); and the book Self Seduction, Ultimate Path to Inner and Outer Beauty (2003); has appeared on The View (2001); in a Carmax commercial (2004); and in the Miss America Senior Pageant (2004). She models for Nova Models in Baltimore.

Status: Married to Collin Shepherd, 77, for 52 years. They have a son and a grandson.

What her husband says: ‘She is a very determined person and she is not only in this for herself, she is interested in helping other people, including myself,’ he says. ‘We exercise at home. She is an inspiration tome; sometimes I get lazy, but she gets on me. I learned you are never too old to exercise.’
‘I usually start off with about 15 minutes of cardio, running in place, then we do floor exercises working on the abs, legs, upper and lower obliques, and then we proceed with the weights,’ she says about her training sessions that last about an hour. Wendy Barry, 38, started training with Shepherd six months ago. After her weight went up to 241 pounds, she started working with a nutritionist and lost 50 pounds.

When she started working with Shepherd, she lost another 20 pounds and traded her size 22 dress for a size 8. Some days she walks 10 miles with Shepherd before she goes to work at the Department of Social Services in Baltimore.

With 10 percent body fat, Shepherd is 5-foot-5 and about 130 pounds of inspiration to her clients, many of whom she includes in her routine of walking or running, which begins at 4 a.m. At Druid Hill Park.

Sharron Woods, 60, and her mother, 85-year-old Eva Miller, attend Shepherd’s Saturday class at the church. Both are former body builders who have successfully competed in weightlifting competitions.

When Miller was 70, at 5 feet 3 inches tall and 150 pounds, she could bench press 175 pounds. So she and her daughter were skeptical when they began Shepherd’s first class and were instructed to run in place.

‘I looked at my mother and said, ‘This is not going to get it; we are used to vigorous exercise,’ ‘ Woods says. ‘Well, then she pulled out some exercises I had never seen. Before we left, I was begging for more.’

Some of the exercises, Woods recalls, included trunk twists while holding a pole– right, and then left, before going down and doing squats still holding the pole.

Still, Woods wasn’t convinced. When Shepherd asked her to run with her in the morning, her first thought was, ‘She’s 70, I can keep up with her.’ ‘That woman was a road runner!’ remembers Woods. ‘I am really energized working out with her.’

Her mother was equally humbled: ‘She didn’t go easy on me because of my age,’ says Miller, who works part time as a teacher’s aide in the Baltimore school system. ‘She works me just like she works everybody else.’

In deed, she even works hard enough that her former trainer, Raymond Day, can’t keep up with her.

Though he runs with her some mornings, he is reluctant to take her up on offers to participate in the marathons she runs in. In addition to her regular workout routine and training others, Shepherd has participated in numerous 5K and 10K races and marathons.

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But Shepherd hasn’t always had a focus on fitness in her life. In fact, in her younger days she was a ‘prissy’ girl, with little athletic interests.

It wasn’t until she turned 56 that she began to exercise with the aid of her sister.

They were both spurred on to join a gym after shopping for bathing suits and not liking what they saw in the mirror.

Day trained them both at a gym on U.S. 40 and remembers that Shepherd was in good shape, but had a lot of body fat and didn’t know how to lift weights. Her sister, a year older, acclimated her body quickly to the routines.

Then one day in 1992, her sister came into the gym complaining of a ringing in her ears. ‘A few days later, she passed away,’ remembers Day. ‘She had a brain aneurysm that burst in her head. They were really close, they did everything together.’ ‘When she died, I said I didn’t want to do anything,’ says Shepherd, a retired Baltimore schools secretary. ‘A friend of mine said, ‘You know your sister wouldn’t want you to do that.’ ‘

Day says that when she decided to come back to the gym, she came back with a new vigor and dedication. Before long, people would compliment her on how she looked. ‘She was the most dedicated person I have ever trained,’ says Day, who worked with her for 15 years.

Nowadays, she works with nutritionist Todd Swinney. She keeps busy by modeling in magazines and commercials and recently participated in the Senior Miss America a pageant in Baltimore .

But mostly she inspires others.

‘She is a people person,’ says Woods. ‘She is constantly asking, ‘How do you feel about this? Are you feeling OK?’ Most people just follow a routine and they don’t pay attention to how you feel. With Ernestine, every day is different.

‘So that means, it not only keeps you thinking, it keeps your body thinking and challenges your body,’ she says. Miller agrees.

‘She is amazing,’ she says. ‘I don’t think I’ll ever look like that, but I am working on it!’

Apr 27, 2010

Tarte Makeup "Lights Camera Lashes" Winner!

Congratulations goes out to GoHard! You are the winner of the Tarte Mascara "Lights Camera Lashes!"

GoHard please email me with your mailing address for this fabulous mascara!



Stay Blessed & Happy Locing!

Apr 23, 2010

Loc'd Beauty of the Week

Sweetness Insyte Empress

This Miami Empress is a clothing designer and the owner of Mystic Creationz.  


She is a crocheting goddess, with the ability to make clothing come alive. Her creations are one of a kind, and I have ordered a piece from her collection. I can't wait to take pics of me in it for all of you.


She is pictured in the red with one of her models in her creations.  I am loving the free form locs on the model!


Go to Mystic Creationz to have a look around and purchase!

Apr 22, 2010

Desperate Diana......Again



Well here we go again, Dateline NBC felt the need to report on the state of the: dateless, desperate, lonely, well-off, bitter, lonely, unattractive, did I say lonely? Black woman (insert heavy ass sigh here). Why is the question, why are we here again? Where are the black women being interviewed who are in happy, successful, functioning marriages? Where are the black men who are proud of their Queen's? Why are we still harping on this madness? Why are we standing by allowing this shit? Where are these freaking statistics coming from? Are they only surveying black women in Atlanta, and San Francisco (come on follow along with me people). I'm just saying, that I'm tired. Tired of these off beat ass statistics and sad faces on the supposed long list above, "black woman."

Ok I'm done venting and I'm a married woman! These statistics are bogus and you know it. I know plenty of black women who are happy and married. No one has ever surveyed any black women out this way that I am aware of.

Oh just for the record you do realize that the description of the supposed "black woman" is sarcasm right? I don't want any hate mail.

Stay Blessed & Happy Locing!

Apr 21, 2010

Introducing Rasta Kitty or Kitty Tosh....



So I had you waiting on my exciting Hello Kitty news right? Well, here is part I....just wanted to share! I LOVE Kitty, she is 35 yrs old, and still kicking it! I wanted a Kitty blinged out cover for my iPhone (yea team iPhone don't send me no hate mail, lol) but I didn't want to usual pink and white. So what better way to rock her than show my Rasta pride, and have her with locs! Whoop whoop! Leave me a comment and let me know what you think!

Oh yea, please name her too..whatever name I choose you might win a lil' sumin sumin! Its either, Rasta Kitty or Kitty Tosh...which one is best?

Stay Blessed & Happy Locing!

Apr 14, 2010

Full Figure Fashion Week

 
I am so excited to announce that our very own Loc'd Beauty of the Week, Arekah "Da Goddess" Dunlap is a contestant of the Full Figured Fashion Week™ 2010! She is competing for the coveted prize of being the Face of Full Figured Fashion Week, to be the Cover Model.  This contest ends on April 29th so go here to cast your vote for Erica Dunlap, she is the same as On the Road to Queendom's Arekah it only takes a minute.

We are so proud of you Arekah and good luck!

Stay Blessed & Happy Locing!

Apr 9, 2010

Tips for Beautiful Skin!



I love BallerAlert.com, they give you some good tips on all sorts of things. The young lady in the above video is Cristal Steverson, she is a model and has flawless skin, not to mention curves. Get her tips on how she maintains flawless skin, and those sexy curves for ions cheaper than any department store product.

Thanks Baller Alert!


Stay Blessed & Happy Locing!

Loc'd Beauty of the Week


Our Loc'd Beauty of the week is the Diva of European Soul Hip Hop and RnB: Misses
 
Misses is a not only a freeformed loc'd beauty but a songwriter, as well as a songstress.  Her album Mastered Eleven is available for download online! 

Visit her band website here.

Oh how I've missed you all! My life has been so busy with the release of my novel in the impending weeks that I have not had the opportunity to do posts the way I  would like. PR/Marketing is a nightmare! Also, Grad school refuses to take a back seat so I am juggling that as well as my family. So as you could imagine I am not really sleeping well, however I sneak in some exercise at least 3x's a week because I know how important it is. Which lead me to this post...do you realize the importance of taking care of your body? Do you understand the severity of self preservation? This should be done by eating well, exercise, and rest. Don't forget your spirit must be nurtured. Although, I am running around like a chicken with its head cut off I do realize I must stop and give thanks to the most high. Its mandatory and not a choice. Without the Most High I would not be able to do any darned thing! So I just wanted to stop in and tell you all how much I miss you, think of you, and love you! Posts will be put up sporadically throughout the weekend! Much love and light. 


Stay Blessed & Happy Locing!

Apr 5, 2010

R&B Singer Chrisette Michelle Takes it All Off!

 The beautiful and sultry singer, Chrisette Michelle is the latest to take it all off; but not in that Erykah Badu, Window Seat way.  More in a natural buzz haircut, but still very drastic (not comparing the two so don't send me no hate mail!). Anywho, the songstress had this to say about her new do:
“I was tired of black sista’s feeling subject to having their hair pressed and straightened, and damaged, with relaxers, and heat. So I wanted to make short and nappy hair fashionable, and let the industry know that there is nothing wrong with the texture that we have been born with. So I plan to grow it out to the big beautiful nappy hair that I have.”
 I don't care what type of hairstyle this chile wears, she is just too beautiful! 

Stay Blessed & Happy Locing!