Starting my dreads

[DXMsucks]

Im going to rub my hair/head in a clockwise motion with some wool. Has anybody ever tried this method befor? Even though my hair is thick and curley my hair just wont lock up on its own through neglect.

[SunshineLovePeace]

all hair (no matter what type) will lock up through neglect if given time. some types of hair just takes longer than others. ya just gotta be patient.

but yeah, g'luck to ya with the locks. post pics when they start formin :D

[DXMsucks]

It been almost 6 months since I stoped conditioning/combin my hair I could still run my fingers thourgh with no knots in sight.

[SunshineLovePeace]

my boyfriend couldnt start seein locks (or noticeable ones at least) well past a year after he stopped combing/conditioning his hair. his goal wasnt really dreadlocks. he just stopped caring and then when locks ended up forming, he became attached to them.

[DXMsucks]

Yeah I decided against the wool thing b/c I read that the dreads come out in so much diffent sizes that it wont look to good. Im just going to stick to neglect.

Whats a good residue free shampoo that I can buy in stores?

[SunshineLovePeace]

my boyfriend uses castile soap (the liquid kind) but im not sure where he gets it from..

[THE GOLDEN STRING]

natural is the way

[SunshineLovePeace]

natural is the wayso very true

[DXMsucks]

Yeah I realized why not take the actuall journey instead of taking the short cut to look "cool".

[Twizz]

Damn, I had long hair (enough to have crazy dreads) and I cut it all off... I totally regret it. Now I have to wait about a year again and I can finally try it again. I think my hair would be perfect for dreads cuz it's really really thick and really knotty and scruffy (at least it was when it was long)

[chillaxintoday]

www.howtodread.com, the chick knows what shes talking about

[Billie]

Ya.
6mths havent touched a comb or brush..
Im getting these awesome dreadies on the sides of meh head but at the back there are only 2.. it has remained unchanged for the past 3 mths..
am i destined to have fat dreads on the sides and my same straight hair at the back (makes a weird as hair do)
Or is there some mirical soap bar that i hevtn discovered?

[napalm_life]

I have the opposite problem, mine are forming on the back but not the sides, i figured this was because I slept on the ones which have become better developed.

[nirmalamaya]

dr bronners.

[rasprophecy]

just dont use wax... wax is for the filthy...

[natural philosophy]

just dont use wax... wax is for the filthy...
wax is for white peoples

[*dave*]

Remember my brother your dreads will be a coventent betwen you and jah, and if your not a rastaman u shouldnt really be trying to grow dreads, no disrespect. :)

[natural philosophy]

^stfu rastas don't have a monopoly on knotted hair. knotted hair was around long before idiots like leonard howell and marcus garvey. dreads can mean whatever you want them to mean. what's the point rasta is dead anyways

[*dave*]

im sorry if i offended u some how :( , but u are mistaken. in Rastafari thats what dreads mean, if u knew this mabye u wouldnt have jumped the gun on me, i didnt mean to be disrespectful, but thats how it is. mabye if u did some research u would ve known

[natural philosophy]

im sorry if i offended u some how :( , but u are mistaken. in Rastafari thats what dreads mean, if u knew this mabye u wouldnt have jumped the gun on me, i didnt mean to be disrespectful, but thats how it is. mabye if u did some research u would ve known
dont tell me about research kid, i've spent the last 3-4 years researching rastafarI extensively. i've had locks many times in the nazerite tradition. if you would have done some research then you would have known that rastas aren't the only ones allowed to have dreads.you didn't offend me, if you want to discuss rasta, we can do that, but lets face it, it was the hindu people that brought 'dreadlocks' to mainstream rastafarIanism in jamaica. they had dreads for religious reasons for thousands of years before that.

[*dave*]

its funny because ur not that older than me and u call me a kid :) relax man u will live longer, i dont want to get in an argument because i notice u do that a lot round here
Peace

[natural philosophy]

i didn't ask for an argument, i asked for a discussion.

oh, and i can buy cigars. that makes me an adult

[*dave*]

i dont think so, saying that ur an adult because u can buy cigars is quite funny, because ur basing yourself around a law. and i wasnt saying u werent an adult, which ur not in my eyes

[natural philosophy]

thanks it was intended humor. im glad you got the joke ;)

[rasprophecy]

i dont think so, saying that ur an adult because u can buy cigars is quite funny, because ur basing yourself around a law. and i wasnt saying u werent an adult, which ur not in my eyesnatural philosophy is alot more intelligent then you think, dave...

But why you callin marcus garvey an idiot for, Lunatic?

[*dave*]

rasprophecy first off u werent in this conversation so be quite. Second off, i said nothing about Marcus Garvey, im a rastaman idiot. By the way Marcus Garvey was a racist. There now i said something about him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[rasprophecy]

rasprophecy first off u werent in this conversation so be quite. Second off, i said nothing about Marcus Garvey, im a rastaman idiot. By the way Marcus Garvey was a racist. There now i said something about him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!White boi, shut the fuck up... I kno i wasnt in the conversation and i dont give a fuck... Marcus Garvey was a racist? lol.. fuckin white boi... that calls himself a "rastaman"... LLLLLOOOOOOLLLLLLLL!!!!!! @ ignorance...

Anyway... back to the topic @ hand...

Lunatic... wussup cuzz... what exactly do you mean Marcus Garvey was an idiot?

[*dave*]

are u on crank, ur all over the place. u make ur self look stupid because u no nothing about me. im 1/2 black 1/2 cuban so u really shouldnt jump to conclusions and call me white. by the way your typing it sounds like ur a little pissed of wigger that lives in the suburbs :) , u try to hard. and stop riding naturals dick, i was talking to him not u and it wasnt that heated of a debate that u had to come in with ur 2 sense. i have nothing against natural, hes really smart and he owned my ass in another thread, but u my friend i have a problem with. i know this is a free speech forum but u really need to shut the fuck up. I hope u have the intelligance to read this much u ignorant piece of shit. Peace and love Wigga

[natural philosophy]

marcus garvey was okay. i mean, he did try to do good things for his people. it's just that he tried to sell bonds he didn't own. oops. wassup locc

[*dave*]

by the way to answer Rasprophecy, i didnt say anything about Marcus until he accused me, i dont know why he did. But yes Marcus said that white people were the devil. Now many rastas today reject this, infact there are a lot of white rastas.

[natural philosophy]

dave, garvey didn't publicly criticize the white race. garvey was a separationalist pan africanist, who hated mixing races together. look up w.e.b. dubois and garvey's comments towards dubois' heritage. he was far from any sort of black supremist. he even spoke with members of the KKK to discuss shipping black americans to africa by the boat-load.

[*dave*]

and..........u dont find anything wrong with that

[natural philosophy]

well considering that he was a pan-africanist, then the KKK would have been his biggest ally, wouldn't it?

[natural philosophy]

well considering that that was only one part of his long life. he did a lot for the black american and jamaicans. everybody makes mistakes, i'm sure that what he did he thought was right at the time. i can't defend what he did, but his screw up moments were miniscule next to his accomplishments.

[prettylittlehippy]

BACK TO THE TOPIC. i have had dreads on and off in my life ever since i was 13.. i first got them and did them myself... but i always said to myself that i would never get dreads without knowing the true reason why i had them and why other people had them.

so i began to do alot of research and i talked with MANY people at different places about rastafari and the connections in life in the mind through nature. basically, in my book, having dreads comes down to the fact that you let your hair go NATURALLY (no wax, no combs, no anything), completely natural, and this is your part in saying to YOURSELF (who could possibly be JAH, who knows, it is up to you, and please do not argue because this is an opinion), that natural and simplicity is a way of life that can be discovered through letting yourself go and combining with nature, and as a result of this beauty, you get dread locks :)

peace,
lisa

[tikoo]

i dread for all love , yaya !

we are woven and wildheart

[natural philosophy]

i dread for all love , yaya !

we are woven and wildheart
ya totally mon