Why I cut my locks

I started them with the vision of them being natural and pure, but that was just an image I had in my brain of folks with locks. Mine were Backcombed, though I never stooped as low as to goop em up with that dread wax, ughh, I still saw them as a forced look, as if I had fallen victim to some way hip fashion hahaha. and well as soon as I began seeing it this way, well snip snip!

yyup, may go at it again but only 100% natural/authentic

 

I don't understand the association with a certain way of life and dreadlocks that people have.

If I cut my dreadlocks, it'd be because I don't want them anymore, not because society was bringing me down or because they made me fall victim to fashion or any of that.

 

If you're happy waiting a long time for neglect dreads (if you like that look) then go for it. I don't think it's necessary to bring backcombing down with you though. Dreads are dreads!

 

Ya I backcombed, and as much as I can appreciate how beautiful neglect dreads are I still think backcombing is part of a natural process. You can't get instant-locks by backcombing. They still have to knot up over time, a long time. Look at my dreads haha, my hair is short. And my hair type is really silky and straight/wavy. I can see where you're coming from, but you didn't have to chop off your dreads. Like you said, it's not like you gooped them up with wax. You just took a comb and brushed in the opposite direction.....and animals groom themselves. That's natural. Monkeys groom themselves!..You just had a comb to your advantage.

I don't know that's like saying.. "I really really like this one band.. but as soon as it became mainstream I hated it because everyone liked it".. You can't appreciate the fact it's a good thing. Good things catch on. But only the people who stay true to themselves, and don't give a shit about that sort of thing stick with the things they love. AND I KNOW. because I made the mistake of brushing my dreads out. Man did I ever learn from it.

I hope you didn't fall victim to the pressure on the forums to have neglect dreads- cause that's just as bad.

If not! then I wish you luck with your future dreads. And hopefully you don't pull a britney spears again.

 

Negelect dreads ar going to end up as monodread unless you tame them anyway, in which case your going to shepard them towards some aesthetic you like, may as well have just backcombed.

 

sorry to hear. Maybe it wasn't the right time to get them, but you can always grow them back when you're rady

 

punk rocks not dead it just sucks.,

 

Thats BS! Backcombing is not natural in anyway whatsoever.

 

That's how I see it.:bobby:

Having locks is the opposite of backcombing. One takes patience, the other is about impatience. And yes, if you work some places or do some things, your life may be incompatable with locks, but then trying to look like you have them with combs and hooks and things is VERY fake, vein, and kind of sad.

My unwelcome $0.2

 

Yes, beckcombing does take time. and if you compare backcombs and ripped neglect locks, at the several year mark, they look just the same. So the only reason that you would have backcombed is to look more like you have locks faster, since after the same amount of time you will have the same, and maybe LESS progress.

 

You realise that you're contradicting your first point. If it looks the same in the end it can't "look more like you have locks faster".So then why develop a superiority complex because of the method you chose. Backcombing is alot more natural in comparison to coating it down with wax. This whole "neglect method is better then backcombing" is really pathetic.
That is your opinion, you don't see me saying that backcombing is better! I appreciate all different methods. People will do what they do. Some methods are better for some people. Stop being so judgemental.
How I choose to dread my hair is none of your buisness. And i'll do it however I like to.

Enough already. My hair is crazy, it's all over the place. Wild, some parts knotty other parts not at all. NO INSTANT DREADS. It is natural. Because the wind, my walk abouts etc. knot up my hair.

 

The backcombing part isn't. But the part where my hair knots up from my rolling around in bed. And the wind/etc Is. And that happens with backcombed hair too!!

If everyone was the same we'd have a motherfucking problem.
Peace

 

It's your opinion that backcombing is better than coating your hair with wax. It's also a fact that backcombing is better than coating your hair with wax. You see where I'm going here?

If opinions don't reflect reality, they are failed opinions. And yes, it's my opinion that you picked what looked like a faster route to something desirable, when the route comes with less satisfaction, less vanity-rape(something you seriously need, still), In most cases slightly poorer physical results(only slightly, of course they can still be impressive), and ironically slower mature results.

wooooah, the checkboxes by the "post icons" below my post where just all simultaniously moving up and down in my peripheral vision... and I have taken no psychedelics in circa two weeks.... I's finally lost it! :willy_nilly:

 

So how does your head feel after you cut?

I'd imagine I would feel so strange for a few days. You should definitely try to learn headspins.

 

"something you seriously need still" like you know me. ASSumption. Because I backcombed my hair. I don't care if people use wax. It's their choice. I'm certainly not going to tell them they're vain and they're dreadlocks will have poorer physical results just because I chose a different method, unlike you.

 

Best of luck Mindtraveling. You'll get there.

This is exactly the point. Backcombing is 'not natural' in my book for two reasons:

First is the mindset, when you backcomb you get dreads. You go from having un-knotted hair to knotted in what amounts to 'an instant'. On the opposing side is the process of growing locks. Having the proper life situation and frame of mind to allow your hair to do what it does. The majority of people looking at you don't have a clue what's going on until things are already well on their way. Sure you get to watch things change and mature after backcombing, but you are really just skipping the best part... where your hair develops a strength and unity and power that is separate from your own.

Second, is the use of the comb. Creating and using tools is how man has destroyed the natural order of things. There is not a damn thing natural about a comb.

Twist and Rip started locks are way more natural, although they still display signs of the same impatient, 'getting dreads' mindset. In the end I don't actually give a damn what people do in there life, but I will respond to the nonsense they choose to post in this forum.

 

My hair does not look like dreadlocks. It has knotted up, yes, a bit. People still look at me like they have no idea what the hell is going on. There is a sense of losing vanity when you walking around campus with crazy cat lady hair and not giving a fuck when people give you the

I allow my hair to do what it does. I barely do a damn thing to it. And your whole neglect method isn't completly neglect otherwise it would be one giant matt of hair. It's not as if you never maintain it.

Creating and using tools isn't how man destroyed the natural order of things. Humans were made to be intelligent capable beings who use tools to their advantage. It is assholes who push their ideals and judge other people for their choices that ruin the natural order of things.

My hair still has to develop a sense of strength and unity on it's own. Not all the backcombing took. So some of the dreads will be neglect because my hair is shorter in the back then on the top and the sides.

In the end, it is my hair. They will be at some point (not instantly) my dreads. I admit, having my hair slowly knot up on it's own without my help at all would be a great accomplishment. And I recognize the patience that is put into neglect hair. So I will give you that. They do result in beautiful dreads. But so do backcombed dreads (in my opinion) and that is the method I chose.

And i'm glad I did.


Because i'm not pretencious.

 

lolthread.

not even going to waste my time



but to the OP, it feels good to be able to touch your scalp again, doesn't it?

 

Once again, then only choice you are being judged on is your word choice... ya :mickey:

 

There are alot of people in the dreadlocks forum who have backcombed.
And their dreads are beautiful.