coming up on two months since I started DD's dreads, and they are no longer backcombed hair! wooohooohooo! She has little knots and loops everywhere. There are even three or four locks that actually look and feel like dreads already! There are about that same number that completely un-knotted themselves and are just loose hair again. Some have joined together, and some seem to have split apart into two, so they are no longer all the same diameter. I can't wait to see what happens in another two months. Who would have ever thought that a child with the finest, softest red hair could have dreadlocks this fast? Not I!
her locks actually look worse right now, they are messier with all those loops sticking out everywhere! But I can tell, especially when I washed her hair and put in new beads the other day (I take all the beads out to wash her hair, it gets cleaner that way), that they are more dreadlock-ish than before. Hoping the beads will make those loops lay down a little faster... Gruvenmama inspired me, and I have started making beads now, too! (like I need yet another hobby to clutter up my office LOL)
You mentioned gruvenmama and beads. How do you make them? I have thought of dread adornments, but I haven't ever made beads. Any links? Does itinvolve a kiln? I have no room for a kiln. ps that girl is a cutie
Gruvenmama's dread beads We made some really cool beads out of sculpey, DD and I, that plastic clay you bake in the oven. There are glass beadmaking kits at the Hobby Lobby.... thinking about melting some glass with a blowtorch, sounds like too much fun!
I thought maybe the baking clay is what you'd use. I will have to try that. Oh damn, another trip to Michael's...
