The Dready Meet & Greet Post!

wow, nice phattys...how long have you had them?

 

hope all is Irie!!! got a few new pics of JAH volunteers

 

I have not been here inna likkle while now - but welcome to the forum!

 

thank yall for the kind welcome i've had my dreads for a little over a year now...1 year & four months since i gave up on brushing my hair dreads are BEAUTIFUL, i need to look at previous posts & check out everyone's lovely locks

 

Wow, that's awesome! You have beautiful locks for only having them that long. I've had mine for one year and five months and yours are much further along than mine.

What method did you use to start your locks?

 

wow courtney, just amazing.

 

hello!!


my child had been asking for dreds for over a year, so here I am... We started backcombing on Christmas, still have some that aren't started yet. Photo in my sig is from a week after we started. Her hair is red, and very straight and fine and keeps slipping out of the dreds, except for the ones in the back that are dreading on their own, all flat and crookedy.



ETA - after looking around a bit more, I feel like the granny intruding! LOL Hope y'all don't mind my being here...

 

Aaaw shes super cute and her dreads are gonna rock. 36 is pretty young to be a granny innit?

 

my friend made this pic look like this.........I thought it was kinda cool therefore I will post it..........

 

I know these posts are a year old, and I know I'm a good ten or 15 years older than the people posting, but I spent some time on Salt Spring Island in...1993? Is Y Camp still there? That was such a wonderful place. I love BC.

 

I've been in the Humboldt/Mendocino County area on and of for 15 years.(Solid this last 5.) I'm leaving soon because there's no work and no affordable housing. The schools are run by retarded rednecks.

Don't think you'll make a living growing ganja, either, because that market is tapped. And even though it's decriminalized for medicinal purposes, it's dangerous. A couple of months ago the brother running a church/medical herb dispensary was robbed and murdered in his home.

And a month ago a guy shot some people who were robbing him of his medicinal herb that he had a card to grow in his house, and now HE'S being charged with murder. They were robbing him at gunpoint in his home and he's being charged. (That was here in Mendocino County, just south of Humboldt.)

I LOVE Humboldt. I love it so much. But just have a good plan because it's sort of hard to get by there.

 

This might be a long story, be warned.

I have had dreads a few times. The first time I had them for about 7 years or so. I started growing them on the road in the early 1990's when I was a teenager. I was really in an information gathering phase (which I always am. I live to learn.) and I was learning a lot about Ras Tafari, the man and the faith.

So, I went to many places and met many people. It would take days to tell you. I loved my dreads. I felt that my dreads were an affirmation of a way that I had decided to look at life, an affirmation of my priorities. A person could look at me and conclude correctly, for example, that people and culture (that was my hope) were more important to me than status and vanity.

I eventually ended up marrying a monster. A wolf in sheep's clothing, so to speak. He was very sweet in the beginning. He really wanted us to have a baby, though, even though I thought he was rushing things. But when a pregnancy test did come back positive 6 months into our relationship, everything changed that very night. He started controlling my every move. He removed the phone. He slept in front of the door. He threatened to kill me and my family if I ever left him. He tried to run me over with the car when I disobeyed him. Jekyl and Hyde.

Eventually I did sneak away with the baby. By this time we had moved far away from my family because he didn't want me to have anyone around who could help me. I snuck away and went home to visit my mom. Before I even got there he called the police and told them that I had kidnapped my daughter, even though I left him a note and a voicemail telling him exactly where I was and that I was coming back. The night before my hearing to get the first of what would be several restraining orders, my mom and her husband told me that if I didn't cut my dreads off they were certain that it would look bad in court and the baby would be given to my ex. They said it would be terribly selfish to kep my dreads and lose my baby. (Ironicly, my mom now has dreads and keeps telling my kids they can have them, too!)

I was terrified of losing my baby. I cut my waist-length dreads that had been with me for so many years. They had been with me as I travelled all over the place, from New York to LA to BC to Austin. It was traumatic.

The next morning at the courthouse the domestic violence advocate that was there to help me get a restraining order said, "Oh no! You didn't have to do that!"

Well, a restraining order, it turns out, isn't really worth much. Out of fear, I ended up going back to LA and my husband. We were 12 tribes members. In the 12 Tribes, dreads are a personal choice, but I missed mine, so when my hair got long enough, I let it dread again. For me it was a sign of my commitment to my faith. It was a sign of the covenant between myself and God. It meant that I had so much faith in God, that I could grow my dreads and not worry about the consequences and put my trust in Jah. It also meant, to me personally, that I was choosing to not take advantage of being white.

One day I was napping with my daughter and I felt a tug on my head. My husband was trying to cut my dreads in my sleep! Asshole. He was afraid that brothers at the 12 Tribes HQ and elsewhere would see my head wrapped, know I had dreads, and find it attractive. (This, children, is why people should be engaged for 10 years!) (Or at least I should.)

So, I took them out again.

Eventually I did really leave that man, more than 5 years ago. I grew my dreads again, but I felt pressured to cut them because I had moved to this hick town and I am the sole provider for my kids. I have always been eccentric, though, and I have come to the conclusion that I could find some 'normal' people and pay them to fix my hair like theirs and dress me like them and teach me some of their catch phrases, and I still wouldn't be fooling anyone. It doesn't work. The no dreads thing doesn't help me fit in. I'm weird. I might as well be weird with dreads.

So, now I'm 32 years old, I'm moving the hell out of this hick town this summer, and I'm letting my hair dread again. I tried to conform and I wasn't fooling anyone. Dreads or not. Conformity is overrated, probably.

I feel like people who dread the natural way really look like their genuine selves. I think dread men are so sexy and manly looking. I think that it looks dignified, holy, sexy, natural, free. I think all that time not spent fussing over hair frees people up to think about other things. I think a willingness to dread shows courage and creativity.

 

Hello. I'm Thea and i've had dreads for about 6 months now
Here's a pic



It's a bit blurred, I'm not that good at taking pictures
I've been on this forum for a while, but I've never introduced. This forum actually helped me a lot with good advice back when I was making my dreads. Thanks for the help, you can see the result above

 

very cool thea, nice locks!

 

Hey my name is Jenn. I just put my dreads in on sunday.

This picture is when they were 1/2 way done. The back of my head wasn't dreaded yet:


The picture in my signature is my entire head dreaded.

 

So, I'm Oily... I started dreading naturally, had like 4 that were reeeally nice but the rest was pretty scary, so mum and I backcomed the rest. Now I'm just letting them do whatever they like, and mostly they're just looking... well, pretty scary still but making a lil bit of progress. Helps that my hair can be crazy curly. My dreads, depending on the weather, the alignment of the planets, the time of the year, and their general mood, can be anywhere between the tips of my shoulder blades and about an inch short of my waist...
You all have a great community here by the way


more photos in my gallery

 

OW DO... jsut thought id say Hi... i recognise a few people from k-locks! so, hello! hope ya'll doin fine! *waves*

 

hi... I got my dreads for about 9 months now. I have had them before, but at the time I didn't have a clue how to maintain them and they got too messy. But here's my new set of dreads:

 

do they hurt to sleep on at first ?

 

If you do them naturally, no.