dreads

Good thing you don't have to get a hair folicle test, haha.

 

it's different for everybody depending on hair texture. for my hair texture, i'd say anywhwere from 9 months to a year or so to get them started and then a few more months for tightly formed mature locks.

Thinkin' about groing my goatee out and dreading it haha, but I probably won't. Beardlocks are the shit.

Oh, and noice dreads soaringeagle. Dude I'd love to chill with you and play some drums

 

This is one of my roommates dreads right after she finished them. She did the comb back and twist/rub method I guess. She's in the process of taking them out now and cutting most of her hair off because she says it's a lot of work taking care of them. Plus this picture made me smile!



*You know we live in a sketchy neighborhood when we got the louisville slugger by the front door!

 

What texture hair do you have? I was sleeping in bed with a friend the other day and I was messing around with his hair when he wouldn't wake up, and I swear, if he didn't stop me he could have had a nice set of dreadies right then. lol

 

See sig.

 

Dreads aren't supposed to be a lot of work...if they are...then you just have them for fashion reasons...
The only thing that is a pain is washing them...I have to set aside almost a whole afternoon to do it. Not kidding.

 

nothin wrong with that. we all have our own fassion.

 

Dreads are a lifestyle...not just a fad...

 

wow....... just wow...

 

You don't believe me?

Go check out the Knotty Know How forum and see if they don't agree with me.

 

yea, i agree with dancerannie. Dreads definately are a lifestyle. Look at how people treat you differently, how you view yourself... what jobs are available (lol), and especially how you have to clear your schedule to wash your hair if it's really long or heavy...among many other things.

In the wintertime, I barely washed my dreads (once every other week or so) just because I couldn't go outside and let them dry good in the sun. It's definately a lifestyle... I have to yell fiya at a dread on the street. I'll smoke em' out just because they have dreads. I guess it's hard to explain though... unless you've had dreads before.

forwardadventure: My hair is thick but fine and wavy. It knots up easy when it's long and the wind is blowing, not enough to dread up right now though, I think I'm going to dread up when my hair's about to my shoulders.

and no, dreads aren't supposed to be a lot of work. The most work I put into them after the initial backcombing was washing and tamming em up.

 

to you, not to everybody. there are no rules for dreads! if someone wants dreads for fashion, who cares?

dreads happen!...

its just hair! if your dreads are a lifestyle or are spiritual, great! if someone elses dreads are for happiness or fashion, great!

 

Well, I guess I see dreads as something more than that. I've never understood fashion or fads...I mean, it's no different than people who have to shop at Abercrombie and Fitch and wear ONLY A and F clothing...Seems so silly to me. I've never understood it.

 

you have a point, wonka, but i don't think she was trying to be a dread elitist or anything. haha, i hate those guys


Yea it's different for everybody (spiritual dreads, fashion dreads, etc.) but almost everybody with dreads will go through the same experiences. Some people will treat you like you're going to be a thief, or they will draw extra or unwanted attention. Random people will scowl at you and say shit to you just because you have dreads. There's kind of a unity between dreads, at least in my experience. All of this kind of creates a culture among dreads.


Dreads sort of become a lifestyle change, whether intended or not. In my own opinion and experience, that is.

 

my 1st dreads were yea just never saw em & wanmted to try em (early 80's) so were fashion they were bsrely 8 inches long when i cut em but wetre already a lifestuyle
2nd set, lifestyle & lifelong
they affect u
ya may thionk your just doin a fassion thing but you'll be in for a surprse in a few years when u realize just how much rthey effect your life & lifestyle

 

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