what do you love most about having dreads?

I just love having them so much ^..^ it makes me happy waking up in the morning and seeing them in the mirror to see how they've changed over night I also love that when you see someone on the street who also has dreads and you catch eyes you usually get a lovely knowing smile. I feel like I'm in an exsclusive club or something it's special. Tell me what you love about them...

 

i like all the ignorant people who try to tell me why my dreads arent really dreads.
because they are much more learned on the topic than the i am... apparently.

really i like the low maintenance keeping.
just let them sit on my head and look amazing.
no brushing, less washing, 1 shampoo, u know...
its just less of a hassle.

 

yeah I like not having to do my hair every morning. I also love that I've learnt that everything, when organic is beautiful and perfect even though to society it's flawed

 

I like the freedom of having them, I like correcting the judgemental people, I can't describe it to a person with normal hair! It's the answer, the question, the solution, the problem, it is freedom, it is me.
I have never felt like this before dreads, I feel like me, like I always was supposed to have them, I have expressed my feelings through my hair.

 

I love how my hair really seperates who's cool and who's not....for example, the cool people always smile or talk to me in passing...whereas the snooty people stare in disgust and give me dirty looks. Haha my hair has so much power! I went to a reggae show the other night and for the first time ever, a rasta guy came up to me and my boyfriend and asked to take a pic of us....he called me an Empress. Woohoo! It was the first time at a reggae show anybody had ever acknowledged me! Usually people just flock to my partner cuz his dreads are insane and he just has an amazing aura....they get so caught up in him that they dont even acknowledge me! So....yeah that was a cool experience.

 

I love all the strange looks I get.I love casting off society's expectations and being natural.
I love letting go og fear and just being myself.
I love how the feel, how they look, I love playing with them, and how they are always changing.

 

i love looking like i belong in a homeless shelter or AA meeting

 

I love how they helped me regain my confidence and reminded me to be true to myself and gave me self-respect. I also love how they have enabled me to connect more easily with all sorts of people around me, for some reason people like to come up and talk to me more now. LOL!

 

that sounds familiar! my boyfriend has amazing dreadlocks and an even more amazing charisma..
so yeah, i understand how that musta felt for you! : )

 

I like not having to fix my hair in the morning

 

Headbanging at shows + I think they are sexy as hell, and I think tentacle like hair is just the most bad ass thing you could ever do to your hair.

 

I also love the mystery of them, I have no clue what they are going to look like in a couple of years. They change everyday, it's exciting and so freeing!

 

i love the fact that everyone has already said how i feel. even though im undreaded atm, i know where youre all comin from, especially with the exclusive club thing. i was waiting for a friend before going to see alanis morissette back in june, and a dreaded woman walked past and she gave me a nod n a wink, and then she was at the gig too =D

i honestly believe that people with dreads are better people.. they understand more about the world and stuff. i mean, i was really ignorant of it until i started research about dreads, and having fucked up 2 sets with wax and then finding this forum, im always learning, and i like to use that against narrow-minded people who dont know what theyre talkin about =]

 

just make me so much different and the looks the old italians give me are always funny. and i also like the fact that hair is naturally made to look this way and feel this way between my fingers

 

i like how it looks, looks damn good.
and i love to see people's reactions, haha

 

there are lots of cool things about them...

but man, low maintenance takes the cake.

 

Haha I love it!! Schnap ;D I so agree

I adore my dreads because they sum up who I am, and they also look awesome!!

When I'm having a good dread-day, and I can show them off proudly, I love feeling the envy from people around me when I walk down the street!! Or when I feel the eyes scowl because they don't agree, my dreads, like medusa's snakes just hiss back at them ^^

 

i feel as though i was always meant to have them. they harness so much energy and feel like ropes. i feel as though all the hairs, once stray and wild, are finding their places, just as i am fully embracing what i was born to do. everything is working together.

i love how i am just radiant now, even 2 months in people are drawn to me, always have a smile for me, tell me that they love my hair and that they think i look badass. i am in love with myself, not in a conceited way, but in a way that allows me to let my guard down and give myself fully to those around me. and when i sing for people i am finding it easier and easier to just close my eyes and open my heart.

 

I like how they let me be me.

 

And no more crazy winter static or fly-away hair!