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Original poster

To get dreadlocks?

142 replies

Spidermama · 07/09/2009 20:28

I have ALWAYS wanted dreads. Always.

I am caucasian btw.

Tonight I found myself googling then texting around. I now have an appointment to see someone tomorrow about getting dreads.

OMG!

She does them by weaving and twisting and doesn't use any wax or sticky products.

My hair has always been a bit crap. Now it's greying it's even crapper. I love dreads on other women so figure this is a shot to nothing.

Dare I ask, what do you reckon?

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MrsVik · 07/09/2009 20:29

Woo! Go for it.

CybilLiberty · 07/09/2009 20:29

Oh dear.

But life's for living so if it floats your boat, who cares what we think?

cocolepew · 07/09/2009 20:29

Do you wear tie dye and lots of bangles?

millenniumfalcon · 07/09/2009 20:30

get blue ones, there's a girl i see around town occasionally with big blue ones and they look amazing

LottaRump · 07/09/2009 20:30

YANBU - they are fab.

LaurieFairyCake · 07/09/2009 20:31

only if your name is 'River' or 'Wind'

harleyd · 07/09/2009 20:31

do it

AnyFucker · 07/09/2009 20:32

it sounds very silly, in my humble opinion

unless you are 17

LaurieFairyCake · 07/09/2009 20:33

and you wear dresses made out of wheat

Callisto · 07/09/2009 20:33

I love dreads too - on men and women regardless of age they look fantastic. Go for it and enjoy!

QueenOfFuckingEverything · 07/09/2009 20:34

YANBU

I have dreads - I think we have discussed them before when I was someone else.

They are fab.

Original poster
Spidermama · 07/09/2009 20:35

Wow! Some positive responses. I didn't expect that.

I don't tend to wear tie dye these days Coco. More second had Betsey Johnson and Save the Queen.

The woman says she can weave in human hair so as to give me a bit of extra body. I'm not sure about that. I once read a horrible article about cutting the hair of Russian kids for western women's extensions. However she says hers are fairly traded.

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Original poster
Spidermama · 07/09/2009 20:37

QofFE I wonder who you 'were'. Do you have girls and live nearish to me?

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millenniumfalcon · 07/09/2009 20:37

you can get felted wool ones can you not? i think the blue ones i covet are that type.

lucky1979 · 07/09/2009 20:39

I had dreadlocks when I was 19 (red and orange ones). In retrospect I looked like a mad fraggle, but they were great at the time and incredibly easy to look after.

Sparkletastic · 07/09/2009 20:40

Do they knacker your real hair though so if you get sick of them will your hair have thinned to nowt leaving you with bald spots and a need for a wig?!

crazylizzy · 07/09/2009 20:40

I have deadlocks and I am Caucasian. I love them dearly BUT they are hard work, it will take months, probably years, for your locks to knot up tightly, until then, be prepared for hard work and daily commitment if you want tight nice locks. BTW on a serious note, be prepared to be judged far more than you do now.

Welcome to the natty dread head family!

Sparkletastic · 07/09/2009 20:41

I did have some at uni having said that but not a whole head. They got very itchy but I am a hair-washing fiend. I also hated the pungent smell of hair that wafted from them. I could be a bit OCD about this mind you....

cocolepew · 07/09/2009 20:43

I'm jealous really, I always wanted tem whe I was younger, I wanted to look like Kate Garner

Original poster
Spidermama · 07/09/2009 20:45

Pungent hair smell Sparkle?

Do yours smelly Crazylizzie? Also, do you use wax. My woman reckons she'll do it without any wax but I can't see how they'd hold going from scratch.

Crazylizzie how does that judgement manifest itself? I live in Brighton btw so am in good company, though not it the playground I frequent.

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QueenOfFuckingEverything · 07/09/2009 20:50

Spider I had a name v similar to yours [cryptic]

Will post a picture of me locks on profile now.

victoriascrumptious · 07/09/2009 20:53

Go for it

LovelyTinOfSpam · 07/09/2009 20:54

Oooh what sort are you aiming for? Little thinny ones or big fat ones?

Do you have a link of the sort so that we can peruse?

(I am a medium to fat dread fan BTW - not keen on the little thin ones at all.)

crazylizzy · 07/09/2009 20:54

No mine do not smell (at all) and yes, I do wax mine, every other day. Deadlocks really are hard work if you don't wax them and depending on your hair, may never knot up without wax. Caucasian hair especially needs wax, and it's best (IMO) to integrate the wax as she is dreading up, so the wax is "inside" the dread itself, apposed to being on the outside if you were to wax after getting them done.

Bad judgment sadly comes with dreadlocks, (obviously IMO and that of my very close friends who also have dreads). It was interesting to see life pre-dread and life post-dreads, it was a wide eye opening experience into human stereotyping. I guess it's a personal journey you will possibly encounter yourself, although living in Brighton will help

If you really want them and have always wanted them, you must do it

thesecondcoming · 07/09/2009 20:55

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