To get dreadlocks?

[Spidermama]

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?

Why don't you try having some synthetic dreads braided in first and see how you like them ? Last 12 weeks or so, and don't damage your hair - my friend has hers done by Tender Tendrils and they look fab

BTW a bloke I once met told me that "locks" on a white person are called "goldilocks". Apparently

Can't wait to see your profile pic queenofFE.

Thanks Crazy. I can well imagine the stereotyping. I reckon I'm long in the tooth enough to let it wash over me.
I was surprised when she said she does it without wax. I think my hair will need wax as it's fine and floaty.

I'm at my mum's in deepest Dorset at the moment. Just told DH of my plans and he sounded a bit grumpy (which is rich coming from a beardy, long-haired, pirate belt wearing man. It could be more about the cost of the hairdo than the do itself (I have neither time nor willing friends to do it so must cough up.)

I'm freelance and have no office to go to and no dress requirements when I work. There's nothing to stop me but slight dread (as it were) of playground sniggering.

LOL @ thesecondcoming - I am 28 and have had them pretty much since I was 17, so hardly a midlife crisis

My boys all have dreads (they are mixed race)

I have had real ones and extensions. My hair is too thin really and they broke off on one side so I was lopsided .

I lurrrrved the extensions. I has bum length white/blonde/pink and fluro ones.

Too expensive to have done regular though. I miss them but cannot justify the money.

OH (who is black) wouldnt dream of having dreads. Causes too much grief and his late mum wouldnt approve

really beautiful qofe

Right have got a picture up but its about 18 months years old - the best one of my hair that doesn't have my face in

They are maybe 6 inches longer now.

Wow QofFE they look gorgeous!!! Are they all your own?

How much work is involved in weaving them in as the hair grows? I have yet to see someone with straight hair coming out of the roots and dreads on the end. Is this down to diligence?

I love your rainbow arm warming thing too btw.

Or is it a jumper?

I still can't work out who you were unless scary and beginging with T.

Che yikes! They dropped off?

This is a whole new fear.

All mine though in that pic there are some hippy bits of wool in there too.

I pay them attention maybe once a fortnight and weave in any loose bits - I use a bodkin and a tiny bit of beeswax. IME, the roots dread up ok but the ends don't dread as well, but maybe thats just my hair. Its quite thick and curly anyway and I quite like the curls on the ends.

One of my friends has a really good way of rubbing the roots to keep them tight - she does mine whenever I see her, but its impossible to explain. I'll see if I can find a video online.

I wash them once a week - any more and they get too fluffy and soft, any less and I smell like a wet dog if I go in the rain

These are my second lot btw - I had the first lot cut off/brushed out right after having DD for some unknown mad hormonal reason. Regretted it almost instantly and started them when she was 2 ish, so this lot are 4 years old now.

Your hair must grow very quickly QofFE.

QofFE do you get the judgemet of which Crazylizzy speaks?

Do you do the fortnightly bodkinning yourself or does someone do it for you? It must be hard to see well enough I would have thought?

QofFE wow!!!!they look lovely!

spider-go for it,if thats what you want to do-do it!

i love dreads on the right person but they wouldnt suit me at all!

It does grow fast but it seems to have a short life cycle if that makes sense. I think its meant to be 7 years isn't it? But mine's more like 3/4. So when I had hair, it never got very long.

Now its dreaded it actually gets past my shoulders. Just had the tape measure to it and 22 inches is the longest one I can find now.

I bodkin the stray bits I can reach/see myself, and my friend comes over to drink wine do the rest. She does the rolling too (I can do it but get a sore arm!), plus dp also has dreads so sometimes he will have a go for me. Kind of like monkey grooming/bonding

I probably do get The Judgement but I'm so used to it after over 10 years that it kinda bypasses me.

I did once get a chugger tell me in tones of outrage "but you've got dreadlocks - you must like animals" after I walked past him. Oh and I heard a woman in the library tell her daughter that DD and I 'probably live in one of them travel vans'

Go for it. I had synthetic dreads (i changed my mind too much to commit to proper ones) but loved them. Would love them again actually!
DO IT!

on cool, trendy young boys, yes

on women of a certain age, no

I want dreads, have wanted them for years but cba to grow my hair for them!

not a good look on a white dude. Maybe one of these would satisfy the longing

QoFE your picture makes me want dreads NOW! I have thought about it for ages, but am scared of having to cut my hair short when I am finished with them. Shall look into synthetic dreads I think.

Pix you can have human hair added to give them length. Woven in. Coloured the same.

I'm off to google to see if there really is such a thing as fairly traded human hair. I think I'd feel a bit weird with someone else's hair in mine, but it wouldn't half help!!

I love braids, though I never had them done. Though I read [URL='www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-491103/Eight-year-olds-horror-tight-holiday-braids-hai r-fall-out.html']this awful story[/URL] and for that reason I won't ever be getting them done.