Dreadlocks pictures

[Triball]

I finally convinced my parents to let me get dreadlocks. But before I do, I want to play with photoshop for a "preview" of what I could look like. So, I need some nice pictures of dreadlocks. Preferably a bit longer (not too long) and light brown. The picture can be taken from front o side, your choice :D
Everyone who has dreadlocks, get your cameras ready or search google for some, I haven't found anything suitable.
Thank you:)

[agentQ]

Its been 5 years since I cut mine, this is the only pic I can find at the moment. Sorry.

http://photos-331.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-sf2p/v49/243/23/500975331/n500975331_752_5365.jpg

I know I have one from a prom I went to but I dont know what happend to it.

[Triball]

Nice dreadlocks:)
I need something closer, so I can combine it with my face. I could do it with this pic, but I'm not that skilled with PS yet:D
Thanks anyway

Btw, why did you cut them?

[agentQ]

It was just time to cut them. It had been somwhere around 5 or 6 years since they locked up and I was ready sto start a new story. There is a song that has a lyric "every dreadlock must endure the fullness of the earth". Which at the time I had not heard but now as I look back I realize that every set of locks has so much meaning, it not like it just a single hair. You rememer each lock as somehing more than hair, each one holds its own memories, and in a way the fullness of the earth. As your life story unfolds your locks are there captureing each moment and holding them tightly woven to your head.
Cutting your dreads is just one of those things that when its suppose to happen you know it. Its almost as if your getting back a little bit of every moment you lives since they started.
Dreads are very much a living thing, and like all living things they must eventually die.

[Goats_On_Unicycles]

I think... that dreadlocks aren't for white people.
They look cool but for Christ's sake, they were signifigant and dear to the Black Power movement because fros and dreads were like traditional hairstyles of Africa.
Fros and dreads aren't for white people.

You don't wear braids and head-dresses, do you?

[Triball]

That's why I was having second thoughts about this. But now I see a lot (well, not that lot) of people here with dreadlocks and it looks nice too.

[agentQ]

Goats,

Yes I think to many "people" white or not, dread their hair for a fasion statement. Tho for many of us, even white ones, have hair that will naturally dread. Who are we to argue with nature.
Are you saying that beacuse I am not black my dreads didnot have a significant meaning. I think my last post in this thread is enough evidence that my locks ment something special to me, and without them maybe I wouldnt have ended up here and have never of found my passion for unicycling. I think most people that dread or allow their hair to dread do it for reasons that cant explain and is very much a spiritual right of passage.

By your standards americans should either grease there hair and come it or waer some silly white wigs..... wtf.

The only people that ever had problems with my dreads were silly white americans that didnt understand them. The ones with dreads wether they were African, Jamaican, Indian, or any other race were happy to come up and say hello, and complement my dreads. They see your commitment to your hair and know there is a connection that they share with you. You dont have to be a certin race to be have that.

If you knew about dreads you would likly know that Dreadies(people of any color or race with locks) come together just as many singe hairs do to form a head full of tighly woven locks.

[Triball]

Specially in these times when white people can rap:D

[Brian O.]

I think... that dreadlocks aren't for white people.
They look cool but for Christ's sake, they were signifigant and dear to the Black Power movement because fros and dreads were like traditional hairstyles of Africa.


You don't wear braids and head-dresses, do you?
Way to be open minded. You have your own little agenda about sexuality, why are you hating on a group of people just because of their hair style?

"Fros and dreads aren't for white people." Switch some words around and we get: "Gay sex just isn't for people." That means something hurtful to you doesn't it? Mind you, I'm a huge advocate for gay rights but if you want other people to be open minded and accepting you should be as well.

I apologize, I didn't mean take this thread off topic I just felt I needed to point out Goat's hypocrisy.

[Goats_On_Unicycles]

Way to be open minded, dick. You have your own little agenda about sexuality, why are you hating on a group of people just because of their hair style?
I have to leave right now so I'll write a longer explanation later.
but, 1) I'm not hating.
2) you effing didn't read my post.

[Brian O.]

I have to leave right now so I'll write a longer explanation later.
but, 1) I'm not hating.
2) you effing didn't read my post.
I did read your post and I didn't at all agree with it.

I do however apologize for calling you a dick, it was uncalled for hence why I edited it out of the original post.

[john_childs]

One aspect that you might want to consider is that dreads aren't helmet friendly. If you bicycle and unicycle with a helmet I don't think dreads are going to be convenient.

It has striked me as oddly conflicting that dreadlocks are associated with an environmentally friendly lifestyle but make responsible bicycle riding less convenient.

[kington99]

usually i agree with goats, but i'm coming from Brian's side here, I mean who the hell cares that much it's just hair. Much of black culture has pervaded the white population of the US over the years but this particular icon should be held sacrasanct?

And i'd love dreads, but i dont think I have the right hair type, and i strongly suspect it would cause problem getting employment in fields I'm looking at.

[James_Potter]

I concur with Brian mostly, but I don't think Jackie's hating...I think he's being somewhat closed-minded though. Yes dreadlocks are important to Africans for religious and cultural reasons, but that doesn't mean they have to be off limits to everyone else. A Christian can wear a turban if he wants, it doesn't take away from the religious significance of said icon to those who actually care about it for those reasons.

[Triball]

Yes, but what about those pictures:D

[James_Potter]

http://www.dreadheadhq.com/dreadpics/viewer.php

[Triball]

I've seen this gallery, but the pictures are too small and there's so many :D
I'll go through it if I have time :D

[thejdw]

I think... that dreadlocks aren't for white people.
They look cool but for Christ's sake, they were signifigant and dear to the Black Power movement because fros and dreads were like traditional hairstyles of Africa.
Fros and dreads aren't for white people.

You don't wear braids and head-dresses, do you?
Okay so white people have standard hair and black people have dreadlocks and neither can do the same as the other. While were here why don't we move all the white people in to one country and the black people into another. And also, only one half get rights, the other half issen't ment to have them. hmmmm I smell policaly incorect statments on my part.

[Goats_On_Unicycles]

Thanks for editing that post Brian.
Everybody else, you might have misunderstood my post. I'm talking about Cultural Appropriation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_appropriation).
Ever see people who hang up prayer flags in their houses? They obviously don't now shit about prayer flags and probably don't even know what they say on them.
They hang them up cuz they're pretty.
But there's a certain point when you have to stand back and just look at how they look instead of having to get your hands all over them.
All of the African-Americans I've talked to feel this way about dreads and afros, which is actually how I came to this point of view.
That being said, even though I think that people should let dreads stay dear to African-Americans rather then becoming a commericialized, white hair-due that "looks cool", I know a few (white) people with dreads and they're freaking haaaaawtt...

[olwyn]

Hi, aint dreds to do with religious beliefs? I'm not airing one way or it's other just a general question, I like dreds as long as they are looked after, they aren't an easy excuse not to wash/brush you hair! :D

[Goats_On_Unicycles]

Okay so white people have standard hair and black people have dreadlocks and neither can do the same as the other. While were here why don't we move all the white people in to one country and the black people into another. And also, only one half get rights, the other half issen't ment to have them. hmmmm I smell policaly incorect statments on my part.
Black people started wearing their traditional hair during the Black Power movement to stick it to man. It's like saying "F*ck you, crackers. I don't have to look lilly-white just like you. I don't have to do what you tell me to do."

But then white people started wearing their hair like that... ugh. I don't like being white. :P

[john_childs]

All of the African-Americans I've talked to feel this way about dreads and afros, which is actually how I came to this point of view.
That's assuming that all African-Americans who have dreads do so due to cultural beliefs. What about that hip multi-cultural somewhat African-American looking guy that's in all the commercials and advertisements and hangs out with the hip young multi-cultured friends and caucasians? That African-American dude often has short dreads. It isn't because of traditional culture, it's because of marketing. That African-American dude is doing as much cultural appropriation as a caucasian dude wearing dreads.

Dreads are a natural hair style and not limited to just a culture or religious thing. It's not like people getting trendy Asian tattoos that they know nothing about (what do those Chinese characters on your arm mean?) or other blatant cases of cultural appropriation of symbols that you know nothing about. Pirates wear dreads. Dreads are not a strictly cultural thing only for those descending from African culture.

[ntappin]

I hate to say this but I think the idea of cultural appropriation is absolute BS. Thats like saying a white guy shouldn't work at a Japanese restaurant because he's not Japanese. Its not Cultural appropriation. Its Racism!

There is no logical reason why a white person shouldn't have Dread, or why a white person shouldn't work a Japanese restaurant.

If you can come up with a legitimate excuse that doesn't parallel racism, I invite you to do so but all you have come up with so far is that because one culture does it, another one shouldn't.

Its like saying that because gays hang a rainbow flag, little straight kids who like all the colours of the rainbow shouldn't be able to have one in their room.

[Into the blue]

They obviously don't now shit about prayer flags and probably don't even know what they say on them.

That's a pretty sweeping generalisation.
How do you know they don't know shit about prayer flags?

You asked them?

[Triball]

It's not like wearing a Che Guevara T-shirt just because everyone else does, or they had them on sale. Dreadlocks have practical reasons too. For example, when I wash my hair, my ponytail looks like a hairy hamster. And you don't have to comb your hair:D

[olwyn]

It's not like wearing a Che Guevara T-shirt just because everyone else does, or they had them on sale. Dreadlocks have practical reasons too. For example, when I wash my hair, my ponytail looks like a hairy hamster. And you don't have to comb your hair:D


But hamster are cute? (and they don't start riots), maybe go skinhead and see what the reaction is you get! I gotta say respect the dread's origins, but, hey! aren't we meant to all be a nice shade of brown nowadays....I hate all this racial/religious sh*t there is too much hate in this small world....perhaps a nice short back and sides sir and anything for the weekend?....

[johnfoss]

I think... that dreadlocks aren't for white people.Uh, is that like saying cars are not for African people, because they were invented in Europe and the USA? It's just a hair style. If a person is trying to make a political statement out of it that could be a different story, but I think most dread-wearers do it because:
a. They like the look
b. They don't have jobs, or have jobs where it's not an issue
c. They don't like washing their hair :) (just kidding, back off!)

...as I look back I realize that every set of locks has so much meaning, it not like it just a single hair. You rememer each lock as somehing more than hair, each one holds its own memories, and in a way the fullness of the earth.Yuck. But that's just my opinion, to each his own!

[Cps10]

Actually. Most people's hair naturally form dread locks if you do the right stuff. Back during Jesus's time or Moses's or Abraham's or whatever, everyone most probably had dreadlocks (well except I guess the high priests etc etc). So yeah dreadlocks aren't only for black people....everyone can naturally have them.

[saskatchewanian]

a. They like the look
b. They don't have jobs, or have jobs where it's not an issue
c. They don't like washing their hair :) (just kidding, back off!)


a. I don't mind the way that they look now but they looked really bad for about 9 months.
b. I don't have a job and the career that I am training towards involves mostly being by myself or a small group of people working in remote areas so my hair should not be an issue.
c. Washing my hair was way easier before the dreads developed. And yes people with dreads wash their hair! :) (well at least most do, the rest probably smell bad)

My locks are slightly political but have nothing to do with the black movement in the States, to me they represent a rejection of mainstream culture and fitting the "norm". It started when I was working up north for a summer and lost my brush so I would do the best I could keeping my hair untangled with my fingers for a while then one day sitting on a beach watching the sunset I thought "nature is the most beautiful things in the world" and who can argue with that, I stopped caring about keeping my hair untangled and started trying to keep different sections apart.

I started to twist and palm roll them after I would go swimming and they slowly started to take shape. A large matted mess developed on the back of my head which I cut off but other than that they started to tighten up and drop after a while. for the longest time I had a patch of medium length hair on the back of my head two separate mini locks started to develop and sometime this summer they combined and turned into a really nice but short lock. A few other areas with lots of loose hairs formed new locks and I never know what to tell people when they ask me when I "got" my dreads. In my opinion good dreads arn't made they develop over time.

If I wanted more even, better looking locks I would have goten them professionally done but then they would not have nearly the same significance to me as locks that had to develop over time and grew with me during sort of a turing point in my life.

One question you should ask yourself is why do you want dreads, If your reason is strong enough it probably doesn't matter what other people say.

I will try to find you some pics, both of when my hair just looked like a poofy tangled mess and more recent pics with the locks nice and tight.

EDIT: If I was ever to travel to India I would cut off my locks because only the holly men where them over there. I can see what Goats is saying and agree with him to a point but it is not an issue in this part of the word.

[dudewithasock]

There is no logical reason why a white person shouldn't have Dread, or why a white person shouldn't work a Japanese restaurant.

If you can come up with a legitimate excuse that doesn't parallel racism, I invite you to do so but all you have come up with so far is that because one culture does it, another one shouldn't.

They're ugly?

[James_Potter]

They're ugly?
In your opinion!
I think dreads are beautiful.

[The.Mars.Volta]

http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/people/jay.htm

Jay from Triple J radio station in Oz. (Best there is).

[saskatchewanian]

these were the best i could find, Don't have much for pics
http://www.unicyclist.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=559956&g2_serialNumber=1&g2_GALLERYSID=985fad6d57c5c6fe5f1edbf1efed330fI am the guy in the middle, I think this was taken in August two summers ago, about 3 months after I stopped brushing my hair. The guy on the left has supper nice dreads, thats 13 years worth of hair on his head
http://www.unicyclist.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=559954&g2_serialNumber=1&g2_GALLERYSID=985fad6d57c5c6fe5f1edbf1efed330f
this was me before riding in the MS Bikeathon, I think I just finished eating a cinnamon bun.

[dudewithasock]

In your opinion!
I think dreads are beautiful.

To each his own I suppose, but all I see when I look at dreads are nappiness, dirt, and oil. Ew.

[Brian O.]

They're ugly?
So are Crocs but somehow people are still allowed to wear those.

[Into the blue]

this was me before riding in the MS Bikeathon, I think I just finished eating a cinnamon bun.

Where's your other wheel?

[Borgschulze]

Hmm, I think the OP wanted pictures of Dreadlocks.

Not the entire forum bickering about the what who where when whys of Dreadlocks.

The one person who I thought wouldn't be bringing a thread off topic so badly has.

Jerrick, shame on you.

[James_Potter]

Jerrick, shame on you.
Hahaha the decoy avatar works!!

Anyway.

here's a bunch (http://www.dreadlocks.us/dreadlocks_pictures.html) but they're all pretty little.
here's a pretty big one (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Man_with_dreadlocks.jpg/520px-Man_with_dreadlocks.jpg) of some guy on google.
Personally though I think this is the look (http://www.howtodread.com/dreadlocking.jpg) you should be going for.

[Borgschulze]

Hahaha the decoy avatar works!!
As well as the decoy links in his Signature?

[heelnipper]

hmm i don't have any recent pictures of my dreads..... hold on.

[dan de man]

So are Crocs but somehow people are still allowed to wear those.
GO maddox



anyway I want some dreads, how long does your hair have to be?

[ivan]

anyway I want some dreads, how long does your hair have to be?
3-4 inches.

http://www.dreadheadhq.com/

[dan de man]

Yes only 2 more centimetre and its 4 inches

[wickedbob]

I wanna get some, I have for a while. That is why I am letting my hair grow out when I have had it cut short for like 14years out of my 15. I think I will let it get to about shoulder length or so before I dread up if I decide to.

[ivan]

I really wanted dreads a few months ago. Now that my hair is long enough I'm having second thoughts.

[wickedbob]

Yeah, I say do it!.. or not whatever you want.

[dan de man]

well my hair is long enough now

[Goats_On_Unicycles]

That's a pretty sweeping generalisation.
How do you know they don't know shit about prayer flags?

You asked them?
Prayer flags are meant to be hung outside.
They're supposed to be put up on a clear, sunny day with plenty of wind.

Everybody who keeps arguing with my first post, read my two posts where I actually argued for my position.

[ntappin]

Prayer flags are meant to be hung outside.
They're supposed to be put up on a clear, sunny day with plenty of wind.

Everybody who keeps arguing with my first post, read my two posts where I actually argued for my position.

I did, and I think its still just as prejudice as saying that people shouldn't be gay. Maybe its not quite the same, but its still being extremely closed minded, something that you are constantly telling people not to be.

Read MY previous posts for other arguments against yours.

[Into the blue]

Prayer flags are meant to be hung outside.
They're supposed to be put up on a clear, sunny day with plenty of wind.


Well then, what are you waiting for?
Go tell them they're doing it wrong!

Let us know what they say.

[Mikeswarbrick]

Mr Boogiejuice has dreads, he is sponsored by a dreadlock extreme sports company too. I hope he chimes in here sometime.

Cheers,

[Goats_On_Unicycles]

I hate to say this but I think the idea of cultural appropriation is absolute BS. Thats like saying a white guy shouldn't work at a Japanese restaurant because he's not Japanese. Its not Cultural appropriation. Its Racism!

There is no logical reason why a white person shouldn't have Dread, or why a white person shouldn't work a Japanese restaurant.

If you can come up with a legitimate excuse that doesn't parallel racism, I invite you to do so but all you have come up with so far is that because one culture does it, another one shouldn't.

Its like saying that because gays hang a rainbow flag, little straight kids who like all the colours of the rainbow shouldn't be able to have one in their room.
each to his/her own. I might have made it sound like I'm deadly opposed to anybody having dreads which I'm not. I just think people should seriously consider what they do. Cultural apporpriation isn't racism. White people shouldn't be restrained from getting dreads but they should have enough respect to think seriously about getting them because they are very signifigant to the African-American community, not to whites.

Anyway... I think I'll just leave this thread... I don't really like arguing to much. :P

PS, gays don't have a problem with non-gays hanging rainbow flags.

[Unitik908]

I only have a year and a half to go before i get my dreads.
well probably closer to 2 and a half, so my hair will get long enough.
stupid catholic high school...


Chase

[wickedbob]

Man, strage what goats and others said. Anyways I need to find my self somebody willing to dread my hair hmm....

[ntappin]

Anyway... I think I'll just leave this thread... I don't really like arguing to much. :P

PS, gays don't have a problem with non-gays hanging rainbow flags.

Aww but you were making it fun! I just get alot of beef at work by white customers who are wondering why a white guy works at a top Japanese restaurant, so I like to give anyone who believes in cultural appropriation a hard time.

I didn't think gays would care, at least I hope not.

[tobbogonist]

These are pretty old pictures, over a year ago. I cut them off when they reached shoulder height due to work. Just thought i would chuck some unicycle ones in.

Now i am no longer working in the puplic eye and are keen to get them again :)

http://b1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/01331/14/72/1331842741_l.jpg

http://b7.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/01331/78/78/1331838787_l.jpg

http://b2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/01331/26/60/1331840662_l.jpg

[Jerrick]

Hehe, I got in trouble in here and I havent done anything. Thanks Goats! lol

How will you be doing your dreads? Letting them just dread up and use theshampoo made to wash your hair, but not undred it? Or will you be buying the products that you put in your hair to simulate dreds?

[dan de man]

im going to ge ta friend to backcomb it

[Triball]

I tried backcombing with my friend once...didn't work out that well:D

[thejdw]

I only have a year and a half to go before i get my dreads.
well probably closer to 2 and a half, so my hair will get long enough.
stupid catholic high school...


Chase
does the school not let you have them? If so, complain.

[howdigetsogood]

heres me in belize. most recent pics i have, and my passport photo.

[howdigetsogood]

could someone teach me how to better post images? i know nothing of the computer!

[Jerrick]

could someone teach me how to better post images? i know nothing of the computer!

You're doing it right, but next time you attach your photos, click on the attachment/paperclip thing again. This will bring a drop down of the pictures you have attached, then just click on the name of the picture, and that will post it into the post as yadda yadda yadda...


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And it will be like that ^^^.

Make sure when your doing that, to hit enter after each picture, otherwise you get really bad screen stretch when you get a lot picture in a row.

[MuniAddict]

You're doing it right, but next time you attach your photos, click on the attachment/paperclip thing again. Yeah, like this:

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[saskatchewanian]

I forgot about this thread, not many pics in it yet..
http://photos-721.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-sctm/v162/11/106/773790721/n773790721_1929655_8086.jpg
From camping before newyears

edit: Howdigetsogood, your hair reminds me of mine a couple years ago but mine was probably fuzzier. Young dreads look bad but if you let the mature they will get better.

[saskatchewanian]

I was cleaning up my computer and found a couple more.

Last summer
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Umm, this is why you bring an extra sleeping bag when camping in winter:)
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[Borgschulze]

You remind me of the guys on the show Cavemen.

http://weblogs.newsday.com/entertainment/tv/blog/image3300653.jpg

[saskatchewanian]

You remind me of the guys on the show Cavemen.
never seen the show, but I can also detect some resemblance.My super hero name is Caveman Man, don't tell anyone though, you might blow my cover :eek:

[Borgschulze]

It's a really good show.

Clip here on Youtube. (http://youtube.com/watch?v=SC8beowrA2I)

[podzol]

Here's a sculpture of H. ergaster that I'm working on now. He will have short dreads.
And a great picture of an aboriginal boy.
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[howdigetsogood]

thank you for the how to . eric p you seem to have alot of fun!

[tomblackwood]

Here's a sculpture of H. ergaster that I'm working on now.
Wow. That really jumps off the page. Did you have a previous facial rendition you based it on, or did you imagine a face on top of existing skull pictures like Turkana Boy?

Cool cool cool.

[MrBoogiejuice]

I don't know nuffink about co-opting African culture...

I'm ripping off the Sadhu mystics of India. It's loads more fun, you get to wander round naked and carry a sword.

Actually I'm more with Sasquatchian and the opting out of mainstream cultural norms.

My dreads have never been a hindrance to getting work either. I've been spending the last year and a half working in healthcare with no worries.

When I need to I can still look relatively smart by tying them back, especially since a crazy Austrian lady shaved loads of them off when giving me an involuntary undercut.

What's the problem with helmets and dreads John? I've never had a problem. It can be a bit warmer but since mine were undercut it's never bothered me overly much.

That's an amazing sculpture Podzol, you're reet talented!

But anyhoo... Here's some pics.

http://photos-507.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-sf2p/v104/104/62/516412507/n516412507_90234_8305.jpg

http://photos-507.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-sf2p/v104/104/62/516412507/n516412507_90225_5085.jpg

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[feel the light]

The black power movement of the 60's and 70's did not have dreads. The fro would grow out in natural black frizzy type hair, untangled. And they always combed them, with a cake rake.

Hippies got dreads, mostly whites. I was a long haired hippie in the late 70's, and went to many rainbow hippie gatherings where we slept on the ground , juggled, and sang songs around fires. Often, we would neglect combing our hair for long periods of time. We were living in tents with no mirrors, and there was a lot of pot. Amongst campers, shaving and hair combing was something we would do later, after the gathering, next show etc. It was easy , fun, summer outdoor living. So many of us just stopped combing our hair.:)

So if you have long hair and wash by swimming and are out in the wind for a few weeks, without combing your hair, you may develop the "dreaded locked hair."

You see, for a hippie that did not wish to cut their hair, a dread lock was a bummer. Basically, a wad of hair so tangled up that it has to be cut off or half pulled out. It was white hippies that got dreads, though we dreaded them.

Then in the early 80's, Bob Marley and his wailers were on the scene, and white hippies took to the pot smoking Rasta man trip like we were born there.
I saw many Hippies with dreads before that, and have had a few myself, but we didn't want them. Marley made them cool IMHO.

The style naturally took off with camping hippies that were developing dreads anyway. Now they liked them !:)

If you look at anyone, white or black before reggae music in about 1980 , they did not have dreads, they had tangled messed up hair. It is most properly connected with the Jamaican Rasta's, and their many fans in the USA, many of them hippies with tangled messed up hair.

The black power leaders before 1980 had untangled hair. They would often braid it in corn rows and beaded braids. Braided hair was common, but only hippies had dreads.

[sp4rky-m4rky]

Bringing back this old thread.

Im thinking of getting dreads. I have a couple of questions. I have read up about it and most people recomend you have at least 3" of hair before you dread it. My hair is about 4 1/2" If I dread it now how long do you think they will be? is it worth waiting for it to grow more before I get it done?

How do most people start them off? I have read sectioning them off then tightly backcombing them is pobably best. Can you do it yourself (get a fiend to help) or is it best to go to a hair dressers or something and get them to do it?

[oneisenough]

Bringing back this old thread.

Im thinking of getting dreads. I have a couple of questions. I have read up about it and most people recomend you have at least 3" of hair before you dread it. My hair is about 4 1/2" If I dread it now how long do you think they will be? is it worth waiting for it to grow more before I get it done?

How do most people start them off? I have read sectioning them off then tightly backcombing them is pobably best. Can you do it yourself (get a fiend to help) or is it best to go to a hair dressers or something and get them to do it?
I want to get dreads too! My hair is like 8-9 inches so i think mine long enough, and now that im probably leaving highschool...i have no reason not too! I think if i get them ill go to a hairdresser b/c i dont want to really mess it up and then have to cut off 9 months of growing

[wickedbob]

I want to get dreads too! My hair is like 8-9 inches so i think mine long enough, and now that im probably leaving highschool...i have no reason not too! I think if i get them ill go to a hairdresser b/c i dont want to really mess it up and then have to cut off 9 months of growing

Wow, you hair grows damn fast. I'm thinking of getting myself some dreads, it is why I haven't cut m hair for a year and a half. It's about 10in now. Too tell you the truth though, I kind of like my hair the way it is long, I never thought I would. I'm still thinking of getting dreads if I can find somebody to put them in.

[Unicycle-Emele]

dreadlocks are the best

[Unicycle-Emele]

http://www.everygeneration.co.uk/BluePlaquespics/BobMarley.jpg


here are my dreads:)

[sp4rky-m4rky]

I should be able to add some more pics to this thread soon. I have baught the shampoo and comb and stuff and my sister is going to start tham off hopfully in the next week or so :D

[thejdw]

Are dreads achivible with hair gell?

[sp4rky-m4rky]

Are dreads achivible with hair gell?

Dreads are achieved by tightly matting your hair into thicker strands. Im sure you could get a similar kind of look by gelling it but it would be completly different in make up and wouldnt continue to grow as dreads.

[thejdw]

Dreads are achieved by tightly matting your hair into thicker strands. Im sure you could get a similar kind of look by gelling it but it would be completly different in make up and wouldnt continue to grow as dreads.
i'm just thinking of seeing how it looks

[sp4rky-m4rky]

i'm just thinking of seeing how it looks
Yea I think you probably get an idea of the genral look. The way I look at it is, if I dont get them Im going to cut my hair, if they look good I will keep them, if it looks bad I will just cut them off.

[thejdw]

Yea I think you probably get an idea of the genral look. The way I look at it is, if I dont get them Im going to cut my hair, if they look good I will keep them, if it looks bad I will just cut them off.
but then you'll be bald

[sp4rky-m4rky]

but then you'll be bald

You can still retain an inch or two. Its just more effort (and more pain) because you have to comb it all out.

[sigve]

:D im gonna go on monday and talk to some woman my mother knows, that makes dreads.(at least i've heard she does)
I've been mailing to some guys in another town but it's really expencive.. costs more than a new KH.. :(

[tobbogonist]

Are dreads achivible with hair gell?
Wax and backcombing.

It is possible to get them done/do them semi-permanent. Either way it is a long process. most hairdressers will be able to put in semi ones. just get friendly with some of the girls at school, they are always keen for hair fun (some of them).

[unibikeling]

Wax and backcombing.

It is possible to get them done/do them semi-permanent. Either way it is a long process. most hairdressers will be able to put in semi ones. just get friendly with some of the girls at school, they are always keen for hair fun (some of them).

yeah... hair fun... For me, that normally results in like 15 pony tails... Lol...

[tobbogonist]

yeah... hair fun... For me, that normally results in like 15 pony tails... Lol...
ponies would be jelous.
i ended up with braids once. never never never again!