[Closed] DREADLOCKS

BTW elf - I'm a fascist 'cos I disagree with you over a hairstyle?

No, simply because you've disagreed with me. I've decided you're a fascist. My decision is final. 😉

Capitalist pig dog!

Kimbers they are not natural dreadlocks mate. Even on a low re picture you can see that they have been 'knotted' in to your hair using that wax stuff. Nice shirt and tie though where did you find it the 70s?

Oh that's marvellous that is. I lovingly and affectionately call you a fascist, and you respond with Capitalist Pig Dog. Nice.

I might get offended by that. I've not decided yet.

I mean, it's not even Kosher. Oy vey...

yeah buddy!

there good just not practical! I got a very sexy lady with mine.

You target White dreads because deep down you're scared of '[b]br[/b]others'....

DrJ - Member

You target White dreads because deep down you're scared of 'brothers'....

Fixed that.

lol

alex22 not sure where you get your ideas from but ive never put a drop of wax in my hair
i just stopped brushing my hair at uni and it just matted itself
happens in my sleep i had to force myself to lie on my other side as my sleeping side went first

all ive had to do is seperate them by pulling them apart or they would probably just have formed 3 or 4 really fat ones

heres a view from my rear whilst morris dancing
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tj is a fascist because he wants people to conform to his narrow views about how people from certain cultures must behave/look

Now there's a photo to gladden the heart of any hair-do fascists. A baldie, a hat wearer, a silly haircut, and a pony tail all dancing together in harmony...If only the real world could be so simple....

All that pic. is missing is a mullet nickc 😉

As a result of this thread I've decided that I would happily buy Kimbers a pint but not TJ as he is part of a STW Triumvirate of Evil with Ernie Lynch and Simonfbarnes.

See, that's where fascism gets you. Sat on your own in the pub with no-one to buy you a drink. Kimbers' dreads have earned him a pint from me, just to spite TJ.

I stand corrected.

[i]All that pic. is missing is a mullet nickc[/i]

Oh, c'mon you have to draw the line somewhere...

A mullet is a symbol of red-neck conviction that I don't believe the European wearers have.

We should be grateful that we can wear our hair however we please
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/06/iran-bans-the-mullet

For my twopence bit I had dreads put in after not having a haircut for about 10 years. I liked them a lot but it was back in the early 90's and did have a fair few stop and search off the old bill because of them. A fashion, music thing for me, Gaye Bykers on Acid anyone?. When I went to have them cut a mate went with me, I commented on how busy town was after the barbers and he replied,
"its the same as usual, just that everyone used to get out of your way."
I find it quite sad how haircuts and clothes can produce such bias and prejudice in people even now. Always wish I'd had a mohican as well as I still think they are pretty cool. Just short hair now and very happy with that.
And yes the cute indie chicks I liked at the time liked them a lot.

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TJ earlier today

i don't know what's worse about that pic.

a) the nauseating hair
b) the apparent seepage from the creature's rear
c) the sinister reflection of easter island statue man in the car window

As long as you don't care what other people think, do what you like.

So is it fascist to think dreds look sh1t?

Many "surfers" have them - it means almost 99.9% of the time that they are going for the look but can't surf for toffee.

Just looks unclean and unwashed to me.

Its only a hair style after all, just get them if you want them.

I partly agree with TJ though, it is easy to assume that people with dreadlocks are the classic "yeah man" types. Pretending to be all mother earthy and anti allsorts but then spending most of their time driving to music festivals around the uk in a 40 year old VW camper van that does 15 miles to the gallon.

[b]It Ain't White Boy Day Is It?[/b]

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Good God Yunki - the last time I saw anything resembling that it was attached to one of these....
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That is all

Ok that's it!

After seeing Firestarters pic I'm not going to grow dreadlocks. Apparently it causes big men to run after you, try to pull down your pants, stick their nose in your bum, and want to play with your balls. 🙂

First post after stalking the forum for a couple of weeks so figured it should be on a subject I've got some experience with....

I've had dreadlocks for 11 years in total, my first set I had for 2 years and cut off, then immediately started growing the set I've still got today.

A few points to mention:

1)I'm not religous, never have been.
2) my hair (when not dreaded) is straight and a little thin if i remember correctly.
3) My dreadlocks were never a way of "rebelling" as i've never felt the need to rebel.
4) I'm white british with no family members/affairs known of that would've influenced my hair and its suitability for dreading.
5) I clean my dreadlocks in the same way that I'm guessing most of you wash your hair... shampoo and water.
6) My dreadlocks have never been a barrier to employment.

OK so here goes:

First set of dreads I did the stereotypical white-boy thing and grew my hair long, sectioned it off, backcombed it then used whatever wax the internet told me to. They were thick, too neat to look remotely natural, waxy and most probably... smelly. I woke up with a waxy pillow each morning, had dreadlocks that seemed to take days to dry and when I cut them off the hardened wax in the centre of them made me realise the error of my ways.

I did everything wrong and didnt help with the stereotype.

I then cut these off thinking I'd need to to get the job I wanted, got the job and was told I didnt need to cut them off and should grow them again....

This time I grew them from 1" long freshly cut hair, no wax, no sectioning, no backcombing, just letting it dread naturally. 9 years later I still have "the nicest dreads I've seen on a white boy" and in my job working with workers from various african countries I quite regularly get asked by people of various African/Carribean origins (with and without dreads) how I got mine so nice and what they should do to theirs. One of my patients was a rasta as was his family, they asked if I was... I said no... they said "cool locks, nice to see a nice set"

The only abuse I've had about my hair is from white chavs, and a gang (all of which had short hair, girlfriends with chemically straightened hair) who said they wanted their haircut back haha.

So in my experience:

Wax is bad (its designed to hold hair in place... dreads are knots and knots get tighter by being allowed to move)

Sectioning and backcombing usually ends up with dreads that dont look natural (think of the perfect center-parting and uniform thickness)

Dirty dreadlocks are similar to waxy dreads.... they hold moisture and never tighen up properly = dirty smells, dirty reputation.

If you're good at your job... hair doesnt get in the way of that, and a good employer will know that.

Will try find some pictures if anyones bothered... chances are this threads died though so i'll hold back for now.

oh yeah.... Hi everyone 🙂

Are you Fred?

Who's fred? i'm Phil 🙂

I'm Fred!

Oh. It's just something new people on here get asked/accused of being, actually. I don't know what it means. It frightens me a bit.

Anyway, welcome, Phil!

Good first post btw.

Cheers elfinsafety, this forums been amusing me for some time now... I do love to read an online fight every now and then! STW seems to provide a delicious mix of keyboard warriors, incredible tales, handy advice and some VERY funny people.

You take that back RIGHT NOW!

Heh!

I'm just nice and never upset anyone, unlike TandemJeremy. He's a fascist.

attention whores

are you fred would make a good stw t shirt.

What does it all mean though? What does it all mean... 🙁

No need for a t-shirt - in real life, Fred can be spotted as the one who's sh@t himself after drinking too much 😉

Eeuuw! Dirty little bastard! No wonder he doesn't want to show his face.

No need for it is there? People need to learn how to have a bit of self control and restraint.

Elfinsafety - Member

Heh!

I'm just nice and never upset anyone, unlike TandemJeremy. He's a fascist.

At least I am not a capitalist pig dog and an imperialist lackey!

if it helps (deep down i hope it doesn't) then when it comes to other people's dreadlocks I usually dont like them. especially people with synthetic dreadlocks... for a lot of people it seems to be about the image, and when these people usually approach me and start asking questions it usually becomes apparent rather quickly that random-teenager-X has dreads for the reasons stated in many of the anti-dreads posts in this thread.

so for this reason i'll give a nugget of golden advice:

if you want to p1ss off your parents/society/teachers/boss, dont get dreadlocks.... you'll be much better off getting your face and throat tattoo'd so as you get older you'll be reminded of how worthwhile it was and what you achieved by rebelling.

save the dreadlocks for people who can handle the extra female attention 😉

anyway, i must be off, me and my troll brothers are off to burn our belts in an effort to see how low our baggy jeans with "spliffy" written on them can go haha

*in addition to the above....

there are also so incredibly nice people out there with dreads (not just the 17yr old wannabes in a rock club wearing a UV t-shirt and new-rocks), to them their own dreads will be the nicest in the world, and fair play to them. it takes a lot of patience to look after dreads whether you do the whole wax thing or the completely natural thing.

when it comes down to it....
we're all individuals and having dreadlocks is much more interesting than walking out the hairdressers with the same haircut as the rest of the world!

oh yeah.... in the past 11 years i've not spent a single penny on a hair-cut *insert smug smile and sense of achievement* 😀

in the past 11 years i've not spent a single penny on a hair-cut *insert smug smile and sense of achievement*

Nor have I, but that's cos I'm tight and cut my own hair 😉

What helmet for dreads?

TJ? Helmet advice.

I guess it depends if you are white boy or not - do you live a dread life? No helmet needed then

Did no one ever get down to Gaye Bykers on Acid, y'all to square for dreads mon.

ok so everybody thats got dreads how long do they take to grow please?

Did no one ever get down to Gaye Bykers on Acid,

prefered the jokey spin-off "lesbian dope heads on mopeds"

but everthing's groovey was ace, saw GBOA with scat opera many moons ago

Mollski:

three ways really:

1) Grow your hair long, section it off and then backcomb it nice and tight, dont use wax or beeswax or toothpaste or whatever the internet tells you, be prepared for it to shrink shorter or not look like its growing at all for ages.

As your hair continues to grow the knots will be tightening hence the appearance of it getting shorter or not growing. To keep the roots of the dreadlocks tight and less fluffy: use a teatowel and press firmly against your scalp... then rub it in small circles (pick a direction - clockwise or anti-clockwise and stick with it... by rubbing in the opposite direction you'll undo your good work)... this circling will break the odd hair at the root and tangle it into the dreads.

let them grow, buy a bigger phone book for all the new ladies you'll be collecting.

2) From short hair: have your hair braided in the smalled braids you can achieve.. all over your hair. you'll look stupid for 2-3 months as it grows out... but all the hair that grows out from under the braids will be growing into dreadlocks that are already tight and natural with no wax etc.

To keep the roots of the dreadlocks tight and less fluffy: use a teatowel and press firmly against your scalp... then rub it in small circles (pick a direction - clockwise or anti-clockwise and stick with it... by rubbing in the opposite direction you'll undo your good work)... this circling will break the odd hair at the root and tangle it into the dreads.

once the dreadlock part of the hair is 3inches long, cut off the braids from the ends.

let them grow, buy a bigger phone book for all the new ladies you'll be collecting.

3)grow your hair long, dont brush it, wash it regularly in a cycle but with cheap shampoo only (less perfumes and addatives left on your scalp and hair). as it starts to knot up rip it into smaller sections. follow the advice above re wax and rubbing the scalp...

let them grow, buy a bigger phone book for all the new ladies you'll be collecting.

whatever you do.... dont use wax, dont use conditioner, dont forget to wash your hair once you feel its tight enough not to fall apart.

hope that helps dude

and above all dont listen to folk like tj - for the first 6 months - be prepared it will look shit begin with

GBOA were a great band, didnt Mary Mary end up with some rave dance combo. Loved that shortlived Grebo scene, Crazy head, Zodiac Mindwarp.

Trail_rat is on the money there.... it will look rubbish for a while, but dreads teach patience.

thank you for the advice PHILCONSEQUENCE top man 8)

Wouldn't be able for the itchy head, and not being able to wash them properly..........

heres the reason i got let my hair dread