ANYBODY on here got dreadlocks? if so how easy are they to grow and how long has it taken you?

They look really really stupid on white people.

They look really really stupid on white people.

They look really really stupid on white people

according to some..

These days I would say that they have the effect of making you look like you take something very very seriously..

Or that you are a beggar..

So if neither of these two conditions apply to you.. think carefully before embarking on the frustrating.. itchy.. laborious and unrewarding journey that is growing dreadlocks or you could end up feeling like a bit of a wally

well you need really curly hair to start with, but it needs to be much longer than you think, you can get them done professionally or you can just not brush your hair for about a year and they will kind of form themselves with a bit of help and patience -note you will have to invest in somew hats
best done whilst at uni

i have them and im white and i look the schnizzle so bacdafucp up wackhander 😉

I imagine them to make you smell like that really dirty hair smell. All the time. I could be wrong though.

There is no way they can be clean. I'm sure headlice love them!

I had them, easy to grow, a bugger to maintain unless you want a set of pukka crusty dreads that look like chimps fingers.

knotty boy wax is your friend if you want to do it the easy way

according to backhander I must have looked stupid, although having a **** massive dready mohawk and lots of piercings no-one ever seemed to pluck up the courage to say anything to my face. 😀

I now look respectable and quiet and nice and fluffy

Head lice prefer clean hair, so probably pretty safe on that count!

hair doesn't have to be curly, they don't have to smell and they don't have to be itchy. Suit some people, don't suit others, quite easy to do. Looks neat if done by hairdresser, hard to do your self, easy if someone willing can help. might look a bit scruffy, will affect the way people treat you.

Dreads look stupid on most people,at least rastas stick theirs under a loud hat

Just go see a Levellers concert, sure you can get lots of advice there. Reduced entry for those with a dog on a string.

Reduced entry for those with a dog on a string.

I'm going to see them in 12 days.. I wish that your comment had some truth to it..

oh yeah and people do treat you different but they do if you have a skinhead

and they certainly dont have to smell wash mine once a week but they take ages to dry!

and chicks will find you utterly irresistable in my experience

Wax to put in, then don't wash – easy really. Not great if your going to get dusty very often. Smell when it rains. Not itchy after the first couple of months. If put in by a hairdresser they look a bit too neat in my opinion. You lose loads of hair if you ever attempt to brush them out.

20 years ago but i can just about remember. 🙂

+1 for the female attention. Got a lot more interest with them than without, although no idea why.

Looks even worse on girls as kimberley is demonstrating…..

Got a lot more interest with them than without, although no idea why.

because

they have the effect of making you look like you take something very very seriously..

even if the thing that you take seriously is just looking rebellious

I look a LOT more serious with a skinhead, so it can't be that. 🙂

The dreads combined with a checked shirt and beige tie is not a look you see very often………the chandeliers somehow compliment the incongruity of it all 8)

I used to have foot long dreadlocks (for the OP if you are starting off with short hair it'll take about 3 – 4 years for them to reach about a foot), because its effectively felt your dreads will be roughly half the length they would be if your hair was undreaded.

One night in a pub a young woman sidled up to me and asked
"is that a french perm?"
"no they're dreadlocks"
"are you sure its not like a really tight french perm?"
"yes I'm sure"
"Oh well you see I'm a trainee hair dresser and today I gave a woman a french perm and it turned out looking like your hair"
"was she happy about that?"
"no….but it'll just brush out, right?"

Anyone who judges someone simply because of their hairstyle is a narrow-minded idiot. To each their own.

Interested to know why they might look stupid on a white person. Don't get that.

I don't know about growing them, but a work customer had them and complained constantly about people pre judging him as a misfit, crusty, theif, down and out, work shy freeloader etc etc. He turned up one day with it all cut off, forced into it, because he didn't like that stereotype. He wanted a decent job, wanted to walk round a shop without being followed by security guards, but liked the idea of dreadlocks. You can't have dreads and live a normal existance, it appears.

well not sure it will turn you into a pariah, i have a decent job and security dont seem to follow me everywhere, i reckon your customer was hitting the skunk too hard and getting the fear

living in that london helps, people out in the shires might lynch you though

I used to have a housemate with dreads. He was a white brummie, if that matters. Anyway, he decided to cut 'em all off and shave his head. It all came off in one big stuck together lump and the underside of it was this this thick layer of dead skin and scalp holding it all in place. It was gross. It stank.He also had some sorta ribbons or something in it.

He then kept it in his wardrobe in a carrier bag, like a dead pet, and gave a dread to anyone that came round the house. Like it was some some meaningful sacrificial memento or something.

He was a nice bloke though.

brummies….

So 80s …. 😆

stupid on white guys.

He then kept it in his wardrobe in a carrier bag, like a dead pet, and gave a dread to anyone that came round the house.

How sweet!

Some people are just too nice.

stupid on white guys

Why Jeremy, why?

Why Jeremy, why?

because it doesn't fit his racial stereotyping?

I thought the Brummie guy looked quite cool with the dreads, he pulled more ladies without it though. but then he did lose loads of weight as well, went on a weetabix diet, eating only weetabix. Oh, and cocaine. I wonder what happened to him.

Weetabix?

Shitting hell…

so my advice is: shave your head and get whacked out on weetabix and cocaine. The ladies love it.

Don't like Weetbix or Cocaine.

What about toast and Ketamine?

Why – a sign of a dreadful sad wannabe.

Anyone who judges someone simply because of their hairstyle is a narrow-minded idiot. To each their own.

It's facial discrimination.

OK i will keep to my soul glow gel perm

OK i will keep to my soul glow gel perm

I know someone who can help you out with the perm 🙂

Head lice just like hair. They don't care whether it's clean or not