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dreadlock styling tips

Dreadlock Styles and Dread Styling

you are rainbows i love Dirty Momma!!!keep up the love... soaringeagle said:

not me ..my awesome freind dirty momma

dirty momma was the 1st 1 to reacte and founded rema/arrr

so u can see shes definately a special one

dreads and jobs

dreads jobs employment issues

I know that most people look at me and expect less of me, like I'm unintelligent or not as capable, because I choose to dread my hair. They say things like, "why did you do that to your hair"? or, "you had such beautiful hair". As soon as they realize that I am the one that will organize that fund raiser for their sick child, or drop off coats and snow pants at the school for our neighborhood kids, or send off boxes of food to Afghanistan for our brothers and sisters away from home, then all of the sudden, their impression of who I am changes. I was still this person before they knew who I was... soaringeagle said:

i was on the board of directors of an artist coop that was partnered with my lots of love group (see post in dreads as community leaders sectioin) id meet with the mayor city council extremely wealty patrons, business and media leaders (many on our advisory board)
law enforcement (due to it being a drug infested ood) and curch leaders, all gave me great respect, except the leader of the rich curch tat bussed in members from 3 states..they were still freindly but dissmissed me as being less then serius..mostly cause tey wanted to take over our entire block and make it a church parking lot

dreads and jobs

dreads jobs employment issues

I work as a bartender,sounds like the ideal job for a dready, right? No, not here were i live!!! I am also the Founder and Director of an Artists Cooperative and Creative Community Center. There I am respected for the things I do, my hair is not "THE" issue. I like to know people by their works, and if I should be "judged", I should hope that it would be for the things I have done here in my community. I actually take more crap from the bar owners I work for than I do the bankers, community leaders and politicians here in my community that I have to deal with every day! I guess what I am trying to say is, be the most effective, kind, loving and honest person you can be, the rest will follow...

to dread or not to dread, that is the question, things to concider before taking the plunge

General Questions

as i have mentioned, i am very newly dreaded, only a week...however, i have spent the last 20 years wanting this and only finally made the leap. i love my messy, fuzzy dreads! i have never felt so comfortable in my own skin as i do now. i feel very connected, very free, very natural... i am glad that i waited though, because i am now able to commit myself to well, myself...i am learning just how much of a commitment having dreads actually is! i spend alot of time explaining them, letting people touch them, telling folks that "yes, i do wash my hair", "no, this was not an accident, i really did do this on purpose", and "frankly, i don't really give a damn if you like it or not"! i did this for me, for very personal reasons, and i don't think we owe anyone any explanations, but be prepared, EVERYONE will ask!