Hiya! Greetings from Ireland! :D
My name's Claudia,and I feel I should mention that I'm African-Irish (black not mixed race in any way) so as to give you an idea as to what my hair looks like....it's an afro... well it WAS an afro! And a very BIG one at that! x'D
Before dreading, I was natural for 1.5-2 years! My hair had grown REALLY fast and I just happen to have really thick hair on top of that!
I've always love natural hair! I don't just mean afro's or what not. What I mean is that I've never liked the process of getting extensions in my hair, or relaxing my hair getting a perm) and I even got sick of braids! This is the reason for which I went natural in the first place and stopped perming my hair!
I did this because I imagined if my hair was in an afro that I would no longer have to do all those things to my hair! I find it embarrassing to walk around with extensions on trying to fool people it's your real hair :/ It's ridiculous when we were all born with unique hair
The problem with having an afro to me was the time taken each morning to do my hair! (I go to school) I would sometimes miss break fast because my hair had taken longer than expected to style! It was TOUGH styling it! I mean the AMOUNT of clips I had to use! :O
All in all what I'm saying is I couldn't handle it! And every time I would cave in and go back to doing braids (which would cut my hair, especially on the hair line :/ )
I had always admired locks and wanted to have them done! But I had imagined that in orther to start dreads you had to cut your hair!! I did NOT want to cut my afro and short hair simply does NOT suit me AT ALL! So I had always put it off :/
Then one day I discovered that you did not have to cut your hair and could simply start dreads with a full afro! :D
So I decided why not! I mean I ALWAYS do braids anyway and dreads look like braids in some ways! Only... it's with your REAL HAIR! And so 2 weeks later (after a LOT of research on dreads) I went and got my dread journey STARTED!
And that is that! SO excited <3 It's only been 2 days since I've been dreaded! :D
updated by @claudia3: 01/13/15 09:41:15PM