My response to this is really Y'all, first in foremost there is no right or wrong way to dread your hair from free form to interlocked, each person must choose the method that works best for their hair. To say that only one method is acceptable is ridiculous and will leave many people who want to dread their hair out when that method doesnt work for them. Dreads are by definition a natural hair style unless you're using extensions in which case you'd be adding hair or yarn and that would technically take them out of the realm of natural. I have interlocked dreads so I appear to be the only person on this forum that can speak from experience of having a full head of interlocked dreads and I did them myself so I know how the technique works and what to do and not to do. No matter what way you choose to loc your hair there is an art form about it and it takes work and knowing what you are doing. I would never advise anyone to just go home after seeing something done and try it in their head, that is crazy and leaves room for you to really mess up your hair. You wouldnt go home and bleach your hair without any kind of instruction so why then would you try to loc it. I wish that I could say that it is easy to interlock but it is not it takes patience and you have to work much harder and longer then with any other method; that being said the result is beautiful and a labor of love that if you do yourself is all the more so. I encourage everyone to look into the two most popular companies that do them which are Sisterlocks and Nappylocs both are very good and while they are similar are not exactly the same. Furthermore so that everyone knows, interlocking dreads are not new, nor unnatural, they have been done by different tribes in Africa for the longest time. In fact that very reason is partially why Sisterlocks lost their lawsuit against Nappylocs as the judge informed the sisterlocks creator that she hadnt indeed created the technique, just made it popular. Therefore, to state that somehow interlocked dreads are unnatural couldn't be further from the truth as a bush tribe in Africa doesn't get much more natural. You are all entitled to your own beliefs but condemning a locking method when you haven't sit down with a experienced consultant in said method and asked questions seen his/her work and educated yourself is not cool and you do people a disservice when they come on this site expecting accurate information that to the best of their knowledge has a sound basis behind it and they end up getting opinion and ones that are derived from hearsay and horror stories of locs gone wrong at that. It is fine to say that you don't llike the look of interlocked dreads but it's something else to spout your opinion as fact and try to scare people and make them think they are doing something wrong by trying this method.Thanks
soaringeagle said: well said.. and it only takes 1 bit of bad advice among thousands of good advice to screw things up for someone
if 900 ppl say its a bad idea and only 1 thinks its a good idea maybe that 1 should just do it quietl;y and find out for themselves but to insist its ok despite the fact that everyone else says its not is just goiunmg to harm somneone else who beliecves u
like i said before your free to screw uop your own hair just dont screw up others
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