so hi
my name is mathilde, i'm 16 years and from denmark. i recently started dreading my hair the natural way, so i can't really see anything yet.
anyway, i wanted to grow dreads because... well, my entire life i've just felt kinda different from the people around me - i don't use makeup, i don't have an iphone, i don't really use my computer, i don't buy expensive clothes, i don't shave i don't color my hair, i'm vegan, i don't use any products to feal more beautiful and all that, so yearh.. not like all my friends. anyway, i felt different even before i became vegan and everything like that. like i want to do something meaningsful in my life and i want to make the world a better place and i like to read and write and be in the nature and everything. so anyway, in grade 6 i colored my hair all black. i was sure, that the entire "emo" thing was just me, so i meet those people, starting hanging out with them, going to concerts, started smoking and all that. i still, however, felt different. because they didn't care about anything. they cared about themselves and their eyeliner, and that wasn't really me. so i let the color dye out and became "normal" again, but i still needed people to know that i wasn't like them. so i started wearing all dresses and be like a really sweet girl, but once again, these girls just wanted the perfect man in their life and two lovely kids, and i'm not like that either, so... i went back to normal once again, trying to figure out what to do next, so this time i started paying attention to expensive clothes and i started buying that and everything, believeing that these people might cared about it, because they cared about their clothes so much... well, they didn't. so i went back to normal once again, not knowing what to do.
however, when i wasn't in one of my phrases i wouldn't wear makeup, color my hair, use my computer, phone or anything like that. and i started wondering what really would show people, that i care about different things than if my nailpolish is black or grey and if my foundation is bad (since im not using it), so when i read about natural dreadlocks, i was like: well, why not go all natural then? so that's what i did. and still doing.
so i'm growing dreadlocks because i always felt that something in my life is missing. i needed to show the "real" me, so i'm really hoping, that this is what i've missed all along and that i'm finally able to settle.
updated by @mathilde: 01/13/15 09:58:12PM