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@Gazzunger-the-grey

I’ll take your ginger I think ginger hair is great! If we’re forced to isolate I’ve already got plans to do all the DIY jobs that I keep saying I don’t have time for is it as bonkers down where you are as it is up here with the panic-buyers? I struggled to get dog food yesterday! I understand the fear to an extent, but I don’t understand where people are getting the money or time for shop raiding! A multicoloured dreadlocked rubbish mural sounds awesome, and a bag full in half an hour is actually kinda heartbreaking! I have heard of The Levellers, and I would love to see them play I’ve heard it gets a bit mental at their shows! I don’t actually know what any of them look like though so I’ll have to have a Google What does Dreckly mean? I’m assuming like slowly?

@soaring-eagle
Hi SE, hope you’re keeping well I know it’s not great for your hair or scalp and is no longer recommended, which is why I only used a little bit of each baking soda and vinegar, and made sure to give everything a good rinse, moisturise my hair with some aloe and a little essential oil, and up my vitamin and water intake just needed to get out whatever was in there because it was making me itch and things were looking a little dull I have invested in some larger scarves so I can wrap it all up better when I have to work in the dirtier places, we were working on an aluminium furnace and those places are full of this horrible dust like stuff that gets everywhere! I think that’s probably what it was because it makes my hands itch too there aren’t any chicken bones in my house, I’m still on that vegetarian diet and my fiancée won’t eat meat on the bone, but I get your point, ACV BAD!

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Hey guys so I did a deep clean last night with the baking soda and apple cider vinegar rinse because I’ve been working in some dirty places, and there was like a fine grit in there, where did that come from?! but it’s all out now.

@peaceful-passer
I soaked some sage and rosemary in the apple cider vinegar bottle a few days before to infuse it a bit and I think it might be bringing out my ginger bits!

@gazzunger-the-grey
A rubbish assistant what about taking the project to a school? A team of kids could help you sort it and arrange it all, might inspire more litter pickers, like a whole new generation!

Here’s a pic of my fresh clean hair, the lightings a bit bright but I can see a little ginger tint coming through!

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@gazzunger-the-grey

Is it the side you sleep on? The side I sleep in has bigger dreads than the side I don’t, they’re all skinny! Shrinkage is good though, they’ll be so strong!

I’ll have to have a think about the toothbrush art, but you should definitely see if your local council would be up for a ‘rubbish’ art piece displayed somewhere, if it’s all from the beach you could make it sea themed!

And I’m sure you’d do a great job, I think artistry is more about the ideas and inspiration behind a piece, technical skill can be learned but ideas come from within, that’s where the magic is

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@peaceful-passer

You do a great messy bun! That crochet hair tie is great, I’ll have a go at making one soon, like your tree of life charm too! 😊 I’ll definitely try experimenting with herbs and stuff, see if I can get some of the colour richness you have, it’s lovely 😊

@gazzunger-the-grey

Thank you 😊 my friend thinks my growth rate has something to do with the amount of almonds I eat (apparently far too many!) but I can’t remember how that had anything to do with hair?! I am the litter picker 😂 a collage would be awesome, taking trash and making it treasure, also could bring a bit more awareness to environmental issues if you display it somewhere. People would look away from a pile of rubbish but an art piece would make them look. When I was in Barmouth there was a stall that did beach walks and they made all sorts out of the rubbish, I brought a bowl made with discarded blue rope, I love it. They told me that every plastic toothbrush ever made still hasn’t broken down yet, so I use a bamboo one now and I use the older ones for cleaning! They found a little toy from a cereal box washed up on the beach and managed to trace it to the 60’s, still looked fine, and a jar full of the old smarties tube caps.

I’d love to see an update on your hair, how long have you been going for now?

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@peaceful-passer

Just checked your page out, you’re gorgeous too lady and your hair is amazing! Seen that you’re nearly at the one year mark, congrats! it’s a lovely colour too, got some real depth and richness, mine looks a bit dull at times maybe a rinse of some sort, I think I read that rosemary is good for brunettes? ... I’m wandering again 😂 anyway, I love your hair, I’m looking forward to mine getting longer, I think my shrinkage has matched my growth!

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@peaceful-passer

Aww, thanks ☺️ Yes, hair ties, I was using those plastic-y spiral ones because I used to break the elastic ones on my loose hair before! A crochet one is a good idea, I love crochet 🧶 I know what you mean about it just staying put even when it’s only loosely tied up, it feels nicer! How long have you been dreading for now?

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Hi people 👋🏻 so it’s been a while! Hope everyone is still good, my hair has changed so much, but unfortunately I stopped taking photos last April, I think, because my depression hit kinda hard and I stopped doing most things! I’m 1 year and 4 ish months in to my freeform/natural (?) thing and things went from tangled loopy sections to something that resembles dreads, practically overnight at around the 13 month mark. I have no idea what I did differently but it seemed to just happen all of a sudden! Last time I counted I had 75 dreads and a few strands of loose hair here and there! It’s weird because people I’ve seen regularly since I started this whole thing have only now noticed that my hair is different, it’s gone from people being too polite to say my hair looks messy to people asking when I got dreads done 😂 it’s also all of a sudden too big for my bobbles so I’m looking at making a spiral thingy this weekend! I’ve just washed my hair with a soap bar for the first time and it was ... weird 🤔 and microfibre towels are a game changer, another first!

Anyway, let me know what’s going on with all of you, have great days/evenings/whatever 😊

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@peaceful-passer - Hi 😊 That’s a wonderful thing to do with your family, when I have kids I’d like to do the same. I want to invest in one of those grabber sticks so I can get to the things in the bushes without getting my hair all stuck 😂

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Hi all 👋🏻 Hope everyone is good, I have loads of daily photos to upload at some point (think I’ll dig out my laptop to do it on though!) I’m now at around 7 1/2 months, and things are getting a lot more knotty! I have one congo (not huge thankfully!) because I neglected to separate for a while, but I actually really like it! My sections like to spiral around each other and these two just fused in the middle, but like I said, the root section is not huge so I’m not too worried about it. I have quite a few bumps and loops popping up, loads of loose hair still, and very little change at the front of my head, but I know that’s the last to lock up anyway. It’s grown approximately 6 inches and has filled out a lot which I think is the trapped natural shed hair making everything more mane-like! I tried a few loose cross-cross hair wraps on the dreads that like to suck all surrounding hair in because I was worried they were going to become massive sections, and I liked the wraps, it kept everything somewhat separated when things got mad busy for me. I’m still having to wear my hair up a lot for work, for safety unfortunately so there’s no real getting around that, but I’m letting it all loose as soon as possible to give it as much ‘down-time’ as I can.

As for other updates, Billy the orphaned kitten (now around 9 months old) had a run in with either another cat, a bird, or possibly a twig, but whatever it was damaged his eye quite badly and it had to be removed 😢 so he’s now affectionately known as ‘One-eyed Will’ not that I think he even notices that he only has one eye now, it hasn’t really changed him at all!

I’m still practicing a mostly vegetarian diet (still eating fish and seafood around twice a week) and I’m working on cutting it out completely. I’m also looking at cutting down on rubbish (any tips are welcome and fully encouraged!) I’m trying and mostly failing to grow my own fruits and vegetables, I have limited space and no green thumb! So far the only promising plant I have is six pea sprouts, but that’s six more than I’ve ever had before, so it’s a win? 🤷🏻‍♀️ And I’m trying to make ‘Rubbish Walks’ an at least monthly thing in my local woods (picking up litter while walking, and disposing of it properly, recycling what I can) it’s actually quite fun! And I was on a short girls holiday recently, near the Welsh coast, where we found a stall that did ‘Rubbish Beach Walks’ and work to keep the oceans rubbish free, they made things out of the rubbish they collected and I brought a lovely bowl made out of discarded rope! My next green project (when I have the funds) is a composting dog waste bin, because our current solution to our GSD Luther’s ‘leavings’ is unfortunately the general waste bin (we’ve tried flushing it and it clogs the toilet, yes they are that big 🤮) and no, he will absolutely not ‘go’ during a walk, nowhere but our small garden! We took him camping with us for a week and he was distraught, he held it for two days and would then only do it right outside the tent! 🤦🏻‍♀️

Anyway, I’m rambling a bit now, oh! I’m also weight training again when I have the time, me and a friend are entering a competition in September I think, so that’s exciting! Ok, I’m done now, hope you’re all awesome, tell me what’s going on with you 😊

Amor y paz, friends!

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Hi 😊 I’m dreading natural too and I don’t think the messiness is really that noticeable. I have a frizzy aura some days but mostly it kinda just looks like I have curly hair, especially if I wear it up. I’ve been taking a photo every day and posting them up on my page if you want to see a daily progress sort of thing, I’m almost at 6 months. Your hair is quite short at the moment to really see much happening for a bit, but I’ve read that curly hair does dread quicker so once you get a bit more length I think it’ll dread really nicely 😊