Thank you so much everyone! I think the most important thing to do is just to relax and don't worry to much cos that wont help anyone. Be a part of the solution instead of the problem and just raise as much awarness as possible
It is easy to just complain without any personal action towards your goal and to blaim someone else instead of doing your part to the big picture. It's a fine line to balance on... not sure if i make any sense here... hmm just so much i want to say...
Hello everyone!
First of all thank you everyone for contributing to this site and to SE for starting all this! And apologizing to my fairly bad english.
My name is Alex. I study music and play with a band called Blue Orchid(currently recording our debut album). More than that are not interesting for you so i will go straight into the dreadiness. My hair has been dreaded now for 2 years wich i'm glad to tell you since "getting" dreads wasn't that easy.
My parents reaktion to me saying i wanted dreads was not pretty, everyone here in sweden do not have the knowledge of dreads (although a lot of people have them) and the generall belief is that they are filthy and so did my parents. However, after some discussion and bribing we agreed on me having dreads when i got accepted into the musicprogram i had as my goal and where i currently is doing my final year.
So 2 and years ago i begun doing loads of research on dreads which (obviously) led me onto the two sites KB and DHHQ... but i was not convinced! I didn't buy their talk about all the products and gunk and blahblah. Somewhere i thought there is an easier and cheaper way so i, in retrospect regretebly, the crochet-needle. PAIN! it was. But i got thru it and boy did they look great! Perfect even! So i went along with that process once every 2 months for a year. At that point i was no longer happy about the result of the needle, it did no longer feel natural to me, something was not right and so did the research begin again!
After some time i stumbled across this site and all the pieces fell to the right place. If there ever was a piece of mother earth on internet, this is it i thought and from that point on i do absolutely nothing with my hair except washing it with natural soap(from a lokal store) and bath my hair in tea once in a while and i could not be happier.
It took like 5 or 6 months til my hair calmed down from the crochet process and started to dread on it's own but from that point on in went fast! Some are a bit loose in the ends and some are beginning to congo and i love every minute of it. A piece of nature is living freely in me for the world to see!
Namaste and love!
Alex Heino
