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Ugh, I so hate to get in on a forum fight, but this thread makes me so sad. There is a lot of hating, assuming and verbal punishing going on here. I come here because I love dreadlocks of all kinds. I really do. To each his own.I understand that many people here believe that dreads should be "completely naturally formed" and I get that. They are beautiful that way. They have character and are a different level of commitment and spiritual practice. That's awesome, and I look up to those who are doing it. You rock and your locks are beautiful.Not everyone is there. Not everyone loves the look of totally natural locks. Not everyone is in a life situation to pull it off. For those of us who are it can be too easy to make assumptions about what people should do. How they should change their lives. How they should be willing to quit their jobs, be attacked by their spiritually blind family and friends. How they should buck up and stand tall no matter how much the society beats them down. We don't know where others are. We don't know why each person makes the choices that they make. If we were all the same the world, and this place would be damn boring.No one would come here to discuss locks if we all agreed on everything. It's fine to disagree. It really is. Can't we do it respectfully. Can't we understand that though we disagree we are not better than those with whom we disagree?I'd really be so happy to see everyone being more impeccable with their words here. Share how you feel, without assuming that others should agree... without assuming that our personal views are "right" and others are wrong and then trolling for other Egos invested in the same idea.We all tend to let our locks become part of "who we are" to some degree. However, "who we are" is just a story that we tell our selves and then need others to support, more and more.For what it's worth, I have a couple of friends who have been crocheting their locks for 5-7 years and they are beautiful and there have been no signs of breakage. I cannot tell the difference between their mature locks and the mature locks of my friends who used wax (I know! Eee-gads!!) and who used the neglect method.I listened to SE and chose to neglect. It's hard, and I live in a place that as a community loves and respects locks. I can't hold others to the same choices that I made just because I believe in them.With all due respect, Namastexo
My 8yo son's second set of locks...
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Wow, that sucks. Where are you? We're in Taos, NM. I worry sometimes that he'll have trouble when we travel, but we talk about that sort of thing a lot. One of the reasons we took the kids on the road was to show them the amazing diversity in culture in our own country. Sometimes I think we get a little too comfortable in this hippie-enlightened bubble that Taos seems to be. It's so expected for a person to be totally themselves here. Hoping it makes my kids more grounded in themselves so that when they do face the ugly out there it doesn't cause them so much pain as it always caused me as a child.I grew up in a mill town in Wisconsin. It was a brutal place to be a pale, freckled, poor, redheaded kid.
Mandy said:
And also very lucky to be in an area where dreads are commonplace... oh what I would give for that!
I have a 4 yr old who has dreads as well, and hers look better than mine! xD
I've been in many places from one end of the country to the other, but I've never had so much discrimination for both me AND my daughter as I have in my current town. I think they would actually be more accepting if my daughter had a shaved head than a dreaded head here, lol...
My 8yo son's second set of locks...
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My 8 yo son decided that he wanted his hair locked again. He's been loving mine, his best friend is growing her hair out to begin locking and, well, we live in a place where dreads are a common sight. He had them when he was 6yo, but I didn't know enough about it and thought that I had to palm-roll everyday. He hated it and cut them off :*(This time I gave him the choice of going straight neglect or starting with a little mama-gentle back-combing. He thought about it for a week and decided that he wanted me to start them with combing and then neglect them.He's such a cool little kid. My almost 4yo daughter is asking for them now, but I had to tell her no :*( because her ballet school requires uniform hair and ballet is her true love. It's okay though, cause she loves for me to do all kinds of crazy hairstyles for her on non-ballet days.Here he is after 2/3 installed today reading The Lorax to his sister
updated by @cage-free: 02/05/15 10:12:49AM
Threaded Tips?
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From what I can tell, it's a fairly common form of decoration. Personally I love thread wrapped dreads. I think they're beautiful.
Flat, Xtra Loopy dreads & 60-75% Loss of Length???
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Interesting! My left side is shorter than my right.... Never could figure that phenomenon out either
Flat, Xtra Loopy dreads & 60-75% Loss of Length???
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Thanks for the awesome link! That's exactly what mine are like. I couldn't figure out what what happening to them because I've never seen dreads like mine before. I've seen loopy, but never so crazy as what I have on my head.I live in a place with an exceptionally high number of dreadies (so easy to compare on a daily basis!) and was really starting to wonder if I had done something to wreck mine.I guess my locks didn't want to be outdone by my color in loudness LOLI'll get some pictures today that actually show the loopiness. I've tried before, but I never remember to take them in the daylight and my color doesn't want to show detail well in low, warm light.
Flat, Xtra Loopy dreads & 60-75% Loss of Length???
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I sectioned, backcombed and ever (ever!) so lightly crocheted my hair at the end of May. I haven't done anything but wash and separate since then.I wash my hair every 5-7 days as I always have, and there doesn't seem to be anything to separate anymore. I have not only very dry hair, but live in the high desert of New Mexico. I noticed pretty quickly that I was losing a lot of length with every single wash.Now at about 4.5 months most of my locks are 75% shorter than they were at day one, nearly all of them are flat and insanely loopy. I don't mind the loops, I'm trying to get over the massive loss of length (and the fact that they no longer reach to be pulled back by any sort of clip or band and bug the crap out of me falling into my face all the time), but the flatness of them does actually bother me. I'm not saying that I want manicured looking locks, or that I want them to be uniform or anything like that. Actually, they are uniform... uniformly flat and loopy...My question is this... are they going to round out???Will they stop shrinking before I have nothing but nubs on my head???There are locks that have looped back on themselves so many times that they have huge, hard lumps in them. WTF?
updated by @cage-free: 02/14/15 03:29:00AM
ok what can i do about tooth pain
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Well, it is a matter of saying no to sugar and wheat.
It ain't easy, but it is about choices. Stick to the outer ring of the grocery store (not the isles in the middle) and you will stay away from the grains, sugars, additives, preservatives, chemicals, etc. Stick to the whole foods and it'll work out.rawsum said:
hehehe... you say that like it's just a matter of saying NO to sugar or wheat .. I wishhhhh ! but yes.. that can feed the bacteria that cause teeth and gum issues, very well ! !
Cage Free said:Clove essential oil works well too, and can be easier to administer. Also, cut out any sugar and white flour from your diet!
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