Welcome! Just some advice if you want some...beeswax is not good for long time dreads (dramaticallyincreases your chances of mold and other problems) ask any one here and crochet causes damage too but that all depends on what you are looking for. If you want tips on how to get stronghealthylocks that will last a lifetime you are in the right place.
Well I have two that the ends are quite hard and they are the first ones that formed so it is normal IMO. You might need tomoisturizethem when they are older. If it was mold you would smell it when it was wet the smell of mold is quite strong, it wouldlinger, follow you around.
mercy ~ said:
nOOOO!!!!!! i didnt use wax haha ew!! they just turned 2 months old the other day. i always forget to ask someone to smell it when i get done washing and their wet but i did when their dry and my friend said it didnt smell like mildew or mold at all. what do mature dreads feel like???
I like that..monkey suit...
Mariah Chan said:
I'm so glad that my office doesn't have a dress code, so I can rock out any natural hairstyle that I want! It's always great that I don't have to wear a monkey suit and pretend to fit into society's regulations
Yup people are weird...That is something the woman who did not want to get served by you and asked for you to get fired, some people are so hung up on looks it's sad.
Thanks. A lot of our 'morals' areold tribal habits. Example empathy or the desire to help perfect strangers. There is no reason to, it does not give any evolutionaryadvantageto help some one we will never see again so why do we feel the need to? In a tribe helping someone always payed off because no one was a strangers and we would always get back what we 'invested'. This created a natural selection that the mosthelpfulpeople in the tribe had a greater chance of survival and passing on genes. Today helping a stranger is a kind of 'misfiring' of this trait. Like a bug flying into a camp fire. Some bugs use the sun or stars to navigate but camp fires (and porch lights) are a modern invention so them flying into it is the misfiring of their ability to navigate with the sun and stars.
hippiegal said:
That's very insightful, I think you're onto something. We still need to be alert to what's happening around us, but being able to tell real threats from harmless differences is what distinguishes an aggressively conformist society from one that's tolerant of diversity. There's an evolutionary benefit in diversity as well. Cultural random mutation, perhaps. I'm just tossing around ideas here.
Interesting discussions. I love it when some of you share some personalexperience. When I first let my beard grow it got big fast and EVERYBODY made a comment on it, it freak people out nobody wasindifferent. I miss my beard but my skin was doingweirdtings and I had to shave the last one I had...I had two nice locks forming ( I put braids in my beard and they where locking up nicely). Reaction todifferenceis very natural it's part of how we evolve andsurvivedfor so long. Many of our social habits are 'residues' of our wild ancestors. We are domesticated (some more then others) andpredominantsocial conduct or reactions are evolutionary habits that survived until today. Some are useful others not and some limit us.
Just this week a friend of the family that I did not see in a while said to me " No you can not have dreads just by doing nothing, come on Jon what are you talking about?Jamaicans twist their hair to have dreadlocks." I replied "well maybe some but not all and it is notnecessary, just look at mine...see? All I do is washand see I have locks" He said " no no you need to twist them dreads do not just 'happen' " ...WTF? Seriously!Usuallystuff like this does not bother me but it was soooo much in acondescendingtone that it struck a nerve. I kept my cool and just walk away. Like I said some times facts just clash with peoples understanding of things that they refuse to accept reality even when it is in front of them.
Denney Coning said:
A black dude I work with told me once that white people can't have dreadlocks. He said they just have oily tangles. Right after he made this statement a black chick that was eaves dropping on the conversation said "Then how come this white guy right here has nicer dreadlocks than yours?" He hasn't spoken to me in 2 years.
Thank you.
Baba Fats said:
Neither did I. It is a great analogy.
soaring eagle said:ha yea much easier to imagine men are made of clay
and women are made of a mans rib
that makes so muchmore logical sence then the fossil evidence of 1 species evolving from another
i guess thats why ppl thing dreads are made in a day from wax (clay) and bone (hooks)
i never thought dreading naturaly versus crochet related to creationism vs evolution
Well yeah for some species (not all) depending on a lot of factors but that's an all other debate and topic...back to the topic yes I agree that people don't put 2 and 2 together like so many other tings (like evolution 
) it's aboutknowledgeandintellectualhonesty.
Baba Fats said:
Many people see the process, but they never put 2 and 2 together that the nappy hair you saw on someone was going to end up as locks.
And evolution has been proven to happen pretty quickly. By that I mean that it just pops up. There's little to noin between process. It's been a puzzle for evolutionary biologists for decades
I think an other major factor is most people see the end result of locks and not the long process. Imagining the time and the transformation of the hair before it looks like dreadlocks is somewhat of a mystery for most. Makes me think of evolution and why a lot of people have a hard time accepting it, much longer process of course
