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Comments on my dreads- Mostly positive
I was wondering what kind of comments everyone has gotten about their dreads. I usually get a comment every time I go out in public. Sometimes, maybe 2-5 comments in a day! Mostly are positive like, "I love your hair!" or "Sweet dreads!". I noticed I get negative attention when I go to hair salons. I work in a group home so I take my clients to get their hair cut from time to time. Today I went to a salon and my clients beautician asked me how long I had been dreading. I told her I had been dreading for about a year and a half. She gives me this smirk and says "Have you ever gotten them redone?" I was confused for a minute, then I remembered I was in a hair salon where people go to get their hair dreaded. I laughed and I told her that all I needed to do was to throw away my hairbrush and my hair products and use baking soda washes with essential oils. The conversation ended very awkwardly. I wish everyone knew the truth about dreads. I am not dirty and I do not live under a rock. So whenever I get negative comments or looks I try to change the view of the ignorant ones. I can proudly say I have changed some negative views on natty dreads!
That is awesome! I live in North Dakota where most are used to seeing "Normal Heads" so I get a lot of stares, especially from elderly men. It's nice to be different. I am my own person and nobody can have hair exactly like mine! Every dread is unique(:
I've had mainly nice comments too "sweet hair, sweet dreads"
I really had to explain them to him, he seemed rather confused just looking at them lol.
Ive gotten the wierd ones too, are those real? Is that your hair?
are they extensions.. Etc.. I had like an 85year old man (like OLD lol)
once ask me how i curled my hair so,
I told him there not curls and proceeded to walk closer to him and show them upclose.
I explained that they were really just lots and lots of little knots
He told me that I was beautiful for looking different, and the world needed people to be themselves no matter what. It was really great getting such a nice compliment from such a person who had lived through so many generations ( and prolly some judgmental ones at that)
not everyone notices that i'm going all natural, but people loves my curls... Some people ask to touch them.
I love it when people glare or whisper. I love my dreads so much I could care less about what other people think.
And my dreads change every day. If your's are only six months there is a lot of magic to keep happening! I am about a year and a half and I'm still amazed of how they can mature and change like that!
Some nights I wear a wool tam to bed and that really helps.
I haven't had any comments from random people yet but about 3 weeks after I stopped brushing my elder daughter asked me if I'd backcombed my hair lol.
I'm six months in neglect method and people are always telling me," you should get dreads" smh...
i never get negative comments really
but i do get a perverse satisfaction out of the ugly glares i get when strolling by a salon or barber shop lol