About Dread Mama

365 Day 350 Loop May 15th 2009

Dread Mama Back Shot February 1st 2009

I’m Trula and this is my dreadlocks and loose natural hair blog, associated with my book Dread Mama: Beautiful, Natural, Successful Locks. My current set of locks were started in 1998 and prior to that I had dreadlocks from 1992-1997. This blog includes lots of photos and how-to instructions for dreadlocks and other natural hair styles and will include excerpts from my book.

Prior to having dreadlocks I wore my natural hair in various styles from afros to cornrows to single braids. I am a big fan of natural afro-textured hair, not for political reasons but simply because it is beautiful hair. I strongly encourage those with this kind of hair (which comes in varying textures and colors) to embrace their natural hair. Your hair will grow in abundance once you free it from chemical and/or strong heat treatments.

I can be reached at trubreck at gmail dot com, or leave a comment here on the blog. All the photos are my own and include pics of me and my children with different hairstyles of natural hair. You can also check out all my Dread Mama photos in my Dread Mama flickr Gallery . The Dread Mama blog is part of the MSPmedia network. Thanks for coming by and if you have a site, please link me!

Strawset Dreadlocks

Trula Straw Set 2004 Dreadlocks Trula Strawset Dreadlocks 2004

Mohawks, Frohawks & Cuts

After the Dreadlocks Take-Out Summer 2005 The Boy Bops Back To School August 21st 2008

Bantu Knots

Bantu Knots August 2005 Bantu Knots August 2005

Afros

Trula's Daughter May 2007 Afro Dread Mama: S-bop's Wild Curly Fro

Dreadlocks Take-Down

Dreadlocks Take Down 2005 My daughter I-bop June 2005

Dread Mama’s Loose Hair

Mercury's Dreadlock Hairstyle September 2008 365 Day 21: Sprained Ankle B&W June 14th 2008

This post written by Trula. Thanks for visiting Dread Mama!


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10 Responses to “About Dread Mama”

  1. i love the photos,the lox must be special.
    blessings!

  2. thank you! I appreciate that :)

  3. What a beautiful website you have! Nice to have stumbled upon it.

    Lyn

  4. thankyou! :)

  5. hey first of all let me say you have lovely dreads and your site is really cool i would like to ask you how many locks do you have to me it seems like more then 100 :P

  6. probably; I really don’t know. I’ll count them soon-ish :)

  7. Love you locks!

  8. thank you :)

  9. Hi my name is Angela Johnson, and I am thirteen yrs. old and almost my whole family has “locks” as we like to call them, because there is nothing dreadful about them. I was looking for some hairstyles for locked hair when i saw you’re ad on google. When I got here I was happy to see many styles.

    THANX luv angie

  10. You’re welcome Angela, thank you for visiting!

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