My hair tied up in knots. No secret to it, just tied up in knots. This blog entry written by Trula. Thanks for visiting Dread Mama!
I get this question a lot. How long your hair takes to fully lock up varies from person to person. It depends on how thick your hair is and the dreading method you use. If you use a back-coming method or hair-knitting type method, it might seem like your hair is dread-locked instantly, whereas using [...]
Well kind of an up-do; hair pulled up and hanging to side. Here I am just talking to my favorite plant. Did you know, I’m as into plants & gardening as I am dreadlocks? This blog entry written by Trula Breckenridge. Thanks for visiting Dread Mama!
I have been accused on more than one occasion of having ‘fashion’ locks. Because I am not Rastafarian or any other religion that for whom dreadlocks have religious significance. Because I curl my locks. Because I wash my locks. Because I have cut off my locks. Because I have trimmed my locks. Because I unraveled [...]
I had my hair all wrapped up today like a big nest piled on my head. It started to come down mid-day and had fallen to this point by day’s end. I like the way I wrapped it around the front. Subscribe to Dread Mama by Email
As you may know my hair is VERY long, nearly long enough to sit on. I have been wanting to trim my locks to an even belly-button length but my husband asked me to not cut my hair. So I have been experimenting around with different ways to put my hair up as I am [...]
As you may know my hair is VERY long, nearly long enough to sit on. I have been wanting to trim my locks to an even belly-button length but my husband asked me to not cut my hair. So I have been experimenting around with different ways to put my hair up as I am [...]
My daughter I-bop October 1993. Her very first set of dreadlocks. Subscribe to Dread Mama by Email
This is an old pic and brings back so many memories. Here I am with my daughter I-bop a little after her birthday. She was 2 and I was 19. Check out my wacky eyebrows LOL! um yah I actually thought that was cute. My baby girl was adorable!! and she still is. Our hair: [...]
Wha-??? Freeman has done it by emphasizing discipline. He let it be known at the first team meeting that the new sheriff maintained high standards. It began with the dress code: no dreadlocks, braids or puffy Afro haircuts, no earrings during practices or games, no baggy pants.Read full article Subscribe to Dread Mama by Email
ZIMBABWE’S Supreme Court on Wednesday passed a landmark ruling barring school authorities from expelling deadlocked students from learning institutions on grounds of their hairstyles. Seven-year-old Glen Norah boy, Farai Benjamin Dzvova, 7, who comes from a Rastafarian family, was barred from Ruvheneko government primary school on account of his hairstyle last year, forcing his father [...]
Here’s a clearer pic of my dreads, the other full-length pic wasn’t very clear. My hair is getting long enough to sit on…a few of my dreads I can actually sit on. I was going to trim them to all be waist-length but my husband asked me not to. He adores my long hair! I’ve [...]
Here are some blogs and websites about dreadlocks and/or natural afro-textured hair I like. I will be adding to the list on a regularly so check back! Dreadlock BlogsRed Dread Loose Natural Hair BlogsAfrobellaNappy Love Subscribe to Dread Mama by Email
Here I am with my first set of dreadlocks. This was 1992 when I first moved to Cleveland, OH and I was 20 years old. These were the locks I cut in 1997. I started my current set of locks in early 1998. Subscribe to Dread Mama by Email
These pictures are from early 2001, about 2 years after starting my second set of dreadlocks. They were taken with a digital camera. They were about 10-12 inches long. The front of my hair is unlocked, that’s my “bang”. I like it because it can alter my look depending on how I feel: I can [...]
These photos are from late August 2005. I put my hair up in a style called bantu knots. After I took them down a few days later, my locks were very curly. The curls lasted about a week. Click on pics to see big Subscribe to Dread Mama by Email
Here are pictures from the 5-6 months of so in-between the time I cut off my first set of locks to starting my second set. I had about three inches of growth during this time. The first picture is my hair in knots, they are called Bantu knots. I did it myself. I liked this [...]
Check me out! This is me in 1994, early September. This is my first set of dreadlocks, the ones I cut off in 1997. I was also pregnant with s-bop in this photo; he was born early November 1994. Whenever people don’t believe me that I didn’t know I was pregnant, I show them this [...]
Ok so I am feeling like I want to cut my hair. Cut it! It has gotten so long and cumbersome, I almost feel like it is another person I have to carry it around. I’m always flinging it out of my way or tying it up in a bun. I like hair wraps but [...]
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