I’ve lately considered cutting off my dreadlocks. I like them, but not like I used to. I am probably more scared about how I will feel when I lose them. I’ve cut off my dreadlocks before, and mourned until my hair was long enough to start again. I’m also concerned about my image. Having dreadlocks says alot about the person I am, and apart from being asked if I have any pot, I’m pretty happy with how I think people see me. If I were to cut them off, what would my image be? Now I can wear anything and the dreads still are the winner when people form their opinion of me. Having dreads means you don’t have to worry about anything else.
So I thought I would share my dreadlock adventure before they departed me, especially how to make dreadlocks. Why? Isn’t this information out there? It seems to be, but I think 99% of it is crap. Total bollocks.
I have never let anyone else touch them. They are my own work. I put product in them twice. Twice ever. Thats right, only twice in 5 years. When I first put them in, and two weeks later. Now I don’t do any upkeep. None. In summer I wash them once a week, in winter when they start itching, and they don’t smell.
Dreadlocks shouldn’t be hard work. They shouldn’t need wax all the time, and they should need no rubber bands or cotton or any other scheme to keep them together. They just sit there, and you play with them.
Interested in how to make your own dreadlocks with no help, that look good, and don’t require any product after the first few weeks? Tune in for Part 2, coming as soon as I write it, and more particularly my photographer gets back into the country.
For now some frequently asked questions.
You didn’t do them yourself, you got a professional.
Okay so not a question, but the answer I give is “whatever”. I take pride in the fact that no one else has ever touched them, and it’s going to stay that way.
Don’t they itch -or- can you wash them?
Yes. Not if its summer and I’ve washed them once a week. In winter they won’t dry if I don’t sit in front of a heater for an hour, so the answer then is - hell yes. I wash, mainly the roots. The rest is like a sponge and sucks up as much shampoo as you through at it. It gets clean though. The outsite at least, the insides of a dreadlock will form a later part of this series. Anyone with access to a lab that can tell you the what certain things are like in NCIS, email me.
No way, but your a minister. What does the church way about that?
Nearly as common as ’so your training to be a priest, so you’re not going to get married’. My church says nothing. Okay some of the older members have said something. One (one of my favourites) asked the Vicar if I could shave and cut my hair (at this stage I resembled that good father lion from Lion King), because she thought the others weren’t taking me seriously. She was smart. Proved by the fact she loved my preaching.
Know where I can get some weed?
no, and further weed cannot help you escape the coming judgement.
(I’m still actually to try this - but have practiced my serious face enough that it should be good.)
Stay tuned for part 2, The First Week - which has the basics, and Part 3, the next 2 weeks. After that there should just be about 3 things left to say, ever.
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