http://www.flickr.com/photos/rhomany/tags/dreadlocks/ Wed, 03 Aug 2011 04:06:06 -0700 Wed, 03 Aug 2011 04:06:06 -0700 http://www.flickr.com/ http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7407/buddyicons/12695936@N00.jpg?1369225989#12695936@N00 http://www.flickr.com/photos/rhomany/tags/dreadlocks/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/rhomany/6004578171/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/rhomany/">Rhomany</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rhomany/6004578171/" title="My Dreads"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6030/6004578171_00d357732f_m.jpg" width="157" height="240" alt="My Dreads" /></a></p> <p>Thought I'd share a quick picture of my dreads from the back. They're not a spiritual journey or anything, they're the result of being too lazy to deal with my curly hair and too poor to spend £s on special products to get it to look half decent.<br /> I don't use any wax or special products just regular non-conditioning shampoo and a hairdryer.<br /> They were started with backcombing and a bit of crochet just around the roots to get them going. Now I just wash them regularly, pull apart the roots to keep them separated and sew in any long root hairs that refuse to dread.<br /> The coloured wraps are thin baby ribbon and embroidery threads. I have 42 all together - I started with 37, but have no idea where the other 5 came from. They're 26&quot; inches average from root to tip and mostly somewhere between pencil width and Sharpie size. I recently extended a few very short ones on top and around the front. The ones underneath are natural, but the shorter ones had shrunk to about 6-8 inches and were very annoying and meant I couldn't put them up properly. I comb the ends to keep them loose because I don't like the look of rounded ends.<br /> I've worn dreads since 2005 but they used to be extensions. Now they're all mine and firmly attached to my head. Going on 2 years for these and I love them more every day.</p> Wed, 03 Aug 2011 04:06:06 -0700 2011-07-31T09:11:51-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (Rhomany) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/6004578171 My Dreads <p>Thought I'd share a quick picture of my dreads from the back. They're not a spiritual journey or anything, they're the result of being too lazy to deal with my curly hair and too poor to spend £s on special products to get it to look half decent.<br /> I don't use any wax or special products just regular non-conditioning shampoo and a hairdryer.<br /> They were started with backcombing and a bit of crochet just around the roots to get them going. Now I just wash them regularly, pull apart the roots to keep them separated and sew in any long root hairs that refuse to dread.<br /> The coloured wraps are thin baby ribbon and embroidery threads. I have 42 all together - I started with 37, but have no idea where the other 5 came from. They're 26&quot; inches average from root to tip and mostly somewhere between pencil width and Sharpie size. I recently extended a few very short ones on top and around the front. The ones underneath are natural, but the shorter ones had shrunk to about 6-8 inches and were very annoying and meant I couldn't put them up properly. I comb the ends to keep them loose because I don't like the look of rounded ends.<br /> I've worn dreads since 2005 but they used to be extensions. Now they're all mine and firmly attached to my head. Going on 2 years for these and I love them more every day.</p> Rhomany dreadlocks hair longhair dreads