Serious Help! My Hair is Hard 2 Mess With! T-T
 

Yeah. I have dreadlocks, but I love street fashion. I try to buy wigs mostly, but the wigs around here expensive and most aren't VK/Decora/OK/KK material and trying to find good hairspray for dreads is like trying to find a piece of hay in a needle stack: near impossible to do and very painful. What should I do?

Haha, the hard truth:p

couldn't you straighten it in the salon?

while having dreadlocks you can try street fashion it by cutting your hair short (if it isn't already) and tie it up (almost like a snappy braid) to style it. i find it nice for most people.

Well...I can't just cut it off. It's a part of one of my six heritages.....

get ready for ur arms to fall off...

YouTube - SO YOU CAN TAKE OUT DREADLOCKS?

The easiest way to remove dreads is to soak
them in a really good professional conditioner.
This way you can attempt to comb them out .
Try to get the conditioner into the body of the dread
to the inside and work your way toward the roots.

If you wish to keep your long hair be sure
to cut off only a little of the dreads.

If you don't mind short hair cut half the dread away
before you begin the conditioning process.

If this fails you may have to cut closer to the roots.
If you are unsure ask a professional stylist
especially one who is familiar with dreadlocks.

In this case, you're just stuck with dreads =/
But either way, JF is not the place to find advice about dreads.

yeah....ouch........I don't get mine professionally done, I've had them for 16 years.

I dyed light brown them while trying to dye it blue (epic fail....LOL). But my dreads are mid (leaning more towards the thinner part, but still semi-thick)

My dad's a rasta and I have Jamacian in myself. Plus, having known only having dreads since you were a kid doesn't help in knowing what to do with it while ur still living under ur mom's roof at16....

ah k. Just trying to find how to do Harajuku fashions with my hair type is all.

(The truth always hurts.) :(

Good luck. :)

Could try for a monochromatic kind of look? Light brown's not too bad for that, being such a neutral colour.

Maybe dress them up with some sophisticated EGA and give a new spin to it? I can imagine how a creepy-gothic-Victorian look could work with it, especially if they're fairly short, shoulder-length or so. I know it's not what you were thinking of, but I can't really think how to work dreads and decora. D:

He/she could always just chop it off and start over with a new style.

How could it not be? I'd say this forum is pretty open-minded and I think that a lot of the alternatives that are on here would relate well to dreads. (I used to consider getting dreads.. but that's a whole different story, lol)

Crikey mate!

Go and take yourself to get a haircut..

thank you....

Kay. Thank you!

Kay. Give me some time

LOL Thank you.

Here it is on my birthday.

Awww, sweetheart, you look really cute in that outfit! (Aren't face-masks fun?) Actually, that kind of style doesn't look bad with your hair, though I can imagine it'd be hard to go really all-out decora or to do something very different with it.

I think you could do almost any style you wanted! Possibly the trick might be, rather than trying to mess with the hair itself, trying instead to make it interesting by accessorising it with unusual little trinkets that matched your style on the day. That would be easier, and just as effective.

Your dreads probably have the advantage of being quite easy to fix things like corsages in-- I'd recommend trying to make intriguing contrasts of texture and/or colour between your hair and the things you wear in it, and balancing them in a pleasing manner, rather than looking to overwhelm it.

Sadly I don't honestly think the million-clips look would work, now I can see what your hair looks like. It could all too easily become an imbalance of texture, too-small pieces of contrast amongst the detailed texture of the dreads. Perhaps a medium-sized mini top hat or some such would look nice? Not a really little one, but still the kind of size that would fit on a tie-on ribbon or a few clips. Or perhaps a cute pastel-coloured rose corsage? There's masses of things like that on eBay, especially if you're willing to decorate plain bases.

Would you be interested in the kinds of aristo or Victorian looks that might suit you overall?

Yes. Very much thank you! *^-^* Also, yay! A nice person that didn't shoot me down!

LOL. Thank you!

^-^ thanks you

why do people get their hair done in ugly and oily styles as dread locks?

Dread locks aren't necessarily oily =/

But they are ugly. ugh. I hate them.

Ignore the people who obviously know nothing about dreads and are calling them oily and ugly. Your dreads are absolutely gorgeous! Keep rocking your heritage!
I've seen a lot of decora-style people dye the locks in different colors and pull them back in different ways. I also agree with the idea of an add-on here and there. Little bows are pretty easy to come by, and way cute.

Good thing you don't have them, then, cause that'd be a real problem ;)

If u do, then u don't kno. Please don't be ignorant about one's heritage as it gets very offensive. So, if u don't like it don't post flamer comments. thank you.