A friend asked me the other day to explain the reasons for dreading my hair. So here you go:
1. "Dreads symbolize the natural growth/of not just the hair, but also of the mind." Thank you, Arrested Development.
2. anti-consumerism. No money on shampoo, styling products, cuts. I love that.
3. effortless style. emphasis on effortless. style, I guess, is in the eye of the beholder.
4. what style effort I do spend is on finding pretty scarves, screen-printed bandanas, and such. It's fun.
5. People may make assumptions about me, but I find they are not bad assumptions. Especially in my city, in my neighborhood, I think people see "a hippy chick who means no harm." That's not a bad image for a white girl in the hood.
6. satisfies my astrologically Leonine desire for a mane.
7. An exercise in patience, long term. Change is seen not in weeks, but years. More like life. (see #1.)
8. I'm a little bit country, I'm a little bit rock-n-roll.
2 comments:
I :big puffy heart: your dreads. And I love your hippy chick in the hood comment. You could rename your blog that, lol.
that was well thought dawn, i like that. the other day i saw this guy who had dreads, perfectly sculpted and crafted, down almost to his waist. (and he was tall, not a jockey or something like that.)
i thought... jeez.. that must've taken like ten years.
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