To Wax or Not to Wax? That is The Question

Short answer: NOOOOOO!
Don't do it.
Step away from the wax, don't touch it, don't pick it up, don't smell it, and whatever you do don't put it in your hair!
Don't do anything but make candles with it.

Okay? Got it?

Why? You ask.

Long answer: Wax will coat your hair and actually make the dreading process longer.
Yep thats right, I said it.
 But Island Mamma it can't be so, the wax will help my dreads grow, the wax company told me so!
They lied.
They are a company there to make money.
They bought into a lie too and are now trying to sell it to you.

Hair needs to knot and loop onto each other to form dreadlocks.

Wax is a coating that will prevent the hair cuticles from grabbing onto each other.
So basically you glue your hair together, creating the illusion of a dreadlock and the dreads form above the waxed area from the roots down. What results is a heavy, sticky mass, that collects dirt and traps water.
you eventually will have ot cut them off because they will be too heavy and stiff.

It's totally unnecessary and dirty.

Wax, being sticky, traps and holds dirt, fluffs, scents and water. Yuck!
Thats where the stinky dready stereotype comes from.
Some poor soul was suckered into using wax and made themselves some moldy, stiff candle stick locks, goes around and people smell them and viola, they think all dreadlocks are nasty.

You don't need an emulsion of oil, water and wax happing in you locks.

Oil turns rancid and rank if trapped and water turns to mold.
All things you do not want in your locks.

JUST SAY NO WAX!

How do you make dreads?

The fascinating thing about dreads is that you don't have to make them!
They will make themselves, hair happily congregates together and dreads naturally with no help.
That is know as the natural progression, the neglect method or the way to dreadlocks.

So, why do you want dreads, exactly?

I first thought of having dreads when I was in my early twenties but didn't go with it for various reasons, most being fear and misconceptions.
Fear of rejection, fear of scrutiny, fear of how I would look, fear of permanency. 
That type of thing.
I don't have those fears any more. 


I thought dreads would smell or people wouldn't like me if I had them.
I thought maybe people would think I was trying to be a Rasta or that only black people should have them. 
Thank goodness I don't have those misconceptions anymore. 

I want them for a few different reasons. 
Some of which are personal and others not so much. 

One reason being that I like dreads and my daughter Kiah's hair is dreading and I thought that would be the perfect time to start mine.


I like the freedom of dreads.
I love the look of dreads.  
I love the cleanliness of dreads, yes they are clean. 
I love having a chemical free head.

Lately I have a strong urge to let go of everything that controls me.
Hence the TV, coffee, smoking, white sugar free life style blah blah blah.
So basically for me it's just the time to do it.