One of my closest friends has dreads. She looks amazing with them and they are an extension of her beautiful looks and personality.
I lost my mum to breast cancer in February of this year. Not long after, my sister was diagnosed with breast cancer in March. She's undergone chemotherapy and shaved her head as her hair started falling. She bought a beautiful, handmade, natural hair dreadlock wig. It looks amazing on her.
So I figured that I'm going to dare to dead my own hair. But not by means of the original method of back combing my hair and knotting it to hell. I'm going the "extension" route where you attach dreads to your natural hair by plaiting ready made dreads into your hair and securing them with a little silicone or latex hairband.
I spin my own yarn from pure sheep's fleece. I had some gorgeous wool on hand. So I spin some yarn, plied it on itself, making a double knit yarn. After washing it,I then used 2 strands of this yarn to chain dreads, roughly 50cm in length. I then felted my crocheted chains and stuck them in my dye jar. I've used poppy red. Tomorrow I will rinse them out and apply my next colour: Schwartzkopf red black tint. I'm looking at dyeing the dreads, but leaving the tips the bright red.
