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Summary: Dread Head
Review: I have had dreadlocks for 3 years and I love them. In the beginning I was always asked how I could do this to my hair. It was hard, in the beginning, to make people understand why I had chosen to do this. Now it is very simple. The people in this book used the same language that I now do. They spoke from their soul. The pictures were awesome. The explanation of the history and spirituality of dreadlocks was powerful. I am even thinking about giving this book as gifts to those who still question me about my hair.
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Summary: complimenting words and images.
Review: I like this book nice photography
I like what the interviewed are saying...
if you don't know that dreads were fashionable in japan in the 1990's and that graveyard meditators(sadhus) wear locs then here
is something educational for you.
This book is underrated and makes a nice browse through light read with pictoral stimulation.
Of course alice walker my favourite black sister is in the book
writing the foreword.
This book is like having group therapy or interviewing other women,but it is not all black women's views.I am reviewng it because I think it is worth a read.As you may or may not know African coily hair is quite unique in vision, texture, behaviour and probably in chemical make up too. Coily haired women around the world, go to the most extremes in terms of spending.
(Spending time, spending pain and the spending price to have African coily hair styled)
A hairstyle that we believe looks good or will help us to become socially and economically advanced.
Or maybe for our own self-esteem and maybe to attract the charms of a love interest.
Either way, psychologically and philosophically I believe that your hair is a reflection of the state of your consciousness, your internal beliefs and your relationship with the world.
What about exploring physics through african hair?
For example how much pressure, gravity and tension and tearing do we put our hair through by combing it?
let alone excessive harsh combing.
Mathematically speaking how many of you readers can tell me how many curls/coils per inch your hair has, and does it vary in coil and moisture?
Next question:When does the nature of the hair change and why?
(i know it does!)
It seems to me all these books on afro hair are good and I welcome it, but we still need to be more informed and they all seem to need better editing, just like Black American beauty magazines.I must campaign for better grammar and less air brushed photos!!!
It is as if we like to see ourselves falsely rather than the reality of what we are...
Black women need to demand more scientific reasoning from our books and be less competitive over black men which only fuels their egos and as a result probably creates more baby-mothers!!!
Sorry but I had to vent out my opinions. I maintain that it is still worth reading this book,more than any carcinogenic chemical so called hair treatment that you pay for. Anyway what do I know I am a black african british woman!!!!
Most of you Americans think we in Britain have no trains or any kind of progressive development!!!
Anyway if I wrote my book answering my questions that I put to you how many of you would buy it?
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Summary: A sword for all true dreads.
Review: I live in Brisbane, Australia. I am 1/4 Greek, 1/4 Danish, 1/4 English and 1/4 Scottish. I come from a strict but loving Christian home. I have dreads. I don't have dreads for fashion, nor to prove a point or gain spiritual enlightenment. I have dreads because I like them. This book is a weapon for all people who are looked down upon and called 'smelly' or 'dirty' for the simple reason that they have chosen to stop brushing their hair. My hair has never been healthier since I gave it its freedom. I show this book to anyone who is interested in my hair, and to anyone who tries to convince me that it is dirty, unhealthy, smelly, unattractive, evil, etc etc. This book proves to me that God made our hair to be naturally beautiful. I sometimes find it hard to believe I used to cut my hair every four weeks and brush it and gel it whenever it didn't do what I wanted it to. People sometimes try to tell me that I am only growing dreads to become like Bob Marley, and that its 'just a phase.' They fail to understand what dreads are really about, natural beauty and individualism. My dreads will never look like anyone elses in the world, and each lock is like a finger print upon my head. Read this book, study the pictures and then dream of a freedom that knows no bounds. One Love.
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Summary: A sword for all true dreads.
Review: I live in Brisbane, Australia. I am 1/4 Greek, 1/4 Danish, 1/4 English and 1/4 Scottish. I come from a strict but loving Christian home. I have dreads. I don't have dreads for fashion, nor to prove a point or gain spiritual enlightenment. I have dreads because I like them. This book is a weapon for all people who are looked down upon and called 'smelly' or 'dirty' for the simple reason that they have chosen to stop brushing their hair. My hair has never been healthier since I gave it its freedom. I show this book to anyone who is interested in my hair, and to anyone who tries to convince me that it is dirty, unhealthy, smelly, unattractive, evil, etc etc. This book proves to me that God made our hair to be naturally beautiful. I sometimes find it hard to believe I used to cut my hair every four weeks and brush it and gel it whenever it didn't do what I wanted it to. People sometimes try to tell me that I am only growing dreads to become like Bob Marley, and that its 'just a phase.' They fail to understand what dreads are really about, natural beauty and individualism. My dreads will never look like anyone elses in the world, and each lock is like a finger print upon my head. Read this book, study the pictures and then dream of a freedom that knows no bounds. One Love.
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Summary: I found my Jamaican history in this book
Review: I read this book and bought two books soon to buy a third.
I hung all of the pictures around my house and celebrated my ancestory. I am Jamaican and I am a descendant of the Ashanti(like most Jamaicans). I have natural hair and I never felt so connected to a book that captured pictures as large and comforting as words
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Summary: I found my Jamaican history in this book
Review: I read this book and bought two books soon to buy a third.
I hung all of the pictures around my house and celebrated my ancestory. I am Jamaican and I am a descendant of the Ashanti(like most Jamaicans). I have natural hair and I never felt so connected to a book that captured pictures as large and comforting as words
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Summary: Inspirational & Spiritual
Review: I read this book from cover to cover several times, not that it was hard to do considering all the photographs--still, I found the text combined with the photographs inspirational. I gained a deeper understanding of the origins, variations, upkeep and diverse motivations for sportin' locs. The photography is poetic, moving and engaging. I was pleased that this wasn't a hairstyle book or a beauty book and that people of widely varied ages and types of appearance were represented. I enjoyed the global exploration of locs as well.
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Summary: Inspirational & Spiritual
Review: I read this book from cover to cover several times, not that it was hard to do considering all the photographs--still, I found the text combined with the photographs inspirational. I gained a deeper understanding of the origins, variations, upkeep and diverse motivations for sportin' locs. The photography is poetic, moving and engaging. I was pleased that this wasn't a hairstyle book or a beauty book and that people of widely varied ages and types of appearance were represented. I enjoyed the global exploration of locs as well.
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Summary: Excellent Inspiration
Review: I really enjoyed this book: the pictures, content - its showing the different reasons that people have locks - and some of the history behind it. Helps you to appreciate that dreads/locs, whatever they are called by different cultures, are not just about fashion or the latest thing. I really liked the fact that I was able to order this off of ebay (hardcover) for less than $30. That was a ++ too. For anyone that can cop their own- please do! Its worth every penny!
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Summary: Inspirational
Review: I recently dreadlocked my hair and this book has completely shown me i made the right decision, it has pictures and captions from all kinds of dreads, and the people that they grow. thats right, they grow you. im happy to be nappy, thanks to this book.
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