Dont really care for my dreads, but everyone is allowed to have their own opinion. My mom is the nicest about it, i was working on them today and mom starts cracking up. "whats so funny dear mother" i ask and she looks at me and says, "i just remember the fight you used to put up when you were little when i tried to brush your hair, I should have seen this coming..."
I too feared the brush as a child. Shit hurt. Or maybe I'm just a tender headed whiney bitch. I think parents and people in general, I don't wanna use the word fear because I'm looking for a different word and just can't think of it so, fear what they don't understand. It's foreign to them. I went to my grandparents 50th wedding anniversary and saw a load of people that I haven't seen since I was just a weeeee lil baby, or so I'm told. I felt like a woman with tits on her head. I'd catch myself talking to someone and wanna be like, "hey!! My eyes are over here!!" I was going to say something else but I also forgot what that was. It's Sunday and I've said too much. I'm rambling. Ramblerumblegumble
yeah i get the tits on my head thing a lot too. a lot of our clients never look me in the eye, and their eyes are always wandering to my head.
My parents were afraid at first that I was going to turn into a very dirty person but I read them some info about dreads; now they are so happy I've decided to do this- mainly because in the past long while I have been like a dirty hippie, never showering or brushing my hair, and now b/c of these dreads, I wash my hair every week. It makes them proud
My mother has never really cared because she is awesome and she knows it's "just hair" but my dad was always against it even though he was an 80's glam rocker filling his hair with a can of hairspray a day. But I don't live with them anymore and when I go home they don't care, dad just says both of his children are hippies because my sister does naturopathy and reiki. Damn baby boomers! (Lucky my mum is GenX and cool)
I don't get any beef for my dreads. One of my ex's hated them but that was two years ago, and now they look awesome so xP. Parents get along with them fine, +tattoos + piercings. They just let me get on with it ^^ Awesome parents are awesome. But I'm.. 20 now.. So.. it's not their problem anyway.. WOO for being older "and more responsible."
I have to admit my mother, who was kind of confused and against them at first, has come around a lot. The other day she said something like "I just love these" which blew me away. I think she was delusional or something...
I get the 'fucking dickhead' from my dad a fair bit lol, with regards to my hair and piercings and such, which I find to be amusing haha. Mum doesn't mind them, although the only thing she is against is gauging my ears.
Ah man, that's what I normally say. But it seems that everyone I speak to on the net says gauging so I started going along with that. That is assuming you're referring to the term I used, and not just the fact I am stretching...
Fair enough haha. Piercings in general or just stretching? They're only at about 10-12mm, I don't plan to go much further than that though. I just love some of the wooden plugs, they're beautiful. And making your own is fun also.
I'd been trying to stretch my ears for five years, I never got past 8mm before they blew out, or got infected, I was fucking determined to get to 1cm. I think I got sick of the smell of them so I gave up and now I have slightly larger than usual pierced holes.
I would have started at some point last year, not sure when though. I know I was at 6mm in December as I bought a 6mm horn cresent from some markets on schoolies. Stayed at that size for a fair while, then started going up again a few months ago. I think I pierced my ears about mid way through last year though. I'm starting to stretch my firsts on the other side now too.
