Jerome Thomas Photo: can you see what I see?

Given permission by Jerome Thomas.

I saw his photo and said yes, here is a representation of our 21st century young adults. There is expression and freedom exuding from this picture; his face. His eyes are penatrating and his lips are waiting to tell you something if you get close enough.

If you haven't noticed these posting are about more than a person with locs, it is a soul journey full of words without saying a word.

Thanks Jerome for letting us take this small trip with you into the world ever expressive of dreadlocks

THIS IS FOR MY GROWN, SEXY, AGED DREADLOCK WEARER

I am in dire need of aged people with graying dreads. Please if you are a person whose locs are turning gray

REGAL: Locs where wisdom resides

We all walk in a path someone else paved the way for us. Honor them in every way. I Honor you my fellow loc wearer for this photo saying my strength is not temporary but a lasting journey as simple and complex as my regal gray mane.

An Interview With Kenetra Hinkins

To say I love this picture and loc journey would be an understatement. In this interview you will read another story of change. People fear change and doing locs is a MAJOR change, but always worth it to the wearer. This story and the dozens just like it is the reason I am doing this project. I am a loc wearer and seeing the pictures and reading the stories always make me smile. I am actually grateful for meeting all the different loc wearers. I feel like I belong to something. Hopefully, this project when it is completed, will give all of those who participated just as much joy as the locs do.

Now here is another of our beautiful ladies in locs: 

Hello,

I came into contact with you on Tumblr and when I read about this book I knew I had to contribute! My name is Kenetra Nadina Hinkins,19, and I'm from Massachusetts.

 

I started my hair journey about a year ago at the beginning of my freshman year of college. The reason behind my locs is I was in a place of discovering who I was and I made a lot of changes, my hair being the first thing. I have strong West African roots (Cape Verde) and my natural hair is very curly but from relaxers and straightening constantly, I ruined my hair. My family is full of dreadheads and they tried to get me to loc my hair but I didn't think it would look right. So at first I just stopped straightening my hair then my roommate, who has locs, convinced me to try faux locs, I tried them and fell in love. Ever since then, I've been a dreadhead.

Chris is in love

Love yourself and the rest will follow, at least that is what Chris discovered accidentally. Here is her dreadlock musings we are delighted she shared with us today from California.

                                                                    

Life is as good as you  make it or even say it could be.

I’m so not photogenic. Sometimes, I end up making the same face. I can’t upload my video for my septum piercing from last night so this picture will do. It didn’t really hurt, only a pinch for 3 seconds max and the spot was tender after. On a scale of 1-10, I give it a 6 in terms of pain. I was a little teary eyed because of the pinch, almost like getting punched in the face, minus the punching lol.

I’ve never described my hair as something that was fun until I got these dreads. I love them so so much, I didn’t think I would appreciate hair as much as I do now. I just bought more threads, beads and my crochet needle to make my dreads look prettier, they’re currently looking like a hot mess. Which actually isn’t saying much because they’re dreads, it’s hard to control how they go about on your head. They may look wonky about 85% of the time but they have so much character and I guess that’s what makes me love them even more.

Jamal Jones Shares

Thank you so much Jamal for sharing this wonderful picture with us. When I saw it I loved it. You represent a facet of strength that is present in many loc wearers.