No I just had natty dreads. I let them form naturally over a period of months so the looked more random, some big, some small. The kind of dreads you are talking about are salon dreads where it's all sectioned off and backcombed and all that. They can look really clean and nice, it's true. But natty dreads just look rude.
By the way, white people's hair locks up naturally too. It just takes longer. Mine did.
There's lots of myths out there about dreadlocks.
Yeah, but seesince white have different texture hair, it's stringy at the top, and dopey as locks. And yes those are salon locks I was talking about. But when my sis had them foe a while, they looked good
your application of the words "rude" to your locks gives off the impression you want or try to be diff or to go with a counter clean look. To me, it looks unkempt on people who don't have African textured hair because the stringiness of the hair up top at the root of the lock, it looks like regular hair, thing stringy locks. With African hair their is more body to the hair itself, and the locks look better from the root...it has a more pleasing aesthetic...
Put it to you like this. It's like someone who has naturally wavy hair and only has to "train" it to lay down with a lil Dax grease vs someone who puts a shitload of "S" Curl in their hair with a du-rag, there are two different looks. I had the former (and the women got sea-sick on the waves, baby...)
Locks like any other hairstyle can be either clean or dirty...like a unkempt Afro---which is a bush, Like Maxwell used to have. Or just a bush with "peas" in it... I used to just sit in class and twist my hair and after a couple days all I had were mini locks all around...
