Plunged into colour....!

After five years of natural hair and dreadlocks, I decided to take another giant leap of faith, actually, a plunge into the world of colour!  

Here's my natural dreadlocks:

A very talented designer and colour expert, AJ Durrow, who is new to the Rocking-Locs crew, popped over to funk up my dreadlocks.  For a couple of reasons, to document the process, the time it takes and the amount of colour that will be used.  This colour experiment assists us with costings and first hand experience when it comes to colouring dreadlocks.  This is something not many people in Jozi have.

It's 10h30, AJ arrives right on time.  First step is to lift my dreads of part of my natural colour.  It takes an hour and thirty minutes to get every single strand of hair covered.  Another thirty minutes to wait until it's time to rinse the peroxide off.  Waiting patiently, eventually it is time and thirty minutes later, the water is running clear.  I stand up and look in the mirror and BOOOOOM, I frighten the life out of myself for just a few seconds and then I crack myself laughing.  I'm thinking... thank the universe Barry isn't home to see this shade of ugly.

Back to the chair and AJ starts mixing colours.  The most dynamic colours I have seen coming out of a bottle.  Three shades of orange and three shades of pink.  It's time to apply the colour.  Without having any clue as to what is happening, I just know that it's going to look fabulous!  Another two hours and the colour is on.  At that very moment Barry walks in.  His reaction to my colour work is worth a million bucks!!  Then I knew it was a work of art!

Another hour of waiting time and my dreadlocks were ready for a warm water rinse.  Thirty more minutes of head up-side-down, water running, and it's time to towel (squeeze) dry.  I finally find the strength in my back and I flip my dreadlocks back and I am in total awe of the site that I see.  A head of colour, not just any colour, but colour so dynamic and eye catching, I just smiled!

A couple of hours it took to get my dreadlocks to a colour spectacular that not many will achieve.  I love my brilliant pink and orange dreads.  I am happy to announce that no one other person/dreadhead in South Africa has dreads like me.  Mission accomplished!

I woke up this morning feeling like a very funky hippie mamma, and I like it... a lot!

AJ Durow is the owner of Farside.  She is a dynamic and artistic woman, based in Jozi and recently signed up to offer the Rocking-Locs clients colour work.  For anyone and everyone, straight of dreaded hair, women and men.  So if you are based in Jozi and want to experiment with colour, then AJ is the lady you should be chatting too.

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Blessings.

Blu