Elemental Locks Professional Mobile Dreadlock Stylist

ELEMENTAL BEGAN TEN YEARS AGO FOR ME. I HAD A FRIEND DREAD MY HAIR BACK IN COLLEGE USING THE OLD SCHOOL BACKCOMB AND BEESWAX METHOD (RESPECT IF YOU, LIKE ME, HAVE TRIED AND FAILED THIS WAY) AND IT TOTALLY FELL APART ON ME DURING A PARTICULARLY LONG HOT DUSTY SUMMER. THE WAX BEGAN TO MELT AND DETERIORATE AND 17 YEAR OLD ME WAS LEFT WITH A REAL BIRDS NEST WHICH MADE ME FEEL FRUSTRATED AND HELPLESS.

MY PARTNER AT THE TIME HAD A LADS HOLIDAY IN IBIZA BOOKED THAT SAME YEAR, SO I ATTEMPTED MY FIRST EVER HEAD OF DREADS ON HIM A FEW DAYS BEFORE HE LEFT. BOTH OF US HAVE VERY STRAIGHT EUROPEAN HAIR TYPES, AND I WAS DISTRAUGHT TO FIND OUT THAT HIS HAD DETANGLED AND RETURNED TO ITS ORIGINAL FORM AFTER ONE DIP IN THE WARM IBICENCAN SEA.

I VISITED SEVERAL STYLISTS THAT TOLD ME IT COULD NOT BE DONE FOR STRAIGHT HAIR WITHOUT CHEMICALS OR SYNTHETIC EXTENSIONS. UNTIL ONE DAY MY BOYFRIEND RETURNED FROM IBIZA WITH THE TIGHTEST, SMOOTHEST, MOST MATURE DREADS I'D EVER SEEN. HE DESCRIBED THE TOOL THAT HIS LOCTICIANS HAD USED, AND MIMED THE WEAVING ACTION IT MADE, AND FROM THEN IT BECAME AN OBSESSION. 

 I PRACTICED DAY AND NIGHT UNTIL I HAD IT DOWN, AND CERTAINLY DEVELOPED MY OWN STYLE IN THAT TIME. A FRIEND AND I JOINED FORCES AND FORMED 'ELEMENTAL DREAD DESIGN' (BETA 1.0)  AND AFTER SEVERAL HAPPY YEARS WORKING ALONGSIDE EACH OTHER AND LEARNING FROM EACH OTHER, WE DECIDED TO PART WAYS AND STARTED DREADING SOLO. FROM THEN I WENT UNDER THE NAME ELEMENTAL LOCKS. 

I HAVE ALWAYS FOUND DREADING TO BE ALMOST LIKE A MEDITATION. SUCH A MINDFUL TASK TO WEAVE A WHOLE HUMAN HEAD OF HAIRS STRAND BY STRAND USING A HOOK THAT IS JUST 0.6MM WIDE. I FIND I AM MOST AT EASE AND HAPPY WHEN I AM CROCHETING, SO I WILL CONTINUE. 

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