How do I make dreadlocks?
To actually get a dreadlock you have to (a) grow your hair, and (b) not wash it. It's a natural process that Mother Nature does with hair, where it all kind of congeals together and forms a dreadlock. But having said that – that may be how you arrive at choosing to have dreadlocks, but once a dreadlock is a dreadlock, you should actually wash them. I used to do Howard from “Take That” and we permed his hair into dreadlocks. He didn't wash his hair for a year, and he came to me to have some bleach put in the ends, to make it look like he'd been in a very exotic, far-off land and bleached his dreadlocks. We applied the bleach, and it started to lighten the ends of his hair. But then we had to wash the bleach off. The water was black. I mean, absolutely jet black. So that kind of made me realize that you can actually wash dreadlocks. They don't have to be smelling and disgusting.
