Decorations
Posted by That Ball Guy on January 20, 2004 at 23:46:05: Previous Next
I was at Wal-mart today and in the craft section I happened to find some beads. Not just your ordinary craft beads, but the large, dreadlock style beads, made of wood. Nice patterns, not at all bad, so I decided to buy one bag of each design. Got back to the school, took about 10 minutes to figure out how to get one on a lock of hair, then put three in, rather inconspicuously, and set off for class.
I have never gotten so many friggin' compliments on my hair in one day! Granted, it's the new semester, with new people around, but it seemed to be more than usual, and many of the comments were "tight beads" or "dude, you don't have dreads and you can pull it off. . sweet!". Just real encouraging as I had never really thought about hair decorations before.
So I was just wondering if anybody else has tried this, and if so, what reactions did you recieve?
Re: Decorations
Posted by Michael Odle on January 21, 2004 at 16:33:18: Previous Next
In Reply to: Decorations posted by That Ball Guy on January 20, 2004 at 23:46:05:
Not exactly the same; but I got cornrows for last Halloween. :) Lots of compliments on my "mad stretch" (that's southern African-American dialect for "extremely long hair." I had cornrows down to the bottom of my ribcage, and people just stopped in the hallway like O_o either to laugh at me (I'm a proper white guy) or to gawk. Very strange experience, I must say.
Re: Decorations
Posted by Reflective on January 21, 2004 at 22:03:57: Previous Next
In Reply to: Decorations posted by That Ball Guy on January 20, 2004 at 23:46:05:
I wear hair jewlery sometimes. You can find a large assortment of such things at Rennaissance Faires. They earn me lots of looks and some smiles and compliments.