Hello! I just did my own dreads! I am 52... ! My cut was down to my chin and I wanted extensions. I got me some real hair, dreaded them and then got a friend to help me with the sectioning and I did my own hair dreads and added the extensions. Did that in one day! All day though...... I am soooooooo happy with the results and everyone loves them. I feel 10 years younger if not more and I finally feel I found my real hairstyle that defines me. So for all the "oldies" like me out there, don't hold back. It's your life, your hair, your wellbeing! Go for it!

I'm so here for this!!! Thank you! I wanted to lock my hair for decades...I finally did it when I turned 63 lol... yeah... anyway like you I taught myself. my hair was growing out from a pixie cut...I wore a beanie for a year. At the same time I stopped coloring it. No extentions and some are at my waist. I love my hair and so happy you're here! I enjoy all your videos... you're super cool 🙌✌️

@lizkidderstudio

Жыл бұрын

Aw thanks for being here and sharing your story! I LOVE my clients who start their locks in their 50s/60s, their general attitude is: “I’ve loved them my whole life and I’m finally saying f*ck it and I’m going to do what I want!”❤️

Thank you for creating this centralized space just for dreads. I appreciate you sharing your knowledge and artistry!

Almost forgot🙈! I’m 64 & getting dreads is number one on my bucket list. Last April, I chopped a foot off my hair. It’s at my waist now. Been wanting dreads for almost 20 years. I did little braids years ago(60!😱) & loved them. One day I will get them🙏🏻

@lisagiuliani8167

Жыл бұрын

Get them! I got mine at 55- best thing I ever did!!!

@vallovesnature8449

Жыл бұрын

@@lisagiuliani8167 I definitely will be! The thought of not having to brush my hair & use conditioner has been a huge motivating factor 😁

@ritchieroots777

Жыл бұрын

Bless UP🙏🏾 Sounds Like You Have Already Been A Dread Head In Heart!! You Might As Well Come On Home To The 🔒 Family.....Loc Up That Crown & LIVE🙌🏾 ✌🏾PEACE & POSITIVITY ✊🏾

@vallovesnature8449

Жыл бұрын

@@ritchieroots777 Hopefully in the next couple years! I already have my jeep! Seems girls & jeeps go together. Blessings always dear one ❤️

@loricarroll3662

11 ай бұрын

I'm 56 and want to start my dread journey but growing out my hair from a pixie ( BIGGEST MISTAKE I EVER MADE TO MY HAIR) I am at collar le gth hoping my hair will soon be lon enough to put dreads in

Hello Liz🤜🤛🏾 My Name's Ritchie, I'm On A Official One Year Anniversary This March. Also My THIRD set. Had Em' when I was Younger, But never kept them more than 3yrs just young & dumb. I ripped & pulled mine & almost over crocheted, 5 months free form now & I LOVE THE JOURNEY... Seriously I Genuinely Love It, & The community is online family...I Love Yours By The Way 🤙🏾 Thank You For The Content, I Get Stuck Watching Them👀...✌🏾

This is awesome, thank you! I am 52 (in 9 days) and just started making my own dreadlocks. I have pretty short hair right now so I am going to try and put them in myself! I am having a lot of fun making them! We will see how this goes! Thank you for your information and inspiration!

i’ve tried to have dreads three times in my life and twice they were done very wrong and looked terrible (think Sideshow Bob) and once they were extensions my friend from Cosmetology school did, that i thought looked cool but people told me they looked gross or bad only to have them go and get dreads themselves. go figure. so here i am at almost 38 about to give it another try. watching your vlogs makes me feel better about my decision of not caring what anyone thinks. it’s also how i found your hiking vlog which i love!

I’m so glad I found your channel! I have recently started my dread journey just a few months ago. I have natural grey hair, undercut, just a couple inches below my shoulders. I see Wendy at Wander Locks studio in Jeffersonville, IN. I first got synthetic locs just over a year ago, and I loved the locs and length, but not the maintenance schedule. I waited until my hair was long enough to have natural locs that would go into a ponytail. So I have 7 dreadlocks currently…considering the full head of locs at some point. I love them so much but still want more length. For now, it’s lots of vitamins to speed the growth.

Love you so much. Been watch all your videos. Been doing box braids for around 40 years had a friend tell me I didn't need a license to do them and was asked I'd I know how to do locs . So been watching all the videos I could find and now all my hair is in locs. Now I have people wanting me to do theirs . I'm having a blast doing this. Started to do my own hair at age 9 year 9 years old lol. But I have learned so much more watching your videos. Thank you and will be looking out for more of your videos to come. Love ya GYPSY

I am enjoying all of your videos. I started my dreads afew weeks ago after spending 6 months braiding synthetic dreads in and out. ❤ i love your content.

Hey there! ❤ I'm an aspiring loctician, but I resonate with "dreadlock artist" much more! I started my first set of locs about 4 years ago on waist long hair, and while I knew what I wanted to do with them, I was very busy at the time and loss alot of length (that I gained in volume!) so they ended up only coming just past my shoulders (this was due to the method of starting, which were basically neglected braids). Skip ahead to me having my son, being stuck at home postpartum with a newborn and trying to quick freshen my roots with some baby Castile soap that turned into terrible buildup on top of my head and a huge natty congo mess. I knew they could be saved, but I needed help and didn't have anyone to turn to, so I cut them. I've spent the past two years growing my hair back out and researching everything there is to know about natural dread care, I've honestly been obsessed since I was 13, and like you used to get my hair braided even younger! So my mission now is to be available to help people maintain their dreads as a personal loctician, since it was so devastating for me to have to cut mine. I would love to travel as an event vendor with my thread wrapping business and incorporate dreadlocking into it, which is how I recently found your channel. Much love! You're an inspiration!

Hello thanks for your vidéos 4 months with my false dreads and watching your vidéos makes me feel the need to jump from the Mountain and do réal locks !! I think i m ready thanks to you ! I order a rendez vous with my dreadmaker for january this Will be my New life for a New year !!!!❤❤❤

Hey Liz! I've wanted dreads for a while now! I am 43 I am finally doing some serious research, and that's how I found you! I daydream about flying to New Hampshire (from Minnesota) to have you do them. Maybe one day! Til then, I wish you many blessings and much success!

@lifeinlilac161

3 ай бұрын

@Studio_517 oh Hey "sister" 😂 I will be turning 44 next month and I've been wanting dreadlocks for years! I am someone who stopped caring about what others think of me years ago when I shaved ALL of my hair off 😂 I shaved it all off after I got out of rehab/mental hospital, which will be 4 years ago on my birthday this year! Now I want something different and dreadlocks are my aspiration 😊

Hey! I've been intrigued by dreadlocks for years. About a month ago I started my loc journey. This symbolizes my freedom from abuse. I was in an abusive marriage, finally got away and this is my first hobby since doing so. I started out with synthetic dreadlocs and have evolved to natural locs. I now have about 40 partial locs. I love watching your videos and learning new things to do. Thank you for sharing your story!

Love that you created a new spot for your dread loc content. You started my partials 2 years ago and I’m loving them just as much as when I first got them! Had them maintained yesterday 😁

I'm SO freaking excited for this new channel!!! OhmyGod your dreads inspired me to get mine at age 55! Best thing I ever did! Love your IG and dread tips! Can't wait to see more!!!

Very excited. I've followed you for a while and can't wait for all tips and tricks for home maintenance in between tightening visits and I seriously need some variety of styles for daily wear that doesn't pull my scalp (I'm prone to get migraines).

Congratulations on your new channel!!! It’s going to be so awesome!!!❤️❤️❤️

Hooray for your new channel...so excited about this, congrats on taking the leap! I found you a while ago from your dreadlocks videos on your other channel when I was looking to start my own locs journey, and stayed for the hiking content because it's awesome and I'm also a tenter/hiker/backpacker. Crissa installed my full head of locs 1 year ago and funny enough, I just picked up your tightening spray when I was in her salon last week. Love the scent! Congrats on that collaboration as well. Best of luck "starting over" haha!! Great so far!!

Big fan, thank you for the content and putting yourself and your knowledge out here for us ❤ I’ve had dreads twice, first time too big and with wax 😂 only lasted 3 months! Chopped em off, grew it all out for 5 years to dread again, smaller sizing with backcombing, twisting and palm rolling. Had second set for 5 years, miss them every day. I’ve rocked the short hair styles for 5 years, slowly growing it out again past 2 years and I’m so ready for dreads again!

I Started following because I got dreads 6 years ago and your hair is gorgeous,ty for making this channel,can't wait to see all the dread info u share.💜😁✌

Liz I am so excited for this channel. I’ve had my dreads for a few years now. I kinda did mine backwards I had hair down to my ass and then I got them into dreads. I live in Livingston Montana and not many people well hardly anybody knows anything about dreads. I went to cosmetology school and there was one girl there, she didn’t really know how to do them but wanted to try. So we gave it a try. 16 hours later I have extremely small very loose dreads. Didn’t take a shower for a bit to let them form. Then I took a shower and I thought I lost them all. So for the next year I had to figure out how to redo them myself, had to redo them myself with a crochet hook like 3 times! They’re doing pretty good now. But I got a lot of growth that I got to try to get them done. But they’re so long my arms get so sore dealing with them. I’m happy to say I have no extensions it’s all my own hair and I didn’t use any kind of product to get them into dreads. I’ve been wanting dreads since I was in my 20s and I am 45 now and I love them. I can’t wait to learn a bunch of stuff from you. I wish we were closer to each other I just hop on over and have you do my dreads all the time. Maybe someday I’ll win the lottery and I’ll fly out and see you and get my dreads done. Or at least looking much better than they do now. I kind of just gotta deal with what I got because there’s not much around these parts for help. TinyTee (Teena)

Your hair IS my inspiration! Lol! I'm not quite committed to getting dreadlocks yet but have been mulling it over for a few months now. I also don't know anyone "local" that I would trust to do locks in my hair. Any info about hairdressers, up and down the East Coast would be wonderful! What I know about your story from beginning to end is just amazing and you deserve a huge recognition and "pat on the back"! Thank you for your content!!!

I had the same inspiration for wanting dreadlocks! A few bands I loved had members with them ( Lajon from Sevendust ) and the Gone in 60 Seconds. Rip and twist never worked for me because of my hair type. Thankfully a friend pointed me in the right direction and I found my amazing loctician. I was already following you and a few other dreadlock artists and I used your pic as my inspiration at that point 😊

Great intro! Can't wait to learn about new techniques, tips and trick for easy maintenance, decorations, root colors and so on. On the subject of color, if you know someone who does henna on there dreads, it would be a nice idea for a guest appearance. You have touched on a couple of interesting subjects on your other channel, like how to manage your dreadlock when hiking for days twithought a shower or the process of dying your roots. They would be perfect for this channel. I'm a newbie and I'm looking forward to learn more on the subject of permanent dreadlocks. There are lots of videos out there with people having braded temporary synthetic dreads. They are more about fashion then about a way of life and the later is more my style. Hope that was helpful! 🙂💕

Love the new channel! I got my dreads about 11 days ago and I love them. Between you and Liza Jane I knew I was making the right decision. Thanks for helping me get the courage to do this regardless of the opinion of others. :D 3>

So excited about your new channel!! I'm Candice, and my dread business is Cryptic Locks. I've watched your KZread for sometime now, and I love your hiking vlogs! I actually won a Zoom meet and greet with you from Dollylocks a year or two ago. I wasn't used to being on camera, and I was pretty awkward. Sorry about that lol 😆 I'm still a super new loctician, so I really appreciate you sharing your knowledge with us 💜🖤

Hiiiii!! Am so happy to see this new channel & looking forward to watching 💛 My dreadlock journey started June of '20 (after growing my hair out for 5 years to start them) & they've been professionally maintained - I'm getting to the point, though, where I'd like to learn more how to maintenance them myself and perhaps ask my partner for help where I can't reach.😊

Hey, had my head done about 16 months ago, i only lasted 3 months before shaving my head, i knew i had made a mistake straight away so have been growing my hair back for 13 months, i have my dread appointment this week 🤪🤙 happy easter 🐰🎉

Hi ! Congrats on your new channel! I also have dreads, almost a year now 😊 Mindy LoveLocs does my maintenance. I love your “hiking/adventure” channel too! My bf and I love to hike and camp as well! Looking forward to watching more of your dread vids! I think I’ve watched most of your hiking vids. I really appreciate you sharing, gives me good ideas and is also inspiring 💜💜💜

Just found your channel! I think it is awesome :) I always wanted dreads but could not get them done because of work and other confessions. Now I am free and going to do it yay!

Hi! i don't have dreads, never have but I think you are a rad human so here I am subscribing to support ya!

Yeees was hoping you'd do a dread channel. Long time follower of you and long time dread wearer- 18 years now and still my original set. Like you I started mine during the time pre social media, no other resources or technique aside from dread wax and palm roll🤦‍♀️ (at least it was a reputable dread wax-Knotty Boy) I also box dyed mine black for 10 years before I had them colour reversed- do not recommend dying dreads black! It was a long journey both for all those years of my dreads trying to mature and colour reversal so I share your journey of them going from what they were to now. I too do my own maintenance and trained as a loctician to make sure no more ever use dread wax. My dread biz is only a side gig and I am a journalist by day but I love love helping to educate others on their dread journey

I have always wanted them to since i was 18 and i am 45 ,i rembere trying in my early 20 but was a total fail...i am excited to be here and learn more,i look up to you and your story,love your work..

I have super fine hair but started my journey 18 months ago just braided in. Then 12 months ago went for it. Best thing I ever did.

Kerin is my loctician 😊 I love her and my dreads. I lost a lot of my hair after I had Covid then had a bad incident with a hairdresser who broke all that was left off! Found Kerin and now I have 3 rows of locs! Best decision I ever made. Dream hair

Hi Liz, love how you make your vids! Lucky us with this new dreadlock channel 🥰 I started mine in October 2022, so they are still babies. Did them myself. I already did my first set in 2015 but took them out after a few months because EVERYBODY told me I wouldn’t get a job with dreadlocks. (And I was fresh out of Uni and needed a job). Now I have my when-I’m-older-job-of-my-life and I was like:let’s do it! Did a ton of research in the past 10 or so years, so started them with a little back comb, twist and rib and a little crochet. They are nice and frizzy and I’m getting human hair in the coming months to change my extensions to all human hair. Used dreadshops Henlon for 2/3 of my extensions but it just isn’t behaving like human hair (duh😅).

I’m excited to see what you do with this channel! Do you have any intention of making more client transformation videos and if so will you move over the old vids from the first channel to this one? So happy to see you on YT again!!

Even if I’m not gonna get dreads, figured I’d come support and comment 😊✌️

Hi lisa here from Perth Australia I got my natural hair dreaded 2 years ago but got a blood infection and had to shave my head😢fast foward and I have my dreads back with wool extensions and love every part of dread life❤can you do videos about crochet hook matienance and cool ways to put them up Love your dreads too

Hey! Love your videos, dreadies and Miss Piggy ? Spelling ha I was losing my hair pretty bad, had dreads done in2016 then diagnosed with lupus which explains the hair loss. Anyhow, I have a question that I have been searching your content for. .. where do you purchase your hair for extensions? Not the wool extensions the human hair ones. Thank you for being so inspirational

I want to learn how to install and maintain my own. Is there any weekend retreats for learning ? I'm in idaho.

Hi Liz, you did my first two rows in 2020 ;) Will email ya for a spring/summer refresh xo

Liz, Just like you I had very bad starter dreads when i first got them. My first set was in high school and I got made fun of a lot for having them and while in theater class a boy Choped off 6 of my dreads while I was asleep at my desk( guess thats my fault for falling asleep in class) long story short i had to shave my head. Then fast forward 18 years later I tried again with a known Loctician in ATL. Long story short she didnt do them correct at all for my hair type and my hair was just falling out of the dread every day. It looked like a rats nest and it was terrible LIke really really bad. I shave my head again. So fast forward to the begining of 2019 I saw your video on youtube about the AT which i had done some section hiking with a buddy of mine that had PTSD and was walking the whole thing as a Jump start to his new life and to help with the PTSD. I saw your Locs and was instantly captivated by your story and all around good vibes. I told my wife this is what i wanted my locs to look like ... longer story short ( i saw that a lot) i found a loctician in Tennessee that started doing dreads becasue she found inspiration in you so i knew it was a perfect match. She had also been obsessed with your Hike and your hair and started learning how to do dreads. Now this whole process took me to 2021 to find her and get her to start my locs. The happy ending is I now have my beautiful locs going on a year and i couldn't be happier. Love your story and what you stand for.

@lizkidderstudio

Жыл бұрын

Aww what a great story, thanks for sharing!!!! Honored to have played a small role in your journey!❤️

Do you make filler extentions that you sell ?

I'm on my third set. I think I've finally got them right. The shrinkage is rea! I live in Mexico, but I'm traveling to Houston very soon. Know anyone in Texas who installs extensions?

I’m really interested in getting dreads. I have curly hair that I bleach blonde and have curly tape in extensions that I do myself. I think my hair would dread pretty easily but I’ll keep watching here for more info

Are your dreads made from synthetic hair?

Weirdly my deadlock story is quite similar to yours! I always had very long hair as a kid, my dad had a scuba business that took us abroad alot and as you can imagine, in and out of the pool and sea my hair would be unmanageable!So id always get it braided! My mum is sure thats where the love for locks came from. I dont remember exactly who i saw that made me say ‘i want dreads!’ at the age of 21, but i did and my boyfriend at the time said he would help. So with no knowledge and really not even any research as to what they were supposed to look like on white people hair, i dove in with the back-combing. I went the opposite way to you here and ended up with about 23 locks. Reeeaalllyy fat babies. For about a year i did very little with them, waiting for dreads to spontaneously apear. They did not. I eventually found out loctitians existed on a dreadlock forum but i had to travel far to find one (far by uk standards, not actually that far) but left my appointment with my first set of proper dreadlocks. Over the next 11 years i undid a few and split them into smaller ones and decorated them etc. I was very happy for years but then like so many others while we were in lockdown i felt the urge and cut them all off. It was a nice break for my scalp and i had been having literal dreams of running a brush through my hair for years at that point. However, i only lasted about 3 months before i had an appointment with a much more local loctitian and here i am with my second set another 2 years on. Liz, your hair is beautiful, your old and now new youtube channels are inspiring. Keep up the good work!

Liz I have been watching you forever! Can you address the whole culture appropriation issue. Was thinking about getting dreadlocks but got slammed and told it wasn't right. I can imagine there are a lot of opinions on this topic would like your view.

Sorry this came up under mu husbands name ugh, I'm Pat ;)

Great intro! I remember seeing Gone in 60 Seconds and loving Sway's hair so much. Seemed even cooler when I read that Angelina Jolie came up with it herself. I can't even remember when I started wanting dreadlocks, but I do remember my first dread formed because I had literally stopped remembering to brush my hair after the birth of my 1st child. I was so busy taking care of him, brushing my hair fell off the radar, and my first dread was born. I found out about freeform dreads and went that route, participating a ton on the old Drealock Truth forum that seems to have gone defunct. I kept them for about 3 years and then combed them out. But now it's about 3 years later and I wanted them back so much, I just went and did my own dreads with very random sizing and no real sectioning over the course of a week. That's when I discovered your site and for the first time in my life, watched a hiking video! I'm getting better and better with the crochet hook, but am still very much looking forward to my first professional maintenance w/ @dreadfullocksct. I've learned a ton from your IG site and the videos that are on your other channel and can't wait to see what you share here!

Heyyyy!!! I was fascinated with dreadlocks for years. Finally at 50 I decided to make the leap. I followed a bunch of dread artists for a while. Was concerned because my hair is fine and fairly thin…but it was the best decision ever. Had them for a year and decided to get extensions (kinda felt like I was cheating, but it got me long hair quickly)!! Not crazy with the hair used for the extensions (it’s natural hair, but I wasn’t thrilled with the quality of it), so I’ve been switching out pieces myself one at a time. I LOVE your add in pieces to make things fuller, so I’ve done that, but I don’t seem to get them right where the hair doesn’t fall out eventually. Wish you we’re taking new clients! 🥹 PLEEEEEASE let me know when you do…lol!