Going Rasta: Making Dreadlocks along Colon Street
Let us paint the town green, yellow and red - the tri-color brand sans the ugly indulgence (please!).
I am not practicing the Rastafari lifestyle but I can see the good out of this often regarded bizarreness. It's just got to be appreciation of its music and fashion if you can.
I chanced to spot an uncommon activity in downtown Colon area (the oldest street in the Philippines). Making dreadlocks while street goers were too mindful of their own business? That's rare I had to stop by, observing, examining and for the sake of knowing the tedious process, interview the dreadlock stylist.
The whole part isn't easy weaving each section by a crochet needle for some 20 minutes multiplied by the number of sections. That’s a big amount of time. It's just funny to know that dreadlocks don't smell bad.
The cost to start dreadlocks ranges between 2000-2500 pesos and for repair around 1500 pesos.
To the two guys, MacJoy and Jay-r who weren’t hesitant to let me take pictures and video them, thank you. They even prided themselves on becoming so-called instant artistas. : ) MacJoy, an architecture graduate is the owner of a stall along Colon Street (beside Jollibee, 138 Mall) that sells Rasta clothing and accessories and the sole dreadlock stylist. His cool customer Jay-r, is a skimboarder from Tanauan, Leyte (skimboarding capital of the Philippines)
Go check out the video interview in 2 parts by an obvious novice. The clips are in Cebuano (a Philippine dialect). :)
I am not practicing the Rastafari lifestyle but I can see the good out of this often regarded bizarreness. It's just got to be appreciation of its music and fashion if you can.
I chanced to spot an uncommon activity in downtown Colon area (the oldest street in the Philippines). Making dreadlocks while street goers were too mindful of their own business? That's rare I had to stop by, observing, examining and for the sake of knowing the tedious process, interview the dreadlock stylist.
The whole part isn't easy weaving each section by a crochet needle for some 20 minutes multiplied by the number of sections. That’s a big amount of time. It's just funny to know that dreadlocks don't smell bad.
The cost to start dreadlocks ranges between 2000-2500 pesos and for repair around 1500 pesos.
To the two guys, MacJoy and Jay-r who weren’t hesitant to let me take pictures and video them, thank you. They even prided themselves on becoming so-called instant artistas. : ) MacJoy, an architecture graduate is the owner of a stall along Colon Street (beside Jollibee, 138 Mall) that sells Rasta clothing and accessories and the sole dreadlock stylist. His cool customer Jay-r, is a skimboarder from Tanauan, Leyte (skimboarding capital of the Philippines)
Go check out the video interview in 2 parts by an obvious novice. The clips are in Cebuano (a Philippine dialect). :)
Part I
Part II
9 comments:
I've often wondered as to how these people wash or clean their hairs, can you just shampoo them or for that matter do they just cover them up whilst they are having their showers ~ questions which i dare not ask them directly, heh heh ...
I've seriously once thought about having dreadlocks but having to maintain it everyday and live with it for a while discouraged me.
hi do you have any email of MACJOY because im planning to have dreadlocks. thanks.
@ziggy1122: Unfortunately, I don't have his email bro. If you're familiar with Colon Street, MacJoy's stall is just beside 138 Mall, formerly Plaza Fair.
brah..on going pa mo??..coz nagpa dreads ko extension kaso murag wla man ma klaro..ask ko if mo fix mo or maintenance?..tnks brah!
bai, visit lang kuno sa may dalan colon, tapad lang sa 138 mall/jollibee. mayntag naa pa ilang business didto. :)
naa pa ni cla krn bai sa ila pwesto, nahan ko suroy ky ako pa repair ako locks.
salamat.
naa pa ni cla krn bai? pa repair unta ko sa akoa locks.
salamat.
@Luis: suroy lang didto bai. dugay-dugay na sad ko wala ka suroy didto.
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