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Depends a lot on your hair texture.

While I was in college (twenty-mmph years ago) dreds were a fad, and kids with fine straight hair looked REALLY bad with dreds. The dreds grew wimpy and uneven and the scalp that showed just looked....awkward. Some of them just looked like mats. Like matted dog hair.

Maybe fine straight hair can do it with professional assistance.

Now, the kids with thick curly or nappy hair looked great! Their dreds looked right: even and neat and round in cross section (rather than mat-like) and it didn't look like they had huge awkward bald patches on their scalps.

Good dreds look great, bad dreds just look pathetic and poseur. (do people still use that word? Poseur?) And personally I like the look of good short dreds.

I wanted dreds... sigh. Wasn't gonna happen with my hair. So every so often I go for 1 1/2 inch spikes. Spikes work very well on my thin baby-fine hair.

Edit: BTW, I work in the same field as Wahine, but with a different population. They like spikes and would probably handle dreds just fine (just not on ME). Assess your contacts carefully if you think they will be influenced by your hairstyle.