Around 9:04 AM, on November 9th, my phone vibrated notifying me that I had an email. I thought it was just another coupon ad or my professors buzzing in a day early, but I was wrong.
The email was from a casting company saying I had been booked for a small role in a TV series. I recalled submitting to several acting gigs, but this was unexpected. This time I was booked for my looks.
The email read:
“Hi there! ___ here. I have selected you to work in an important scene for us. If you commit, you will be working in Atlanta but will be portraying a NYC SOHO ART COLLECTOR. You have been selected because we feel like you are great for the “SOHO VIBE.” This is set in 1995, so that will complicate matters a little bit, but we are confident you can pull off this look…”
The casting company explained later on that they needed Lisa Bonnet type looking women, and I, unknowingly, offered them just that with the amateur pictures see above.
I immediately asked myself if they even knew that my hair was not real, but I guess that didn’t matter. They wanted what they wanted. When I arrived to set, I was asked so many questions about my faux dread locs by actors and the workers. Are they real? How long have you been growing your dreads? Oh my gosh, can you do mine?
I looked around the room to see if any other actor or actress had a similar hairstyle and there was no one else. I was thinking to myself “This is epic. Maybe I’ll get a good amount of camera time.”
One actress who sat next to me begged me to make another trip to Atlanta just to do her hair. “I’m sorry,” she said. “I really can’t stop looking at your hair. I’m obsessed.” Many expressed that they can never find anyone to do their faux dreads. I was sad that I couldn’t help due to living so far from Atlanta.
What’s the whole point of having locs if you don’t want to take the time to let them naturally get that ling????
Because I personally dislike the same style for even a month. I have to switch from curly to straight, short to long, colors, etc. Real locs are not for everyone.
isn’t that bad for your hair? ^^^^^ I mean if you literally do that every month
Stop it!
That’s really cool! it’s nice to hear that your hair got you a job. Lately people have been sharing stories about how their choice of dreads or what not has hindered their jobs, promotions, etc. I’m very happy for you. Yeah they don’t care if it’s real or not. They are looking at people that can pull off the look and you do, so as long as you still have them it’s all good. Seriously Congrats!
Stop it???…not trying to offend as I’m on my loc journey twice now had it not been for a 6 year stint in the Air Force. So naturally I am curious…believe me I know their not for everyone I went strait from 360 “pretty boy” ocean waves to locs…I was nervous in the beginning…now I’m thankful i started this journey is all
I don’t understand the point of this article.
She’s beautiful
Now maybe you grow the real thing