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Meet the owner of the world's longest locks (locs)
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Nov 12, 2024
Asha Mandela has had the world's longest locks (locs) for over 10 years but has been growing them for over 40 years!
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the one question that no one has ever
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asked me is where is mr cobra when
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my husband and i have intimate relations
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i don't like the term dreadlocks because
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i don't think there's anything dread
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about my locs
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i refer to my own hair as
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my royal crown of lux
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or
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my cobra
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mr cobra does not
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serve as a spicy
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purpose sometimes
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when i'm ready to go into my sleep
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chamber with my cobra baby
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sometimes it depends on my mood i have
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to be honest
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i would have them tied up in the
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sack
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and we cuddle
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and talk to each other it's called
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communicating
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i started having dreams or what others
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may refer to as visions
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where
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the huge cobra would appear before me
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and start talking to me letting me know
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that i'm the chosen one
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meet my husband emmanuel who
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is a professional lock stylist from
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nairobi kenya
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and once we met and became one in union
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he became my
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cobra trainer
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see my two babies right here
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okay
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the most common comments i've had people
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approach me with or whisper behind my
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back is that
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as much as
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they liked the way i
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looked in my lock most others would say
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there's no way that could be clean or
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healthy because how can you really
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you know wash locks properly if it's all
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knotted here
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i didn't know how to start
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how to start growing logs so what the
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one thing i didn't know is that i didn't
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want the big chunky ones
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i wanted the small ones like you know
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the finger size ones
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because i wanted to be able to
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get into my roots when i wash my hair to
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make sure it's clean and not have to
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walk around with that stigma of other
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people saying there's no way
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it could be clean a lot of people would
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ask me um
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well girl you must have a strong neck or
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a strong back
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you know because the same thing
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yeah because once minds get up to here
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it feels so heavy i'm ready to cut the
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decision to wear my hair
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my locked down as opposed to being up
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all the time
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so if i do put it up it's going to be
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like
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you know maybe an hour two three hours
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and then after that i would start
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feeling the strain so then i put it down
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but mostly i'm not into style and
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fashion
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this is the number one tip for healthy
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hair
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and or locks
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is keeping it clean and loving it
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and kissing it and showing it much more
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love like i show my baby which is mr
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cobra right here
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when i was growing up i had absolutely
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no idea
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of the
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whole origin of dreadlocks or rastafari
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i have two sisters that said to me many
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years ago well you know we don't like
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lots we don't like the rasta business or
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the dreadlocks stuff but something about
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you makes it different it's okay we
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accept it
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i remember when i sent the first set of
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pictures for her she said i can't
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believe after i had groomed here and
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scraped all the little things on the
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side and make them come together
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after i've worked so hard
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now you just go turn it into a mop
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my advice to people who
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has made the decision to grow lots or
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dreadlocks you got to take care of it
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and probably
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treat it like a plant if you don't if
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you don't water it
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or or
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feed it some fertilizer or something it
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probably is going to die or it's not
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going to flourish properly
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there is never ever ever
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in my life
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that i would ever see or feel there's a
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time
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that i want to cut my hair
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it's never going to happen
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i feel absolutely
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blessed and unfortunate to be recognized
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by the prestigious guinness world
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records
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as
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the person having
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the longest dreadlocks
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in the world in the
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universe
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