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For years considered a fringe fashion, they are now being seen on the runways of Dior. Dreadlocks (coils of matted hair) are in vogue and this time you don’t have to tangle up your own locks to achieve the style.

Style with a twist: Hair Stroble's Bard-Lynn

If you find yourself with a hankering for wild hair, visit Hair Strobel on Frankfort Avenue. For a base price of $250, hair will turn your everyday ’do into something truly “dread”-ful. Bard-Lunn uses synthetic hair to make the dreadlocks, saving your own tresses the distress that usually accompanies this sort of coiffure.

Bard-Lunn trained at The Hair Police, a pioneering Minneapolis salon, in the art of making and attaching dreadlocks. She began wearing them in 2002 and has been evolving the look ever since. “These dreads are more about vanity and are for those looking for an extreme style,” says Bard-Lunn.

Once the details of color and length are pinned down, the actual process is very labor intensive and can take up to three hours. Bard-Lunn takes straight synthetic hair and braids it to your scalp, using your own hair as an anchor. She then backcombs and twists the synthetic hair and applies steam heat, which seals the hair into a dread.  “This process does not compromise your own hair in any way,” Bard-Lunn says. The dreadlocks can stay in for up to 10 weeks, at which point they need to be re-done or can be taken out and saved to attach again later