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Directions/Crazy Colour

Dread Accessories

I use directions dye all the time and if anything it helped my dreads, plus the colour stays in for ages. Crazy colour is okay but I prefer directions

Dread wraps

Dread Accessories

Your roots will be loose so just put one end of the hemp through the root and then wrap it, it will be really secure

section sizes

General Talk

If there's a big difference you could always combine some dreads, like the smaller ones you could combine with another to make them bigger

Not Sure Where to Post This ¬¬... but update x3

Member Journals and Timelines

England :3
soaring eagle said:

moved to timelines where it belongs ..cool color wheres your accent from?

Not Sure Where to Post This ¬¬... but update x3

Member Journals and Timelines

I wasn't sure what category to put this in

but update on my hair.

My longest dread has been in for a year and about four months, I put like three more in after that and then in august I went neglect with the rest of the hair:

updated by @callalala-knotty: 01/13/15 09:24:40PM

Not exactly dread products, but...

Dread Products

I really am glad i'm not putting any of that into my hair, I don't think the ingredients of shampoo gets recognized as much as it should do

soaring eagle said:

dreadheadhq refuses to remove SLS from their shampoos. Claiming is harmless. One thing that you didn't mention is that is also linked to cancer concerns. Johnny clean claims to know more about cancer than the American Cancer Society and claims it's safe. But yet it is nasty what people use to wash their hair

Not exactly dread products, but...

Dread Products

I was thinking of how much people with undreaded hair actually washed their hair, and found that a lot of people actually wash their hair with shampoo instead of organic products or whatever, so I got curious as to the ingredients in some of the shampoo's, so I researched a few of the ingredients and found that:

sodium laureth sulfate - shampoos containing sodium laureth sulfate can lead to direct damage to the hair follicle, skin damage, permanent eye damage in children and even liver toxicity.

sodium lauryl sulfate - shampoos containing sodium laureth sulfate can lead to direct damage to the hair follicle, skin damage, permanent eye damage in children and even liver toxicity.

cocamide MEA - considered a chemical of concern

glycol distearate - The concerns for this chemical are mostly around its use as a food additive - yes that's right, they put this stuff in foods

cetyl alcohol - mixture of fatty alcohols

magnesium sulfate - Magnesium Sulfate should be given very cautiously in the presence of serious impairment of renal function since it is excreted almost entirely by the kidneys.

The principle hazard in parenteral magnesium therapy is the production of abnormally high levels of magnesium in the plasma. Such high levels may cause flushing, sweating, hypotension, circulatory collapse and depression of cardiac and central nervous system function. The most immediate danger to life is respiratory depression.

ammonium laureth sulfate - irritating to the eyes, skin and lungs among other concerns such as organ system toxicity, neurotoxicity and possibly even changes to the body on a cellular level.

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After finding that out, I found it hard to believe that a lot of people think washing their hair with that makes their hair healthy, and themselves healthy. Makes me proud that I am on this dread journey, and I feel much healthier.

updated by @callalala-knotty: 01/13/15 09:19:30PM

I feel like a tit for asking this :'D

General Questions

they were really conjoined and I couldn't do anything about them D:

soaring eagle said:

The day you stop combing. But you shouldn't take them out just because they're joining at the roots, instead escape separating them

I feel like a tit for asking this :'D

General Questions

Thanks ^^

taye said:

That is your choice. You have had dreads for over a year....but not a full head of them. You could say they you have been dreading for a year....and it would be the truth. You could also say some of them are a year old, some less. I personally would say the "journey" started with your first dread. Just like any journey starts with the first step.

I feel like a tit for asking this :'D

General Questions

I am so sorry for this somewhat dumb post, but, I put my first dread in on the 24th of December 201, added a few more during that year, and then I decided I wanted to go neglect, so I haven't brushed my hair since the 8th of August, yet I took three dreads out the other day because they were really conjoining at the root, so what day do I class as the "start of my journey" ? The day I got my very first dread or....?

updated by @callalala-knotty: 01/13/15 09:19:18PM