Hey all! I'm new here. First just a little background, I've been growing my hair out for the past five years, and ever since it first hit my shoulders, I've been told here and there I should get dreads. Never really took the advice to heart until now, and I think I'm going to give freeforms a try, but I got some interesting advice that I have never heard before.
A friend of mine said that there's another way of getting dreadlocks where you basically let them form freely, but in addition to standard natural dreading procedures, you keep a wet bandanna over it throughout the day every day for a couple weeks, and by the end you should have fairly well formed dreads. Also, he mentioned running your fingers through your hair in the shower to help separate them into locks. I have never heard of this method before, and with experience as to what my hair does at the end of a day when I've had it under a bandanna, I'm interested in trying it. Has anyone else heard of this before? Is it a bad idea?
updated by @patrick4: 01/13/15 09:58:09PM