hellooo !im rob and yes you guessed it im new ! alas this is not my first exploration into dreads ... about 2 years ago i looked into getting myself some dreads and looked about to see what i could find ... and you guessed it i came accross jonny clean and his wonderous products .... so enlisted my hairdresser who has done all of my hair for the past 7 years and she followed his instructions to the letter... 4 hours later i had 60 very knotty dreads and loved them.4 days later i had some real problems tho ... my scalp inbetween the dreads had puffed up and in placed was starting to blister, weep and in outher places bleed ! so popped in to see my hairdresser who said i was having a reaction so 6 bottles of conditioner and another 5 days and thay were gone ... managed to save my hair aswell as my scalp...shortley after that i ended up with a 9.5 inch mowhawk !so now my hair is back to a decent length i have that urge to try again ... this is not some slight fleeting fancy ... this is somthing i have been looking into for years now ... and know i have found this site i will be trying again !!due to work i cannot use the neglect methods so im mostley looking at the benefits of twist and rip ! this will create the amost instant effect i can get away with at work !so yea hello im rob and im new and any advise you have then im all ears !
updated by @rob-penwill: 01/13/15 08:37:56PM
elloo from a soon to be re-dreaded ... head !
@rob-penwill
14 years ago
2 posts
Welcome Rob!! It really sucks that you had to go through all of that. You were probably allergic...you might want to find out what you were allergic to to avoid anything like that from happening again with other products.It's good dreads don't need anyIf you want to start them with twist and rip, once you've done that you really shouldn't have to do much.I did mine twist and rip a couple of weeks ago and the first thing that happened is that the roots came very loose... I tried to "fix" them and did some back combing to tighten them but it just kept coming loose. So I just had to accept that nothing I do will lock them. They will do that themselves Good luck with them..there is tons of info in the links over >>>>> there:)
@soaring-eagle
14 years ago
29,637 posts
technically your job cannot legaly keep you from dreading naturaly since natural dreads are most protected by the freedom of religios expression. all religios/spiritual dreads should be dreaded naturaly so they cannot deny you that rightbut if your ok with t&r then go for itbut..let it be your choice not your bossesu know just the backcombing alone could make your scalp bleedbyt the sea salt spray the wax clogging pores or the lock peppa could cause issues too
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@rob-penwill
14 years ago
2 posts
thankyou guys and yes its very strange that it happend .... but even my hairdresser is unsure why it happend ... as its quite common for me to have a full head bleach for my bleach blonde mow !!! never mind tho ... give it a few more months and i will have a head of very loverly dreads !