hey so i want, nay need, my dreads to have rounded ends.i have heard that you shud just let ur dreads do what they want, and i wish i could! see, im still in school and my mom needs them to look more neat, OR ELSE I MIGHT HAVE TO CUT THEM OFF!!! D:i have managed to get them round multiple times but most of them go back to loose ends whenever i wash them. i am against wax, but i would rather have dreads with a little wax on the tips than no dreads at all... if you know what im saying.do i just have to round them after every washing? or do i cut off the whispy ends?help is greatly appriciated :D
updated by @canon-p: 02/14/15 07:16:03AM
rounded ends! help!
ask mom why she thinks they need to have rounded ends tell her rounded ends means a greatter chance of them starting to stink since they take 5 times longer to drydont fight mom educate momtell her that forcing them to be round is a bad ideaand tell her why then ask her why she bekievfes that they need to be that way
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Ive had rounded tips for 18months now, and Ive never had a problem with drying :/Stay away from the wax. what i did was backcombed the tips tight and the stray hairs that were left were weaved in very small section up and down the last inch to inch and a half of the dread. Youll need a very fine hook and a lot of patience. Once done you shouldnt need to redo them (Ive never had to).
define no trouble drying u had blunt tips the whole time so they dry as slow as they dry but unblunted they dry way faster since water runs right out the ends instead of pooling up in the ends
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If you cut off the ends they'll just fall out at the ends and wisp up anyway. If you really think it's necessary you can take parts of the wispy ends and thread them through a large hole needle that is not thick, use a needle threader to gather more hair if you want but the smaller the amount each time the less manufactured it will look. Just take the needle with the little tiny bit of wispy end and sew up through your dreads, since it's not tied at the end it will just unthread itself off the needle and be in the dread. It might still fall out but less than the rounding that people do with a crochet hook because you will take that needle and put it through one way, out another, in another, to kind of give it a solid base so to speak.
As SE said, wispy ends are easier for drying and most people, me included, like wispy ends, they look better in my opinion. Not everyone's hair "blunts" at the ends, but mine did, and it bummed me out because I wanted wispy ends, but they'll do what they want.
As SE said, wispy ends are easier for drying and most people, me included, like wispy ends, they look better in my opinion. Not everyone's hair "blunts" at the ends, but mine did, and it bummed me out because I wanted wispy ends, but they'll do what they want.
bout 5-6 months ago we had someone all upsetthey blunted theyre ends and the dreads that used to dry in 6 hours suddenly took 38thats how much difference it makes
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My ends blunted themselves naturally (I only have like 3 wispy ones left) and my hair takes all day to dry, when before it didn't. They are tighter now, which makes a difference I'm sure, and they tightened and blunted around the same time so I can't compare besides with the few I have that are still wispy, which seem to dry faster but are thinner also.
I was so upset about my ends blunting I tried to comb out one of the ends after a few days, just to keep them wispy, but they were so tight that even with conditioner there was no point.
Also you are only at 2 months, you are just about to hit super loopy stage, so you need to get your mom educated on the stages because it will soon be more than just blunted ends when your hair looks like a mop. My timeline shows how fast it gets loopy, you're welcome to look, I'm only 5 months in and by not doing anything besides separating congos my dreads are fastly formed. The more you mess with them the slower they form, just a heads up.
soaringeagle said:
I was so upset about my ends blunting I tried to comb out one of the ends after a few days, just to keep them wispy, but they were so tight that even with conditioner there was no point.
Also you are only at 2 months, you are just about to hit super loopy stage, so you need to get your mom educated on the stages because it will soon be more than just blunted ends when your hair looks like a mop. My timeline shows how fast it gets loopy, you're welcome to look, I'm only 5 months in and by not doing anything besides separating congos my dreads are fastly formed. The more you mess with them the slower they form, just a heads up.
soaringeagle said:
bout 5-6 months ago we had someone all upset
they blunted theyre ends and the dreads that used to dry in 6 hours suddenly took 38
thats how much difference it makes
Agree, everyone's hair is different in texture and drying times, when my hair was undreaded it took FOREVER to dry but when it was first dreaded it dried pretty fast, probably because I wasn't using conditioner anymore. Additionally, the difference between wispy loose and tight blunted times for drying for me are about 5 extra hours. It took about 5 hours to dry prior to tightening and maybe takes 8-10 now. I live in an arid climate, but now that it's winter it takes a bit longer, even though the air is very dry, because now it is colder. (And in my climage cold is like 40 degrees, so for you it's worse I'm sure!)
When my hair was wispy it would drip drip drip on my back too, Canon, very annoying isn't it! But now that they've naturally blunted after my initial squeeze out with a towel after a shower it still drips but much less. That's because the water gathers in the blunted ends. I will squeeze the bigger ones and also headbang outside, but where you are your dreads will become an ice sculpture if you do it outside. Headbanging and squeezing helps to get some water out but more will collect in the ends once they are blunted, just get used to washing them in the morning only and don't wrap them up when they're still wet (though that might be hard in the winter months, so just unwrap as soon as your indoors so they can air out and dry) Also, use a blow dryer, it will help and it will get you warm.
Loleia said:
When my hair was wispy it would drip drip drip on my back too, Canon, very annoying isn't it! But now that they've naturally blunted after my initial squeeze out with a towel after a shower it still drips but much less. That's because the water gathers in the blunted ends. I will squeeze the bigger ones and also headbang outside, but where you are your dreads will become an ice sculpture if you do it outside. Headbanging and squeezing helps to get some water out but more will collect in the ends once they are blunted, just get used to washing them in the morning only and don't wrap them up when they're still wet (though that might be hard in the winter months, so just unwrap as soon as your indoors so they can air out and dry) Also, use a blow dryer, it will help and it will get you warm.
Loleia said:
Mine dry in about 5 hours. Everyone is different. 38 hours is one persons time and cant really be use as a benchmark for all.
