Hey All, I need some expert advice. I have a lot of locks with looseness and separation at the roots. They are soooooo weak. Will these dread normal or should i anticipate a disaster later on? Also, the ends have unraveled extremely with some having 6 in. or more of loose hair at the ends omg; that's the natural process i guess so i can suck that up but my straight hair seems to be consuming my dreads : ( The dandruff and itching is unbearable. I wash my hair about 1x/wk with bs/acv. Scared to wash more often b/c of all the unraveling going on! Any advice is appreciated. **pics attached**
updated by @ilovesarah: 02/14/15 06:24:11AM
Loose holey roots, loose ends, itcheeeeeeeeez
Did you start with back-combing? Looks to me like you're just unraveling. It happens to a lot of people who start with back-combing or twist and rip. I don't really know if you can stop it... might be best to let it unravel and do its thing. Even bone-straight hair dreads with time. And don't worry -- all hair dreads normal and there will be no disaster.
ok what u got there iswellpic 1 look at how widse an area those roots are comming from that should be 4 or more dreads thats why its splitting u tried forcing hair from a really wide area uinto a small dread naturaly it would have sectioned itself into at least 3 seperate dreads maybe 4many of the sections in the back look huge that way but that top 1 for sure should be split up into smaller dreads u can see where it wants to split so split itwashing more often wuill help it dread its dreading up really well but u just fiorced really big sections in alotta areas it seemswheb they mature they will be really fatany that are trying to split should have been more then 1 dreadis it just that top 1? if so split that into 3 or 4 and leave em be
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Your hair is the first hair I've seen that kinda looks like mine, longer though. Mine is doing the same thing. The parts I've back combed seem to let a little hair go every time I wash. I've just been trying to leave it alone or split up the ones that look really terrible. Good luck!
At least a dozen or so dreads look like pic one. So I guess I should have started with smaller sections. SE how do I spit a dread? Should i put conditioner on it to pull it apart or just rip it? If I just rip it won't that cause a lot of damage?
soaringeagle said:
soaringeagle said:
ok what u got there is
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pic 1 look at how widse an area those roots are comming from that should be 4 or more dreads thats why its splitting u tried forcing hair from a really wide area uinto a small dread naturaly it would have sectioned itself into at least 3 seperate dreads maybe 4
many of the sections in the back look huge that way but that top 1 for sure should be split up into smaller dreads u can see where it wants to split so split it
washing more often wuill help it dread its dreading up really well but u just fiorced really big sections in alotta areas it seems
wheb they mature they will be really fat
any that are trying to split should have been more then 1 dread
is it just that top 1? if so split that into 3 or 4 and leave em be
2 options
1 use alotta conditioner (wipe on with hands only on those dreads) and comb out
2 when wet pull apart carefully from roots towards tips
that 1 is only connectes at the tip so shouldnt be hard
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Thanks All. These babies are only 3 mths old and boy have they seen better days. I went ahead to condition out the dread in pic 1 and made it into two then used the t n r. It worked very well. I'm going to repeat the process on another dozen or so that look similar. I don't anticipate some to stay as one dread so I might as well separate now to avoid damage later, right?. Thx for the advice se : ) it really helped.
