Ok don't know how to start this so Ima just jump right in it's been about a month now and I used the back combing method to get them started (no wax). Any way they're still in the stage where they look like shit. I got in a fight aweek ago and the fuckin pussies got to pulling my hair. Now I know it's only been a month. But all the hair that was locking up at the root ain't no more I now have gaps you can fit a finger through in their place. And I know that'll correct with time is what y'all are going to tell me but that's not all. They ripped out damn near a whole dread to the scalp. I did 1in squares and I have a bald spot bout the size of a quarter if that can give you an idea of how much of the dread is still hanging on. So cuz of that I've been wearing a beanie every where I go and I think it's hurting the locking process. Cuz when I take it off my hair is all flat and nasty. So my questions are can they be saved? Cuz if I have to wait til that hair grows to a certain legnth (which it's been a week and it's still bald so it's fina be a while) to complete that dread I might as well chop em off and start over right? And also is wearing this beanie for extended periods of time damaging my dreads? (considering they're still new and have been through what they've been through.)
updated by @sadistic: 01/13/15 08:57:42PM
A little upset
I wore a hat for almost the entire first year of dreading. I also had a bald-ish patch, from cutting off a hair wrap to save for someone. Neither had any ill-effects on my dreads. You are just being a little vain... thay are just matted hair after all. Who care if you have a quartr-sized bald spot? just wear a beanie all the time and coninue seperating and washing as usual.
or stop wearing the beannie and stop caring biyut the bald spot
whatever y do do not force the new growth tio dread or fit into the boring 1 inch squares just leave it alone to dread as it grows..
and best advice i can give.. when u see a fights about to begin ..take a step back..then another then another then turn and walk away
no fight is ever worth fighting
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My new book Ban The Taboo Vol 1
Kind of hard to avoid fights when it's your job to stop them. I work security at a night club. What I'm mainly trying to find out is if there are any tips you can give me to help secure that lock of hair and make it stronger cuz it's barely hanging on. Thank you for the information you've given me but perhaps I should have been more clear in my questions.
soaringeagle said:
soaringeagle said:
or stop wearing the beannie and stop caring biyut the bald spot
whatever y do do not force the new growth tio dread or fit into the boring 1 inch squares just leave it alone to dread as it grows..
and best advice i can give.. when u see a fights about to begin ..take a step back..then another then another then turn and walk away
no fight is ever worth fighting
actualy sure u can helop it
congo irt
wrap that dread and the b=nearest smallers 1 together leave it 3 months..fixed
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My new book Ban The Taboo Vol 1
Also, try a looser fitting hat like a tam, it would be a shame to lose them all because of one spot that will grow back in time. They will all dread up before you know it! Know it's not what you want to hear but I hope it helps. 
If you knew how many times I thought that a bald patch wouldnt grow back u would laugh. everything will grow in, its the law of your hair, and you can for sure save that dread by coaxing it towards adjacent dreads as suggested above. and give it time. you will surely go through many bad hair stages in your mind while getting them where you want them, but make sure you get that dread to join at the root of another or eventually your hair will fill in a new root but that section will always be compromised at the damaged area and will eventually get torn off. And get out of that line of work its not worth it.
