Too Much Maintenance?

hi fellow dreaddy people

i've had my dreads for 9 months now, and they seem to be okay.

i stay pretty natural; no wax, dr. brommer's soaps for washing etc.

however, i've developed a very codependent relationship with the dreadhead crochet lock tool thingy.

it helped in the beginning months getting hairs to knot together, but i think i'm abusing my hair at this point.

i get a ton of little 1/3 inch hairs every now and then, and i'm not sure it's natural. also, a lot of new hairs at the scalp, which i think resulted from breaking hairs earlier with the tool.

what has really bothered me is the dry, almost brittle feeling at some of my ends. At one point, one of the ends just broke off.

i wanted to have really neat dreads, with virtually no little hairs sticking out, but i think that might be impossible without something like wax--which i'll never do

i'm wondering what i should do to help my dreads; to make them strong and healthy. is there something i specifically i can do to help, besides leaving them the hell alone and stop using the tool?

updated by @brenn: 02/05/15 10:12:49AM

1 crochet breaks hairs making broken hairs pop out all tyhe time needing more crochet to pull them in then they get weak and break they get stiff scratchy and way too thin

you are ruining your dreads with that

no you cannot have neat dreads with no hairs sticking out no dreads are that way

yes u must leave thenthe hell alone

thats what u should have done all along

write a new thread dreadheadhq crochet hook broke my dreads

or loose hair tool version 2.0 whatever they call it

its exrteeme destruction

now what to expect u crochetted them to fdeath for 9 months

now u probly got 2 or more years to recover

they will get extremely frizzy loose hair pop out everywhere

they wlkl slowly soften and fluff up thickenning

they will then start to get loopy like they should have at 3 months

they then will dread not just be woven

dreads should not be maintained except washed and seperated

you went to the other extreme

you forced them to behave a way they never should beghave

and

you allowed no actual dreading

they wont begin to dread till your like 3/4 of the way throufh crochet recovery..minumum 6 months more likely a year or 2 if u had been crochetting that long and much

use aloe or jojoba and condition them to loosen them up

you got a long recovery head of u

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My new book Ban The Taboo Vol 1

u realize i warned u how bad that tool was 4 almost 5 months ago

i told you this is exactly what would happen if u used it

if i was you id start over natural or tnr no wax no rtools no maintenance just let em dread

your dreads are stifff

hard

way too thin

they dont look real the textures way off

more wil break

u can recover if u stay hands off the new growth the healthy draeads will be 3 times thicker

there will be a distinct difference between the actual dreads and the crochetted "dread"

eventualy it can even out but like i said its gonna take a long time

u should have paid attention when u joined

im srry if i came off as harsh

but you have done extreme damage in under a year

do u expect them to survive that kinda abuse another year?

ask yourself

do you want dreads that last

or something that vagualy resembles dreads that take hundreds of hours of work only to last a few months

the answer to that will tell u wether u should go on as yu are or start over or at least leave em alone

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My new book Ban The Taboo Vol 1