How much separating should I do?
updated by @mirela: 01/13/15 09:42:36PM
@soaring-eagle
12 years ago
29,640 posts
its personal prefference but there are reasons not to want them bigger then an inch
they are ay harder to care fp]or to clean to prevent mold etc
id wait till more mature to let em congo tho just cause they thicken up
if u congo now they may end up way too thick later
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@danielle2
12 years ago
8 posts
At one point, around 2 to 3 months, I was separating daily. Then that went to once a week. I went 3 weeks without doing it, and it hurt sooo bad when I finally got to it, so I stayed on top of it after that to once a week. Now at 7 months, I don't really have to do anything. Instead of them eating each other like they used to, it's more separating some loose hair going into dreads it shouldn't.
@hippie-love
12 years ago
80 posts
I been separating every other day when I wash my babies.. In the messy baby stage it is needed more than when they are more adults to make sure they do not congo. Like SE said is very true.
When I separate, I am pulling the dreads in opposite directions from each other. Just leaving connecting hairs as close to the scalp as possible. That way, the dreads won't grow together into one dread, but they are still connected. anda said:
I just want to be clear to if I am doing it right. I just grab the 2 dreads that have hairs seeping into each other and pull up towards the roots, right? I have hairs that are going from some dreads into others and at first I would take those hairs out of the dread sucking them up since I thought that was how I was suppose to do it...but when I watched Baba's video, it seems I let the hairs stay in the different dread, even ones that it doesn't feel right for? Like..I have a ton or different areas where some are pulling hairs from the middle of one dread into the top of a different dread and it just feels strange. But that is normal, right?
Hippie Love said:I been separating every other day when I wash my babies.. In the messy baby stage it is needed more than when they are more adults to make sure they do not congo. Like SE said is very true.