New crochet dreads help
@jdevarona92
7 years ago
8 posts
@soaring-eagle
7 years ago
29,637 posts
hi well what is perfection? uniformity? crochet makes ridiculously unnatural dreads and yea the process is brutal
do not go back!
in fact i would ask for a refund because that was not a good start but its ok they will recover slowly.. what are the worse issues your experiencing?
it was plenty long enough to just let it grow and dread ..it might not have started dreading till it passed 6 inches but would have came out way better without all that agony and all the harm it caused
sorry for your pain and suffering
best thing to do now is move forward and away from the bad start she gave you
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@jdevarona92
7 years ago
8 posts
updated by @jdevarona92: 08/01/17 07:30:42PM
@soaring-eagle
7 years ago
29,637 posts
nothing
do not go back to her
the best way to get dreads is by doing nothing at all... letting them happen, so the next best thing is the very minimal effort of twist and rip.. then do nothing at all this you should do yourself
her sections are huge.. they will result in 1 of 2 things
1 you keep going back and end up bald to the size of the sections or 2 end up with huge dreads as thick as the sections
how many total dreads?
i would start over either natural (let it dread itself) or twist and rip 20 fat to 40 small to 75 thin or 100+ teeny
but letting it section itself more naturally would give a less fake look
they are starting to recover but will take awhile
a long time
its a brutal horrible method that takes a very very long time to recover from usually
you should never let any salon near your dreads though as less then 1% has any ethics at all..as you see they push the worse as the best
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@soaring-eagle
7 years ago
29,637 posts
@jdevarona92
7 years ago
8 posts
@mw2toptenworld
7 years ago
46 posts
crochet is really bad for your hair as soaring eagle said, take the rubber bands off and let the hair rest! either leave them like that , no maintenace no nothing, just let them do their thing or try to undo them and go natural or after full recovery t&r when your hair is longer, but natural just makes the best dreads in my opinion, and crochet makes the worst fake looking dreads... especially when maintainedd, either way, did she use wax too? i'd defenitely undo them and wash well, and let recovery do it's thing, but let's wait for soaring eagle input I'm sure he's way more experiencied if she used wax, like in terms of knowing what to do
@jdevarona92
7 years ago
8 posts
@mw2toptenworld
7 years ago
46 posts
take the rubbers out as they're making it harder for the hair to be well, since they're maintaining it in the same place.. also your hair was very short, she just wanted your money, if you paid I guess, either way she treated you bad, she did the dreads knowing your hair was very short to maintain a method and filled it with rubber bands to keep it together.... again i really recommend to take the rubber bands out and undo the "dreads" or let them stay idk, wait for souring eagle opinion on that, but me , I'd undo them and let them go natural, or if you're very inclined, i'd wait for full recovery (no pain!! no itching and a while after that...) and do t&r gently by myself or a friend after showing him what to do...
@jdevarona92
7 years ago
8 posts