Yeah, stress balls would be good, anything to keep your hands away from your hair, but it does sound like the disorder. Also, I take fish oils, and they're good for your hair, skin and nails, so maybe take those. You can get them in liquid form if you hate pills, but...good God they taste disgusting lol.
flax seed oil is a good vegatarian alternative and tastes better
i uesed to put it on alot odf stuff cause its good for joints too
ok interlocking root rubbing and palm rolling obsessively can do it twisting too much too
wearing the beanie too much i dont think mattered
your sections were kinda big they would thicken up alot u can se how much more by the lines around the existing dreads ..they will puff out to those lines
biotin is a b vitamin is it 6 or 12 tho i forget
u can get biotin in drinks u can even get biotin shampoos
if u tnr . you should leave em be after donttryto rush em
umm
i hope u went baxck to thoe who gave u bad advice and showed them what it caused!
XYZ123 said:Nope no crocheting I don't even know how to use the needle ahah. No wax @ all either I was told from the beginning it was very harmful so
I steered clear from that. During the first months of dreading I was concerned with the maturity of my dreads & the roots locking so I was told to root run for the roots & palm roll to get the dreads to lock in faster. I root rubbed the back dreads & the front to A LOT because those were the most bothersome. But now, as you can see, they are gone. I did interlocking on two of them just as an experiment &, again to my regret, one of them became very thin, which I'm not sure how because I don't recall any hair falling out at all. I am biracial, black white & a little Hispanic. The problem that I have with just leaving the loose hair is that it looks very unpresentable because obv. it sticks out, very poofy like a FTP, & now straight like white hair. My hair is very complicated in texture. The back is very soft & fine, the top was a mixture of both but was thin-ish to begin with & the sides were a lot thicker & more African-American-like texture. Overall my hair has been very, very thin from the start. But yah all
I did was the root rubbing & the constant wearing of the beanie, which hopefully didn't cause any permanent damage to my scalp. I do have an obsessive compulsion to pull & twist my hair constantly. 90% I honestly do not realise that I'm doing it. A very bad habit since I started growing my hair out.
I do like how the neglect method dreads turn out but the thing with that is, for me, I'm getting out of high school this May & will be going into college, & I should be getting a job. Which, I don't want it to look "unprofessional" as most view it, which sucks. With this dread experience, I used the twist & rip method. I was very please with the outcome until 6 months into the dreading when they all fell out & all. Preferably, I would like that nice, clean look to my dreadlocks if they do become longer & if I do continue these or grow again.
Since I first had my locks, I was also concerned with the fact that a lot of people I've seen with dreads either have really thick locks and have around maybe 12 or so dreads. & then the people with the normal, thick, fair sized locks and had maybe 30 - 40 dreads. & then people with skinnies have maybe 60 - 100 locks! & when I started, I had only 25 & they were in between small & medium sized. So if I were to start again should I maybe start off with smaller, skinnies & then maybe work my way towards thicker ones by merging them & whatnot? Just a side question I wanted to ask I've been concerned with for a while now.
soaring eagle said:ok b4 we make any decisions
what all had u done besides root rubbing looks like crochet too maybe/ wax?
more details ..and your ethnicity
i dont think u should cut i mean u can comb out tho the new growth will dread in a few more inches
it does look odd due to how they were lost but hey ..pull it off as intentional haha just your whacky style then when new dreads grow in filling gaps it wont matter
if u do start over save as much length as u can
then u only need 3 inches
ok i definately recomend neglect just stop combing and conditioning and let it dread..real simple then seprate as needed
otherwise twist n rip isnt a bad method its gentle and after u do it just wash and separate
over maintaining is what caused the issues the less maintenance u do the better
in fact i just posted a low vs high maintenance discussion today
and this sorta illustrates what i was trying to say
give me more details i=on everything u did
just look on here
neglect no maintenance nothing
just let em dread
now to comb out
soak in conditioner i mean..saturate
then very slowly and gently comb or pick out from the tip to root work on just the last 1/2 inch thats knotted
it will take awhile
if u hit a hard spot that wont come out soak it more and start working on a diferent dread while it soaks and softens up
will take days maybe but u should get em all out then trim the worse danmage off
Great suggestions I will definitely take that into account & look into it more.
I was also wondering if I did start over should start with smaller dreads or larger dreads? Because when I started they were fairly sized & when they shrank they became really small. & I'd like to have more just so it takes up more on my head. That is if I go with TnR.
soaring eagle said:
ok interlocking root rubbing and palm rolling obsessively can do it twisting too much too
wearing the beanie too much i dont think mattered
your sections were kinda big they would thicken up alot u can se how much more by the lines around the existing dreads ..they will puff out to those lines
biotin is a b vitamin is it 6 or 12 tho i forget
u can get biotin in drinks u can even get biotin shampoos
if u tnr . you should leave em be after donttryto rush em
umm
i hope u went baxck to thoe who gave u bad advice and showed them what it caused!
XYZ123 said:Nope no crocheting I don't even know how to use the needle ahah. No wax @ all either I was told from the beginning it was very harmful so
I steered clear from that. During the first months of dreading I was concerned with the maturity of my dreads & the roots locking so I was told to root run for the roots & palm roll to get the dreads to lock in faster. I root rubbed the back dreads & the front to A LOT because those were the most bothersome. But now, as you can see, they are gone. I did interlocking on two of them just as an experiment &, again to my regret, one of them became very thin, which I'm not sure how because I don't recall any hair falling out at all. I am biracial, black white & a little Hispanic. The problem that I have with just leaving the loose hair is that it looks very unpresentable because obv. it sticks out, very poofy like a FTP, & now straight like white hair. My hair is very complicated in texture. The back is very soft & fine, the top was a mixture of both but was thin-ish to begin with & the sides were a lot thicker & more African-American-like texture. Overall my hair has been very, very thin from the start. But yah all
I did was the root rubbing & the constant wearing of the beanie, which hopefully didn't cause any permanent damage to my scalp. I do have an obsessive compulsion to pull & twist my hair constantly. 90% I honestly do not realise that I'm doing it. A very bad habit since I started growing my hair out.
I do like how the neglect method dreads turn out but the thing with that is, for me, I'm getting out of high school this May & will be going into college, & I should be getting a job. Which, I don't want it to look "unprofessional" as most view it, which sucks. With this dread experience, I used the twist & rip method. I was very please with the outcome until 6 months into the dreading when they all fell out & all. Preferably, I would like that nice, clean look to my dreadlocks if they do become longer & if I do continue these or grow again.
Since I first had my locks, I was also concerned with the fact that a lot of people I've seen with dreads either have really thick locks and have around maybe 12 or so dreads. & then the people with the normal, thick, fair sized locks and had maybe 30 - 40 dreads. & then people with skinnies have maybe 60 - 100 locks! & when I started, I had only 25 & they were in between small & medium sized. So if I were to start again should I maybe start off with smaller, skinnies & then maybe work my way towards thicker ones by merging them & whatnot? Just a side question I wanted to ask I've been concerned with for a while now.
soaring eagle said:ok b4 we make any decisions
what all had u done besides root rubbing looks like crochet too maybe/ wax?
more details ..and your ethnicity
i dont think u should cut i mean u can comb out tho the new growth will dread in a few more inches
it does look odd due to how they were lost but hey ..pull it off as intentional haha just your whacky style then when new dreads grow in filling gaps it wont matter
if u do start over save as much length as u can
then u only need 3 inches
ok i definately recomend neglect just stop combing and conditioning and let it dread..real simple then seprate as needed
otherwise twist n rip isnt a bad method its gentle and after u do it just wash and separate
over maintaining is what caused the issues the less maintenance u do the better
in fact i just posted a low vs high maintenance discussion today
and this sorta illustrates what i was trying to say
give me more details i=on everything u did
Yah I took them one time a while back & the taste is repulsive. But it sounds worth while.
Tara C said:
Yeah, stress balls would be good, anything to keep your hands away from your hair, but it does sound like the disorder. Also, I take fish oils, and they're good for your hair, skin and nails, so maybe take those. You can get them in liquid form if you hate pills, but...good God they taste disgusting lol.
if u leave em alone to be healthy dreads fatten up to theroot section size
so mix em up a mix from slall to medium to large largest being 1 inch at the scalp n[medium 1/2 inch small 1/4
if the 1/4 are too small you can let them congo later on
if u fgo natural they sction perfectly
just seperate any that are too big or try to combine
Alright that sounds fair. If I were to start with the neglect method would the start out looking something like this? 
soaring eagle said:
if u leave em alone to be healthy dreads fatten up to theroot section size
so mix em up a mix from slall to medium to large largest being 1 inch at the scalp n[medium 1/2 inch small 1/4
if the 1/4 are too small you can let them congo later on
if u fgo natural they sction perfectly
just seperate any that are too big or try to combine
& do you have any assumptions as to why I don't have much hair or dreads on the top of my head? It may have to do with the way they were sectioned/parted but I'm not sure. Is there any way to fix that at all?
soaring eagle said:
if u leave em alone to be healthy dreads fatten up to theroot section size
so mix em up a mix from slall to medium to large largest being 1 inch at the scalp n[medium 1/2 inch small 1/4
if the 1/4 are too small you can let them congo later on
if u fgo natural they sction perfectly
just seperate any that are too big or try to combine
overmaintenance rolling twisting making them thinner then they normaly would be
oh wanted to add olive oil can also be used to comb em out
XYZ123 said:
& do you have any assumptions as to why I don't have much hair or dreads on the top of my head? It may have to do with the way they were sectioned/parted but I'm not sure. Is there any way to fix that at all?
soaring eagle said:if u leave em alone to be healthy dreads fatten up to theroot section size
so mix em up a mix from slall to medium to large largest being 1 inch at the scalp n[medium 1/2 inch small 1/4
if the 1/4 are too small you can let them congo later on
if u fgo natural they sction perfectly
just seperate any that are too big or try to combine
