Unraveling roots
I wen to loctitian and she started off with plats all over my head and then wrapped it with afro human hair. They look incredible. The only issue is that the twists close to the root unravelled because of me putting it up every day. I didn't want a style to hold the twist into place. Now they are all just unraveled at the roots with my locks in a bun. They look awesome but if I let them be unraveled will they lock? I want to eventually have my own locks. I have loose curls/latino frizzy type hair.
Thanks!
updated by @lockedup: 01/22/20 09:33:16AM
@soaring-eagle
7 years ago
29,640 posts
well your 1st mist6ake is trusting a loctician! worse mistake you can make
next having tnem up all day will prevent them from locking or at least drasticly slow things
the reason the loctiician added hair is because the plan ahead for the balding they will cause.. prople who never let a loctician touch them never have to add hair
now the roots are supposed to be loose ..way looser then locticians force them to be (that's why 95% or higher that go to locticians get traction alopecia (well those stats apply specificly to African Americans who retwist or interlock)
but all dreads have loose roots if healthy, especially in the 1st 9 months! the roots tighten themselves and should never be tightened by force
over tight roots cause tension, another word for that is traction, traction that causes a specific type of balding traction alopecia the tension destroys the capillaries that feed the follicles
this is why moist who go to locticians eventually have more scalp then hair
the roots should have (in Caucasian ish hair) 1-3 inches loose in the 1st 9 months and tighten to no tighter then 1/2 iinch from the scalp (if you can fit a finger under the roots to scratch the scalp then your ok)
African hair might have 1 inch or so in 1st 9 months then tighten to 1/4 inch
at n0 time should the hairs ever be being pulled perpendicular to the scalp like locticians do..and you should nnever use tight styles to "hold twists in" that only triples the tension on the scalp..and the treat odf traction alopecia
the best thing you can do is let them hang loose..they need to move to dread
also you have to accept the messy stage needs to be messy! they have to tangle and knot... this shouldn't be done by force but rather aalowed to happen gentlt..which means letting them get messy
you say they were started with braids well to stop being braids and become dreads..they have to unbraid..braids to dreads is actually slower then just letting it dread from nothing because they 1st have to loosen and fall apart to dread
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@soaring-eagle
7 years ago
29,640 posts
well 1st off perfect cylinders are way over rated.. however let me explain how dreads form naturally
when you wash your hair and don't comb it it forms sections then tangle these sections get loopie as hell (budding in African hair) this is essention
then when you sleep they compress from the weight of your head, when loose and not firm they tend to get flat, however take some silly putty or playdoe and flatten it 1 way then anothjer and another over and over and the tendency is to become round
so when the loopy stage is over most dreads will be cylinders with a couple that might retain bumps or flatness
the thing is..those are the ones that will be your favorites cause they aren't round and boring
dreads shouldn't all be the same..size or shape its the variation that makes them unique...and yours
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@soaring-eagle
7 years ago
29,640 posts
all i ever saw was people letting it dread by doing nothing..but i started decades ago
\now something that happens all on iits own has become a huge megabucks industry
i have seen people (including so called professionalsd) use anything from wax liquid latex (yes rubber) glue (elmers to supergluye) toothpaste peanutbutter mud dirt ash and well even semen and cow dung
it seems the more professionals there are the less people understand how hair dreads
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