actually in a way i think u should be glad! That just means u didn't T&R it too tight. If it's done too tightly it seems to end up looking braid like and i can't imagine it's too good for the hairs? (no offense to anyone, i know cavewoman likes the natural look) So they will unravel a bit and lock up in just the way they are meant to!!
updated by @naturalwomyn: 07/03/15 06:20:53AM
Ah! crazy unraveled root. please tell me what you think
this is true =D I'm rounding 4 weeks and I'm starting to see loops and kinks and lots of loose hairs and I'm lovin it =] I guess unraveling roots is just one more thing I should love about my hair. My friends kept telling me to use crochet hooks and to root rub and wax and this and that, and I don't blame them, they don't know any better like I did before I found this site.I'm glad I found this site before I did them or who knows what crazy stuff I would have done to my poor hair. If I hadn't found this site I would have never known that you kind of want your hair to go crazy cuz that means it's doing what it needs to do haha. NaturalWomyn said:
actually in a way i think u should be glad! That just means u didn't T&R it too tight. If it's done too tightly it seems to end up looking braid like and i can't imagine it's too good for the hairs? (no offense to anyone, i know cavewoman likes the natural look) So they will unravel a bit and lock up in just the way they are meant to!!
The majority of mine look alot like that. I'm putting faith in SE & just leaving em, slowly slowly they are becoming knotted closer to the root. I left quite a bit of length up there when I tnr'd tho. Once I got a dread underway I think I must have started twisting too much cos some of em do look braid like. Will this sort itself out in time? Also, if I wanna use a bead to help a section lock up, do I put it above, below or directly on where I want the knots formed?
NaturalWomyn said:
NaturalWomyn said:
actually in a way i think u should be glad! That just means u didn't T&R it too tight. If it's done too tightly it seems to end up looking braid like and i can't imagine it's too good for the hairs? (no offense to anyone, i know cavewoman likes the natural look) So they will unravel a bit and lock up in just the way they are meant to!!
some of mine look like this too, mostly in the back. i'm not worried about it, but it looks like shit so i haven't been wearing my hair down. haha...i've also been really careful about keeping them separated back there so they don't start a huge dread orgy on me. i've palmrolled them gently a few times mainly to make each section a little more defined so i could tell what i was doing when separting. seems to be helping actually.
ya i actually split this one because as it got older it just looked like a lot of hair and the root was split in two. so i figured, take it apart and make it into two. they're a lot less trouble now but they still have some loose roots.not too worried about it anymore =]
Yup I am about 4-5 weeks into my TnR and I've got all sorts of crazy lookin roots 
see mine are like that too! i split some, but i don't want to do anymore because i'm scared it coul just happen again and then i'll just be undoing dreads and starting them over all the time! hmm.... Cavewoman said:
ya i actually split this one because as it got older it just looked like a lot of hair and the root was split in two. so i figured, take it apart and make it into two. they're a lot less trouble now but they still have some loose roots.
not too worried about it anymore =]
