Forum Activity for @claudia3

Good Decision?

Introduce Yourself

I searchedon-line read a few books and asked a few family members who already have mature dreads. I've noticed howinsistentyou are on letting dreads grow out naturally my simply not combing, and i have NOPROBLEMSwith that... i just want my dreads to have a certain order to them and not just wild?

What's wrong with getting you dreads started and then simply letting them grown on their own? I want them to have a uniform size to the too! Not just randomly sized sausages all over...

soaring eagle said:

your mistake was going and getting your dreads started and not just letting them naturally dread

all along your saying you like natural natural natural and that extentions seem like trying to fool someome well goibg to a salon to get made dreads is the same exact thing its like saying look i got dreads while qwearing a dread wig

instead yiu should have allowed your hair to naturally dread

where did yu research?

Good Decision?

Introduce Yourself

Hiya! Greetings from Ireland! :D

My name's Claudia,and I feel I should mention that I'm African-Irish (black not mixed race in any way) so as to give you an idea as to what my hair looks like....it's an afro... well it WAS an afro! And a very BIG one at that! x'D

Before dreading, I was natural for 1.5-2 years! My hair had grown REALLY fast and I just happen to have really thick hair on top of that!

I've always love natural hair! I don't just mean afro's or what not. What I mean is that I've never liked the process of getting extensions in my hair, or relaxing my hair getting a perm) and I even got sick of braids! This is the reason for which I went natural in the first place and stopped perming my hair!

I did this because I imagined if my hair was in an afro that I would no longer have to do all those things to my hair! I find it embarrassing to walk around with extensions on trying to fool people it's your real hair :/ It's ridiculous when we were all born with unique hair

The problem with having an afro to me was the time taken each morning to do my hair! (I go to school) I would sometimes miss break fast because my hair had taken longer than expected to style! It was TOUGH styling it! I mean the AMOUNT of clips I had to use! :O

All in all what I'm saying is I couldn't handle it! And every time I would cave in and go back to doing braids (which would cut my hair, especially on the hair line :/ )

I had always admired locks and wanted to have them done! But I had imagined that in orther to start dreads you had to cut your hair!! I did NOT want to cut my afro and short hair simply does NOT suit me AT ALL! So I had always put it off :/
Then one day I discovered that you did not have to cut your hair and could simply start dreads with a full afro! :D

So I decided why not! I mean I ALWAYS do braids anyway and dreads look like braids in some ways! Only... it's with your REAL HAIR! And so 2 weeks later (after a LOT of research on dreads) I went and got my dread journey STARTED!

And that is that! SO excited <3 It's only been 2 days since I've been dreaded! :D

updated by @claudia3: 01/13/15 09:41:15PM

HELP!!! NEW TO DREADS! WEIRD DREADING METHOD?

Help! Save My Dreads

Okay yeah I think i'll have no choice but to comb out the waxed dreads! And yeah we do have fairy liquid in Ireland hahahaha! Thanks a mill! I'll try it out and hopefully i don't end up loosing hair

soaring eagle said:

heatting it up doesnt just make it go away wax is extremely hard to remove and has survived 10 years of washing its evil stuff

if your only days in your better off combing them out starting over right i cant imagine how good 12 hours of agresive rubbing is for your hair haha so maybe only comb out the waxy ones wash well with dawn dish soap (fairy liquid in england maybe ireland too) scrun=hb repeat if needed get wax b gone from www.dredlockshampoo.com

next

let your hair dread itself! u dont need a specialist your hair knows how to dread!

HELP!!! NEW TO DREADS! WEIRD DREADING METHOD?

Help! Save My Dreads

I live inIrelandwith a very low popularity of black people! Therefore black hair specialists and experts basically DO NOT EXIST! Iseriouslydon't know where else i could possibly go

calipark said:

It sounds like this loctician is one of the many self-professed "experts" that use bizarre techniques that always need to be maintained and *of course* you gotta shell out money on a regular basis with their assurance that one day you won't need to. Their methods also happen to be very damaging to the hair and scalp causing traction alopecia.

Wax is horrible for dreads, and prevent dreading. Bad for the scalp, difficult to get out, it traps dirt/moisture/particles, and more importantly, it doesn't assist in dreading - it just glues it together to give the appearance of a mature lock. The locks also turn out super thin and leave a white residue in the core.

I wouldn't go back to that guy, definitely a snake oil salesman using snake oil products.

HELP!!! NEW TO DREADS! WEIRD DREADING METHOD?

Help! Save My Dreads

Thaaaat's kind of REALLY depressing! WEEKS?! :'( </3 Is there no way at all it can just go on it's own? When i asked the "loctician" about the wax he said that all i had to do was Heat the wax up an dthat it would simply disappear after a while...

Heather Barbee said:

Well wax is a no no and when your hair is wet it makes it weaker. Wax and water seems like a bad mixture. wax traps in moisture and causes mold. Most locticians dont make healthy locs. They also tell you not to wash your hair which is false. Also twisting is bad too. I know some that use this to remove wax

• - cup baking soda
• 2 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar
• 30 - 40 drops lemon eucalyptus OR orange essential oil
• 30 - 40 drops lavender essential oil
• 1 - 1 cup of witch hazel

I also heard it can take a week to get all wax out

And yes they do part on their own.

HELP!!! NEW TO DREADS! WEIRD DREADING METHOD?

Help! Save My Dreads

Hey everyone, my name's Claudia and I'm gonna cut straight to the chase.

Ok so last Saturday (the 8th of December) I went to start my dread journey! I've had natural hair for 2 years and only recently decided to dread. I'm black by the way so my hair was full on afro before dreading.

Before actually deciding to dread my hair i did a lot of research on dreads and methods of dreading and found around 4-5 different methods! So going to my loctician I expected one of the 4-5 methods to be used! Instead a completely WEIRD and foreign method was used on my afro! :O

So i get there and my loctician tells me that all he's going to use to dread my hair is a sponge, some water and wax! At first i was a bit confused as to how on earth a SPONGE of all things could be used to DREAD!

He starts off by spritzing my hair with a little bit of water and then starts rubbing my hair, with the sponge... in circular motions...
I've NEVER, SEEN or even HEARD of such a dreading method! He didn't even part my hair or anything! just kept spritzing and rubbing!

I will admit that after some rubbing my hair started to matt! He then separated my hair and gave it the size i had asked. Now i say he separated my hair... but he didn't part it with a rat tail comb. SO the parts are barely visible and not straight or uniform AT ALL!!

After HOURS and HOURS (9am-10pm) of spritzing and rubbing he then a applied wax to, literally, one or two locks! And that's it! He claims he hasn't finished the process of dreading my hair and that i should return on Wednesday (12th of December) so that he can now "twist" the dreads and make them stay?

I'm so confused and worried and just don't know what to do! I don't want my dreads to start out badly! I've never seen or heard of this method and frankly the fear of the unknown is WRECKING MY HEAD!

My hair doesn't look particularly bad, but i've heard/read some bad stuff on wax and don't know what to think! I also wanted my dreads to be well parted kind of like braids! But my loctician claims that they will part on their own! Is this true? I hardly think so :/

PLEASE HELP ME :'( I appreciate it <33

updated by @claudia3: 01/13/15 09:41:14PM