Help a new dreadlocks man!

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Thank you Jake, Exalthim, Laurent and Mellowstone. I think I knew I was going to receve these kind of answer. Maybe I wrote this post just to matoivate me to go the naturral way. the hard thing for me about stopping the porggram I begin is my personnality really. I will explain why: -first for me it's hard for me to say no to someone when I first say yes.

-second I am really stubborn. When i've an idea in my head, it's hard to remove it. Evevn if the natural way is for me so evident that is better, I still want to make the old method I was suppose to do till the end.

I think what i will do is to go see catherine (that I like a lot) next month as I what suppose to and explain all my present thoughts. I also want to hear what she will say to me. It,s a kind of compromy that is easier for me that juste called her now to say i won,t come to see her. That is really to hard for me.

Another question: do you think the fact that i've presently pretty much egal dreadlocks make my futur dreadlocks (if I neglect for the futur months or years) less mess-up? I mean when i see some neglect dreadlocks that are really gross in my opinion, with big-big one and some flat some roound, all sized and some that begin to glue themselves to the tips (dreadlcoks that look grime on your head) that scared me a bit. I don't want att all perfect dreadlocks but i don't want to look like I never wash myself you know haha. I mean, do my futur dreadlocks are gonna be the same i've right now?

Help a new dreadlocks man!

Dread Maintenance

Hi everyone I am new! My name is Gabriel , I'm 17 and i'm from Canada.I need your advices and your thoughts about my dreadlocks.

So they are really new. I had my hair to my shoulder and was tired to get them in the face so I decided to get dreads. Also i really liked the style of them and was influenced by the natural of dreads.

I've found a shop where they make dreadlocks. it's a personnal method to make dreadlocks that the haircutter (catherine) make for her and decided to commercialize it when she realise it was really good. The method used no products but backcombing and other method to make knots in the head. She say that we should't get water in our hair for the first 4 months. In this period, she first, make the dreads, and in the next months, we just go see her few time to refix the loose hair again by methods suck as the crochets ( I dont know if you call it like that)

After 4 months she swear that our dreads will be solid enough to got in the water, clean them with normal shampoo...etc And I believe her because she had a lot of clients before me and they test it.

Right now my situation is that she did all the dreadlcks on my head and she said to come back when the knots of my dread will be really loose and got a lot a loose hair. And i've found the site talking about the neglect method (natural method) and i really aggree with it. If I wouldn't have seen Catherine, i would have probably begin this method. But now I've dreadlcoks, I really hesitate about what to do.

I mean, even if I follow the method of 4 motnhs of Catherine and my dreadlocks are solid, they will still grow and one day the roots will have to be dreads again even if the rest of the dreadlcoks are new. And there will be a lot of loose hairs.

What I think I will do is to follow the method of Catherine the 4 first months, and after this, when i will ahve good dreadlcoks i will continue by tring the neglect method. I wonder what will happen?

What do you think about it? Your advices and thoughts are welcome!

And I really like this site thank you s much to create it! It,s really the best one, the most complete and the most intelligent one. Thank you!

updated by @gabriel-beauchemin: 02/14/15 11:00:11AM

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what a great project my friend! your full of generosity! wow!

Dreadie Mama~growing as parent

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thats beautifull

feathers

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Thank you

Bigbuttannie your so kind! but i live in Canada, i don't want to make you pay to ship those to me. and I also have a beautiful blue feather that i found by walking and kept it I didn'nt know why, now I will use it.

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I have a question , how do you do to make the feather not to fall when it is in your hair? also do you think this is possible in any way tomake a nodeor stick astring at the base of the feather and to it and to attach to to a dreadlock so it make a kind of cool bead, a short band with a feather attach to it ?

Not dread related, but question about Didjeridoos...

General Questions

I think you can practise circulat breathing before buying it by putting a straw in a bottle of war. Then try to blow in it the more time possible. With circular breating you should be able to blow in it infinity of time without interruption. It need a lot of practise I think.

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Wax your moustache, not your dreadlocks :D

updated by @gabriel-beauchemin: 02/05/15 10:12:49AM

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Dreading Methods

Hey,!

I will try to answer you the best I can Tricia Micael. You should wash as many times as you wish but the best to dreadlock fast is 2 or 3 by week. Also you shouldn't make pnytail , let your hair natural without at or anything in it. Hats or ponytail will make it dreads slower. I also think you should'nt use so much normal conditionner that you mostly find in shop, because they are chimic and not so natural. SE will probably say you to condition your hair with vinegar rinse thats the best. Yes your hair are gonna dreads even if you don't think it will.

And many site say you that many things go wrong because they want you no to do the neglect method. If you woud, they won't be able to sell you their products.

Good luck I'm sure you're gonna be beautiful with your dreadlock hair . It is the most natural and peacefullhaircut ever.

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I personnaly feel that my dreads are like a kind of pillow. Thas really confortable.