Dread Disaster! Cannot go on any longer.
Help! Save My Dreads
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 soI 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 allI 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