Depending on how long your hair is, you can shake it a little bit and if that’s not enough you can gently pat it dry,
i live on Northern England so know how annoying it is letting your hair air-dry. I was it in the mornings but it takes a few hours to air-dry and have to go to work with wet hair sometimes.
I can’t wait for it to get warmer so it’ll dry quicker.
And thanks, guys, given me some food for thought.
It’s been around 8 months now, give or take a month. I didn’t make a note of the date unfortunately, but I started from fear short hair so it has taken a long time to see just a little bit of progress.
So, like I’ve said in a recent post I thought about combing out my freeeform dreadlocks and starting again (and then I decided not to) but now I’m thinking about it again...
They are not really fully dreads yet and I still have mostly loose hair with lots of curls trying to dread finally, but would a lot of hair be pulled out if I combed it? I don’t want to loose a lot of hair.
I’m still undecided yet and it might be a really stupid idea but I know how to wash my hair better now and how often and what products to use, etc, and my hair is much longer now, so I’m really curious to see if my hair will begin to dreadlock quicker with all that. Because I started them really badly, using residue shampoo, with short hair and not washing my hair as much as I did before freeforming. I’d treat as an experiment and if I decide to comb my hair I will be going through with the freeforming properly the second time.
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In some of my dreadlocks there appears to be dirt or something. I push them out of my face over a hundred times a day and work in a warehouse, so I can kind of see why they’re clinging to dirt, but it’s not like I don’t wash my hair either.
But whenever I wash my hair it doesn’t remove the dirt that’s built up it just makes the rest of my hair feel cleaner and lighter.
Is there anyway to remove it? I was thinking of soaking them but they’re not long enough and my head would also be soaking haha.
Yep, my thoughts exactly. I made a few from bamboo because I change my mind a lot.
I have a question - is it safe to separate everyday or every other day? I find if I don’t check them everyday after a few days they start to form early congos. It’s taken so long to see much progress but now all the loose hair has suddenly started dreading insanely quickly and it’s taken me off guard
That’s cool, I’ll try and do that with some of mine. I’ve been looking at head sizes and just assuming they will either be too big or small instead of really trying. I have had some beads in but all of them eventually fell out in just under a week. I found some metal coils and thought they looked just the right size and they seemed to stay in a while but if I shake my head too heavily after the shower they just fly out
No, I actually don’t mind flat dreads and think they look better in some cases because it looks far more natural. I’m just trying to find ones to decorate
Some of my future dreadlocks are definitely going to be more flat than round but I would like to put something on them.
If I squash it into a sort of round-ish shape to fit into a large bead or something would it cause any problems?
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Do dreadlocks normally start on the bottom layer of hair? In this photo, you can’t see the knots right at the bottom but you can feel them a lot. All of those long, thin wavy-curls, they actually feel “knotty” to the touch, it’s just not visible yet.
I always thought the back was one of the quickest places to dread but it seems to be the slowest for my hair.
