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Advice on dying dreads from brown to blonde.

Dreadlock Styles and Dread Styling

If you do bleach and decide to do so at home, research first, check out what the active ingredients are and how they work and pick your product based on that.

Also, don't go for the whole thing. Do not bleach your whole head, heck don't even bleach whole locks.

Do some tips, (like frosting!) as a test, to see how your hair tolerates the treatment.
Also, so you don't get the sharp colour transition between bleached and roots.

All in all, the less you do the better your locks will be for it.
I'm not one to tell you "not" to do it as I do dye my hair myself.
I've a mousy brown colour that's fast turning gray and I dye blue.

Dreads need my oomph! ;)

Dread Products

Aside from teasing/backcombing to make big hair in the 80's, they also used the blowdryer and "lifted" the hair.
If you have the time and the ability, drying and blow drying your locks while hanging upside down would surely make 'em look more volumous.

Drying my Dreads takes soo loong....

Dread Maintenance

Headbanging like mad to fling most of the water out speeds things up for me, but then, I have space to where throwing water around isn't a problem.

If it's really cold out (talking well below the point of freezing) make sure you cover 'em with something that insulates well if they're moist. I don't know how much damage frozen locks take, but it isn't worth risking.
I'm currently crocheting myself a nice big poofy hat from Icelandic wool for just that reason (gotta make it myself as my head's big to start with and there's no way I can get a hat that fits me and my locks locally... so... DIY!)

I'm worried that my bleach blonde hair is going to all fall out before it dreads up :(

Help! Save My Dreads

I'm gonna go ahead and point out that hair and nails are made of the same material using mostly the same methods.
The hair itself is not actually alive, though it only exists because you're alive.
If you break a nail, you don't smother it in varying remedies and it'll fix itself. Once it's broken it's broken.

This means that once you've burned your hair with bleach, it's burned, and it can not be undone.

However, the good news is that "it will grow out".

Hair grows, every day of your life. As long as you're alive, your body will naturally produce more hair.

You can try and treat your burned hair to soften it, make it less brittle, by adding more chemicals, or oils or so on, and this is not a bad idea. When you burn your hair with the acid that bleach is, you remove it's outer layer to get to the inner core and remove the natural colour from it from within. If you fill that inner core with oils then it'll support itself better and be less brittle, but at the end of the day, that's something you'll have to maintain as every wash will (or at the very least should) remove the oils that you've added.

My personal advice would be.
Make your peace with what is done.
Learn from your experience.
Live with the consequence.
And wait it out.

Patience solves half the things that worry us with locks, if not more.

Tip for hair washing technique

Dreads Hair and Scalp Health

yep there are

Just got some of them dreadlock shampoo bars that smell so awesome that puppy wants to eat them!

Tip for hair washing technique

Dreads Hair and Scalp Health

When I use liquid shampoo I've started out bent over so all my locks fall forwards and then put a tiny bit into the roots at the back of my head, then flip over a few locks and put a tiny bit of shampoo in the roots there, and so on and so forth, until the shampoo's in tiny bits all over my roots, then I massage into a good lather that I squeeze into the locks themselves.

When I've had a shampoo that's more viscous I've actually done what you're describing and watered it down into a squeeze bottle before I've done the same thing as above.

I don't go through a lot of shampoo, needless to say.

Dreads too tight! Causing mold or buildup. My dreadlocks also seem too dry!

Dread Maintenance

Mildew is a subcategory of mold which is a subcategory of fungi.

Fungi being the type of growth, mold being the type of fungi, mildew being the type of mold, and the actual strain of mildew being the highest tier of defining the thing in question.

f.ex. ever eaten Brie or Camenbert?
Penicillium candidum is the name of the specific mildew that is used to give these cheeses their distinct taste and texture. So, Penicillium candidumis a mildew which is a mold which is a fungi. or, Brie is made using a type of fungy, specifically a mold, specifically a mildew, specificallyPenicillium candidum.

Just like how a Chihuahua is a domesticated dog, which is a canine, which is a mammal.

~ Encyclopedia Miniar.

dreadlocks shampoo

Dread Products

I ordered a bar of Nag Champa and one of Dragon's Blood before international orders were "officially" available.
They arrived Monday and I just went and got the box today.

They smell so wonderful I'm actually looking forward to showering just so I can use 'em!

In fact, they smell so good that my dog has decided they're food and I have to put 'em out of her reach or she tries to steal them to eat them.

Let me say that again.

THE SHAMPOO BARS SMELL SO DELICIOUSLY AWESOME THAT MY DOG WANTS TO EAT THEM!

Wetting your hair

Dread Maintenance

Now, I don't pretend to be an expert or to have any gigantic basis for this comment, but I do know or know of those who advocate "rinsing" your hair daily, but "washing" it only once or twice a month. (Bit further than I'd take it myself, but yeah...)

I do not see why it would be bad to let it get wet even if you're not "washing" it at that time. I mean, the rain doesn't cause us harm.
But I would point out that the hair "needs" to be allowed to get good and proper dry in between as prolonged periods of simply "being" wet/moist will create the perfect growing conditions for molds and such.

Article Critique: "White People and Dreadlocks: A Problematic Union"

History and Religious Significance

Jdwood said:

I think American culture ishighlybased on looks notorigins. Take BobMarley as an example. He is know as being "black"and heembracedisJamaican/African Americanheritage. He looked black so it was "okay" now if he embraced is Scottish heritageinstead I wonder if he would have been as popular (wearinga kilt and playing the bag pipes). I work with a woman that has red hair green eyes and very pale skin withfreckles and she has a great grandfather who is African American. If she wouldembracethat side of her inherited culture I think she would get a lot of critic from many Americans.