That's hair falling out, but some part of it is tangled with other hair. It just ends up in any position and all knotted together.
Castaway Jesus said:
yeha its weird i get those white things at the tips of my locks, but shouldnt the follicle be at the other end?! lol
If they look like hair follicles, they probably are. Leave it be, and don't worry. The hair you shed can't just fall out when your dreading, it gets tangled up too.
If it's some other type of white stuff, you should figure out what it is! Residue? Baking soda?Dandruff? Lint? Feathers? Mold?
I notice lint and feathers in my hair a lot, you can pull that stuff out withtweezers, or forget about it.
So, does this mean that it's okay to skip the ACV, like, once? I want to wash with the baking soda today to wash out some residue I feel, but I don't want to use the ACV.
soaring eagle said:you should! acv restores a healthy ph bam]=llence
hairs a 5.0-5.5 which is slightly acidic (7 being nutral)
baking soda is alkaline around a 10 i believe
for proper hair and scalp healt the ph has to be brought back intoi the rigt range
exceptions to this are:
oily hairs usualy lil too acidic 4.8ish
to get oily hair to not be oily anymore u ca nudge it into range bu-y skipping the acv A FEW TIMES not permenantly only a few washes or so till youir les oily
then resume using it
if you dont use it for a long period yiur scalp will get dry and itchy
your hair weak and brittle
you might evcen get si=ores on the scalp
Oh wow :o that's way worse than the people at my school. But my hair just looks like unbrushed hair lol.
Oh, and what you need is this shirt! http://www.etsy.com/listing/98943647/dreadlock-and-crazy-hair-top-yes-i-wash?ref=sr_gallery_2&ga_search_query=yes+i+wash+my+dreads&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_ship_to=US&ga_search_type=all
Lily-Nicole said:
Happens all the time at my new high school! The other day a girl, let's call her Jessica just took my hair out of the headband bun it was in and started grabbing handfuls, and I couldn't stop her because I was holding a plate of beef liver for biology. Then she proceeded to call all her weirdo friends over to take turns grabbing at my hair. Eventually I tossed the plate onto the table and made them stop. Later I learned Jessica has always had extreme boundary issues. That really doesn't make it okay though.
Another thing I have noticed is people smell my hair A LOT. This one chick named, uh let's go with Jackie just stuck her nose into my bun on the first day of school! Has that ever happened to you guys? It was super weird.
Another time I laid my head down in class (Finished early) and I sat up and like two or three people were rolling my dreads, it was super freaky, I thought they were performing a cult ritual on me. so not cool
Also in the first week of school I was sitting with my new friends and I left to go to the bathroom, when I came back they wouldn't look at me. So eventually I convinced the hair sniffer girl to tell me what was up, this one girl told all of them people with dreads don't wash their hair and they never have. I flipped out on her, like that is totally not okay. It's like I need a hoodie that says YES, I WASH MY DREADS. I explained the whole situation though, still super annoying.
I don't usually mind if you touch my hair without asking but sniffing it is too far even for me. Plus taking my hair out of the bun? You guys know how much work it is to put dreads into a neat pony tail, a lot.
Priorto dreading a lot of people asked to touch my hair, and I lot of people touched it without asking. A few times at school the person who was seated behind me has started playing with my hair without asking. I used to lean back so they could reach more! I LOVE it when people play with my hair. Even just someone running there fingers through it feels amazing. I also understand why a lot of people at school wanted to touch it; I've always gone to schools were the majority of the students are black, and a lot of people are just interested in the difference in hair type, they want to know how it's so soft and straight.
BUT ever since I started dreading I have not wanted people to touch my hair, In the first few weeks of not brushing the people trying to touch my hair were friends. But, they still didn't ask, they'd just randomly stick their hand out. I always moved away and asked them to please not touch my hair. It got so bad with everyone trying to touch my hair that I told them I hate it when people touch my hair! Since then they've mostly stopped 
A few weeks ago a girl asked me if I brush my hair, and then tried to touch it. I moved away and said "nope".
Today my friend (and everyone else) said I looked a mess and actually tried to finger comb it! I told him to please do not do that, and he apologized. Another kid tried to touch it and I kicked his hand (sounds weird, but I was getting water and his hand was like coming towards me and I just stuck my foot out). A lot of people want to fix it for me lol, but it doesn't need fixing.
So yeah, I get this problem a lot. People DO NOT ask, but I usually see them coming. I think it's only gonna get worse as my hair gets more crazy. I think people shoulddefinitelyask before touching somebody else for any reason! For example, I have a friend with a very sensitive scalp but people love his hair (I think it's because he's a white boy with long fluffy hair lol). When people touch his hair his first response is to lash out because it hurts and it makes him angry! If people just asked he could warn them that his head issensitive!
Haha I'm pretty interested. I've been coming back to this post all day to read the comments.
sarai said:
I'm a bit disappointed that there isn't more information or at least interest in finding our more about this homemade Gel here on this site which is all about forming and maintaining dreads the natural and inexpensive way.
I find 1 cup of water for every TBSP of baking soda works well. For baby locks you should use way less ACV than baking soda, but for mature locks you can increase the amount. I used like half acap full in 1 cup of water. Thats like 1 TSP of ACVfor every cup of water.
The reason for the baking soda is that it cleans your hair really well! It cleans anything well! Baking soda has a basic pH and can cause your hair to get dry if used alone. The ACV has an acidic pH. So the reason for using the ACV is that is balances your hair's pH, keeping it healthy.
Mix your oils with your baking soda and water. Pour it over your head and let soak. Rinse that out well and then pour the ACV rinse over your head. For baby dreadsyoudon't really want it to soak, rinse it offrelativelysoon. For more mature dreads you should let it soak. Yeah, SE already said most of that...
Your hairshouldn'tsmell like the ACV at all. Oh, and I've never heard of anyone using rice vinegar, so I don't know what to tell ya.
Ooh beautiful hair! Beautiful baby dreads!
