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did i dread wrong???

Introduce Yourself

Just leave them completely alone apart from washing and using homemade locking accelerator (aka, swim in the sea) and they'll turn out fine, I backcombed mine but used barely any wax (later removed as much as I could) and for the first 3months or so they looked like crap but they've definately tightened up, also I've had mine for 6months now but I still wouldn't call them dreads as there quite a while off maturity but it's still awesome watching them change every day.

Things to help hair dread

Dread Maintenance

haha this may sound weird, but I got swine flu like 3 weeks ago and was in bed for an entire week, during that week my hair tightened up like crazy i think becasue i was always rolling around and lying on them for a week lol, so yeah...sleep a lot

Swimming with young dreads?

General Questions

It's the rumours the scamming companies send out, I truly beleived that caucasion hair would not dread by itself and that I would have to get it started. soaringeagle said:

if you did nothing but swim in the ocean or go hike through the woods awhile youd have dreads without effort

Swimming with young dreads?

General Questions

How long should I wait until I am able to go swimming (In the sea) after I finished my dreads, they are only about 1-2 weeks old.
updated by @ben-carroll: 01/13/15 08:26:08PM

Dreads falling apart?

Dread Maintenance

Great thanks a lot se

Dreads falling apart?

Dread Maintenance

okay, would nearly boiling water work? soaringeagle said:

ok..if u can remembver which ones it cant hurt to do a lil extra cleaning but if it really was only 1 time and nearly nothing then possibly just soap removed enough


Ben Carroll said:

I used next to no wax on about 5 or 6 "to be" dreads before realising it didn't help at all

soaringeagle said:

lock peppa is pure crap a total scam..its literaly dirt they sellya to sprinlkle in your hair
please tell me you at least didnt use wax with it
Ben Carroll said:

I did absolutely nothing and the middle has knotted up of its own accord and the tips no longer look matured, I just washed them and put sea salt with lemon and water on my hair, pretty weird.

I think that because I used lock peppa when I backcombed, the middle knots just fell out when I washed them, but I had been palmrolling the tips so that's why the tips looked matured and the loose hair was because of the lock peppa just washing out.

Dreads falling apart?

Dread Maintenance

I used next to no wax on about 5 or 6 "to be" dreads before realising it didn't help at all soaringeagle said:

lock peppa is pure crap a total scam..its literaly dirt they sellya to sprinlkle in your hair
please tell me you at least didnt use wax with it Ben Carroll said:

I did absolutely nothing and the middle has knotted up of its own accord and the tips no longer look matured, I just washed them and put sea salt with lemon and water on my hair, pretty weird.

I think that because I used lock peppa when I backcombed, the middle knots just fell out when I washed them, but I had been palmrolling the tips so that's why the tips looked matured and the loose hair was because of the lock peppa just washing out.

Dreads falling apart?

Dread Maintenance

Oh yeah and I stopped using the dreadhead locking accelerator and made my own Ben Carroll said:

I did absolutely nothing and the middle has knotted up of its own accord and the tips no longer look matured, I just washed them and put sea salt with lemon and water on my hair, pretty weird.

I think that because I used lock peppa when I backcombed, the middle knots just fell out when I washed them, but I had been palmrolling the tips so that's why the tips looked matured and the loose hair was because of the lock peppa just washing out.

Dreads falling apart?

Dread Maintenance

I did absolutely nothing and the middle has knotted up of its own accord and the tips no longer look matured, I just washed them and put sea salt with lemon and water on my hair, pretty weird.I think that because I used lock peppa when I backcombed, the middle knots just fell out when I washed them, but I had been palmrolling the tips so that's why the tips looked matured and the loose hair was because of the lock peppa just washing out.
updated by @ben-carroll: 07/02/15 08:02:11AM

Dreads falling apart?

Dread Maintenance

So if I just leave it will it knot up by itself?