Just Starting Out & What To Expect
Dread Maintenance
Just adding to the information:
Hair growth: Your hair doesn't stop growing. If kinks and loops happen because of hair growth, one could say shrinkage happens because of hair growth also.
Forum Activity for @goldeneagle
Dread Maintenance
help! fresh meat
Introduce Yourself
Hello, Lo.
Welcome to the site and enjoy being yourself while you have dreadlocks. While you are still in the early development stages, spend a lot of time outside enjoying the wind.
Ignore the ignorant comments you may hear from people around you they'll change their tune as your dreadlocks keep developing. If you happen to have a job at the moment tell your boss. "Dreadlocks are the ultimate end of wind blown hair."
Measuring dread/dread beads
Dread Accessories
In most cases it's all about trial and error. Find a bead and put it on a dreadlock. If the bead falls off easily the bead is too big for that particular dreadlock.
Personally speaking, unless I use seed/peyote stitch beads my dreadlocks are too thin for the majority of beads that can be found.
TnR Q's
General Questions
The braided look will go away in about the time Baba stated. Only to be replaced with the bumpy look from all the loops and kinks that become the core of your dreadlocks.
Stop nitpicking your hair. Having dreadlocks is more about letting go of control rather than trying to control everything. You will be more peaceful in the long run.
Dreadlocks are the ultimate end to wind blown hair, so go outside more often like you may have done as a young kid and enjoy the wind.
How did this guy start his locs?
Introduce Yourself
Just keep your sections fairly small and you'll have dreadlocks similar to John Forte's. I keep my sections fairly small and my dreadlocks look like thick chunky hair until you get up close and see the congoes.
Dreadlocked Patients
General Talk
I'd want my dreadlocks washed when they look oily and towel dried as much as possible and then left to air dry.
Talking with the patient's mother is a good beginning on how to educate your fellow staff members on how to deal with our particular hairstyle.
One Month Later...
Dread Maintenance
The things that can be said about letting your dreadlocks form are:
1. keep your hair "washed" on a regular basis.
2. Separate/pull dreadlocks away from each other. Doing this will give you some choice on how thick the sections are.
3. Go outside and enjoy the wind. Dreadlocks form because the wind creates the tangles which become matted knots and ultimately form your dreadlocks.
For any ignorant remarks you may receive tell people "Dreadlocks are the ultimate end of wind blown hair." They'll shut up fast.
Getting Rid Of Thc
General Questions
For the just incase moment when you have the cup they ask you to pee in. Start collecting after you have already started peeing. The highest concentration of thc in your urine will be at the beginning of the stream.
It is also a good idea to use the restroom a few times before you get called and tested while you are in the clinic.
updated by @goldeneagle: 07/23/15 03:41:58PM
Muscular necks and dreadlocks....
General Talk
Has anyone, other than myself, noticed their neck becoming more muscular as your dreadlocks get older?
updated by @goldeneagle: 01/13/15 09:49:05PM
lost a dread!
Introduce Yourself
I had a portion of one of my thin dreadlocks fall off also. However, in my case, the dreadlock fell off because the hair surrounding the core shed off like normal hair would do. I grabbed the dreadlock and pulled gently and that was all it took. Thankfully the the rest of the dreadlock is still there and it looks like nothing happened.