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How to recover crocheted dreads

Dread Maintenance

thanks so much SE i was hoping it would be you to respond... okay, i have zero issues doing what you recommend. done. my real concern was the health of the dread... and from what i can tell in your post, you believ that they will recover eventually. as long as they will recover, i can deal with any frizz... soaringeagle said:

u do not need to tidy the roots or the body! you dont have to touch the loose hair
just tie them back neatly or style them professionaly a french braid or dread bunn

now recovering from crochet u will get extra fuzzy from all the damnage u did smooth with aloe or water tie em back and go
dont cut nothing off cause noone will niotice it anyway

and they are a law firm they should know they cannot pressure you to tidy them beyond what your w8illing to do voluntarily

so just leave em be tie em back wrap a ribon round em whatever but dont mess with the roots or looose hairs

How to recover crocheted dreads

Dread Maintenance

I got my dreads 7 months ago... now, i have never been a wax-aholic, but I have certainly been a crochet-aholic. I know, I know...this is horrible for the poor dreadies...Thing is, I work in a law firm, and have honestly felt a slight pressure to have them being neater, tidier, so for the last 7 months, I have crocheted.i didnt really start that until they were closer to 3 months old, but have done it since. So as you may well imagine, my dreads look like they have fishbones out the sides, with all the loose hairs.I want to go with zero crocheting, but must DEFINATELY keep them neat for my law firm. I HAVE to. And I am not allowed to wear any sort of scarves or head wraps at work either, so the roots have to look nice and neat too.I can use a floss threader for the loose hair at the roots, that is not a problem, but i need technique for the body.So my questions are this:1. I need a prognosis for my dreads. They are strong now, absolutely no breakage of dreads, and they feel good and solid, its just the fishbone hairs coming out either side... Will my dreads be okay, and recover if I leave them alone now and dont crochet more?2. Can I trim the hair that is poking out, now? My dreads are 7 months and most of them feel very locked. some are still feeling like babies, so i likely wont touch them, but is it okay to trim off those hairs? or will they eventually dread up? My boyfriend had full on neglect dreads for 13 years, and he told me that those loose hairs will never dread up...his had them straight through all his years, and he never touched his dreads and he ocean swam every day... eek!
updated by @lindsay-millan: 01/13/15 08:41:40PM

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General Talk

I agree. "Lets break hairs badly, lets get moldy hair! Lets cut them off within 2 years! Lets pay an arm and a leg when all we really need is two friends, a comb, some aloe, and about 7 hours!! Let's go DreadHeadHQ~!"

interlocking dreadlocks causes dreads to fall off

Dreading Methods

Great! That would help.I have not got a hat type of head...in fact, i look downright silly. so i will have to be ingenuitive... Anubis said:

By ripping he means separating them so they don't combine. Over any kind of maintenance I'd recommend wearing a wrap or tam. It can be done in a way that looks very professional. I will post some pics if I can find some of what I'm talking about.

updated by @lindsay-millan: 07/09/15 06:03:57AM

interlocking dreadlocks causes dreads to fall off

Dreading Methods

point taken...alright. maintenance out the window, then. aloe and separation it is. i love my aloe plant too...it makes sense, if you think about it. all the loose hairs that break will come out of the dread, and then you have to work to get them back in, when all you really need to do is be patient.they eventually go in, yah? soaringeagle said:

seperating ripping aka popping just means seperating dreads that try combining at the roots
ojn right theres a link ripping/piopping to seperate to prevent congos

the thi8ng abiout crochet is your breaking hairs everytime u do it these hairs then find theyre way our needing to be crocheted back in..year after year your still repairing the damage your doing buy crochet.. your making a low maintenanvce style into a very huigh maintenance one..ive hear d of people crochetting 15 hiurs a week every week even afyer 7 years ..and theyre dreads must be very weak by then

interlocking dreadlocks causes dreads to fall off

Dreading Methods

Thanks.I can stop crochet. Its really just a vanity thing for the firm anyways. I like them kinda wiley, actually...it makes the styling more fun!There is this woman, Helen Tpf Robinson (on facebook) who has the loveliest dreadies I have ever seen.and ps. what do you mean by "only rippings really needed"? ripping what? tips? you cant possibly mean roots...ps. your dreads are GORGEOUS. soaringeagle said:

nothing your dreads are young thety go through a teen stage where they loop asnd lump and act crazy they will tighhten yp and the loops just become texture
anything u do to remove bumps will only damage the dread..
if it really is bad slip a bead or peyote stitcfh over it
and "maintenance sessions" are unesacary only rippings really needed you already do more then u should (i know u have to cause your a lawyer) just palm roll (i dont recomend it but understanf u doing it) id recomend no more crochet just use aloe tp tidy up

interlocking dreadlocks causes dreads to fall off

Dreading Methods

I had a girl do them that I trust. We backcombed, and minimally used the crochet hook, and only Knotty Boy accelorator to initially do them. Although they look great, I am worried, because she interlocked my roots (and I didnt know any better at the time). She flipped them once to the side, then once top to bottom, creating a link. \Now that my dreads have been with me for 3 months, i worry about the part where she interlocked them. I wont go to her for maintenance now, knowing that she does interlocking.My roots are really bubbly, then it thins where the interlocked part is, and then the dreads are normal mid size dreads (i have thick hair, and i have 48 dreads).I can feel it more in the bigger fatter dreads , in the back on the underside of my hair.What can you reccomend when I do my first maintenance session? oh yes, and I am also at a bit of a loss of what to do. I am the only one of my friends with dreads, so I cannot maintain them myself...no one can help me. argh! so I am curious...if I COULD find people to help me, what is the best way to get rid of the loopy, bubbly roots? i see people with nice smooth roots...mine are not that way at all. Perhaps you could give me tips? use string when i have them maintained? Anubis said:

As a correction, this is a forum to promote healthy habits for healthy dreads. I believe it is a positive thing to question why interlocking is bad, I would myself like to know the exact mechanics of how it it causes breakage even though I have an idea in mind.

However, it is quite widely accepted that root flipping is bad and there are many stories of peoples dreads breaking off because of it and other things like palm rolling. SE gave the information about it that he knows. At this point you either don't believe him and are still not willing to search for the information yourself, in that case do whatever you will...it's your hair. Or, you are trolling which would be cause for banning.....again from what SE said.

If you can give proof that interlocking doesn't harm dreads and that it is actually useful in some way then please, do share your information.