Forum Activity for @davey

dread related concerns rant (well sort of)

Introduce Yourself

you can start dreads from braids though, i know someone who started a set that way and they look great. she started them 5 of so years ago as well so they've held up, but she didn't just braid'em and leave'em; once braided she said she would rub the outside of them to make them loosen and the lose hairs would rub together and form knots, it's pretty weird but i think thats why they never looked braidy, and it's an interesting method of doing it i thinkshe was also the first person to tell me not to put shit in my hair cause i had wax and was using to much knotty boy gel so it was flaking everywhere. i wish i knew her well enough to get a picture with out looking like a creep

hey will my dreads get longer within a year?

Introduce Yourself

hair grows about a half inch a month so about 6" a year, factor in that you lose some length as the hair compresses and tangles into the dreads and i would say the 3 inchs may be close to accurate, of course you can't be 100% because hair growth is effected by diet aswell; i think my hair grew in double time since i quit smoking ciggarettes and it already grew a little quicker than average anyway so it shot out of my head pretty quick the last few months. drinking more water and eating healty helps a lot too, and scalp massage but with dreads thats not so easy.can't always go by pictures, sometimes they get fat instead of long, they'll get longer in time though no need to rush or worry about it, just think about how nice it is to wake up every day and let them do their thing

big=lil baby dreads

Dreads Hair and Scalp Health

that tends to be what happens it would seems That_Irie_Guy said:

Ok sweet I will try this. Idk y my boys seem to be gettin worse not better

My Fiance Is Leaving Me...

General Talk

being bi-polar can be a bitch man, like everyone else has said, just gotta roll with the punchs and let life flow, you'll get to your destination one way or another.maybe not exactly what you want to read but i'm bi-polar and i've been on the other side of that, i was engaged and we were making wedding plans and going to michaels bridal and she was trying on dresses and then one day i just freaked out like holy shit what am i doing?! i can't do this i've only known her two years and she was my first and i'm only 22 i can't be stuck in a relationship. we were living together and i had to move out on my own because i didn't want any of my friends to be like why are you crying about moving out it was your decision that doesn't make any sense.i had convinced myself i didn't love her and never had feelings for her but every 3am text that she was lonely got me into her bed 5 minutes later and not even for sex. i used to sit up all night listening to her talk about helter skelter and all of the charles manson books or other guys she was talking to when i had to be in class the next day, it didn't matter though, i'd just take some stakers and a few monster to get through the next day. i was almost killing myself so she wouldn't feel alone, looking back, it's kind of funny in a way i guess, about how nieve i was, that i would go that far out of my way for someone with out a second thought for this person i was convinced i didn't have feelings for.One day i just went off and said somethings to her i have regreted ever since. i said it out frustraition and made myself sound like a racist jack-ass which is so out of character for me i can't even understand why i would have even said thought or acted like that but she told me she never wanted to speak to me ever again and has stuck to it. she used to come into a store i worked at every now and again i think to rub it in my face that she found someone else that makes her happy, i don't think it got across what she wanted to but either way i know that bridge has burnt and the ship's set sail but at least she's moved on and happy, at least i hope.i regret it, i still talk about her all the time with out realizing it and it pissed off my gf now even though we've been together a year and half and have a baby she still gets jelous and mad if i mention her name.long story, but what i want to get across is, don't always take things at face value, especially when bi-polar is in the mix cause it's a pain in the ass; if i'm not "medicated" i can be a nightmare to deal with, and just a straight asshole until i get a chance to sit down smoke a bowl and clear my head. sounds a lot like confusion and frustraition and maybe a bit of fear as well. she may say some nasty things to you and hurt you a lot, but if she means that much to you it's worth it to try, just keep a clear head and know when it's time to walk away, rather permanetly or just for a few minutes.

I am tore up...

Dread Maintenance

your 15 man, don't let them people get you down you have a life to live and you don't want to live with regrets. i know it's hard to think about now, but for real, people come and go sometimes; the people i knew and ran around with when i was your age are fleeting memories anymore, everyone is having kids and getting married, no one seems to have any time and half them think i'm to damn odd anymore; some people are still cool but i don't have anything to talk to them about anymore, so it's just another facebook update or i play with them on wow every so often. That's not a bad thing in my eyes though, because i let go of those people who would judge me and now i see them as what they are, i don't have many friends but those i do have i consider family, and i would do anything for them because i know they would do the same for me.and i've had a girl leave me because of my dreads, it was lame but ohwell, she was a good person, just not my person; i've also had girls beg me to hang out with them, i've even been offered money to leave the girl i was with to come be with them and i'm far from good lookin lol.bottom line, stop stressin, smoke a bowl and listen to some bob marley, gotta get some positive vibrations happenin in your life and everything will work out while you flow with the river of life until you get to stix

congos!!!

General Questions

i've had a few like this; i think for me it's because i did tnr and my tips are a bit looser so i get these long stray hairs that pop out and get tangled in the loose end and they pull together.

Chlorine on dreads

General Questions

i started my current set while on a weekend holiday and spent a lot of time in the sun during the day and in a hot tub/pool at night and it seems like it dried my hair out a ton, which is good for me cause i have super oily soft hair, i still rinsed off and everything but water pressure in the hotel was non existant so i couldn't wash it out with shampoo. i had gone down there intending to start natty dreads so i drove with the windows down and sunroof open on the highway for a few hours and by day 3 my head was already starting to section; i ended up doing tnr but my hair was already pretty knotty so i just used the natural sections and my hair was so dried out it knotted up really well. can't say it was good or bad for them, but i think the clorine dried out everything pretty good, but considering the number of kids at the hotel the hot tub was probably more of a salt water dip than i care to acknowledge.i've swam with new dreads before aswell and it didn't seem to hurt them, if anything they felt a bit tighter. can't say it's good or bad, but deffinatly want to rinse out just because you never know how much urine your in:P

Backcombing

Dreading Methods

for sure man try out the tnr method, or if the length is a big issue wait and think about it for a few months and let your hair grow some too, hang out of the forums, read about dreads and get a feel for the comunity before you jump in and make a good educated decisions. i've wanted dreads for well over 10 years, and i've had a few rough sets over the last 2, i've finally gotten to a point where i can be happy with me, and my dreads even if they are a big fuzzy mess.and i did tnr with my current dreads and it was great, i was going to go natural while on a weekend holiday but i found my self playing with my hair while watching tv so i ended up doing tnr mindlessly and just grabbed random sections that sort of formed on their own over the weekend. they turned out pretty well so far and it took 0 effort, way better than the times in the past that i backcombed, they feel more natural even if they're not raw sum said:

T and R ... Try one... I was astounded how quick and easy one dread came to the back of a friend's head with T and R ... try one at the least and see for your self... just coax one little baby under the cover of your regular hair for a one month trial... you' see how quick it goes and then you're off ... you will have a globe of dreads in no time

be well ... rawsum

ok KORN's dreads

Introduce Yourself

i would imagine they we're dreads started as braids, i haven't kept up but i remember back when they were first coming out with clown, and then life is peachy i guess, the second cd, they all had braids if i remember right

patented dreadlocks sisterlocks nappylocks weirdsistas and more

Dreading Methods

this is crazy. we don't piss in your pool, please don't poop in ours. this site is about good ol' fashion natty dreads, not "nu skool" fashion dreads; i can respect all dreads, thats why i love this site over all other dready communities, it's an actual community, if you want to attach people go hang out on the hip forums.now if you want good info, sit back shut up and listen, if you want to know about natural locks listen to se, if you wanna know about back combing join a group or check out lish's get up dread up live journal page, tons of info to be gathered. if you don't like how things are done in this community don't come and try and cram your ideas down our throat, just move a long if you can't be respectful, seriously. and you make comments like threats then expect to be treated nicely, that's a pretty bad joke.i don't think anyone really cares who it is you think you are either.