Forum Activity for @tatyananashi

lame gift and words..... lol

General Talk

Seminole is a nation of 5 southeastern tribes and escaped slaves so some did wear dreads yes. My grandfather was muskogee (also called creek) and they are a part of seminole nations, he never kept dreads but his mother did. One of the only things I remember about my great grandmother was her matted hair, which stayed jet black even in her old age.

soaringeagle said:

at least irt wasnt scissors
oh and u can let him know theres a hopi rasta reggae band that blends reggae and hopi
and wasnt there a tribe that wore dreads too seminole no i cant remember

updated by @tatyananashi: 07/23/15 04:44:25PM

What method would be the best for me?

Dreading Methods

yeah that hair will dread crazy fast. Lucky!

The importance of daily hot water rinses

Dread Maintenance

Yeah when I swam every day my dreads were new, so they were barely locked, but as time goes on they are taking longer and longer to dry. I don't get my dreads wet every shower now that they're tighter, only about once a week now, and as they get even tighter I'll probably have to go with once a month. But at first when they were first forming I noticed the same correlation Kathleen did, that they were tighter after each wash or each swim.Prior to dreading it was when my hair was wet that it tangled the most, and if I didn't get all the tangles out before it dried it would be a crazy mess and would get even tighter tangled. One of the reasons I chose to dread, no more time wasted brushing hair that clearly loves to tangle. LOL

Knottysleeves said:

Washing does help locking -- I always have to rip & separate my dreads afterwards!

However, daily washes/rinses is NOT a good idea. Moisture is what leads to mold and dread rot... and if you get them wet every day, they won't have enough time to thoroughly dry inside. Just because they "feel" dry doesn't necessarily mean they are, especially once your dreads thicken up and start to mature. You'd be surprised how long it can take for the dense cores to get totally dry.

The importance of daily hot water rinses

Dread Maintenance

I agree with this, I don't have african hair, I actually have very very straight fine hair, but I swam a lot in the summer and I take super hot showers, and after each shower my hair locks up more (also congos more) and I have mega mega shrinkage. Some of my dreads that were down past my shoulders are now just past my eyes. That much shrinkage, like 75%, and I haven't done salt water or crocheting or rolling or any other maintenance besides ripping apart congos.

The "Wrongdoings" of My Anti-Hippie "Friends"

Alternative Lifestyles and Subcultures

I can't stand ignorant people either, but omg she's dumb. Like seriously."Tomi: Nah actually the bible says to tell people to rule the earth, benevolently. The bible actually is against all this green hippy stuff. Just so you know, I don't read the bible I just happen to have stumbled upon that fact."so, you haven't read the "source" but you know what it says because you stumbled upon something? I personally do not care for the religions based on the bible, but I grow tired of people who do and yet do not know the meaning meaning of dominion. Know your religion at least a little please people!

Fat Tips and Loose Roots

Dread Maintenance

wow my hair is like the opposite, thick tight knotted roots and wispy almost untangled ends at 2.5 months. Now they're all almost doing the same thing, but I do have a few with wispy tips still.The progress looks good for how long you've been dreading, you even have some loopy bends starting, it's on it's way to shrinkage which is a very progressive stage! For your method you're well ahead of some people. Good dreading!

Thank you!!!

Introduce Yourself

Glad you never waxed! I don't understand it either, wax IS residue but dread lock shops selling wax will tout residue-free but ask you to put straight up residue in your hair. Gross.Everyone still has some loose hairs even after a lot of maturity, like some people always have nape and crown hair depending on their hair texture (it's usually very fine hair in those areas).Pics of your dreads when you have a chance?

Has anyone ever used or heard of using Miracle 2000 to wash their dreads???

Dread Maintenance

The "Energized stabilized oxygenated water" proprietary ingredient is, as you mention knottysleeves, scammy. It's also referred to as "ionized" water or "alkaline" water or many other things people call it. The fact is that all water is always oxygenated and energy stabilized. Water cannot be stabilized more than it already is, and it mixes with many different molecules so this terminology they use is just to capitalize on people's ignorance of the properties of water. They may have pushed a very faint electrical current through the water so they can call it this, or even stirred the water with a magnet wand, but it doesn't actually change the water properties.I don't doubt that this product seems to work for cleaning things and is mostly naturally occurring ingredients, but they probably charge a lot more for it because of the magic water they put in it, when you can probably make the same thing at home using natural ingredients.Essentially it has water (made magic with magnets or electricity!), coconut oil fatty acid used to keep products from separating and is technically a sulfate, calcium, potassium, magnesium. It's no miracle, but it definitely helps the people who make it make money!You can clean anything in your house or camping with natural stuff, and it would be safer than this biodegradable cleanser. Though they say it's safe for nature, a sulfate and calcium, potassium and magnesium in high quantities than found naturally occurring in soil (which would be in this soap) will kill plants. Don't believe me? Try watering your garden with it, everything will die. The only natural soap that won't kill plants is found in yucca, quinoa and soapwort, soapnut, horse chestnut, ginseng, yucca and a natural coating on the seeds of quinoa. It wont foam up as much as soap as youre familiar with it, but if you use the greywater to irrigate your plants they wont die. To me, thats what I want from a natural product.

Had to cut my (soon to be)dreads

Introduce Yourself

Could you have brushed it out instead of cutting or was the hundred so you'd have shorter hair also?

Almost 6 months old!

Introduce Yourself

I name my dreads as they mature based on their shapes. I had a loopy louie and one I called piggy because it had a curl like a piggy tail, but they all change so fast and do something else so after a few weeks I can't really tell which one was piggy, etc. I need beads to tell them apart LOL.