Forum Activity for @dayna

Burts Bees Shampoo

Dread Products

I love Burts Bees everything, but found the shampoos too conditioning for my dreads. I think it just depends on you hair type. Anything with moisture in it for me would make my ends start to unravel, and the rest of the dread super frizzy. But they smell sooooo good!

rectangle sections = flat dreads?

Dread Maintenance

I have / have had rectangles. Not really a big deal. None of your dreads will ever be round though!! Sometimes I have had a few that seem to keep getting flatter as they grow in. I found it easy to fix with (gasp!) interlocking!!! Not a lot. Just one pull through seemed to work for me. Then they started to round out again. (Oh man, I'm gonna be hated here for suggesting that!!!!)But if your dreads are really new, I would touch em. Let them be. They just need time.Good luck!

Dread issues after hair loss from childbirth???

Dread Maintenance

hahaha I would be pretty cranky if someone called to ask me a hair question when I just gave birth!! let em congo after ? is that what you mean? I did nothing with the regrowth last time, and it in return did nothing back! it just kept growing longer and straight and not dreading. or congoing. Waited about a year. Should I wait it out longer if it happens again?(I really like that term by the way.... it makes me picture my dreads partying.)

Dread issues after hair loss from childbirth???

Dread Maintenance

Hi guys. I'm preggers with my second, and getting a little nervous about what will happen to my dreads this time.I'm wondering if anyone had anything happen to their hair after giving birth?(Your hair stops falling out at the normal rate in pregnancy. Then when your hormones start going back to normal about 3 months after giving birth, all the hair you didn't lose in the previous months usually drops off like mad, and then some.)I had so much fall out at once that alot of my dreads were hanging on for dear life. By just a few hairs! I had a bald receding hair line. It was soooo dorky looking. Then, when the hair started growing back, I had short frizz all over my head, that stuck straight up. It looked even more ridiculous!After about a year of hoping the new growth would dread in, (it never did) I ended up going to a "loctitian" and having her chrochet the hair in. And fix the dreads that were hanging on for dear life.Once I did that, everthing has been fine. (for more than a year.)I really hope this doesn't happen again, but am wondering how others dealt with it??? (or if I'm the only one??)
updated by @dayna: 01/13/15 08:45:56PM

Stubborn dandruff

Dreads Hair and Scalp Health

I've had that problem too. I've found it just took my head a while to adjust to things. I was really bad oily / flaky, especially around 9 to 10 months. (the same each time, I've had dreads 3 times.) Pre-dreads, my hair was super oily, it was hard to go 2 days without washing it.I've found my head eventually gets past this "stage". I'm 2 1/2 years in now with these dreads. No oil, no flakes. I even recently cut some bangs, and their not oily either. I don't know about you, but my flakes came from so much oil build up, it made gunk on my head, then dried out. (eeww, I know.)Good luck, I know it sucks.

I'm new, and want to say thanks!

Introduce Yourself

soaringeagle said:

u probly willl see em come looose at tips like thety were

glad we saved em
but to your butts not so long

No, I guess compared to yours, to my butt is nothing!!!

I'm new, and want to say thanks!

Introduce Yourself

Hello all,I came across this site a few weeks ago in a crazy, pregnancy emotional need to change my hair, lack of self confidence moment. I've had dreads for over 2 years now, and was thinking of combing them out. I found this site, and all the pics and stories saved my dreads. The moment of weakness has passed.Thanks for such a great site!I did end up cutting about a foot off of my dreads (some of them were getting past my butt, and getting in the way.) I just cut straight with scissors, and it looks kinda dorky right now. You think they will look change over a few weeks, or should I kinda cut em angled so they don't look flat? (My hair is super straight, and never dreaded right to the ends, always had about 4 inches or so of straight hair.)Thanks thanks thanks!
updated by @dayna: 01/13/15 08:45:41PM