Forum Activity for @taye

Now ready to start the process after many many years

Introduce Yourself

wow 6 hrs to do 3cm of a dread? It really shouldn't take that long. With tnr your whole head should be done in that amount of time. It takes a little longer to back comb.

Liberty Benedict said:

Right it has been around 6hours of my poor OH trying to make one dread with R&T method and it is maybe only 3 cm long..

Watched tons of videos and he is doing just as advised..

Really wanted to make some progress but now looking like it may have to be the natural way..

any ideas on what is going wrong?

Hair washed in BS very dry, huge frizz twist the ripping about 6 or more timesin between..

Baby dreads aren't even dreads anymore

Help! Save My Dreads

do you play with your hair? One of the hardest things to do is to keep fingers away from baby dreads. They are new and exciting. People wanna touch them to see what is happening on their head, or to make sure that they are still there. Touching your hair through out the day can actually undo your baby knots. Especially if you are running your fingers thru your hair. Sit on your hands or learn to knit, anything to keep your hands off your head and out of your hair.

BC.... and wax....

Introduce Yourself

Most of my dreads were back combed. There is nothing wrong with it as long as it is done gently. It will cause some damage, but if done gently it is only mild damage. Now wax on the other hand is bad. This site is dedicated to the big no wax policy. You won't get pro wax advice here. I am sorry. It is like a child wanting to put a fork in an electrical outlet. You don't give the child instructions on how to do it. You stop the child from doing it because you know it is harmful.

Same thing with wax....even a little is bad. Don't use any wax. Research wax on this site. There are horror stories! and it is just gross. I put some on my finger once...it felt nasty. Can't even imagine how nasty it would feel in my hair.

Everyone says that if you leave your hair alone it will dread....

Dread Maintenance

some people just slide their pillow inside a wool sweater

Everyone says that if you leave your hair alone it will dread....

Dread Maintenance

my loose hair doesn't always knot up. It has to be a thick enough clump and about 10" long before it does. It starts dreading in the middle of the strand. It mainly happens on the back of my head and on the right side. The mini dreads usually get eaten up by the larger ones. Loose hair on the very top of my head and around my face does not do this at all.

Have you tried doing a little t and r on the areas of loose hair that are thick enough?

Tried wearing wool tams?

and like Matt suggested sea salt sprays work well

has anyone seen this video? (crazy salt lady and Johnny clean cut & exchange dreads)

Dread Products

when the dread is cut and the bead is removed...there is no dreaded hair under the bead..it was straight hair. Obviously the bead had been there for a long time, so the hair under the bead was not waxed to begin with. Wax would not go through a bead.

A few questions before I dread

General Questions

neglect is basically throwing the comb and brush away. Hair will naturally knot up and form dreads on it's own if not brushed or combed. It is the healthiest way to dread. All you have to do is pull the sections apart to keep it from being one big knot.

Back combing and twist and rip methods work well. But remember to be gentle if you use one of these methods.

with you having to brush your hair a couple of times a day..it sounds like your hair is begging to be dreaded.

Dreadlocks are not made by letting your hair be nasty and dirty.Oily, dirty hair does not dread easy. You want your hair to be clean. Clean hair makes healthy dreads.You can use shampoo on your hair but nothing that leaves residues.

Read the section on here called dreaducation. It has lots of information that will help you.

Good luck with whatever method you choose.

First week?

General Questions

you sectioned your hair and did t and r right? ok so right now you kinda have an outline for dreads. They are not dreads yet. There are no real knots yet. For the next year....your hair is gonna form knots. Those knots turn into dreads. They are gonna go thru a process of loosening up so they can knot up ..then loosen then knot. They are gonna form loops and weird bumps. Each dread is unique..no 2 are exactly alike.Noone has really covered week one cause nothing really happens yet. Loosening is normal, expected and wanted. Wash your hair...but wash gently. Concentrate on washing your scalp not your hair. Otherwise, Don't touch your hair. Don't play with it. It can undo the knots that are trying to form. Sleeping on wool or wearing wool tams a few hours a day can encourage knots. Spraying your hair with a mixture of sea salt and water an hour or so before you wash it can also encourage knots.You don't need to worry about anything the first week. Sit back and enjoy this new journey!

How many...

Dreading Methods

you can section it yourself instead of having to pay someone to do it. Or have a friend help. But if you have it sectioned in the salon...don't let em talk you into doing anything else. They will probably try to make you feel like they know more than you do and would do a better job than you would. Don't listen. By researching here you know as much and more than they do.

Good Luck with it!! and keep us posted!

How many...

Dreading Methods

if you only have 18 dreads....they are gonna be big fatties. The best way to judge mature thickness is on how big the sections are. The dread will mature to be aproximately the size of the section. Most ppl section off 1" or smaller. If your sections are bigger you might wanna think about redoing them.

It has a little to do with your hair thickness and texture .

My hair is really thin and really fine...so my dreads will always be a tad bit smaller than my sections. My hair was about the thickness of a dime when in a pony tail before i dreaded it. Now each of my dreads are as thick as a dime! I have about 30 dreads.

Most dreads will shrink up and fatten up a whole lot during the first year. So you can't judge the mature size by looking at a baby dread