Looking for a job and needing something to hide my messy hair
General Questions
what about if i have extremely short hair (look at my avatar). what exactly would work for me?
i understand that. but seeing that my dreads are still in the baby stage i can probably continue to do it every day, since they dry fast. i might continue to do it for the next couple of months and then change to wetting my hair every other day, and so on and so forth...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.
ahhh i seee.....ignore that part i said about the cuticles then.well the cuticles really have nothing to do with locking if you exacmine a microscopic view ith cuticles when open barely protrude and really have no place in the locking process the locking is knotting which washing does help so when wet they do knot up easier its not becaue of the open cuticles though
open cuticles alow oil penentration and cold rince will close them sealing in oils making the scalp not over produce to compensate for oil loss
so the opening and closing norishes the hair, but the open cuticles dont interlock at all they cant they dont protrude enough and when closed theyre smooth
now with nappy hair wetting it the water weight draws it down making it longer and gets more tangled in the process then when it dries it curls back up tightening as it does making the knots tighter
ok if this is a greatly magnified haitr folicle witdth |--------| with open cuticles its like this \-------/ and they cant rerally interlock with anything unless theres the highly unlikly event of a har thats twisted 180 degrees so the tops facing the scalp and rootrs facing the tips and totaly parelel and in very close proximity so the cuticles can interlock like this \-----\/------/ (the \ amnd / forming the \/ are from oposite sides interlocking)
also when backcombed all the cuticles are damaged and stuck open