Twisting Product suggestions?
Dread Products
okay. I use to have aloe pants, and they're alot like dreads. No effort required.
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Twisting Product suggestions?
Dread Products
there are no loose hairs. my roots are just two (some are three or four lol) inces of puff. I was going to twist just the roots and not wash it for a week or two to train it into that position, then never twist again. Don't worry se, I'm not planning on losing my dreads from overtwisting. I just need something that looks presentable.I think I'm gonna try aloe vera, but it's not exactly easy to find...sigh, my local store didn't have it.
Twisting Product suggestions?
Dread Products
So I've been locked up in the game for almost two months and I'm thinking about twisting my roots. Started with tnr, and they are really well locked up, which cool curls and loops going on all over the place. In the life I live I have to look pretty neat and put together, especially since I've got tons of meetings and things coming up next month. I was going to leave the roots alone but I've been throwing em up in ponytails so often, which leads to separating really often and I can't imagine that is good for my hair. anyway, now that I've given my spiel, I was wondering what the best products to use for twisting are. I've heard aloe vera can be used, does it work? Actual product suggestions are fine too, but I'd rather not put something that will gunk up my hair
Thanks in advance for the help
updated by @lu-a: 01/13/15 08:57:52PM
any thing for itchy scalp?
Dreads Hair and Scalp Health
I found that the acv is great, but also tea tree worked wonders for me. Also, you can wash 'em now. Just wash 'em as often as you use to...which every 3-5 days should be good, depending on your own natural oils and how often your scalp produces them.
Although, I washed my hair everyday or almost everyday in the first month (and I'm still kind of doing it but I got lazy) and I think it helps your dreads to lock up better. Water is new dreads best friend 
Dead Ends
Dread Maintenance
Okay, let's think about what a dread is. It's hairs that falls out of your head (I think the average is 100 a day which sound like alot but isn't) getting caught against living hair to knot up and matte together. By the time you've had your dreads for as long as you have there is a lot of dead hair on your head. And I'm not talking about how everyone says all the hair attached your scalp is dead because isn't not in your head anymore. These hairs are not growing out of your scalp anymore, they fell out and are simply knotted up in cones, etc, of hair. That is what a dread is. So you seeing dead piecves of hair is totally normal.
I agree with SE, might wanna let that thin one congo depending on how thin it is. If there is enough hair at the root that it can support it, let it be.
Anyway, long answer made short :You're fine bro. As long you wash and condition and generally take care of your dreads, you are fine.
Oh yeah, and are you conditioning? Because washing everyday, if pretty unnecessary, but with no conditioning you might be damaging your hair
Odd Washing Question
Dread Maintenance
Spray bottle? bs and acv are both liquid mixes so it coming out of the spray bottle wouldn't be an issue and it's be easy to maneuver one handedI am purposely not looking at the picture because I already feel quesy, but that sucks about your hand dude.
so i basiclly started over question
Dread Maintenance
the natural method definitely leads to some cool funky and unique dreads. Of course, not everyone wants that and for some people (please don't lampoon me for saying this) it's just hair. And just a look. So if you want a more uniform look, that is still completely natural, try the tnr method. Alot of people on this site have used twist and rip, including myself, for different reasons, and one of the reasons I did it was because I did not trust my hair to not become one giant piece of matted hair.
Of course, it's still a process, but you might get what you are looking for that way. Oh and everyone else is right, palmrolling doesn't do shit. It's a temporary fix and kind of a waste of time. Just trust your hair to do its thing.
i seem to have henna stuck in my dreads. i got a question
Dread Products
I have used organic henna since I was a kid (so about 15 years now) and my mom has used it for much longer so I will start out by saying that Henna will not damage your hair. It can be left in for a couple days (I've maxed out at one though) without any lasting damage, although your hair will definitely reek of henna if you don't wash it out. Since you used it, you know what henna smells like and, although I've become use to the smell and even kind of like it, I still wouldn't want to walk around in public smelling like it. Also, I've heard of instances of henna oil damaging or thinning your hair but I've never seen it or know anyone that that's happened to so there's a good chance that it's fine.
With that being said, henna is organic and everything organic rots. Please thoroughly wash out the henna as soon as possible, because the LAST thing you want is henna getting trapped in your dreads. the longer you leave it in the more likely hood that hair will dread around it and make it that much more difficult to wash out. You don't want rotting henna in your dreads.Think of henna being left in your dreads like residue in new dreads, or water in mature ones x10.
Wash it out, very thoroughly, then condition it if your worried about your hair drying out. But wash it out, even just using water or any residue free shampoo. Idk if bs will strip it away, I've never heard of that, but a simple shampoo will do the trick.
Of course, if you used one of those henna from the box, not completely organic type things you can disregard everything I just said because Idk shit about those.
Do you consider yourself a hippie?
General Talk
Wear what you want! I have some friends that when you see them you think hippie because of the way they dress and live their lives, even though they're not really hippies, in the traditional sense (hehe traditional and hippie is funny together). They've got that mindset but that hardcore kind of lifestyle is not for them. ANYWAY, I am the opposite of that lifestyle and mindset, but I didn't think any less of them when I met them and have since become good friends with them. The type of people that will make assumptions about you based on how you dress are not going to support your lifestyle anyway so who cares?
Newbie, Dreaded Beard
Introduce Yourself
I would imagine that dreading the hair on your chin would be the same as the hair on your head. It's courser (I'm assuming) so it'd prob dread faster, via neglect or tnr, but I don't think an inch is long enough to dread. Just my thoughts.Grow that puppy out, and then pics!