will beads help with my crazy lumps?
General Questions
leave em be they are essential to proper dreading and will go away on its own
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General Questions
Residue in my locks
Help! Save My Dreads
remove residue with anu clarifying or anti residue (suave clarifying nutragena anti residue)
these are only to remove residue not replace the shampoo
then www.dreadlockshampoo.com on a regular basis
Dreads 5 months TnR
Member Journals and Timelines
looks like they are just recovering from the crochet in the very last pic..and got huge at the same time
Bit worried about my progress - some advice or reassurance required :/
Dreadlocks Journey Emotional Support
i got some like that that are very mature just makes those 1's more interesting
its normal and just fine
why dreadlocks?
Introduce Yourself
well yes and no
it was the 80s with punks everywhere with jello or glue in thier hair sand mohawks everywhere
and anger..angry at everyone and everything and 'f___ you" instead of hello being the typical greeting usually followed by 15 skinheads stomping on your head with steel toed boots instead of a how are you
at that time id gotten to know alot of rastas whod greet you with "respect" or "one love" way diferent from the angry screams of punks with bashed in skulls.
we ran several soup kitchens (with entertaiment more like a coffeehouse or dinner theater) as well as i took food out on the streets i also was living in an artists community awhile so always meeting rasta poets painters and musicians
one day asked apollo 'how do u get your hair like that' he said lose de comb
so i did and soon had mega congos a beavertail in back 2 horns on top
few months later some friends took me to my 1st rainbow gathering
We Love You from Jonathan Kalafer on Vimeo .
and there were so many dreds so mych possitivity it really influenced me
i did cut that set off (damn parents pressure ) ..was miserable for the next year till i started this set that im keeping for life
although it was jamaican rastas that gave me the original thought, it wasnt coribean colture exctly but just a possitive influence in a negative world
Is tying my dreads back bad for them?
Dread Maintenance
if its just to shower not all the time i doubt it
alotta loose hairs in my 2year old natural neglected locks
Introduce Yourself
leave it as long as your washing with the right stuff its always locking
theres always loose hairs dreads are just loose hairs that dreaded 23 years in i still got plenty but theres always new dreads forming
what to do about it?
accept it
What happens to negleced African braids? Do they become dreads, eventually?
Dread Maintenance
yes anything will dread but slower since it has to unbraid mostly 1st
look how unhealthy those are ..all way too tight
Dreadbutta and other products
Introduce Yourself
in the 1st year no they shouldnt be after that only as needed i mean i condition mine lightly every several months
dread butta is only to make waxy dreads feel liss waxy
i think all the damage they recomend u do is what makes them brealk off and enough gunk added might make the broken off dreads stick back together
but no conditioning diring formation unless its very nesacary
(remember the same sites selling conditioners sell sea salt and recomend it be used several times a day...to dry it oit and make it britle
those sites are scams