Miss Marita

yes whats important is whats healthy

twisting is not healthy it causes all those wide areas of exposed scalp that can become permenatnt balding hell 19 year old african americans are gertting hair transplants 80% more then anyone else because of the twisting and too tight braiding hows that helthy? interlockimg causes the dread to be 1/3 as stronbg hows that healthy? your putting incredible strain in it with every interlock reducfing the elasticity so any pulling has no where to disipate the tension so its far more likely to break its scientifuc fact its not a matter of opinion on which is better which is worse its hard fact..now you can get way with it probly but that does not make it a good method at all you are way better off not doing it.. your not talkimg to an advertiser for a service who will feed you marketing jaergon your talkimg to someone whos helped tens of thousandas and have seen many many cases where interlocking caused hair to break the very 1st time i ever heard of interlocking was in a drs office a african american guy with short dreads only 7 inches long asked me what made his dreads break and he pulls 4 dreads out of his walet and hands them to me then we talked about what hed done and he had gem interlocked 2x a month for only 8 months i have heard sooo many cases of it doing that ..not the majority thats true but enough to make it a serius risk

wbhy do u think every dread forum out there says not to do it? these are ppl who were harmed by it

why do u think dreadheadhq who promote the worse crap there is recomend u avoid interlocvking? they sell a tool to "fix loops" that shreds every hair it touches and makes your dread fall to peices yet they say never interlock..its common knowledge except among those who fall for the marketting lies

interlocking and root flipping are the exact same thing

and i didnt dsay just cause u charge yiour a liar but whenyou charge for a well known harmful process money is incentive to lie

it does indeed reduce the strength by 1/3

and if your hair starts to congo you just seperate it its that simple

hair type doesnt matter you do it when wet the hairs break easily enough

yopu notice on that page you sent me they have a whole sectuion about myths forums claim? forums are people who experienced the use of the methods and recomend not using them forums do not lie! they are experienced users .. only when profits involved does lies come in think aboit it they claim the interlock gives it strength that defies all logic and physics

interlocking was called root flipping till almost every dread knew it caused them to break so salons changed the name to interlocking now thats getting to be well known to cause them to break they are trtying again to change it some calling it looping or rooting

and you are very wrong about it congoing if you dont interlock the prefered method is ripping or poping that disconnects the hairs trying to form congos those hairs then join a dread or become a bnew dread

this is he healthy way

dreads stay seperated unless you want them to congo then you just let them

you are right backcomb would have been very bad..its bad for any type as it permenantly damages the cuticles so they no longer pen and close but for the tight curls in your type its extra damaging which incidentkly is why you do have a slightly better chance at surviving interlocking

and yes many people do alotta dumb thin=gs to dreads and get aawy with it ..crochet wax interlocking u name it..but just as many have problems..why because these are all bad methods!1 you can survive heroin addiction if u get lucky and its not always dependent on the technique used to shoot up its a matter of luck

the fact remains that interlocking is an exteemely poor method one thats very risky no matter how its done and it never should be done..your roots never need help to lock in fact when you interlock yiou remove the space they need to lock properly! you need a gap of undreaded hair at the roots to provide movement room to dread if you just stop they dread all by themselves

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like yiu said u did it just a year many many many have experienced breaking from interlocking thats why its well known to be bad..many get lucky and dont break that does not mean its a good process only that some survive it

you can say the same thing about a bullet in the brain look at this person he was shot in the head and is just fine now.. does that make it wise to shoot yourself in the head? every single interlock opoint is a wealk spot thats a fact of physics it is a tensiion point alowing no elasticity and andy additional tension from pulling cant be disipated it has to snap..

im very familiar with these '"patented' locks personaly i think thats the most rediculouse thing ever..hair tangles and dreads patenting something that nature does better is pure profiteering and to say she developed it is pure lies it was well known to be a horible technique befiore sisterlocks ever existed in fact they changed the name of it because it had such a bad name.. why do u do it? cause your told you should? stop it entirel=y for a year sio they recover and u will see not only is it uneasacary entirely but pointless it does nothing good at all only harm

i never said youd have thin spots ..thats a possibility yes but what i said uis every interlock point is weaker then a healthy dread should be

by 30% or more

the chances they will breat are way higher then if u never interlocked at all

Thank you for your opinion but my hair is not breaking or thinning at all, much less due to interlocking. In fact it is very healthy and has been thriving since I locked it in December of last year =) I am aware that some folks do experience thinning locks due to retwisting too often or too tightly (creating tension in the locks), overwinding when palm rolling or retighten too closely to their scalp thus creating weak rootbeds (especially if they have smaller locks). I am also aware of the fact that people with traditional and freeform locks experience thinning and breaking due to the weight of their locks.

Sisterlocks wearers generally interlock using a tool created by Dr. Joanne Cornwell and use a rotation pattern that works best with the wearer's curl pattern. I don't know the specifics, her technique is patented so you'd have to attend one of her classes to learn it. MANY women that wear Sisterlocks DO NOT experience thinning but over the course of a few years grow long, beautiful, very full crowns of locks. Here's a photo of a lady that has been interlocking for years and has healthy waist length locks. You can also find examples of people that have been interlocking for years on the Locked Hair Blog Exchange as well as using other methods for lock maintenance (including twisting) for long healthy hair

In my opinion the worst things you can do to your locks are

a) tightening too often, too tightly

b) being a product junkie (lol) or

b) doing what someone tells you to do with your hair when you know what works best. You know your hair better than anyone else in the world! What works for me certainly may not work for you and what makes my hair flourish may make your hair weak or fall out. Tomato tamato eh? Peace ^.^

welcome i would strongly advise u stop interlocking and retwisting both weaken the roots significantly

interlocking for many years was common knowledge to be 1 of the worse things you could do to dreasds (since then some compaies have found even worse things to do tho) i would nevber use tools and interlockimg! every interlock points 30% weaker then the rest of the dread if theyre real close together that can be 60 even 90% weaker..or just break it off completely