I feel like this will get a bunch of negative feedback, but I wanna speak my mind.

I've used the perm method to get dreads every time, and this is the practice Irecommendedfor people who don't want to do it the natural way. I'm not Rastafarian, just a crazy white girl in BFE, Iowa.

Hmm. The perming went like this:

Backcoming into sections. (Sideshow bob here)

Perming the sections.

Waxing.

The sideshow bob thing only lasts 1-2 days... So its really not that bad. A great weekend project.

Yes, I use wax & other dread products, but at minimal use. I've seen too much negative feedback to feel safe waxing "3 times a day for the first two weeks, then once every day from there on". So once in a blue moon when they're getting squrrily, I'll give em a little dose. Now, from my experience in removing dreads, I found no buildup. Nothing bad was in them. My hair just needed a good wash, and a lot of nutrients.

I wash them every few days with dreadsoap & organic soap (mixed). My dreads love being washed!

Some of them have rubberbands, there are the stubborn ones that don't want to stay or want toseparate or whatever,we all know they each have their own personality. (Crazy as it may sound, you know its true!) I don't leave the bands in for long, just enough for that dread to get started. The bands can break and forever be in your dread, and thats just not cool.

I've seen posts on here about the arrogant teenager who thinks their god almighty know it all about dreadlocks. I for one am not, I just recently heard about using sea salt and steam to help them lock (which I still have yet to try and look forward to doing so). I don't use the lockacceleratoror locking pepper. I actually haven't bought a product online in over a year, the few I did by seriously added up and wasn't worth the price to me, especially if I can find better ways that come at a better price. Now, I did find a cute little ethnic hair care store in Des Moines, and they sell natural stuff. I happen to like this store and enjoy their products, which come at very friendly prices.

I sometimes use the "dread butta" - not to cover up "nasty smells" like I've read on here, but instead to soften em. My dreads are a disaster after a good washing.

I have a scalp itch relief spray, I use that, well on my scalp, and my hairline on my neck so it'll run in my hair (my head has to be upside down for this).

Palm rolling.. Its helping them lock, cause just leaving them be, they start to fall apart. I can't watch my hair do that, doing nothing is what caused me to have to get rid of them in the first place. I don't do it all day or all the time, but just enough to get the hairs smushed back in with each other. I don't try to palm roll the kinks out. I kinda like em like that.

Back combing.. I haven't combed any of my dreads this time around. I never did itaggressively, just enough to fix what was coming apart.

I'm not a zombie sheep who follows anything they read online. This site along with dreadheadhq or knottyboy are to help people get the know how about dreads. People on either sides will argue that one is better, this one sucks, that one is dumb, blah blah blah... I read all this information, on this site, dreadhead, other sites online, from people I talk to regularly who know a thing or two about dreads, and take it into my own life. I wish to be respected for this as everyone else here wishes to respected for their own thoughts about dreads. I feel like I know whats best for them, I've had my hair for almost 19 years, I know how to take care of it. I'm open to suggestion, like I've said, I just came into new (to me) info about dread care, and I want to try it. I won't try everything I read about. My dreads are my babies and putting them through test after test isn't good. If I try something and it doesn't seem to work, well I'll stop doing it? Its kind of a duh. People who complain about something they did ruining their hair cause they've been doing it for years is stupid on their part, hair is wildly responsive, and it'll let you know quickly when it doesn't like something.

My dreads are responding well to what I do. They're starting to lock up, they're always clean, smell good, look good, and each have their own little kinks. I don't try to change the way they look - they decide that for me.

Thanks for listening

We all here have one!So every time I've dreaded I have used the perm method. Which apparently is hated on, but its always worked for me. I've seen that they "don't last" but really, it will, if you treat them as dreads and not as a perm.So, in June (i think) of 2009, I decided to get just one lonely dreadlock. I was too nervous to get a full head of dreads. Where did this wild hair up my ass grow from? I reconnected with a good friend of mine when I was a younger teen, and we started dating very quickly. He had dreadlocks. now, this was the first time I had ever seen them in person, or touched them, loved them, etc. I actually really liked em - I always have, but common. White people don't have dreads? Well I grew a pair and got one. I babied that sucker. I took it out though after we broke up, it left too much painful memory, cause I would always play with his dreads, and I missed him deeply. Stupid reason to change my hair, I KNOWWW, but it happens. Love does funny things to people.Well after I removed it, I missed it like crazy. And decided to get a full head. January 2010 is when I got them, cost me a shit ton of money, but I was satisfied. The girl who did them has had dreads before. See, when I got my first dread, I was recommended by my ex & hairdresser to use dreadheadhq. I liked the site but everything was WAY too expensive, and so many of the products just didn't look, I don't know, right. In March 2010 I removed the dreads for where my bangs would be. I missed straitening and washing my hair, I didn't feel as feminine. (I'm not a girly girl, but c'mon, its kinda fun to do hair.) I LOVED my hair like this, it was like a mullet lol. Business in the front, party in the back :DWell this all ended in June 2010. I stopped taking care of my dreads and they started to look very bad. I don't know why I got lazy, but I did. It could have been the new relationship, I was spending a majority of my time with him, and he was always impatient for me to spend time on my lovely little locks. So, I regretfully got rid of them. It took several weeks cause I combed them out, and had to take a few days break in between because my scalp hurt so bad.I then nurtured the ever living crap out of my regular hair, perming, dying, not brushing, and essentially not enough nutrients near killed my hair. Luckily, I have all of my hair. It has great resilience, thank god, cause if it didn't, I would be bald.So I missed my dreads, a ton. Things weren't going so well w/ that past relationship, he was controlling. He was a part of me getting rid of them, he never really liked them. So the weekend we broke up (it was before it happened but still, he was pissed when I told him lol) I put them back in myself. (yes, perm, in case you forgot from my 1st sentence). This current dread session has only been going on for roughly a month now.See, white people hair doesn't like to dread, especially mine. I've never had "good" hair. Its always flat, gets greasy after one day of not washing, and its real fine. Granted, I have a lot of hair, and its "thick", but each strand is very thin. Dreads don't come easy.I don't know how long I'll keep them. I seem to bounce around a lot with my hair, and to those of you who are hxc dreadheads, have been & always will be, I'm probably being offensive. And in a honestly, not bitchy way, I don't care. My hair is never the same for very long, and there is only so much you can do w/ dreads. Don't take me the wrong way, I love them. I love being unique and feeling the freedom to express myself. I'm artistic & creative, always doing crazy things. I love ink & gauges. I know dreads are supposed to be a permanent change, but I just can't stay still for very long :bShare your dread story & feel free to leave any comments Please, no hating