crochet method should definitely not be done too close to roots or later on in the life of your locs. i do use a crochet needle to begin dreads and i will do very gentle maintenance if loose hairs are persistent. it is something someone who knows what they are doing should do. i have seen first hand the damage that can be caused. all in all, it is something that can be necessary for those needing to tidy their locs for certain occupations, but it is not something people should casually do themselves. I have also used crocheting to repair dangling locs and combine very weak tiny ones, but if you can help it, keep up with washing/drying and just leave your babies alone! this video is so spot on! i have been working with dreadlocks for years now, and everything you have to say has been things i tell everyone.
Hey, just wanted to give you a huge thank you! I've been growing out neglect dreads for about 7 months now and I've referred to your advice for basically all of my questions and worries. It's so nice and helpful to have all of this useful information in one place. Really appreciate all the damn effort it must take to create and keep up this videos! Awesome job xo
Dreads that have been crocheted a lot take on a slightly different texture to dreads that have locked up by themselves over time. Really crocheted dreads get a sort of felted texture that loose hairs are less likely to lock onto. The more you crochet, the smoother the dread texture and the less likely loose hairs will lock in which leads people to want to crochet them more. If you leave the dreads long enough they'll relax up a bit and eventually the loose hair will start to cycle and lock up
I find that once dreads have matured they will cycle the loose hair. You have to wait for enough loose hairs to grow and group up and then they'll lock together and lock into a dread. Then slowly over time you'll get some more loose hairs popping up and you have to wait for those to grow and group. It just takes a while before it really gets going and can be frustrating when you're in a loose hair period. But it's nothing to worry about, it will go away.
Dreadlocks breaking off is more likely to be a combination of things coming together, it's doubtful that root-rubbing by itself would result in dreads falling out.
Dreadlocks are strange in that they actually get on best when they're left alone and most attempts to help them out actually do the opposite. You play around with them if you're bored and just roll or twist, but really they just need time. Keep the hair clean and try and forget they're there and before you know it they'll all be done. It's a sort of "A watched kettle never boils" kind of thing.
Thank you for your quick response. You mentioned in one description that you are working on your physics degree. Would it be possible for you to make a video about your personal experience of your Dreads with your relationships with your professors, society, strangers? What do people say about your dreads in interviews? The reason why I ask is that I am in college in Texas, and I want to goto medical school and I want Dreads, but I do not want my hair to be a factor against me in the application process. Thanks from all the way from Texas.
Something like that is on my list, but it's quite a long list so I'm not sure when it'll be made and it needs some planning first. Personally, while the general public can often give some strange looks at times I have never had anyone (other than childish teenagers) give me any negative comments. I have however had people come up to me and give positive comments. I have not noticed much when it comes to education, I think grades and experience are going to far outweigh how your hair looks as a student.
I have a video on loops, lumps and bumps coming up soon. Not this Saturday, but next Saturday. Loops occur when the locks shrink and they shrink as they mature and tighten so it's a good sign. Little loops of loose hair might never join into the lock, some will flatten out and some might get locked over, but it's hard to say. Some people crochet them in and others cut them out but at 4 months I'd leave them alone. Luckily these only occur in the original length and not the new growth.
If you already have the dreadlocks and don't want to take them out and start them over fatter you'll need to double them up. You can combine two or more dreadlocks to create one single thicker dread. You can can combine them at their roots and they'll gradually grow out together, it's called congoing and I have a video on it if you want to know more.
The hair bands might stop the hair directly under them from locking up. I recommend loosely wrapping them with thick string instead. It'll still help stop the dreads from sucking up the rest of your hair, but won't restrict the dread underneath.
Good video thank you. I did a root flip and am wondering if eventually I will be able to fix the split? So that my dread is all pretty much normal again?
o hell yeah bro totally agree. because people want them to look 3 years old in a few weeks.. they believe there is a way 2 speed up the process but unfortunately there isnt. I think its a hell of a commitment to deciding weather or not 2 have dreadlocks and if ur not a patient person its not worth doing :)
That happens when the dreads shrink up (shrinkage). Not all of the dread shrinks at the same rate and so you get loopies forming. Only the original growth will shrink so it's only most common in young dreads. I have more on shrinkage in the video entitled "Dreadlocks - Loose Hair, Roots, Tips and Shrinkage! " if you're interested =]
They will mature if you leave them alone, but if they might never look the same as the new growth that dreads itself - it depends how heavily they were crocheted.
Hey Dude! I know this video is old but I just got into dreading and I have been following your channel for tips on the process and journey, I am Mixed race hair Hispanic and African American, I started my dreads two days ago by a combo of the twist and rip method and the Backcombing but mainly rip, My main question is how and when should I wash them?
I'm not sure that a year is a long enough period of time to definitely prove one way or another. It's a relatively short period of time in the scheme of things and if someone was only planning on having dreadlocks for a year I would say crochet away! But for dreadlocks that are kept for much longer periods of time that are exposed to a lot more crocheting on longer heavier dreads it can cause damage. YMMV.
The thinning is hardly the biggest issue with the crocheting anyway, the thinning takes extended periods of heavy crocheting combined with heavy dreadlocks. The far more common problem with crocheting is that you pull the dreadlocks so tight that they never get chance to mature and you end up with felt-like dreads that are stiff and need to be continually crocheted to keep them consistent and this is an issue I see all the time when people ask me why their dreads aren't soft and bendy.
I'll have my Dreadlocks Q&A Part:4 up in a couple of days where I talk about palm rolling. Basically you're pretty much just pushing the hairs against the dread which makes them look tidier... until you wash them and then the hairs will come loose again. In the long term it really doesn't do a whole lot so don't invest too heavily in it.
The crocheted parts might never 'relax' and soften up - it depends how crocheted they are. But the new growth that grows out - if it isn't crocheted - will be as soft as any other natural dreadlock.
I don't think anywhere recommends root-flipping / interlocking method. Some people seem to figure it out how to do it by themselves and don't realize how bad it is until it's too late to flip them back.
My dreads are just a bit over 4 months old, and I have a bunch of loops- how long do you think it'll take for them to just become part of the dreads? Anything I can do to speed that up?
ive made 3 dreads so far because my school dont allow full heads, i backcombed mine, but should keep hairbands round them to keep them in place or not?
Most dreads aren't super bendy. Mine are only bendy when they've been deep cleaned recently and you can find a video on how to deep clean the dreads to soften them up on my channel. The problem with trimming loose hairs is that they'll grow back and obviously they'll be short at when they're short they're less likely to knot and they'll be more annoying so you'll have to keep trimming them down.
Im not sure but it definately feels like after my first Deep Clean with Bi Carb and Lemon Juice ( at 11 month dreading ) that my roots knotted closer to the scalp. I had and inch or so loose hair before then after the wash there was about half an inch. My hair would easily tangle before I had dreads. Have you heard of other people expieriencing this. Ive had two interlocking maintanence over this first year and i don't like it. It leaves a thin area when grown out.
ehgore1978 Deep cleaning removes soap residue and associated build up which inhibit the hair's ability to lock - when you strip them away, the dreadlocks are no longer inhibited.
sooo i just got my dreads a few days ago i got them crochet and used the twist and rip method and rounded the tips. Does this mean they will never fully mature? and what if i dont use the crochet needle and will those rounded tips ever loosen and grow normally and will the new growth of my dreads look normal? any advice??
I noticed you didn't touch on how to deal with new hair growth. Does it tend to dread on it's own and how do you personally deal with it? I know crocheting can damage dreaded hair, but does it damage new hair?
I don't crochet, and I never used wax is there any reason why some of my dreads aren't very bendy, and does trimming loose hairs damage my dreads later down the road?
Question: How do you neaten dreadlocks from the scalp so that pretty much every dread root can be seen & make it look much neater instead of a Giants rats nest also do you know if dr. Boomers has no residue in it when applied to dreads please???
what if some of my dreads in the back feel like there coming aloose when I sleep and they feel like curls not dreads should I put jel on them and retwist them
so my ex treated my hair a couple years ago and I know it might sound weird but my whole head dreaded all my loose hair knotted together at the scalp. is this because I was scratching my head too much.
question I love all of your videos but is there a way to turn the volume of the older ones like this up so we can e hear, I'm hard of hearing and the youtube CC kinda sucks lol
Hey there! rlly enjoying your vids :) I do have a question. you say, no maintenance is needed, but are you sure that goes for all hair types? I started like 3/4 of my head in april with TNR, but half a year later (now) I ended up with around 10cm of loose roots (thats almost 4 inches) and halfway open "tips" so I am redoing most of them as we speak, also starting the rest of my loose hair so I'll have a complete set of young and baby dreads. Got sick loops on my half year ones and decided to let some grow together as they appeared to be a little too thin (I like them rather thin). At the back of my head I put mostly thicker ones, probably about the size you have. The ones that are thinner than yours and with loose roots but still kind of knotted rest started to get tangled between the roots more and more and it's getting harder to keep them away from each other. If I miss splitting them after 2 hairwashes, I cant seperate them without ripping a lot of hair. Is it possible that my naturally very straight, rather fine hair will never dread its roots on its own? or do i wash it wrong? I got real nice organic dread shampoo (bar and liquid). But I tend to leave irregular times between washes, sometimes twice a week and sometimes I wont wash for a whole week or even a little longer. They seem to be pretty clean tho judging by the hardly dirty water after my deep cleanse today. Thanks in advance for reading this way too long comment and hopefully replying :)
CrazyMiceLady Your roots will dread on their own... but it takes longer than 6 months. The ballpark is 12 months / 1 year - some will be content faster, others will take a little longer. Redoing them will restart the "timer" over again.
what if your hair grows rather fast then? I saw your 5 year timeline and you didnt have 20cm long loose roots either :o I had to redo some, bc they ended up in a messy ball of hair that could only get untangled by removing tiny strands of 10 hairs at a time maybe. with such long loose roots i accidently pull hair out of the barely holding together baby dreads all the time. it became a problem
That odd moment though, when someone uses their/they're correctly and you first think it's wrong because you see it done wrong so often that you actually got used to it.
duede I got my dreads 3 days ago, I used twist and rip method , i got LOTS of lose hairs at the roots, what should i do? should I let them do their own thing and not worry to much? I dont want to crochet hook them.
Lazy Dreads yeah a have been watching youre videos they are very help full! I´m new at this soy I guess I´m going to have a lot patince from now on. gratings from Venezuela ! peace !
I got my dreads about a year ago and had a similar hair type too my mum who also got them at the same time, mine have started to shrink and loosen in different places but my mums have gone insane, she has random matted bits of hair everywhere and loops galore! Was wondering how this could be, considering we both take care of our dreads the same way? Thanks 😂
+LAM LAN I would say that even if you started dreadlocks on two twins at the same time, the results would differ - daily activities, how you sleep, how you wash, rinse and dry them will all differ slightly from person to person and affect how they're forming. A set is always pretty unique to the individual.
Cesar Contreras I think if you're desperate to remove frizzy hair from the body of the dreadlocks... using scissors would be a much more precise and less risky way of going about doing it.
Depends on how big the hook is and how carefully you use it. Any friction based maintenance (not just crocheting) can cause small amounts of damage that can build up overtime. It just comes down to how the maintenance is done.
i have had my dreads for about three weeks now, and i have two HUGE congos in the back of my head. Is there anyway I could seperate them? They look absolutely terrible
HELP ! Soo my dreads are about 5-6 months old some of them are pretty long about 5-4 inches this is my 3rd time going through the process because they always end up falling off because they get too thin at the roots what do I do to prevent that ?! What exactly is the maintenance on it ? Or do I just not mess with it and let it grow on its own ? How often should I wax them too?
I think I honestly mighty been twisting my dreads too much I just washed one of your videos and seen how you said tht we shouldn't twist them so much cause it causes root thinnin .. I haven't been twisting them much lately so I shouldn't wax them once a month or even twist them at all I should just let them do their thing ?
Carlos Perez your comment is three months old so i'm hoping it's not too late... just let them to their thing. don't use wax, that doesn't encourage maturing or locking. twisting is fine... but don't do it too much otherwise your scalp will get irritated and hair will start to fall out. you could also be straight up pulling hair out of the scalp by twisting too ferociously. when people say dreads are practically zero maintenance, they mean it. all you need is patience and they'll work themselves out on their own. :) good luck. hope you haven't cut them off!
Andy Thapa The problem is that anything that is used to hold loose hair in place, will also stop the loose hair from forming new knots - meaning it may remain looser for longer.
yeah i had a lady do maintenance on my hair and she did the interlocking thing without me realising it... DEFINITELY dont recommend it... it created weird lumpy holes in some of my dreads... really fkn annoying. the only good thing it did was stop my dreads sticking together so i havent need to rip them apart for like 6 months... despite this though, def wouldnt recommend it.
I find it hardly contradictory. One is pushing and pulling a needle through the centre of a dreadlock, the other is breaking nuisance hairs that have latched two or more dreads together. You do want to break the nuisance hairs, you don't want to be damaging the inside of a dreadlock. How you choose to define the differences between rip and gently pull are up to you, there is obviously a degree of common sense involved and no one is going to apply more force than they feel their dread can stand.
So pretty much just leave them alone to do their own thing? I've found that palm rolling works very well but anything that I try to do to my roots seems to be temporary. I'll tighten one dread with a hook and then the next time I wash my hair all that work seems to be undone. I actually yelled out loud one night "Fine, I just won't bother fixing you anymore!" =)
Jessica Rossi hello!! So I've had my dreads for a little over 5 months. I just got Maintanace done for the first time at the dollylocks salon in St. Petersburg, Fl. They told me not to wash them for 7-10 days after maintenance. Because they need time for the maintenance to get locked in itself. The hairs pull themselves through it and it locks in the maintenance. They said if I wash it before that, they can't guarantee the maintenance will hold and that it Could go back to exactly how it was before the maintenance was done. Hope this helps!!
Well, you can't have THAT much hair then :p The body of the dread should thicken up a little as the dread shrinks up, but other than that, there's not much else you can do.... unless you started over and sectioned them larger... but then you'd have fewer.
Absolutely not, I would recommend steering far clear of all waxes and gels. You can google "lazydreads wax" to read more about why waxes and gels are bad for dreads.
Sumeet Sagolsem you can do more research on wax but there are horror stories about wax. I don't ever use wax. One, it slows down or completely stops the locking process. Two, it causes your dreads to collect dirt and lint. Everything sticks to the wax. Three, it holds moisture inside your dreads. So dread rot happens so much easier. If you don't know what dread rot is... it's when moisture stays inside the middle of your dreads and grows mold. This will cause your dreads to stink and could possibly cause them to fall out or just ruins them. Four, wax makes them stink in general. I hope this helps.
crochet method should definitely not be done too close to roots or later on in the life of your locs. i do use a crochet needle to begin dreads and i will do very gentle maintenance if loose hairs are persistent. it is something someone who knows what they are doing should do. i have seen first hand the damage that can be caused. all in all, it is something that can be necessary for those needing to tidy their locs for certain occupations, but it is not something people should casually do themselves. I have also used crocheting to repair dangling locs and combine very weak tiny ones, but if you can help it, keep up with washing/drying and just leave your babies alone! this video is so spot on! i have been working with dreadlocks for years now, and everything you have to say has been things i tell everyone.
ahh, this has put my mind at ease cheers man, my roots are pissing me off
Hey, just wanted to give you a huge thank you! I've been growing out neglect dreads for about 7 months now and I've referred to your advice for basically all of my questions and worries. It's so nice and helpful to have all of this useful information in one place. Really appreciate all the damn effort it must take to create and keep up this videos! Awesome job xo
Alex Manley Glad to be of assistance!
thx 4 the post. i've been dreading for over a year now and soaking up as much knowledge as i can.
Dreads that have been crocheted a lot take on a slightly different texture to dreads that have locked up by themselves over time. Really crocheted dreads get a sort of felted texture that loose hairs are less likely to lock onto. The more you crochet, the smoother the dread texture and the less likely loose hairs will lock in which leads people to want to crochet them more. If you leave the dreads long enough they'll relax up a bit and eventually the loose hair will start to cycle and lock up
I find that once dreads have matured they will cycle the loose hair. You have to wait for enough loose hairs to grow and group up and then they'll lock together and lock into a dread. Then slowly over time you'll get some more loose hairs popping up and you have to wait for those to grow and group. It just takes a while before it really gets going and can be frustrating when you're in a loose hair period. But it's nothing to worry about, it will go away.
you are so right I know someone that rootrubbed an when there dreads got long an heavy they started to break off ,,
Dreadlocks breaking off is more likely to be a combination of things coming together, it's doubtful that root-rubbing by itself would result in dreads falling out.
wow really I will let him know but he also dod use that hook probably like y said it was a combination,,thankyou for yr reply an help as always!!
Dreadlocks are strange in that they actually get on best when they're left alone and most attempts to help them out actually do the opposite. You play around with them if you're bored and just roll or twist, but really they just need time. Keep the hair clean and try and forget they're there and before you know it they'll all be done. It's a sort of "A watched kettle never boils" kind of thing.
you should make a dreadlocks book. You are awesome. Love your videos. :)
Are books still around in 2014? ^^
Thanks, I'm glad you enjoy what I do! :)
Thank you for your quick response. You mentioned in one description that you are working on your physics degree. Would it be possible for you to make a video about your personal experience of your Dreads with your relationships with your professors, society, strangers? What do people say about your dreads in interviews? The reason why I ask is that I am in college in Texas, and I want to goto medical school and I want Dreads, but I do not want my hair to be a factor against me in the application process.
Thanks from all the way from Texas.
Something like that is on my list, but it's quite a long list so I'm not sure when it'll be made and it needs some planning first.
Personally, while the general public can often give some strange looks at times I have never had anyone (other than childish teenagers) give me any negative comments. I have however had people come up to me and give positive comments. I have not noticed much when it comes to education, I think grades and experience are going to far outweigh how your hair looks as a student.
I have a video on loops, lumps and bumps coming up soon. Not this Saturday, but next Saturday. Loops occur when the locks shrink and they shrink as they mature and tighten so it's a good sign. Little loops of loose hair might never join into the lock, some will flatten out and some might get locked over, but it's hard to say. Some people crochet them in and others cut them out but at 4 months I'd leave them alone. Luckily these only occur in the original length and not the new growth.
If you already have the dreadlocks and don't want to take them out and start them over fatter you'll need to double them up. You can combine two or more dreadlocks to create one single thicker dread. You can can combine them at their roots and they'll gradually grow out together, it's called congoing and I have a video on it if you want to know more.
The hair bands might stop the hair directly under them from locking up. I recommend loosely wrapping them with thick string instead. It'll still help stop the dreads from sucking up the rest of your hair, but won't restrict the dread underneath.
Good video thank you. I did a root flip and am wondering if eventually I will be able to fix the split? So that my dread is all pretty much normal again?
o hell yeah bro totally agree. because people want them to look 3 years old in a few weeks.. they believe there is a way 2 speed up the process but unfortunately there isnt. I think its a hell of a commitment to deciding weather or not 2 have dreadlocks and if ur not a patient person its not worth doing :)
That happens when the dreads shrink up (shrinkage). Not all of the dread shrinks at the same rate and so you get loopies forming. Only the original growth will shrink so it's only most common in young dreads. I have more on shrinkage in the video entitled "Dreadlocks - Loose Hair, Roots, Tips and Shrinkage! " if you're interested =]
They will mature if you leave them alone, but if they might never look the same as the new growth that dreads itself - it depends how heavily they were crocheted.
Hey Dude! I know this video is old but I just got into dreading and I have been following your channel for tips on the process and journey, I am Mixed race hair Hispanic and African American, I started my dreads two days ago by a combo of the twist and rip method and the Backcombing but mainly rip, My main question is how and when should I wash them?
I have a whole section on 'Preparing for dreadlocks' on the Lazydreads site that may be useful to you.
what's with the volume?
If you leave the hair alone long enough for the dreadlocks to mature, then the new growth dreads itself.
I'm not sure that a year is a long enough period of time to definitely prove one way or another. It's a relatively short period of time in the scheme of things and if someone was only planning on having dreadlocks for a year I would say crochet away! But for dreadlocks that are kept for much longer periods of time that are exposed to a lot more crocheting on longer heavier dreads it can cause damage. YMMV.
The thinning is hardly the biggest issue with the crocheting anyway, the thinning takes extended periods of heavy crocheting combined with heavy dreadlocks. The far more common problem with crocheting is that you pull the dreadlocks so tight that they never get chance to mature and you end up with felt-like dreads that are stiff and need to be continually crocheted to keep them consistent and this is an issue I see all the time when people ask me why their dreads aren't soft and bendy.
I know! My dreads shrunk quite a lot in the first few months, most of my loops have been sucked back in now though
i agree with what u say man 100% ... it is all about being patient more than anything. :)
I'll have my Dreadlocks Q&A Part:4 up in a couple of days where I talk about palm rolling. Basically you're pretty much just pushing the hairs against the dread which makes them look tidier... until you wash them and then the hairs will come loose again. In the long term it really doesn't do a whole lot so don't invest too heavily in it.
The crocheted parts might never 'relax' and soften up - it depends how crocheted they are. But the new growth that grows out - if it isn't crocheted - will be as soft as any other natural dreadlock.
You're welcome.
I don't think anywhere recommends root-flipping / interlocking method. Some people seem to figure it out how to do it by themselves and don't realize how bad it is until it's too late to flip them back.
My dreads are just a bit over 4 months old, and I have a bunch of loops- how long do you think it'll take for them to just become part of the dreads? Anything I can do to speed that up?
ive made 3 dreads so far because my school dont allow full heads, i backcombed mine, but should keep hairbands round them to keep them in place or not?
I started with the croshet technique if i leave them will they grow like "natural locks" ?
can we put wax on it? tell me lil bit about putting wax on dreds to make it clean and proper
Most dreads aren't super bendy. Mine are only bendy when they've been deep cleaned recently and you can find a video on how to deep clean the dreads to soften them up on my channel.
The problem with trimming loose hairs is that they'll grow back and obviously they'll be short at when they're short they're less likely to knot and they'll be more annoying so you'll have to keep trimming them down.
Thanks for explaining your experiences. Appreciate it. 🤙🏽✌🏽
Im not sure but it definately feels like after my first Deep Clean with Bi Carb and Lemon Juice ( at 11 month dreading ) that my roots knotted closer to the scalp. I had and inch or so loose hair before then after the wash there was about half an inch. My hair would easily tangle before I had dreads. Have you heard of other people expieriencing this. Ive had two interlocking maintanence over this first year and i don't like it. It leaves a thin area when grown out.
ehgore1978 Deep cleaning removes soap residue and associated build up which inhibit the hair's ability to lock - when you strip them away, the dreadlocks are no longer inhibited.
sooo i just got my dreads a few days ago i got them crochet and used the twist and rip method and rounded the tips. Does this mean they will never fully mature? and what if i dont use the crochet needle and will those rounded tips ever loosen and grow normally
and will the new growth of my dreads look normal? any advice??
You talked about twisting loose hairs around a lock, could I do that and secure it with something, such as a tie or bead?
You can... you'd have to experiment with it to see if it works for you though.
Is it necessary to apply gels in the young dreads after wash n' dry method??
I noticed you didn't touch on how to deal with new hair growth. Does it tend to dread on it's own and how do you personally deal with it? I know crocheting can damage dreaded hair, but does it damage new hair?
I don't crochet, and I never used wax is there any reason why some of my dreads aren't very bendy, and does trimming loose hairs damage my dreads later down the road?
Question: How do you neaten dreadlocks from the scalp so that pretty much every dread root can be seen & make it look much neater instead of a Giants rats nest also do you know if dr. Boomers has no residue in it when applied to dreads please???
Thank you so much for these videos
Eddie Towers Always happy to be able to help!
U were some mellow and quiet in your old vids
what if some of my dreads in the back feel like there coming aloose when I sleep and they feel like curls not dreads should I put jel on them and retwist them
so my ex treated my hair a couple years ago and I know it might sound weird but my whole head dreaded all my loose hair knotted together at the scalp. is this because I was scratching my head too much.
question I love all of your videos but is there a way to turn the volume of the older ones like this up so we can e hear, I'm hard of hearing and the youtube CC kinda sucks lol
Other than turning the volume up, unfortunately not (as far as I'm aware), which is why the newer videos are not recorded in this old way.
hey man any tips or advices to get make dreadlocks go a bit more fat ? ;) bless
Should I leave bands in the ends of new dreads to keep them together?
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Hey there! rlly enjoying your vids :)
I do have a question. you say, no maintenance is needed, but are you sure that goes for all hair types? I started like 3/4 of my head in april with TNR, but half a year later (now) I ended up with around 10cm of loose roots (thats almost 4 inches) and halfway open "tips" so I am redoing most of them as we speak, also starting the rest of my loose hair so I'll have a complete set of young and baby dreads. Got sick loops on my half year ones and decided to let some grow together as they appeared to be a little too thin (I like them rather thin). At the back of my head I put mostly thicker ones, probably about the size you have.
The ones that are thinner than yours and with loose roots but still kind of knotted rest started to get tangled between the roots more and more and it's getting harder to keep them away from each other. If I miss splitting them after 2 hairwashes, I cant seperate them without ripping a lot of hair. Is it possible that my naturally very straight, rather fine hair will never dread its roots on its own?
or do i wash it wrong? I got real nice organic dread shampoo (bar and liquid). But I tend to leave irregular times between washes, sometimes twice a week and sometimes I wont wash for a whole week or even a little longer. They seem to be pretty clean tho judging by the hardly dirty water after my deep cleanse today.
Thanks in advance for reading this way too long comment and hopefully replying :)
CrazyMiceLady Your roots will dread on their own... but it takes longer than 6 months. The ballpark is 12 months / 1 year - some will be content faster, others will take a little longer. Redoing them will restart the "timer" over again.
what if your hair grows rather fast then? I saw your 5 year timeline and you didnt have 20cm long loose roots either :o
I had to redo some, bc they ended up in a messy ball of hair that could only get untangled by removing tiny strands of 10 hairs at a time maybe. with such long loose roots i accidently pull hair out of the barely holding together baby dreads all the time. it became a problem
That odd moment though, when someone uses their/they're correctly and you first think it's wrong because you see it done wrong so often that you actually got used to it.
did u cricket hook your dreads
couldn't pick a name so cricket cricket
duede I got my dreads 3 days ago, I used twist and rip method , i got LOTS of lose hairs at the roots, what should i do?
should I let them do their own thing and not worry to much? I dont want to crochet hook them.
alejandrogc Gutierrez When you start dreadlocks, you're only starting them - they will take months to properly lock up.
Lazy Dreads yeah a have been watching youre videos they are very help full! I´m new at this soy I guess I´m going to have a lot patince from now on.
gratings from Venezuela ! peace !
My friend suggested i palm roll daily.. Is this necessary?
I just got my dreads done and i had quite alot and thik hair but i only have about 30 dreads and it looks so slender :( any advive?
I got my dreads about a year ago and had a similar hair type too my mum who also got them at the same time, mine have started to shrink and loosen in different places but my mums have gone insane, she has random matted bits of hair everywhere and loops galore! Was wondering how this could be, considering we both take care of our dreads the same way? Thanks 😂
+LAM LAN I would say that even if you started dreadlocks on two twins at the same time, the results would differ - daily activities, how you sleep, how you wash, rinse and dry them will all differ slightly from person to person and affect how they're forming. A set is always pretty unique to the individual.
Question?
Hey man how are you what do you think about that method of burning dreads to eliminate frizzines
Cesar Contreras I think if you're desperate to remove frizzy hair from the body of the dreadlocks... using scissors would be a much more precise and less risky way of going about doing it.
What's the reason for not using wax or leaving rubber bands in for new dreadlocks??
Dallas Bolton Music Info on wax: www.lazydreads.com/2012/10/why-wax-is-bad.htmlInfo on elastics: Dreadlock Elastic Band Information
Although for some people, doing nothing is the hardest part!
Yes! Indeed you can! :)
You're welcome! :)
I have dreads for 18 months now. I use the crochethook every 3 or 4 months. Is that a bad thing to do? Do i make them weak this way?
Depends on how big the hook is and how carefully you use it. Any friction based maintenance (not just crocheting) can cause small amounts of damage that can build up overtime. It just comes down to how the maintenance is done.
You're welcome :)
Thanks for the tips keeping them up
i have had my dreads for about three weeks now, and i have two HUGE congos in the back of my head. Is there anyway I could seperate them? They look absolutely terrible
***** Separating Dreadlocks At The Root
Lazy Dreads thank you so much
Very helpful information, thank you!
Good luck!
HELP ! Soo my dreads are about 5-6 months old some of them are pretty long about 5-4 inches this is my 3rd time going through the process because they always end up falling off because they get too thin at the roots what do I do to prevent that ?! What exactly is the maintenance on it ? Or do I just not mess with it and let it grow on its own ? How often should I wax them too?
Carlos Perez They fall off?... what exactly are you doing to them that is causing them to fall off?You shouldn't wax them.
I think I honestly mighty been twisting my dreads too much I just washed one of your videos and seen how you said tht we shouldn't twist them so much cause it causes root thinnin .. I haven't been twisting them much lately so I shouldn't wax them once a month or even twist them at all I should just let them do their thing ?
Carlos Perez your comment is three months old so i'm hoping it's not too late...
just let them to their thing. don't use wax, that doesn't encourage maturing or locking. twisting is fine... but don't do it too much otherwise your scalp will get irritated and hair will start to fall out. you could also be straight up pulling hair out of the scalp by twisting too ferociously.
when people say dreads are practically zero maintenance, they mean it. all you need is patience and they'll work themselves out on their own. :) good luck. hope you haven't cut them off!
When you say dreads are wet theyre more playable, is there anything specific I should and should not be doing while theyre wet?
Well....don't go outside in the freezing cold while they're wet.
Well that shouldnt be a problem here in florida haha thanks man, just wasnt sure if certain things were better to do while their wet..
Separating is easier to do while they're wet and palm rolling lumps is more effective when wet.
I just got dreads yesterday when can I wash them
When did you wash them XD planning on getting them but need to grow out my hair
Hi . . .One Question can we apply Hair Gel ....
Andy Thapa The problem is that anything that is used to hold loose hair in place, will also stop the loose hair from forming new knots - meaning it may remain looser for longer.
Thanks Buddy . Appreciated ...
When my dreads were young, after every wash about 10 new loops would appear on my head
yeah i had a lady do maintenance on my hair and she did the interlocking thing without me realising it... DEFINITELY dont recommend it... it created weird lumpy holes in some of my dreads... really fkn annoying. the only good thing it did was stop my dreads sticking together so i havent need to rip them apart for like 6 months... despite this though, def wouldnt recommend it.
It's just a name for describing the motion, the orientation of the actual rubbing has zero effect, rub which ever way you like.
do you use any products?
No
I find it hardly contradictory. One is pushing and pulling a needle through the centre of a dreadlock, the other is breaking nuisance hairs that have latched two or more dreads together. You do want to break the nuisance hairs, you don't want to be damaging the inside of a dreadlock. How you choose to define the differences between rip and gently pull are up to you, there is obviously a degree of common sense involved and no one is going to apply more force than they feel their dread can stand.
So pretty much just leave them alone to do their own thing? I've found that palm rolling works very well but anything that I try to do to my roots seems to be temporary. I'll tighten one dread with a hook and then the next time I wash my hair all that work seems to be undone. I actually yelled out loud one night "Fine, I just won't bother fixing you anymore!" =)
+Jessica Rossi As the dreadlocks get older and more mature you'll find that any changes become more permanent :)
+Lazy Dreads SO if I've got weird loops and crinks near the roots I shooooooooooould leave em? Sorry, I'm such a newbie! haha
Jessica Rossi hello!! So I've had my dreads for a little over 5 months. I just got Maintanace done for the first time at the dollylocks salon in St. Petersburg, Fl. They told me not to wash them for 7-10 days after maintenance. Because they need time for the maintenance to get locked in itself. The hairs pull themselves through it and it locks in the maintenance. They said if I wash it before that, they can't guarantee the maintenance will hold and that it Could go back to exactly how it was before the maintenance was done. Hope this helps!!
Thanks for the help man :D
Well, you can't have THAT much hair then :p
The body of the dread should thicken up a little as the dread shrinks up, but other than that, there's not much else you can do.... unless you started over and sectioned them larger... but then you'd have fewer.
Good Thing I'm lazy... I never do anything to my dreads aside from washing them and making sure they don't grow together or catch my undreaded hair
Absolutely not, I would recommend steering far clear of all waxes and gels. You can google "lazydreads wax" to read more about why waxes and gels are bad for dreads.
wow 14 minutes of u whispering......nice
A Millz Some people like that sort of thing ^^
the sound in these older videos is so garbage. ur talkin so low compared to the newer 1s
can we put wax on it? tell me lil bit about putting wax on dreds to make it clean and proper
Sumeet Sagolsem you can do more research on wax but there are horror stories about wax. I don't ever use wax. One, it slows down or completely stops the locking process. Two, it causes your dreads to collect dirt and lint. Everything sticks to the wax. Three, it holds moisture inside your dreads. So dread rot happens so much easier. If you don't know what dread rot is... it's when moisture stays inside the middle of your dreads and grows mold. This will cause your dreads to stink and could possibly cause them to fall out or just ruins them. Four, wax makes them stink in general. I hope this helps.
can we put wax on it? tell me lil bit about putting wax on dreds to make it clean and proper
Wax on dreads leaves sticky white residue that stops the dreads from being able to mature properly. You don't want gunky dreads so go without the wax