about to dread hair, but have one question 1st

They look like they are off to a nice start. =D What a silly awkward stage though. Mine just passed through it. Keep the pics updating.

 

Wahey! Well done

 

just wanted to let everyone know that they are pretty much laying down on my head this morning! and i wanted to thank everyone for their help and advice!

 

wear handbands and stuff to keep em down (if you want)
woop!

 

so i have a few that are kinda flat from sleeping on them and no matter what i have tried i cant get them to round out again, any advice? thanks

here is a pic of my hair as of today

 

Just let them do their thing at this stage...they're gonna go through a lot of changes, and as they tighten up they'll probably round up again too

 

ok thanks, i just dont want the wide flat looking dreads once they do lock up

 

If the base of the section is a wide flat shape they could end up that way...although even if they do, you can palm-roll most of their length back into a rounded shape whilst damp. If the base of the section is approximately square or at least more-or-less even sided they'll stay round naturally. Palm-rolling your dreads when they're damp can get them very rounded either way I reckon.

 

thanks, my sections are not flat shaped they are more squared so i will palm roll them when they are damp, thanks so much for the help

 

I think you'll find as they tighten up you probably won't need to

 

hey raven.. if you palmroll when theyre damp and then sleep on them again, guess what, theyre ganna go flat =]

a few of my flatties are no longer flat, and i dont palmroll at all.. and yeah, they probably wont stay flat when they lock and mature etc =]

 

yep..I was the palmroll queen....and mine still flattened out....I rather like the flatties...but I imagine they will round out....

 

just wanted to know if this is normal at this stage? really not sure what they should be like this earlier thanks for all the help

 

love the bar code tat....my granny and i were out the other day, she is in early dementia and it is quite sad, but a girl had one on her wrist and my granny swore the apocalypse was coming.

 

lol yeah i get that one all the time, i also get asked if i am part of a secret military research thing

 

Your dreads look fine so far. They're doing what they're doing because that's what they're doing!

 

I'm three weeks in and I have some flat ones. I think the only way to work them is palm roll them, but as Smelly said, they may round out... (I don't know yet, I'm excited to see as well).

As for the ones sticking out... I only have a few like that now, although all of my head was like that when I first got them done. It just takes a bit of time for gravity to take hold I think... I thought I had the worst dreads in teh world cuz they all stuck out. :S Now, only three weeks later, I can see the worry was for nothing.

 

They flatten out because you sleep on them and they aren't dreadlocks yet, just backcombed hair. When it flattens out that's just the psuedolock compressing and tightening. All part of the process.

 

I would keep palmrolling though...again the "if you palmroll you will cause damage and they will just snap right off" is bullshit. I imagine if you bleach alot ....maybe they could do that...but just palmrolling...nope!

 

Dude please begin a truth about backcombing thread!!!!