dreads

who here has em? if you do, post pics. i'll post mine in a sec...

 

dreads are amazingly amazing. and hot as fuck.. as i already told you

 

they lived about two years or so... root/tip count was 13/35 so yea it's all good im going to grow my next set with the neglect method.

 

wow bigass pics but i don't care to resize them you can all view my ugly mug and if you see me in town hit me up for a cone or two haha

 

ive always wanted dreads gonna do em in college. right now i have like half-a-one haha. its growing out of that hemp thing in my hair, which ive had in since august. as my hair grows out it twists upon itself, creating a little dread. now its bigger than the one in my sig

 

how do u get dreads lol im sorry if this is the worst question yall have ever heard or misplaced or sumtin but how do u grow em? do ya hafta have curly hair or sumtin? mines pretty straight with a gay ass flip thing at the bottom and its about armpit lenght and still growing im just wonderin if u hafta do some special shit to it to get it to do it or what and btw nice dreads in ur pic man i think they look kool as hell

 

theres a thread somewhere here that'll tell you how to do it.

 

for caucasian hair:

backcomb: section the hair and comb it backwards towards the scalp. the hair unravels a bit and then tightens into dreads

rub/rip: rub a piece of cloth around your hair wildly and randomly, creating knots. rip the knots into sections. the hair unravels some and tightens a few months later into dreads

neglect: wash, but don't comb hair. dreads naturally form. ripping into sections is usually optional here, sometimes it naturally separates itself. takes the longest of these methods, but creates really cool dreads, but that's just my personal opinion.

my last set was backcombed and neglected, next set will be the neglect method.

 

an wow i just looked at that first pic that was a loonnnggg time ago

seaweedyness: i think that's awesome. how are you going to dread the rest of the hair? I've known of people braiding the hair and letting it knot naturally and as it grows out.

 

your dreads are awesome!
I would dread my hair, but I want to let my hair grow longer first!

 

how long does the neglect method take?

 

im going to neglect combing my hair as soon as i get a job where i can where a hat/tam. which should be in a few months(2-6)

im in no rush.

 

There's a Knotty Know How Forum in the Personal Forums section that has all the answers to all of your questions...

I used the neglect method and I had the beginnings of dreadies after about two months...

It's been over two and a half years and they aren't perfect...none using the neglect method are...but I love the imperfections.

 

I got natural dreads. I didn't have to wax them or anything. I just stopped combing them, let them get nturally matted, and then seperated them into individual dreads.

 

kinda works
that was a number of years ago now the bottom 8 inches drag on the ground

 

damn dude how long have you been growing them?

 

since u were 1

strange thought huh..lol

 

Ya it is pretty crazy that your hair is almost older than me. You think maybe you got a record or something for longest dreads.

 

nah longest dreads over 38 feet

 

Hi you live down the street from me...well pretty much

sorry random thought