hi guys, am having problems with my long dreads, its kinda hot here in the Philippines so am having problems having long dreads...i started my dreads with crochet about 3 years ago and not it has grown i wanted to cut them in half but i dont know if its a good idea to just get a scissor and cut them directly...it might unravel if you know what i mean...my dreads are almost touching my but and i want them shoulder length. Can anyone advie on how to cut em short. or im just making a big mistake on cutting em short? thanks in advance
what length you want them is totally up to you. TOTALLY. some people feel it would be wrong to ever cut their dreads, others want their dreads to maintain a certain length. i personally want them to get really long, but they're pretty short right now, so it'll be a while before i have to deal with the question. but i've heard that if you cut them on an angle, they'll be less likely to "unravel." although i doubt they'll actually unravel, as dreadiness is mattedeness. though i don't know how crochetted dreads are. did you keep up the crochetting, or is it just regularly dreaded except for where you started them? hair that dreads itself as it grows is not going to unravel. i had several break off, and maybe a few loose hairs came out the ends, but the whole thing definitely did not come out, lol! good luck!
my crocheted dreads is about 3-4 inch long and the rest are natural...even the roots.you can really tell what part is crocheted and wha part has been naturally dreaded. so ang angled cut is the way to go?
yeah, i think if you cut it angled, it would be just fine. so you'd probably be cutting off all of the crochetted part... so you should be golden. i think when i get to that point for myself though, i'll comb out the ends a little, cause i love my wispy curly nondreaded ends.
I have wispy ends and I think I may keep them. My mom tonight asked me how dreads get rounded off...I have no clue... How do you round off tips? I don't think I would ever round mine off unless they leaned naturally more toward that and it would just look better to do it. I am all about no maintenance, yk?
the tips round themselves out on their own sometimes. but the majority of them are rounded off by people putting the tips in the palm of your hand and rubbing it around, like the tip is a pencil eraser or something.
i couldnt be bothered..lol as for cutting well i never would personaly and trust me the heatr messes wiyth me more then you (even in an intence sweat lodge, i dont get a drop of sweat) when its hot i just tie em up but if u choose to thats upo to u i have no siggestions though i just wanted to comment about the crochetting cause alotta ppl that suggest it as a methid to statrt and maintain em claim they cant tell yjhe crochetted from the natural but those arr all ppl that continuer crochetting year after year before u cut tale a closeup detailed pic of the dofference between the crochetted and the natural
Instead of cutting straight across, using sharp, open scissors or a razor (careful!) just sort of saw them off, following the natural formation of the dread. Dreads grow in such a way that if you feel around you'll be able to find a spot that seems like the right place to slice. Sorry if my explanation doesn't make much sense.
several of mine have rounded out perfectly at the ends, on their own. it's that the whispy ends which are straight undreaded hairs get tangled upwards into the dread and it creates the rounnded tip/end. i just let the hair do what it wants. i was pleasingly surprised when i found the tips starting to round out i think they are cool. i want to take pics of my un rounded ends and my loose ends and start a thread. i also found a new baby dread coming up i was excited when i found it it's so tiny but very nappy i love it!
I once saw a girl who'd kinda waxed her ends so bad to round them off. She looked like she'd dipped them in candle wax. It looked ugly.
last month i got this hair up my ass to get rid of my dreads cause i missed my straight long hair, i pulled one apart and destroyed it but one of them i trimmed straight acriss at the end and by one week later i couldn't even tell i had cut it and now i don't even know which one it was because it has turned back to normal like all the others
