Will palm rolling ruin the character of my dreads? I have lots with funny little curls and dreads with vastly varying degrees of "dreadiness" that i have come to very much like. My dreads are backcombed so they dont have tons of inherent character like neglect dreads that no amount of palmrolling, waxing or rolling can change; although they are very unique and i would very much like to keep them that way! :2thumbsup:
Palm rolling doesnt even work on mine at all. I've tried a few times because mine seem to be going through puberty right now. I've accepted that I shall be part cave girl for a while. If you like your dreads how they are then I'd just leave them
I would like to believe palm rolling was some bullshit made up by the waxers to glue your hair back together, just leave them, they sort their shit out eventually
I agree with all the stuff that was previously said. Last night I was at a bar and some girl told me my locks look like lion tails. I thought was an awesome creative compliment and said thanks. Turns out she wasn't complimenting me. She said she wanted to work on my dreads and proceeded to grab and tried palmrolling it. Pulled my head back and was like I think I need to work on your beer and chugged it in front of her face. That last part wasn't true.
For this and all the other comments you have swayed me! Looks like ill just let them do their thing, much easier for me anyway.
the girl who has backcombed all three sets of my dreads, every time she sees me she wants to palm roll and crochet my locks
If it worked as it's intended, to make them round and ropey, yes, it would ruin them. But no, it won't, because it does nothing at all. Dreads are not clay, they're knots. Go tie a square knot, and roll it between your hands..... you can roll till there's no skin on your hands, but it will still be a square knot. The only way palm rolling would work is if it literally untied your whole lock and retied it in the shape you want.... and it does not do this. There's also a DHHQ myth that it "compresses" your hair, or some shit.... that's sweet, except that compressing it won't do anything, tie a loose square knot and palm roll it, it won't tighten it, it will just fuck it up more, if it does anything. So, knock yourself out, just don't expect anything to actually happen.
My dreads are almost 3 months old now and I remember everyone was all mental about palm rolling "DO IT EVERYDAY OR THEY'LL BE SHIT!".. So I did do it for a few weeks, it really didn't seem to be doing much and it was fucking tiring so I stopped and now my dreads are all funky, my back dreads are all flat from sleeping on them I'm assuming and I think a lot of them are beginning to dread together.. so I should probably do something about that.. But anyway, palm rolling is tiring, fuck it dude, go bowling instead.
You could always not do something about those growing together.....maybe an option b??? And well said. Bowling is my anti drug.
