Starting my dreads

Im going to rub my hair/head in a clockwise motion with some wool. Has anybody ever tried this method befor? Even though my hair is thick and curley my hair just wont lock up on its own through neglect.

 

all hair (no matter what type) will lock up through neglect if given time. some types of hair just takes longer than others. ya just gotta be patient.

but yeah, g'luck to ya with the locks. post pics when they start formin

 

It been almost 6 months since I stoped conditioning/combin my hair I could still run my fingers thourgh with no knots in sight.

 

my boyfriend couldnt start seein locks (or noticeable ones at least) well past a year after he stopped combing/conditioning his hair. his goal wasnt really dreadlocks. he just stopped caring and then when locks ended up forming, he became attached to them.

 

Yeah I decided against the wool thing b/c I read that the dreads come out in so much diffent sizes that it wont look to good. Im just going to stick to neglect.

Whats a good residue free shampoo that I can buy in stores?

 

my boyfriend uses castile soap (the liquid kind) but im not sure where he gets it from..

 

natural is the way

 

so very true

 

Yeah I realized why not take the actuall journey instead of taking the short cut to look "cool".

 

Damn, I had long hair (enough to have crazy dreads) and I cut it all off... I totally regret it. Now I have to wait about a year again and I can finally try it again. I think my hair would be perfect for dreads cuz it's really really thick and really knotty and scruffy (at least it was when it was long)

 

www.howtodread.com, the chick knows what shes talking about

 

Ya.
6mths havent touched a comb or brush..
Im getting these awesome dreadies on the sides of meh head but at the back there are only 2.. it has remained unchanged for the past 3 mths..
am i destined to have fat dreads on the sides and my same straight hair at the back (makes a weird as hair do)
Or is there some mirical soap bar that i hevtn discovered?

 

I have the opposite problem, mine are forming on the back but not the sides, i figured this was because I slept on the ones which have become better developed.

 

dr bronners.

 

just dont use wax... wax is for the filthy...

 

wax is for white peoples

 

Remember my brother your dreads will be a coventent betwen you and jah, and if your not a rastaman u shouldnt really be trying to grow dreads, no disrespect.

 

^stfu rastas don't have a monopoly on knotted hair. knotted hair was around long before idiots like leonard howell and marcus garvey. dreads can mean whatever you want them to mean. what's the point rasta is dead anyways

 

im sorry if i offended u some how , but u are mistaken. in Rastafari thats what dreads mean, if u knew this mabye u wouldnt have jumped the gun on me, i didnt mean to be disrespectful, but thats how it is. mabye if u did some research u would ve known

 

dont tell me about research kid, i've spent the last 3-4 years researching rastafarI extensively. i've had locks many times in the nazerite tradition. if you would have done some research then you would have known that rastas aren't the only ones allowed to have dreads.you didn't offend me, if you want to discuss rasta, we can do that, but lets face it, it was the hindu people that brought 'dreadlocks' to mainstream rastafarIanism in jamaica. they had dreads for religious reasons for thousands of years before that.