I was just wondering theres alot of talk about how you keep your dreads back but mine are only babies and look really messy, did you guys cover your hair as this was going on? Also I've heard alot of talk about using long pieces of fabric tied in certain ways to keep it out of your face, how do you tye it? Any help/suggestions would be appricated. Thanks ~s~
Dude, I wear a lot of hats, but that's because I don't show off my hair in public, at school or at work. You can find some great hats at www.ebay.com and other places. They're called 'tams' and they can come with bills or without. Also, if you locks are at least 3 inches long than you could just get some big hairbands. They're kinda like the ones you use to make a ponytail, but much much bigger. They go over the top of your head and the bottom of your scalp, and keep your hair back in a kind of locked mullet. It's what I wear when I play sports with my friends.
Yea thats what i do, with an elastic thingy ... or i just put on a bandanna (still need to find a better looking one)
My locks are at an awkard legnth right now ... It's too short to put into a ponytail, and if I leave it down I just look like a caveman. I have honestly been called a caveman on more than one occasion. I almost always wear a tam when i'm in public, either that or a bandana.
When I'm having a bad dread day I usually just put my tam on that I bought from eBay, aswell as keeping my dreads out of my face it helps to make them knotty.
i put them in ponies or use a banadana. or just wrap a piece of cloth a bunch around until they are all up and away. i wouldnt know how to tell you how to do that though... mainly cause dreads are very individualized, so mine handle things differently than yours..
Wow...greatest link ever! You are my hero! As for me, I take two dreads in the back and tie them around my hair.
*gasp!!!!* your beautiful! you dont look like no damn caveman!! haha well my hair always looks like shit cause half of my head is dreaded and the other half is like flopping every which a way ( natural babies) so most of the time i use a headscarf. or a throat scarf and jsut fold it and tie put it on and tie it in the back. my hair is also long enough for pigtails so sometimes i use that. i wear this hat i got from critter(ah cant remember her numbers) all the damn time when im at hoime and sometimes when i go out for shopping or something.n or i wear my tam. its a life saver
great link. i love wearing scarves, even before i had dreads. i'm not orthodox, but ppl might think i was because of it. haha
I just figured out my absoulute favorite scarf tie! I've seen that tznius link before, but for ages I've been trying to figure out the best way to tie/cover my dread UP. Like, turban style I guess. I've done the towel-turban thing but that never holds. And tying my dreadies up WITH my dreadies (then covering or not) works for a short time, but it pulls a lot and gives me a headache after a while. I don't have the ability to get pics of this, so I'll try and describe it the best I can. For all I know, all of you might have known this before, but I'd never tried in quite this way. I take a strip of stretchy fabric (in my case, it really is just fabric - a 45" I had laying around, I cut about a 15" strip of it). With my hair totally down, not tied back in any way, I draped the fabric over my shoulders under my hair in the back. Then I brought the ends up and tied/rolled them until the whole thing was stretched pretty taught at the front/forehead area. Doing this stretches the whole length and the fabric that was draped over the shoulders should now be kind of pulled around the back of the neck. Now, from the bottom of that fabric at your neck, pull up, pulling the fabric sort of inside-out from how it had been, but leaving the knotted/twisted part the same. You should be able to pull all your dreads into one mass at the top/back of your head. It won't be all covered - people can still see your dreads - but it keeps the length out of your way and off your head. I'm seriously in love with wearing my dreads this way. It's cute, a few of them poking up and sticking out around the top. But more importantly it's really comofortable, no tugging whatsoever (it kindof "pushes" your hair UP insead of "pulling" it BACK), all the stress is in the fabric, the weight seems well centered for my long heavy dreads, and my neck is cool and unencumbered. Hope you guys can make sense of this and find it useful!
that made no sense...could be that im stoned out of my gourd, but if you post a pic i might understand. it sounds neato cause its complicated. hehe
just tie em back with either jsut a string or ribbon or peice of long fabric watever haha, or u could use one of those big elastic scrunchies ya know. you dont want something too tight around them. anything can work really. you can even use your own dreads to tie back ur dreads haha thats what i do. just take two back bottom dreads, and bring them up around and tie them! idk if ur hair is long enough but it works great when u dont have anything around
Yeah, a lot of the time I'll just tie them back with a couple of bottom dreads, but sometimes my scalp will get a little sore from the tug. When I want to keep it UP, though, off my neck (for me, with long tight thick dreads, having all the weight hanging down the back can make my neck really sore), tying it that way pulls a lot and feels really uncomfortable before long. I thought of another way to describe this scarf trick the way I'm doing it now. I take a scarf, with the side I want facing out up against my neck, and bring the ends up to tie at my front hairline. I'm just doing one simple knot and pulling it tight (w/stretchy fabric) Then at the nape of my neck, I just pull the bunched part up and over/around the length of my dreads. It partially covers and folds them upward. Since mine are pretty long, at this point I take the ends I pulled tight at the front and kind of twist and tuck until the dreads are out of the way and it looks allright. All the stress is in the fabric instead of tugging on the dreads at all, but it also isn't seriously knotted in any way, so you can take it down in two seconds by just pulling in the right place. This probably still doesn't make any sense. I'll see if I can get my partner to take pics for me toinght or tomorrow...
