bit annoyin...dreads practically falling out after 5-6 months

iv had dreads nearly 6 months now and they have been doing bloody great but recently iv noticed theyre still not knotting up and are just falling apart slowly but surely....thers is loose hairs which is normal but like half of each dread is just long loose hair hanging down and its pissin me off a bit...im too far down the line to start again or anythin like that so i think ill buy or borrow a crochet and get all the loose hairs pulled into each dread and then hemp wrap the worst ones.

how does that sound..?

any good advice i could follow~?

 

humn. Sounds like a good idea to me.

 

cheers

 

sucks that they are falling apart, but I'm sure they will figure it out eventually

 

yup. i think it might just be my hair type b4 i dreaded it i had very fine smooth hair that was incradibly soft...not perfect for knotting up. it wouldnt backcomb atall until i put wax into it...that was one of the problems. i try washing it alot now with sea salt to try and knot it up and it helps but not for long....

 

my hair used to be super smooth and straight... but multiple bleaching kind of killed my hair and made it much more coarse .... worked ok for dreads though

 

i'm having a bit of trouble with my dreads as well...but they are only 2 months old.
i think i'm going to bleach them all and then dye them back to brown.
i don't care if it kills my hair a bit, it's dead anyways

 

saying that i dyed 3 dreads red the other day and everytime my gf gets different dye i told her to dye sum dreads for me haha so that might help.

is ther anythin else i cud maybe do to kind of kill it and help it lock. i already wash it with sea salt and all the other stuff...(i dnt use any dreadheadhq shit tho)

 

Try swimming in the sea

 

Or palmrolling with lemonjuice

 

i dont live near the sea and im from scotland and well...the water is cold lol but aye me and gf plannin trip to beach soon anyway.

palm rolling with lemon juice? u mean covering my hands in it then palm rolling? that mite worm ayee need 2 buy another lemon thingy anyway.

cheers

 

dont use "lemon thingy" use actual lemons.


also, just leave 'em, they'll figure things out for themselves.

 

er...what if you didn't use real lemons?
I only sprayed lemon juice on my hair once...but it wasn't with real lemons... should I be worried?

 

lemon juice is pretty much just artificial flavour (unless it's organic) but either way it's nowhere near as effective.

 

oh i see....ill get real lemons next time