thin dreads ahhhh!

hey i really am not a fan of thin dreads and some how i ended up with dreads thiner than my pinkie finger!its been a month in three days and i just cant stand the thinness any more
how should i go about thickening them?

 

hey man you've come to the right place.
I love fat dreads, and when my dreads started out they were skinny and I was pissed!
I thought I would have skinny dreads forever, BUT FEAR NOT.

What I did was bundle them together with a bead. I'd grab 2 and put a bead on, or 3, or even sometimes 4

just keep the beads on for a long, long time, and the dreads will bind together.

you're lucky you're only a month into it. it will be extremely easy.

after a while the roots where the 3 dreads used to be will start to grow together and become one.

Some of my dreads even stem off into 2, and I think it looks pretty cool!

It's up to you, you are shaping your hair. Use beads. It's all good, pimped out hippy!

 

keep the beads close to the root, and use more than one bead on a dread if you have to.
one in the middle, and one on the end.

chya.

 

what stalk said. just put on a bead and the dreads will do the rest
i find it works well to put the bead a couple of inches from the root, leave it there for a month or so, then slowly move it down and your dreads lock together.
also, some peoples dreads will join together on their own.

 

could i just use like a little rubber band at the roots like one of those no snag ones

 

What's wrong with thin dreads?

 

noting im just a fan of think dreads

 

thick dreads are harder to care for, harder to get your fingers under em to clean the scalp thin dreads will combine with other dreads if you dont prevent em, every dread will want to combine with the nearest dread if you dont keep on top of seperating em..do absolutly nothing and eventualy youd have 1 massive thick dread...and an incredibly dirty scalp

 

i dont want them that thick about as thick as a thumb or as thick as the pic above

 

i just used a felting needle to combine all mine (2-3 at a time)- i will post before and after pictures in the week!

 

thats my point
my dreads are mostly pretty thin but many over the years combined forming thicker ones
its a natural part of the process, doesnt need to be forced at all, but takes effort to prevent it from going too far

hard to see in this, but the thicker ones u see in the sig pic are the roots of 3 or 4 thinner ones that combined

forcing them to combine, especialy early on in the journey makes no sence since sooner or later they'll do it on theyre own and you'll end up with a rats nest 2-3 times thicker then you hoped for

 

soaringeagle
you look like an american version of an indian sadhu

blessings, father time.

 

I used to have thin dreads. When I decided I prefered thick locks I just stopped ripping them apart and let them congo.

 

so they don't get thicker? this is the only solution?

 

well, don't be sad.
beads are easy man...
you just...bead your dreads.
they do get thicker, but they don't really explode in fluffy fatness.

 

yeah i know it's easy, but i don't know how will it look afterwards. Because i have a few dreads, like 34. I think i'll wait till they get longer and see then.

 

don't wait, now is the time.
it's MUCH easier in the beginning....trust me.
They will look like fat dreads afterwards....

 

i may be wrong but i was under the impression that when dreads start shrinking in the early stages they naturally fatten up.

ive recently redone my dreads and im sitting here with. now i lost a fair amount of hair when combing out my old locks so i still have a bit to grow back but most of my dreads are between index finger the thumb thickness (aout 2-2.5cm giving the size of my hands) and stahs before my hair has started to shrink or get loopy so i would think my hair would get thicker.

now unless yu have really thin hair i would imagine the same would happen to you also. when you look at many before and after pics most people start of with straggley dreads that get fatter over time.

 

well i hope, i think i'll make a congo or two to see how it turns out.

 

I have quite thin dreads and although they are only just over a month old they are forever trying to merge.

I'm not really into the whole bead thing but you could try threading one dread through the base of the on next to it.

This also works if you have short dreads that stick straight up.

I pass the dread through it's own base and it lays down flat

mamos