Hey, ive been looking around alot and I can only seem to find instructions on how to make rounded and fat dreads. I want thin and very spiky at the end, how is this achieved? Also I am a very big hater of frizz in dreads soz how can I get them to be polised smooth so to say Heres an example of what im after. And again, the girl in the middle.
I think those dreads are either synthetic or made with wax. dunno how you'd get them so smooth otherwise
first off, if you start by back combing..make the sections bigger than that. also, don't use wax (it looks like you did, but i could be wrong). your dreads will eventually congo, or join with one another to make fatter dreads. you'll probably have to rip every so often, so you don't have one massive dread. rounded ends can either come with time or a crochet hook. i prefer the non-rounded ends, myself. they also will smooth out with time, as the dreads start to mature.
I think you have me back the front, I want to have hair like the top picture Should I make the dreading area 1cm sqaures, BTW that is not me in eithee pictures, I have very stubborn wirey hair that I cant do anything with so dread looks like the answer The top pic looks too messy to be synthetic plus I know they arent
hm I mean the second picture actually I bet the only way you can make them so thin and tidy is with wax
ohhh!! lol for some reason i thought you said you wanted fat dreads haha sorry about that! um...i dunno. i'd just start of with smaller sections. the chick in the pic looks like she has massive amounts of wax in her hair though...that's probably how she got them looking smooth. they also don't look like dreads, but rather spikes.
Well in theory if you matted the hair evenly all the time you could make them smooth, Kinda reminds me of the ghosts in the matrix 2 those dreads were :O, But ide rather have dreads like the top pic i just used the second for comparison with the ends of the dreads (pointy)
My friend has dreads sort of like the second pic, although i think they are synthetic in the pic becuase even my friends dreads don't look that neat. She used stupid amounts of crap wax, palm rolls, bleaches her hair to near death, washes it with washing up liquid and all sorts of rubbish, pulls her dreads through the roots and one day her hair is going to either go moldy or fall out. The guy in the top pic doesn't really have dreads. He has candlesticks sticking out of his head. You can achieve this look by back combing your hair then coating it with wax. if you are a big hater of frizz in dreads, don't bother getting dreads, dreads have frizz, that is how they are.
neither of those hairstyles are dreadlocks. dreadlocks happen over months and years and are the product of nature. what you want can only be achieved by waxing the shit out of your hair (very bad idea) or making temporary spikey lock things. id say, separate your hair into little clumps, backcomb a bit and put a bunch of jell in there. it should last till you wash your hair.
I think those are fake in the pics. But if you want thin locks, you have to make small sections and backcomb real tight if you want them to stay neat, otherwise they will loop very much.
agreed with everyone. the second pic is synthetic dreads, just "dread" hair extensions. the first one is just spikes coated with wax. dreads are a totally different animal and i have a suspicion they aren't going to do what you want them to do, since dreads tend to have a mind of their own.
i hope you aren't under the impression that dreads will ever look like that in the first months.. 'cause it won't i think in most cases it takes a year before you're able to call them mature, and even still they normally have a long way to go
Im pretty sure that top pic arent dreads at all, just gelled/waxed spikes... the second ones look synthetic. theyre freakishly smooth.. if you want dreads you will have to put up with frizz, its just gonna happen. Also thinner dreads are more likely to be frizzy because theres less for the hair to hold on to.. but yeah section it maybe 1 or 2 cm depending on how thick your hair is...
Neither picture is dreads. The first is temp "dreads" made with wax, and the second is synthetic. You can, however, get thin spiky dreads by backcombing thin sections of hair and then crochet hooking them like crazy. This is no ordinary crochet hook either - you need lace sized ones, like a 0.7 is a good size. the spiky tip will happen naturally if you don't purposefully round the edges, and this can be helped with a little dread-grade beeswax (its softer than raw beeswax and easier to apply). Don't use any other kind of wax.
If you want to achieve the first look you could more then likely grease your hair up with some gel erry day.. and like everyone else said, that second set is a set of synthetic dreads and you can buy those online for fairly cheap. If you want 'real' dreadlocks then.. what SeyR said.
