Your Biggest mistake!!!

I thought i'd make a thread where people could say what was the single worst thing they did for their dreads.

Mine was that i trimmed a few hairs from the bang to clean it up for my girlfriend... Now that its growing back they are just sticking out even worse than they were before.

 

Wax

 

rubber bands. just a personal friend experience. bands were kept in too long, cought the wash and she had moldy centers. causing her to cut them, might not happen often though, just peronal experience.

 

wax is evil

 

feltingneedle...

 

wax

 

wax

 

this is going to be pretty one sided....

wax

 

backcoming my hair,never used wax or shit, but backcoming my hair was the biggest mistakes. I had only stop coming my hair for 3 months and there was like 5-6 dreads at the back of my head,well semidreaded. regret it a lot actually

 

i used wax at the very beginning. and i spent the next week and half getting it all out. wax is bad

 

not tying em up when runnin round town...gettin em tanggled in things and wearring off from draggin on the ground
lost 8 inches to 2 feet off a dozen of em

 

wax. i am so sad i had to take my dreads out. i loaded them with wax for about 6 months.. so i am combing them out then re-dreading.
it sucks...i really wish i didnt use it...but i found the forums too late

 

Hmm.. waiting too long to rip them apart. It hurts a lot more the longer you wait! lol.

 

Camping the next week after getting them and not thinking how attracted dreads would be to velcro. I ended up mega fuzzy and my head was already quite sore from all the backcombing and tugging the previous week. I'm considerably more velcro conscious nowadays.

 

Is it bad to use felting needles?
I had it done to the front part of my head and, yes that dreads feels different, but cant see what damage it would do if you had them all done?

 

I personally think felting needles are bad to use. The damage occurs because the needle contains barbs at the end that weaken the hair shaft. This could eventually weaken/thin out dreads and cause split ends.

 

in fear of repeating everyone: wax

 

ahh ya reminded me of 1

leanning out of a car at a fest parked in a field of burdock
insteantly 20 pounds of byrdock burrs snagged all 150 or so dreads into 1 huge mass of spiky burrs and dreasds
took hours of ripping to get the dreads apart and 3 days of picking to get all thye burrs out
not fun
but funny

 

i think its clear though that if we attached a poll with just 2 options
wax and everything else combined wax would still be the number 1 dread mistake by a landslide

 

Poor sectioning. Thank goodness I haven't used Wax or anything, but still...

I have a bit of a problem with gaps between hair and just an all around "sectioned" appearance, which looks horrible imo. Oh, well, maybe it will somehow work itsef out, at least its not full of wax. Thank goodness I have found this nice comminity before damage was done!