hey everyone got a few questions I have always loved dreads i think they are the coolest hair style out their, and I;m finding myself looking at footage of people with dreads or pictures of their progress and i think its the coolest thing ever! So I'm contemplating getting them but I have heard many things about them 1. Is wax really bad news for dreads? 2. Should they cost nothing to maintain 3. Salon or Natural? 4. I surf quite a lot, will salt water do damage to them? also out of curiosity I am one of those red hair fellows. Not a extreme red head more of a reddy/brown. Does anyone here have red dreads? did they turn out looking sick? Sorry to bombard you all with questions on my first post Im Josh, 17 and live in Australia Thanks guys!
Hey Josh, i'm pretty new around here but from what I have learnt in my short time here is that : 1) Stay away from wax, it may keep them tight to begin with but it doesn't do you any favours, if you were goin to use wax like I unfortunatly did then you would 100% guaranteed regret it. It is messy as hell!!! And probably not too good for them. 2) The only things you might wanna buy are the shampoos ie Dr Bronners. Other than that maybe the odd bit of tea tree oil, sea salt and other cheap bits like that to make up some accelerator or to treat dry scalp etc. 3) Natural. Again there is no need to spend money! And you get better results natural/done by yourself. 4) Salt water is good to tighten the dreads, you may need to wash it out though as it can leave a residue and more than likely dry your scalp out! If you search these forums you will find pretty much everything you need to know about dreads!! I find myself reading the forum threads loads and I have gained loadsa dready knowledge already! Good luck with the journey man.
1. stay away from wax. trust me, i learned this the hard way years ago. 2. You COULD pay money, but it is totally unnecessary and pointless. 3. I would recomend natural. it is easy and there is no way you can go wrong. and plus, if you go surfing a lot, your hair should lock up pretty quick. 4. salt water is good for dreads, it helps tighten them. I go swimming a lot, and it definitely makes a difference.
dont even think salon they will always screw u up more then anything, think about it when u dread u no longer comb cut trip or style or use all those salon products basicly you no longer will be a customer of any salon for life so why would u expect them to help you break free from theyre grasp? they'll charge you hundreds of dollars (ive heard up to 400) then cake em with wax and insist u make every mistake u can make including spending more money every 2 weeks fort maintanance after months of robbing you blind you'll have a total mess on your head and wanna just chop[ it off and start over or give up entirely either way they got ya and your still theyre slave.. if u just forget they exist throw away all theyre products and impliments and just leave your haitr to do what it does it'll dread just fine on its own oh and red dreads look amazing just look at windcriesmary and how many marriage proposals she gets in every thread..lol dreads first became popular amongst american surfers because the salt water made theyre hair dread so easily they had trouble keepin it from dreasding other then that enjoy the journeyt and ignore everything u read on most other sites that spread lies and sell products
your guys are heros! Okay so wax is defiently bad... so I guess that means "knottyboy" is bad news, also I kinda of never realized... but I always have little dreadlets? forming after a surf! WOOO So heres my plan summer is only 3 months or so away.... and thats when I surf around 4-5 days a week. So I wont cut my hair and as say a "summer project" ill get some natural dreadlocks going This is only my second post but I can tell im already going to like it here. After reading a couple of topics seems like quite a friendly bunch going on here ohh and I checked out <i>windcriesmary</i> profile but didn't see any pictures.. but people proposing to her in most posts? yep... red dreads are defiently for me Bye guys thanks for your help!
why wait till summer to start u can start today it will accelerate when your surfing but theres no reason not to get the process started now
