question about balding

Im on day 5 and I backcombed some more today....sorry SE! Anywho...is it normal to get bald spots...will they fill in as they mature? Or am I just going to have to get used to it?



Theyre doing good in the front....heres me and my lil one....

 

It will fill in with loose hair, if you keep it natural it really wont be a problem.

 

natural as in no backcombing? or natural as in no dready products like wax and stuff?

 

natural as in no backcombing
the balnding as u call it is from sharlply defined sections pulling every hait into a dread leavunbg lines of exposed scalp between

naturaly dresds sectuon themselves with a few loose hairs or fixzzfikling in the gaps the dtrreasds will need ripping or seperating which cause fuzzbetween as the fuxzz grows it joins a exosting dread or forms a new 1

backcombing instead of nature telling the haiers where they belong you try foecing them where u want them u get the sharp edges to the rots sections
as tyhey grow and yu start to have to seperate the gaps will full in



tieing u up dodnt work maybe spanking will?

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um....

 

so if I let it all go natural from here will it be ok you think? I only backcombed where my hair had naturally sectioned. Spanking eh? lol

 

I backcombed mine and after a few weeks all gaps had filled in fine.

 

saweet!

 

u2 have the exact same eyes
wow

 

they'll fill in mandy, don't worry... they're going to look completely different (MUCH fuller) in a year.

 

why apologize for something that is your personal choice? Dont let someone guilt you into doing something other than the way you want to do it. Do you need his approval that much?

 

I had some bald spots after backcombing also, and it freaked me out at first (because my hair has ALWAYS been thick, so I've never even thought about balding). Don't worry, they'll fill in!

I still backcomb my dreads on the rare occasion, and I just decided to dread and bead my bangs too, and they were backcombed. It's not a bad thing, certainly nothing like wax.

Backcombing isn't really the dreadlock sin that some people make it out to be, and it doesn't ruin your hair anymore than having it matted and knotted up in the first place. If you want to backcomb, don't let anyone here stop you.

 

as the great Chuck D. once said, "Fight the power."

 

nobody ever said backcombings evil
but to say its not dammaging just is assinine do u remember the pain?
dont u think the pain u felt in the scalp did dammage to hair?
how mant threads have we seen help i hjust backcoimbed 3 days agio now i see all tyhese white things are they live eggs or dandruff...of wait a second..theyre hair roots that have nbeen ripped right outta my scalp..
ofcourse having hundreds of hears tien loose froim the scalp and shreaded (firward combing causes split ends backcomnbing causes the whole hair shaft to be ripped up)
buit nooo thasts not dammagijg is it

i never say not to..its your chice to or not..i even tell people how to if they choose to.. but siont dare try pretendingthat it aint dammaging.. the 8+ hours of pain should tell u optherwise

 

oh but theres dammaging and potentiasly destroying backcombng will not destroy dreads.. just dammage the hairsthemselves..it reduces the overall healthiness somewhat, bit only the parts ravaged by the combing ..which usualy is just the ends as it grows.. for longer hair..then i usualy discourafe it because thats aloy more hair to dammage alot moree pain to endire and ..ofcourse loinger hair dreads very fast left alone

 

Actually, backcombing has never once hurt me. I don't know how you are able to assume you know what it feels like (considering you have said many times that your dreads are "100% natural), but whatever. The only thing that hurts is ripping dreads apart, like you recommend (separating them). That's obviously not 100% natural because you're not letting your dreads go where they want to go and do what they naturally want to do. So how is separating them any better than backcombing them? Both are probably for aesthetic purposes, one so your dreads mature faster, and one so you don't have a huge mangled knot taking over your entire head.

And I didn't say backcombing doesn't damage your hair at all, but thanks for putting those words into my mouth. Having your hair knot up in the first place to the point of matured dreadlocks is ruining your hair, sorry to tell you. You can't brush mature dreads out, and if you did the hair wouldn't be too damn healthy. So I don't see why it matters that backcombing does damage, since the dreading processes in and of itself does damage.

 

I will respond to whatever the fuck you said when you learn to spell. If you cannot take the time to spell, then i cannot take the time to try and decipher your chickenscratch bullshit.

 

ah that was a brilliant and mature post congrats
typicanl if u cant dispute the argument attack spelling ot puntuation

but actualy toguette although the ends of a few hairs do break when seperating, the majority of the hairs in mature dreads especialy natural dreads are generaly incredibly healthy unless they've been bleached or abused in other ways
mine have been dragged on the ground stepped on tangled in shit u name it and im sitting here with a magnifying glass trying to find 1 single split hair and i cantnot in the ends noit on the fuzz even the dreads that i lost part of from wear n tear broke cleanly without a single split end

not everyone backcombes very gently.. most hsave ppl help them..people who dont feel the pain theyre inflicting so do it more affeessivly.. and we've had a few threads that sure sounded like they hasd nearly 1/2 the roots ripped right out of theyre head..thats niot just a lil damage to the ends thats not just a lil roughing up the hair shaft thats yanking out tons of hairs at the rooys.. so that spot willalways be weaker new growrh will fill in..the ones that were ripped out will stay in the dreads.,, but the area that was the roots as iut grows in will always have that spot where much fiewer hairs are actualy attached to the head

sagain i am saying do whatu want..but think 1st..logicly.. combing gently does dammage thats why hairs always trimmed every few months to remove the dammaged ends..backcombing is much more aggressive and forcefill.
i wouldnt say its a danger yo dreading in any way..but..it is dammaging..if u just think about it theres no way to argue that its not..
especialy when u look around and see threads like help i got all these ugly white things in my rooys.. oh waiut those are my roots that were ripped out..

 

Soaringeagle, I honestly just don't think you know what you're talking about. I mean that in the most honest way I possibly can. And I'm not saying you don't know anything about dreadlocks (before a million people give me an interwebs smack for saying so), but hair in general.

Hair is dead, as I'm sure you know. Hair is not alive, hair falls out constantly, hair continues to grow (unless you have a disorder or are getting older, then it just falls out ), and hair breaks. Split ends happen over time, to everyone's hair. Hairs break all the time because, well, it's hair. If you find a strand of hair on the ground, it's not so hard to rip apart, you don't have to use much force at all. I also suppose the pain related to backcombing depends on how sensitive your scalp is.

But the point I'm making, which you don't seem to be touching upon at all, is that dreads aren't good for your hair in the way you're trying to say that backcombing is bad for your hair. Dreads are knots and mats. If you wanted to remove them by brushing them out, no matter if they were born naturally or through backcombing, you'd ruin a lot of hair. Most mature dreads probably wouldn't brush out that well anyway, and if you brushed out a head full of mature dreads I am SURE that they would require a haircut, some conditioning and a lot of care. So it doesn't matter if backcombing is worse for your hair or breaks the hair (like I told you, I know it's not GOOD for your hair), because dreaded hair will never be "healthy" undreaded hair after you comb them out.

And unless you backcomb obsessively (hey, that old phrase "Everything in moderation" comes to play in this situation), or seriously tear apart your hair with a flea comb, it shouldn't make your dreads any weaker than natural ones.

This is obviously based on my knowledge of hair in general, and how these sorts of things work. I am by no means a dread expert, but I have read a lot, I know a lot about hair and I think a lot of the claims you make are very exaggerated.

 

again im talking about dreasds, not hair after u comb it out
combing causes dammage combing drezds out causes dammage..backcombing causes dammage yes u mnade the pint im trying to make quite clearly
but iuf you dont comb out your dreads.. your hair is healthier for never having been combed and dammaged..gert it now? ofcourse if i comb out my healthy hair i will end up with less healthy more dammaged hair..thatIS MY POIINT combing dammages..backcombing even more so

hairs fall out yes a few here and there, but often we hear of hairs that were rippied out in the hundeds at 1 time..
again im not trying to discourage anyone im just stating what others have stated before
most agree that backcombing was a oainful experience
and at least several have reported hundreds and hundreds or hairs ripped out at the roots from the proccess..