My Dread-sastre 3 WEEKS!!

I say good type of hair is not always a good hair. I would like to have it different in order to have my dreads like yours. Check my type of hair here...


http://www.hi5.com/friend/photos/di...wnerId=5268684#1167902623_5268684_300583437_0

 

do you do any maintanence on them? cause for the 3rd week, they look quite good. (as in not all falling out)

but they will get looser and messier and bad before it gets better, tighter & 'neater'

 

they look really good. i am on week two of mine. i put my rubber bands back in bc most of my backcombing came out with them. i redid some of the back combing, put the bands in and using a sea salt + lemon juice + water mix every other day to helpsea salt + lemon juice + water mix tighten them. i have two that are doing really great! the rest are starting to come along now. what i do with the rubber bands is take them out after i shower every 3 days and let my hair dry, i go the rest of that day without them but before i go to bed i put new ones in. it has help to keep my hair from going back to being straight. i got all the wax that i used out of my hair when the back combing undone itself and tell the truth, the sea salt + lemon juice + water mix has done a WAY better job of keeping the knots in. but that is the way i have done mine in the past week and once i can find the camera i will be posting new pics up at http://ravenmikhail.blogspot.com/
and you can see the difference since i started to use the rubber bands and the

 

Well, to say the truth I've been "crocheting" my hair. My rubberband always there ( Ichange them every wash ) And don't do much of palmrolling...could say seldom. The rearones are neglect that's why are loose. But I think the trick here is the crochet method.

 

I use a 1mm needle to do it. I feel the diference after crocheting the hair. You can feel it when get tight. I had couple of them were totally loose and I changed that, I improved them doing this...

 

Hey just saw this. Yes...I seem to be the only person who had a really positive experience with elastic bands! haha Well the first lot I had were black ones which were really shit, they all broke within a day or two, and a couple that I missed melted into my dreads. The other transparent bands I used were brilliant....they lasted ages, were strong enough to save and re-use, seemed quite soft on my hair and didn't cause any breakage...some I kept in for many weeks without problems.

Until my dreads were tight enough to just automatically knot up most of the root hairs, lots of small stray ones kept popping out and trying to creep into other dreads. I couldn't be bothered spending time on the maintenance of the "all-natural" route - having to keep ripping them apart, constantly disrupting the knotting process. The bands at the roots kept those short baby hairs in place long enough to guide them into the correct dread, which only took a week or two in some cases.

Eventually a time came when it was clear the bands had helped all they could and were starting to restrict further progress, at which point I took them out. Also, as some of the elastics became loose and slid an inch or so down the dread, they had the effect of a permanent gentle root rubbing and created really firm strong knotted up balls inside the bases of the dreads.

Obviously it's easy to fuck up with elastic bands, much like it is with wax, but that doesn't mean everyone will definitely have a bad experience. I found that banding every other one was enough to stop neighbouring dreads from sharing hairs. I didn't keep elastics on the most obvious dreads around my hairline, coz they do look kinda dumb, so I just did regular maintenance on those few dreads.

Ofcourse, all this could be done with beads or twine, but I didn't want to commit to anything very special or time-consuming when I knew it was only temporary.

Hope that helps, and sorry everyone else for conflicting!


I think you can maybe see from my dreads and all the nice comments in my 9-month thread that elastics won't definitely kill your dreadlocks

 

i still have visible damage from using bands for months. They broke a lot of hair. I think it was the most damaging thing I did to my hair. Plus when I took them out, my hair still fell apart. But right when I normally would have put them back in, I said fuck it. I left them out and my hair started dreading noticeably faster in weeks.

If you have thin hair, I highly recommend getting them out now because your hair will break easy and it being thing you have less of it, so the damage will be greater. I hate rubber bands. I am not telling you what do just telling you my experience. They didn't do anything except SLOW the process.

 

if you are worried about loose roots u can always root rub.
elastics on the roots really dont help much but keeping dreads from eating each other.
i used bands and i had no negative experiences with them but there is a point where they are usless.
i think after the first wash or so they dont do any good on the dread.
and on the root i would assume does no good because it constricts the hair from moving and knotting.
like i said, all they do on the roots is keep the dreads separate.
and like already said, ur hair wont unravel from the roots not having bands on them.
as far as crocheting goes, i wouldnt do it because i dont like the texture it makes.
but if u think its groovy, keep doing it.

 

OK guys, i revomed the rubber because i wash my hair, and following what somebody said before, I let them breath... I noticed they were ok to continue without the rubber so I did. Let's see how they behave.

 

They'll be fine, it's all about letting go and not worrying....

 

I hope so. tHANKS!

 

Updating my post. Here is my 5th week.









Well here is my advance. SO i wait for comments

 

man, by the 5th week they have tightened up a lot!

nice progress, good luck!

 

sweet!

 

they aiight

 

thems are lookin goodo!

 

looking great congrats on a fun run thus far@#!

 

6 WEEKS/5DAYS

Well, here are some pics after the rubbers...
I did not do much with them. Washing as always but not playing with them at all.
Neglect method?
Check them out!