Dreads @ 5 months, help with the tips.

I've had my dreads for 5 months now. backcombed, straight white hair. I've found that tnr helps to lock the ends along with sea salt water and sun, but the tnr only holds the ends in for a couple of days. I usually wash my hair on the weekends with kissmyface and it tends to undo my tnr and the ends become soft and sorta flare out. It makes me want to cake them up with something. Is there anything I can use to hold them togeather like toothpaste, peanut butter? mud? lol I think something like that would work well but I don't know if there is anything I could use. I think i've tnr'ed my ends so much i'm losing to much hair and making the locks shorter. Any advice or changes I should make? I wish i could tnr/sea salt the strays and ends up once and for good but they keep coming lose.

 

Honestly, I think the best advice I can give is leave them alone. I don't have dreads myself, but from what I've read and heard from people with dreads the better option would be to leave them alone and let them knot up on their own. I'd strongly advice against putting shit in your hair that doesn't belong there, just leave them alone. Completely. Dreadlocks need time to form on their own. Loose hairs will most probably be sucked into bigger dreads.

However take my advice with a grain of salt, wait for a person who actually has dreads to help you. See you around

 

I personally like my whispy ends.. my dreads are just barely long enough with the loose ends that I am able to tie it all back. If you absolutely must blunt them there are some ways to do it with a crochet hook, which I would do over putting mud or peanut butter in them

 

Here's how you fix your problem:







































You may have noticed I didn't put anything. That's because you do nothing.

 

You do nothing if you want to long process of natural dreads, and I don't. I don't care to speed up the process a bit. I'd rather have controlled dreads so one day I can still get job.

 

you can use a Crochet Hook, but i must warn you it take a long long time doing all the ends. i use to work on one once a week then sometimes it still falls with my thick dreads, its not worth my time. i spent enough time using it for loose hairs, that i could care less for my tips.Now i just dont care anymore because trying to speed it up just doesnt seem like it works, because no matter what you do to speed things up, it still falls apart till they mature. SO yes doing nothing is the best thing to do, and buy a hat.

 

If your 22 and don't have a job yet I don't think dreads are the problem.....

 

if i were you i'd wait until that day when you need to get a job to start maintaining them. it will be pretty pointless until then.

 

leave your poor lil dreads alone! you're probably just slowing down the process fucking with em so much.

 

Ahoy … Man, sounds like you are gonna fiddle and rush the process with your locks no matter what anyone says anyway (hahaha).

Right side of the head:

a) Hold the lock at the end with your thumb and pointer finger of your left hand.
b) The lock must lay between these fingers in a way that it actually touches the web between these fingers.
c) Hold the lock in a way that the loose hair, i.e. the hair you want to knot, lies in the palm of your left hand.
d) Put the palm of your right hand of the loose hair and on top of the palm of your left hand
e) Rub the loose hair with your right hand in ‘clockwise circular motion’ … not any other way, a ‘clockwise circular motion’
f) Don’t be scared to give a bit of pressure and speed, friction is needed … and the loose hair will start forming a knot

Left side of head

a) Exactly the opposite of a) –f) above … if you are one of those that believe in clockwise circular motion rubbing for all you hair, that’s your trip … anticlockwise on the left side is what I reckon.

NB 1. Don’t bother if your hair has not been washed for +3 days, the natural oils slow the process down and cause what knots have formed to fall apart.

NB 2. Use a needle with a big eye and a needle threader to work the odd loose hair into the knot ‘once’ the knots are maturing.

NB 3. When wetting and rinsing your locks, cover them with a cap made out of the thinnest stocking … until the knots start maturing

NB 4. Don’t follow this method when your hair is wet … hair is at its weakest when it is wet … actually just generally avoid messing with your locks when they are wet.

NB 5. If you start venturing down the crochet needle path to thread the loose hair in, make sure that it is not a heavy steel one, find a graphite one … and stay away from the rest of the lock with it

 

dread tips will blunt with time i have some dreads that are blunt on the end and so does my friend frankie neither of us forced them to blunt so just give it time

 

yeah its definitely not the dreads

 

I would definitly recommend some mud yo, lil wayne used mud in his dreads, its a well known fact

 

I'd also recommend toothpaste like you asked. Minty fresh dreads FTW

 

Only if its colgate, all the other toothpaste brands seemed to leave alot of oily residue on my tips

 

oh and PB works best if you add some jelly and a couple pieces of bread to your hair. lots of fiber, it works wonders.

 

Yer nar

 

Why aren't you a mod? I used to live in SA aswell.

 

I have a job, my point was that I might want to change eventually and they might be a little more strict..

I think oily hair is my biggest problem. I'll have to start washing them every 3 days instead. Tell me more about washing them? I'm using Kissmyface, don't know if it's the best right now at this stage or not. Do you got a picture of what kind of stocking I should use when washing or can i just not use one at all, because I never have and they don't fall out in the shower, the ends just won't stay locked. I'm not really interested in crocheting but I might thread some of the long singles back through it's closest lock.

Tell me more about washing and drying because I like to towel squeeze them, do a little slinging and then either take a blow dryer or palm roll them in the sun.

 

Try and train your hair into being washed less. Eventually your hair will stop being oily. Amy bird, scattered leaves and a few others wash with water only and they don't have any oil problems.