My Roots won't dread! Please help!

Hello,
I'm sure my case is pretty common, but I have no idea what to do seeing as I'm the only human being with dreads within my area.

Let me start by saying I have one single dread (is that weird?). I've had this single dread for about six or seven months and in the beginning it looked amazing. I used the backcombing method to create it. It dreaded wonderfully and not too many hairs were sticking out of it.

Recently I've noticed that the root area of my dread isn't dreading very well (barley at all). I don't know if perhaps I've washed my dread too much causing the root hair not too dread, or perhaps the beginning dread process failed.

What I'm left with now is a perfect eight inch dread with about an inch of straight root hair. I don't know if I should backcomb the root to dread it all up or...is there no hope for me?

From this dread I'll decide if I'll do my entire head with dreads, but at the moment I just need help on how to fix my problem!

-Peace
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it'll dread on it's own. in time. there will always be small parts that stay undreaded.

 

So...this isn't really a big problem?
I really appreciate your reply btw.

 

It's not a problem at all. Chill. If you can't handle the way one dread looks, how can you expect to like 30-50 of them?

 

1 Inch Is Perfectly Normal, In Fact It Is Desirable To Have An Undreaded Gap

At The Base Of A Dread....

If A Dread Locks To The Scalp Then When It Is Pushed To Oneside

As When Your Head Is On A Pillow, It Will Pull Hairs On

The Opposite Side, And That Hurts....



Cheers Glen.

 

Ah,
I was just worried about my very first dread. I appreciate the response
Puts my mind at ease
:2thumbsup:

 

Thank you,
Seeing multiple posts that it's normal, and nothing to freak out about, reassures me.
:2thumbsup:

 

Without loose space, how would hair at the base move enough to lock? It's quite impossible for it to GROW locked...

If you fiddle with it or stick a comb in there, you'll break hair and weaken the root, and have a funny looking club lock on a tiny root, which will hurt.