dreadlock extensions: YOUR opinions

spazzingfetish · Jan 24, 2012

^mine too. and glitter from work >.<

LovePeaceAndHappiness · May 1, 2012

livnasty said:

I have dread extensions! In about 2/3 of my hair. They are about 4-5 inches long. THE MOST IMPORTANT THING TO CONSIDER IS: was your hair chemically treated before/after having dreads? My hair was permed to hellll before dreads, then I bleached & dyed them at 7 months, then I extended them at 11 months. BAD IDEA. The permed/bleached/dyed hair I started my dreads with is destroyeddd and the weight of the extensions fucked me up. I had a lot of breakage where the extension would break off and take the permed hair with it It's not as bad as it sounds as that hair needed to go anyway... it was crispy and fried. I've removed a bunch of them and my "new growth" hair has grown long enough that I don't care to reextend. Also, extensions are kind of hard to attach via crochet. I am not very good at it. My friend installed mine for me. I have since become handy with crochet and can do my own maintenance/attach them properly SOMETIMES. I still find it difficult. I am, however, amazing at making dreads out of weave! If you decide to get them I can make a tutorial or something. I can probably also find videos of the method of attachment I used

Overall, I absolutely love my extensions. My hair was suuuuper long in highschool and then I chopped it before I even THOUGHT about dreads. I kept a super cropped 'do for about a year, then grew my hair out for a year and a half or so, then dreaded up. My hair grows mind-numbingly slow and I wasn't willing to wait years and years to get back to the length I had chopped. Lemme know if you need help <3 Don't listen to the haters, they have their own hair to focus on
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I really want extensions too, and was going to crochet them too, but heard it's a pain. You said you weave them? How?

mandapanda3 · May 1, 2012

With my last set of dreads I weaved my boyfriends old dreads into them for length...and also just to see if I could. It was fun to pretend to have long dreads for a few days. However, I did a shitty job sewing them on and they started to fall off and fishing line was hangin out every which way...it was pretty ridiculous. Plus just the thought of having somebody elses old hair attached to my head started to freak me out after awhile, so I took them out. Brings back funny memories

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