haha no, not for two years lol only at the beginning for some months maybe.. not every day of course, but occasionally
this is exactly what happens when u backcomb and what my two friends dreads looked like after 3 years. When i told my friends i was backcoming my first few days they told me stop . Im sorry to say but a both of my friends that this happen to, had no option but cutting =( So sorry i dont have any suggestions. Hopefully there is something that u can do.. sorry had to re read and edit
Huh? When you backcomb to get dreads, the new growth that's coming through two years later will know the dread was backcombed and therefore not knot into the mature dread? wtf
I agree with Liz to a degree. I started mine with backcombing and have a 1 or 2 dreads that look like the last picture. I would say that over working and backcombing broke too many hairs which weakened the roots over time, and added the fact the hair is really dirt and greasy I can see how it ended up this way. At this point I would say do nothing at all because anything else could break more hair. I don't like the idea of twisting and ripping two year old dreads for this reason. I would try to combine the really thin ones to the neighboring lock with a bead or wrap. This will ensure the new growth, which is the only part you should care about, will lock up together. The hair looks really dirt and greasy, which you say you have addressed. I say leave the damage that has been done and focus on the new growth. And the 1 or dreads that I have that are like this started dreading right after the 4 inch mark and started to thicken up and suck up loose hair. By addressing the dirt nasty hair, you are treating the cause and the symptoms will resolve themselves over time. I say don't do anything to damage his hair anymore.
Thats what i was told It damages the hair so much and breaks it down so fine. That even a couple years down the roots will stay thin and wont dread. I mean i seen this happen to both my friends and they are dreadless and told me not to backcomb after the first time when u start.. This only happens if you keep backcombing the roots everytime they get lose.. which a lot of people do, instead of clockwise rubbing.
Wow I must be some super-lucky exceptional girl. I backcombed hair with 10+ years of peroxide damage, waxed loads, found elastic bands useful, palm-rolled, used a needle to guide undreaded new growth into dreads, and my dreads are fine, with secure hair-ful roots and no wax inside. Golly.
I will post pictures when I hit my two year mark and show you that's not always true...over a year and a half now and no signs of weakness. But like I said in my other post, I have seen it on my head where it can be true but only in places like behind my ear or where the hair is really thin. I think is goes back to hair type. But yea, I started mine with backcombing, and can tell a difference between the original shitty backcombed part which is less than half the entire length of the dread. On almost every dread I have at the end of the backcombed sections, where the root would have been, the dread is thinner were the hair was vigorously combed and broken. But, after those spots, the dreads thick up again and the hair is almost matted to scalp naturally...i dunno, it's hair, I don't put any effort into anymore..waste of time.
U have super dreads =) my best friend bleached her dreads all the time, one day i went to go meet up with her.. Long and behold her freaking dreads in the back fell clean off. she had a Mullet, it was horrible. She had her dreads for 5 years and they were amazing. Ill ask her to send me a pic, so u guys dont think im bullshitting on all the people i know with dreads lol ..
She must have fucked something up I reckon. I'm pretty sure it's less the methods and more the errors in their application which are to blame in dready disasters.
aeh i have backcombed hair and i sometimes work them when i'm bored and they're very fine he on the other hand, doesn't do anything to his dreads, like nothing at all, he's the type of a person who can't be bothered to mess with them.. i haven't touched them for loong time as well. i don't even think it's wax inside of the hair. it looks like some weird residue shit from the shampoos he used before.. i used wax too and there's no wax in my dreads anymore. maybe it depends on how they were backcombed. idk about you amy, but mine were quite loosely done, his were quite harshly thanks for sharing your thoughts and i'll keep my fingers crossed that this still can be fixed
Nope she did lots of research and talk to many people on the types of bleach n dye to use. Some people may not have the same Hair thats all theres to it.
now THAT I can see... but not just backcombing initially... I still don't understand why anyone would continue to backcomb after the first time... makes no sense to me.
she probably bleached more that just the new growth... bleaching hair over and over again will make any hair become weak... you should always only bleach the unbleached roots every month or two, and never overlap onto the already bleached portion.
I lost a ton of length trying to go from black to white... black dye is fucking impossible to get out, much worse than natural black hair. The repeated bleaching made it break off pretty short. But I expected it before it happened... I was just sick of black hair after having it for 3 years. would never dye my hair black ever again.
Don't even get me started on this! There are very few things I could honestly say I regret, but black dye would be one of them. And they had the nerve to put "semi-permanent" on the box.
