Need Help with my dreads

Hey Guys this is my first post and i need help with my dreads here are some pictures and i was wondering if you had any advice to make them look less 'sticky out-y' and make them tighter and hang properly without wierd patches of my scalp showing><

 

here are the pics http://s1218.photobucket.com/albums/dd416/malerick/?action=view&current=Photoon2010-10-07at1135.jpg& http://s1218.photobucket.com/albums...ion=view&current=Photoon2010-10-07at1114.jpg&

 

Im not too happy with them and need help

 

did you do a brick pattern when sectioning? are the roots really tight? this may be why there is scalp, and you can't do much about it.

sticky outy...they'll relax after a few weeks. if your hair is short, get used to it.

 

yeah the roots are tight Ive had my dreads for a few months did you look at the pics? and my hair is about shoulder length

 

how did you section them?
what method did you use?
do you have rubberbands inthere?


they really don't stick out that much. dealing with all of the new "volume" can be difficult at first. you will get used to it.

 

my mate did them for me and he just sectioned them using bands and then backcombed and waxed them and yeah i have rubber bands in them

 

take the bands ouuuuuuuuuut!


eeeee you don't need them anymore. get them out before they get locked or melted in. they bind your hair, making it unable to move=no locking.

out out out

 

sweet i shall take them out that may have been the problem

 

most likely. also, i suggest you read the thread called "read this or risk..." it contains an faq that talks about rubber bands.

 

where do i find this thread?

 

http://www.hipforums.com/newforums/showthread.php?t=365451&f=209

 

Don't put any more wax on them and think about removing the wax that is already on.

 

can we start hating on wax yet?

 

turn your lives over to jesus

 

Rubber bands are a suck idea, for sure ... but it looks like you are somehow getting the whole thing too rushed. A definite problem is the tightening aspect you are keen on. If your locks tighten too quickly, natural flow of hair / loose hair through your locks is virtually impossible, you'll end up with thin locks, all dying to phatten up.

I arrived at a point just over a year ago where I started to interfere and rush the locks forming. Of course all my locks tightened too quickly and as a result I have spent the last 3 months loosening them one by one ... which is no easy task

So ja, lay off the tightening thing, your hair was back-combed from the tip to the root … so leave your hair alone now, wash regularly with a decent shampoo / rinse, and your hair will start moving to the tip again ... cool locks start collecting at the tips and clump up towards the root ... don't get it the other way around.

1Luv

 

http://www.hipforums.com/newforums/showthread.php?t=405417&f=209

 

cheers for the help guys any thoughts on the sectioning?

 

Dude.. Really?

What about sectioning? Whether we approve of yours? Sectioning is sectioning..

 

maybe without the rubberbands the roots will loosen up and you won't see your scalp anymore. But sectioning is already done, can't change that. My advice: relaaaax