Synthetic Dreadlock Journey

exactly... they're still locks and they will still lock up like natural locks, my only problem with them is that the ones in the pics look too boring. My only advice is if you decide to go that route... make sure they use human hair so that it can be blow-dried, colored, etc. if you so choose in the future and so that it will still behave the same as your natural hair.

I actually plan to do human hair extensions myself some months in the future, but I'm definitely not going to over crochet and make them look like the ones in those pics.

 

you just lost me when you said glue.... horrible idea
extensions can be crocheted in without glue... I'd opt to go that route.

 

keep in mind that all of these pictures are immediately after they were done as well... not months later...

 

lol...this dude will never have locks.

OP, go get your extensions glued, post pics, and come back 6 months later and most post more pics. It will be clear what we (real people with real locks) are talking about.

 

So I scavenged for a picture of my friends hair last year when she had just got her extensions put in(for a comparison) but I couldn't find one. So here's a picture of what they look like now. Her extensions have pretty much have all shrunk up because of the bleaching. They were originally half way down her back.



Might give you an idea of what yours could look like in a year * depending on what you do or don't do to them*

 

but she didn't get them done by that guy...how did she do hers? I can't see the extensions in hers. I like her dreads

 

http://quinnster.fqdn.net/dreads/vibrata.html

except the person here crocheted the hell out of the rest of their dreads too, but its a good method to attach extensions permanently

 

she went to a girl in Toronto who does synth dreads and extensions. She had gone to her a few times to have synths put in and than finally decided she wanted a more permanent lock. They were backcombed, crocheted and waxed. pat scarred her away from wax though so she never used it after the first week.

Yeah you can't see them because they pretty much just shrunk up into her hair. Which worked out well I think. My other friend who got hers done the same day are still the same length and still crochets.. but I don't really have a picture of her hair because she always keeps them up in a tam.

 

do they use real hair extensions?

 

Yup it's all human hair

edit: and personally I would just call them 'dread extensions' because when I hear synth I think of synthetic hair..maybe that's just me though

 

https://www.youtube.com/user/jhermbaby

I may actually do this when my dreads are mature, so i have colorful dreads n dont have to dye them ... But man she has to do it cuz her's are falling out..

 

hoooollllld up i remember seein a video of her from way back. i can't listen to what she's sayingin this one, but i know in the vid i saw, she was thiking about cutting he locks off. and they didn't look like that raggamuffinmop she has now.

 

ditto... I think synthetic hair.

 

She has a ton of video's i posted another one on the couples dread pics. LOL @ RAGGAMUFFINMOP