The Dready Meet & Greet Post!

Loving the lochs headymoe!

 

Hey everyone I jumped right in asking questions before introducing myself, how impolite!

What can I say bout me? Not much really... Married, got lotsa cats, live in South Wales, UK. Love dreads but until I found this forum was a bit scared to have 'em - all the bad print about them like not being able to wash your hair, bugs and stinky locks. But reading through your posts I'm getting real excited bout getting them Woohoo!
My hair twists really well so thought I'd start out with them and go from there... Anyone tried that?
Hubby's gonna help me this weekend doing them, whenever I've done them by myself they've always ended up with a huge centre parting - just looks like I've tied them in bunches!
Anyways, looking forward to chatting to you all

Ta ra!

 

Hey every1 my names Ryan ive hade dreads for 6 weeks just put sum rubber bands in like an hour ago it works for sum people so im gonna try it. anyways when i figure out how to get my pics in jpg format ill post them.

Later

*edit* i took em out this morning u guys and girls convinced me

 

OK...lets see...here is a pic of me now, kind of hard to see that my hair is almost to my waist. I was gonna chop it all off cause I was tired of combing it, but now I have bigger plans. I am gonna dread up natural. I will post pics as I grow, and when the galleries open up again (apparently they are closed for construction right now).

Thank goodness you all are here, I have a feeling I am gonna need some advice...I want these babys to look good.

 

ok i'm soaring eagle, i cant post my pics yet cause i wa gonna grab 1 or 2 out of my gallery & the gallery isdead. i started growin my dreads long agl.. but i cut em off once...huge mistake.. bu been growin em ever since..over 14-15 years now.. & theyre past my knees even though i've lost 6-8 inchess off the ends of several
i'll post some picssoonn but its really hard to get all those dreads in 1 picture

 

ok..gallery is back, so heres a couple

 

Oh heavens...soaring eagle your pics took my breath away...you have such beautiful eyes, and your locks are stunning.


I look forward to a day when I can have such beauty...until then, here is my hair only 6 days in...just baby babies.

 

Hello and welcome to the dreadlock family. Make sure to post some pictures

 

hello fellow dreadheads!! i'm a knotty girl full of fun!

ha ha... or something

 

eehe
hi
& baby..your a beauty..cant wait to see them dreadies

 

have not posted any new pics ina while so here's a couple

 

here's an old pic of the band - anywayz.....why does no one ever say hello to me - I must not be hip enough for these forums........

 

man nice pics,,, you should to Australia to play

wow hes playing a really small djembe in the background there, nice djembe n beat box as well

btw HI

 

The only reason i dont say hi is because when the only posts i ever see form someone is photos of themself and ive commented on that picture like 3 times already i kind of run out of things to say Join in a few convo's sometime parhaps.

 

hey everyone!

ive had my dreads for about 10 days now, but the rubberbands are kind of frustrating. I feel like a little girl with 60 rubberbands in my hair.

A few quick questions

1)how often should i wash
2)when can i take out these rubberbands
3)WHAT DO I DO WITH THE TIPS? I have 'kind of knotty root-rubberband-KNOTTY-rubberband-straight tip' and i think i need to do SOMETHING with the tips.

thanks!

*edit*

oh, and is nutregena anti-residue shampoo okay to use?

 

ditch the bands, leave at the tip if u r worried abt it. whash whenever u feel id say 5 times a week max shampoo should b alright but i wouldent use it

 

thanks for the info.

I think I'm going to wash my hair for the second time in 24 hours . My friend showed me the rip and tear method, and the ones im doing with that method after taking out rubberbands are about 20 times better. The problem is that there is too much wax for them to get real knotty. Hopefully I can get some out.


I plan on going to the beach tommorow, and getting a salty dread bath

 

Just thought I'd say hi. Stumbled into this forum after finding the personal forum section. Kind of an accident, but maybe not. I don't have dreads yet, but I will once my hair gets a bit longer.
Anyway, pretty chill place here dudes.

 

Bass Just wash out as much of the wax as you can, remove the bands and let the hair do what it wants the rip method does work well to a point but only really for tips and starting them off. To actually get the dreads to tighten you just have to LEAVE them.. its horrible because they just disintergrate for a while into fluff but then suddenly you will wake up after about 4-6 months and see your dreads actually looking like dreads

 

pictures, give me some ideas to make them better





*edit*

should i wear a beanie to bed?