Hey All! I am new to the forum and i love what i am seeing here. All the pictures are wonderful. Anyways... My dreads are roughly 9 months old and almost all of them are very tight for most of the dread, but a handful of them are undreaded at the tips. I know a certain amount of curly haird at the tips is normal, but some have as much as 2 to 2.5 inches of straight, or only mildy tangled hair. i have been palm rolling and hand rolling the tips but they just wont take. Is there another technique i should use, or should i be backcombing the tips? Thanks! JPW
Just let them be. Mine are almost 3 years old and all of the tips are loose save 2 or 3. All of my ends are at least 1 inch of loose hair most of them around 2-3 inches. If you really feel you need to tighten the ends you could use a felting needle or crochet hook to pull the loose hairs up into the locks.
I've got plenty (10months). I rather like em actually, they drain the water from your dreads so your hair dries faster - I think that's nifty. lol Though I'm waiting to round them off after they've gained some length... But I have rounded a select few quite successfully with a felting needle. Does wonders - only about a month or two after they feel & look just like the rest of the dread.
i have a tip that may be useful... before i redid my dreads most of them were straight or only slightly tangled towards the end so what i did was make sure my hair was really clean and dry and then backcombed all the tips as tight as i could and left them... no palm rolling! (ive found palm rolling tends to unravel the tips of my hair) i just left them. i had some really puffl balls of hair at the end of each dread but after a week of not touching my hairy hair bulbs and looking rather odd, most of them were considerably better than what they were and still had that whispy tip look... so...tight backcombing + NO PALM ROLLING + a week or so of looking like wersel gummage = increase in dreaded tips
