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At least once a week I have to rip every one of mine apart from the surrounding ones. Two of them were so tightly stuck together that I can't rip them apart. How do you all handle super-velcro like locks?
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Re: How do you keep them from dreading together?
Wed, March 25, 2009 - 5:12 AMRip, rip, rip....but every few days. Mine don;t knot to each other as often as they used to, though. How old are your locks?
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Re: How do you keep them from dreading together?
Wed, March 25, 2009 - 6:01 AMDavid's onto the right question...once dreads get older and more mature, more locks in their own right, nice n tight, you'll find they won;t mat together so easily - unless of course you go months without separating them, that's when the roots will start matting. At the moment, keep separating them regularly...and palm-rolling the roots nice and hard often seems to help...and do this as often as possible...at least once a day if you can :)) -
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Re: How do you keep them from dreading together?
Wed, March 25, 2009 - 6:02 AMalso, I've had friends who've not looked after their dreads at all, and I found that they had dreads that just wouldn't rip apart either...I used razor blade, slicing carefully where the matting is, to separate them. -
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Re: How do you keep them from dreading together?
Wed, March 25, 2009 - 8:29 AMI've sort of accepted the two that decided to be friends... lol Thanks for the advice! Mine are 9 months old now (wow, where'd the time go?). I wonder if part of my problem stems from never cleanly sectioning off the dreads. When I created them, I just grabbed chunks of hair and let out my emotions on them. Some are big, some very small, and there are no clean 'lines' or parts on my scalp. Perhaps they pull together because of this? Would a locktician be able to help with this? -
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Re: How do you keep them from dreading together?
Wed, March 25, 2009 - 3:26 PMthat could CERTAINLY be the problem! you could get a loctician or a friend to help fix the issue though...i've done it before with one of mine (in a previous set of dreads)...I got a pair of small sharp scissors and created a neater parting...the hairs I decided were on the wrong dread, I cut from the other dread, where they had started dreading into the dread an inch or so from the scalp (wow this is hard to explain)...I was left with a little bunch that was about an inch long, and once they got about an inch longer I sewed them into the correct dread, and had a neat part. -
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Re: How do you keep them from dreading together?
Thu, March 26, 2009 - 2:51 AMThat's what I do...I didn't neatly section either, but I'm slowly doing it as they grow. -
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Re: How do you keep them from dreading together?
Thu, March 26, 2009 - 9:34 AMMe too! ;-)
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Re: How do you keep them from dreading together?
Thu, March 26, 2009 - 10:19 AMThank you!! -
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Re: How do you keep them from dreading together?
Thu, April 16, 2009 - 2:41 AMi had all mine sectioned off nicely but i guess when i brushed the tangles out and when they got backcombed its pulled the hair out and now im getting alot of loose hairs and alot of dreads dreading together that i have to rip apart is this normal iv had them for about 4 months -
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Re: How do you keep them from dreading together?
Fri, April 17, 2009 - 4:50 AMYeah, until they really tighten/harden, this is natural...just keep at them...once they get nice and tight, they won't do this...for the loose hairs, keep palm-rolling, or sew the loosies back into the dreads with a wool/tapestry needle :))
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Re: How do you keep them from dreading together?
Fri, April 24, 2009 - 1:14 AMIt's not just normal...its inevitable. Pluuuuuuuus part of my reason for having dreads is to let my hair decide what it wants to do for the most part, I'd like neater dreads now, but the last decade or two of my life I'm not gonna touch it just to see what kind of crazy tree roots grow out of my head:)
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Re: How do you keep them from dreading together?
Sun, April 19, 2009 - 10:23 PMWhen that happened to me I just took scissors to them.
I'm not sure if that was a "wrong" thing to do, because it worked, haha. -
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Re: How do you keep them from dreading together?
Mon, April 20, 2009 - 4:35 AMI have cut mine apart too with scissors, but they just velcro back together immediately. Talking about that - I got a bicycle helmet stuck on my head the other day. Ow! and then even more loose hairs. Note to myself: Don't ride bikes with dreads!
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Re: How do you keep them from dreading together?
Mon, April 20, 2009 - 5:29 AMi can just tear mine apart if i do it regularly
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Re: How do you keep them from dreading together?
Tue, April 21, 2009 - 2:08 AMKathy, once they really tighten/harden, you won't get that problem...it's the loose hairs that are probably catching xx -
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Re: How do you keep them from dreading together?
Tue, April 21, 2009 - 12:57 PMYeah, I know. I seem to be struggling with this loose hair problem a lot. I mean they aren't too bad - its mainly the very back but I think they are doing okay for 4 months of age. I just blatantly refuse to pay $85 an hour to get them maintained professionally. Plus now we are looking at a big move interstate with 2 dogs, 1 devon rex kitten, 3 kids and 1 partner who always complains about my driving. So hey, by the time I rock up to the new place, those dreads are all just going to fall out from stress - i can see it now! -
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Re: How do you keep them from dreading together?
Wed, April 22, 2009 - 8:15 PMYour dreads are still pretty young, and until they really tighten you're gonna get loose hairs, it's completely normal...but frustrating, I know! I actually find the dreads at the back tighten a lot quicker than my front ones, cos I sleep with my dreads out...and all the movement is like a full night of palm-rolling every night...and the same goes for the length that's below my shoulders, all that moving about in bd gets em real tight, so I only have to work on the dreaded lengths that sit next to my head...(yet I'm still lazy LOL!)
Yeah I have never been able to understand why people pay so much money for dreading, or maintenance, when you can do it all so easily yourself for free! I guess it's different strokes for different folks, but yeah, guess I'm a cheapskate :P heheheh
wow that's gonna be a *fun* move! Where you moving to? LOL just keep rolling em or at least rubbing them, I think it's easy to baby dreads a little too much, then they think they're in charge lol gotta show em who's the boss (and it ain't Tony Danza) :P -
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Re: How do you keep them from dreading together?
Thu, April 23, 2009 - 12:13 AMhaha you are so funny. Looking at moving to Griffith NSW. I also have another question for you - I noticed yesterday only a couple of my dreads have quite a few hairs pulled out from the scalp. I am root rubbing once a week and not using sea salt or anything to dry my hair out. The dreads are 'nt that thick and i dont think it could be the weight. Do you think I should stop root rubbing for a bit? any other ideas? As i said, its only 2-3 dreads.
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Re: How do you keep them from dreading together?
Thu, April 23, 2009 - 9:45 PMNO NO NO! You have NOTHING to worry about...this is COMPLETELY natural! The way hair works, is EVERY person sheds between 70 and 100 hairs from their head every single day, shed from the scalp, and the hair follicle starts producing another in its place...this is all that's happening...and nothing to worry about...keep root-rubbing and palm-rolling from the root, and these loose hairs will dread-in, and the new hairs will grow into your dreads...just keep working on your roots... :D -
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Re: How do you keep them from dreading together?
Mon, May 11, 2009 - 7:22 AMTrying ripping when you wash them. When they wet, it doesn't seem to hurt as much. Plus it's a good routine to get into.
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