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Hair Everywhere!
Q. Recently I’ve noticed quite big strands of hair “escaping” my dreads and I can’t seem to get them back in the dreads. What can I do about all this loose hair?
A. The thing about the loose hairs is this: You will always have those loose hairs; they are totally normal with dreads. There are a few things that you can do to help them disappear a bit, but it is a constant battle, and really the best thing to do is to just love your dreads for what they are and not worry about them. One thing you can try is to use a regular-sized crochet hook to ‘knit’ them back into the main dreads. Just stick the hook through a big dread near the loose strand, grab that loose strand with the hook and pull it through the big dread, then stick the hook through the other side of the big dread and pull the lose hair back through the other side. Pull the loose hairs back and forth, once chunk at a time, through the nearest dreads until you’ve ‘crocheted’ them into your other dreads. It helps to have someone help you with it. Then wax that puppy up to keep it in place for as long as possible. That will hold for a while, but they usually pull out after a few weeks from sleeping and pulling your hair back into a ponytail, and then you hafta do it over again.
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I’ve also recently come to the conclusion that it’s ok to trim loose hair down because it does make the dreads look a lot messier. What you should do, though, is just trim a little at a time so that it doesn’t look chopped and with ends everywhere. The hair on your forehead that’s not dreading, trim close to the roots but not too close – you don’t want spikes of hair growing back again. Just make it soft around your forehead, use the tips of the scissors and snip a little at a time in an upward motion toward the scalp. This should help… also feel free to trim away the crazy hair that makes your head look fuzzy, but again, don’t chop right against the scalp or you’ll get spikes of hair growing back. Just do a little at a time; you can always trim more later on.
And as time goes on, those loose hairs become not so bad, just sorta eventually dread into the others. Patience, my pretties!
Q. The hair on my lower neck (back of my neck) is probably 2-4 inches
long. Its a knotty mess, simply put, and it is not long enough to dread, because the hair is not thick enough. What should I do?
A. You can try to dread it together as it grows out, but the best thing you can do is just not worry about it, it’ll be grabbed up by the other dreads over time. OR if it’s just not dreading at all – just staying loose and long – you could trim it off with scissors if there isn’t a lot of it. That will help clean things up back there, too.
Q. Here’s some more tips from other kids… with haireverywhere)
“Don’t worry! There IS something you can do about loose hairs. After showering (or whenever) rub yer head with the towel in a circular motion. A sweater also works VERY well. Loose hairs will either form itsy bitsy dreads or cling to the other dreads. When they form itty, bitty ones (as little as 15 or so hairs) push them through the base (untangled part near the scalp) of a neighboring dread. In about a month you will notice they have grown right in there with the big dread. Happy dreading!”
-Jason B.
“I know a way to get rid of loose hairs. Take the loose hairs and roll them in yer fingers until you just got a big ball of hair. Make a little hole in the bottom of the nearest dread and stick the ball in the hole. Then, use some wax to kinda glue it in there. No more loose hairs!”
-Al
“I found a different method for getting the loose hairs back into the main dreads (something I have to do a fair bit)…. get a medium size needle, and using a knife or something widen the hole a bit. Then you get all the loose hairs that are goin into a dread, and roll ‘em together with some wax. Then get a bit of thread and put it around the bunch of hairs, and pull both ends of the thread thru the needle hole. This does take a bit o practice but its ok, once ya get it. Once you’ve got the looser hairs threaded thru the needle ya go thru the base of the dread several times, and when there’s not much hair left push the needle along the inside of the dread, just make sure you don’t lose the needle in there. That’s about as well as i can explain it but I’ve had good experience with this method as i find it alot easier to do on your own than the crochet method.”
-Spacey
how often should i wash my hair and should i rubber band my dreads when doing so or should i just not wash it at all
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wash your hair weekly and keep rubber bands out of there. thats my advice…
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Ok I gotta question begging to be answered. I’ve had my dreads for about 3 days. Ive noticed that the wax has been getting on my face and is giving me acne. How do i wear my dreads down but keep the wax off my face? Desprit for an answer.
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you should only be washing your hair weekly if your dreads are fully matured. untill then it should be no more than every other week. if you wash them too frequently you will be de-dreading your hair. you wont give it the chance to lock up
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mostly you want tot make sure you use an acne scrub twice a day day and night face and neck and when you sleep put your dreads up in a silk bandana or a tam to keep your pillow clean, and your face and neck from accumulating excess wax i did this as soon as i saw acne show up and havnt had a problem anymore. doing this allows your to wear your dreads down in the day but not allow acne to build up
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Okay, I have had mine for about 3 or 4 days now, they are kinda poofy at the roots and many many many loose little hairs near the root. I love em, but I love em but I wish they could be a little neater. Are there any tips to help keep the poofy-ness at bay I keep palm rolling and twisting them trying to keep them tight and together but it’s not working to well I’m affraid I might have to start all over again, please help.
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Times the best thing for dreading hair, though you will always have loose hairs, just try to stay on top of ur hair so you wont have so many.
Ive had mine for abot 10 1/2 months now, and I frequently get complimented by other dreadhead about how mature they look already. Thats because, at the annoyance of those around me, im always palm rolling them and knottinbg the hair when im sat down, walking down the road, takling, etc, just rub the hairs to they tighten into knotty ropes.
Also, I used wax for first 2 months, then stopped, soon as I did, the dreads started to tighten better, and feel cleaner, also wash them once a week
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I use super clean shampoo (neutrogena anti build up shampoo), keep the waxing to an absolute minimum, and try to band up disobedient dreads with little braiding elastics or with beads. keep rolling !
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Cant beat the strands, just let them be, dreads arnt any type of fashion statement, we have them for a reason, LAZY, love them for what they are, 5 wonderful years baby.
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Hello,
I’ve had dreadlocks for 8 years now and when i first started growing my dreads my face was clean(no acne) but, like months after i started my face began to break out really bad getting worse with time although my dreads were awesome everything with them was ok until my scalp began to flake(like 5 years ago), itch and now i also have been losing hair, you can see spaces without hair and not to mention my face the acne is getting worse. Because i was so desperate i recently went to see the dermatologist(somebody told me that maybe my dreadlocks had something to do with my acne) and the dr. told me what i didn’t want to hear… she said that i had a type of scalp fungus because of my dreads and that she was almost certain that that was the reason of my acne, that i have an infection that spread to my face and that i should think about cutting my dreads for good or at least half of them(they are really long)to give my scalp a break and see if my hair stops falling otherwise it could be permanent.
Please help!!!! Has anybody with dreadlocks experienced this? Not only my scalp itches and it’s flaky but my face is too. Now i’m taking antibiotics for the face infection and the dr. hopes it will help with my scalp problem but i don’t know if it’s time to say good bye to my dreads.
Thank you!
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My dreads are 6 weeks, I didn’t realize how much maintnence they would be. There are lots of loose hairs, that I’m considering just trimming down. Also if the dreads are sectioned rectangle, they are flat rather than round, which I can’t seem to fix. I still have my rubber bands in, but I move them from time to time after noticing it tightens the dread. I’m still waiting for them to tighten. how long until they’re not soft anymore?
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murrary’s gel loc-lock, will take good care of you for a long time. im at 4 months of locks and i have no loose hairs as much in my 2-3months of locs. i stopped using beeswax due to’ too much of build up.
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I started dreading my daughters hair with the backcombing method but found it hard to maintain her new growth. I’ve since used the crochet method for the past few months. I feel like I may have messed up all our hard word as I hear that her hair WILL NOT dread where it’s been crocheted…please help. What can I do from here if anything? I just hate to start over…:(
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