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 Lucidx
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 Help me with dread locks 
#11372029 - 11/02/09 07:31 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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I'm going to get dreadlocks, but I don't know where to start.
I understand that I will need to backcomb weekly for about 3 months to a year in order to get solid mature dreads but, how should I do a proper backcombing?
My hair is probably 7inches - 1 foot long, I never use conditioner, it's brown and naturally wavy and curvy.
For the initial backcombing does anyone have any suggestions? I want to get really thick long dreads, my hair is long enough but I cannot find a good website about backcombing and how to prepare and do it.
Any suggestions?
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 mellontatauda
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Re: Help me with dread locks [Re: Lucidx]
#11372059 - 11/02/09 07:37 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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make sure your roots are nice and strong.
here's some good sites with step by step processes:
http://www.knottyboy.com/
http://dreadheadhq.com/
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LittleRaisin
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You should only backcomb once any more and your just ripping the knots out.
And not to dispose of your advice but those are probably the worse sites in term of dreadlocking. They offer the buy dreadlocks now route! Not happening.
try this site if your interested.
comprehensive dread faq
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Mushface
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Let em grow naturally. Might take longer but you don't want salon dreads.
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moe.phan
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Re: Help me with dread locks [Re: Mushface]
#11372389 - 11/02/09 08:21 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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you can use bee's wax to get them started. people use bee's wax to clean there dreads(clean dreads? double-negative, i know), but its also used to form them.
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Lucidx
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Re: Help me with dread locks [Re: moe.phan]
#11372668 - 11/02/09 08:56 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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I'm going to backcomb my hair tomorrow (Well I'm going to go to a salon place and have a guy I know do it for me)
But how do I wash freshly backcombed hair? I understand that I need to use minimum residue shampoo and greasy hair does not hold dreads (which seems like a paradox)
So how do I wash it? Rub shampoo around the backcombed locks?
Are backcombed locks very delicate? Do I need to take my sleeping position into consideration for the first few months?
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Re: Help me with dread locks [Re: Lucidx]
#11372684 - 11/02/09 08:58 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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neglect you hair. forcing your hair to dread will make you look gay and even whiter.
if your hair wants to lok up it will.
once it starts to get tangled roll it between your palms and use yer fingers to "backcomb"
a hair style thats about neglect should not require so much care
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Re: Help me with dread locks [Re: notapillow]
#11372696 - 11/02/09 09:00 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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^^this
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Lucidx
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Re: Help me with dread locks [Re: notapillow]
#11372709 - 11/02/09 09:01 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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I'm not white for starters, thanks for the concern though.
So your saying if I let my hair get greasy, I can roll and backcomb it more naturally then?
Edit: thats what ill do, sounds better.
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Edited by Lucidx (11/02/09 09:02 PM)
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notapillow
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Re: Help me with dread locks [Re: Lucidx]
#11373024 - 11/02/09 09:41 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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yeh
if you have thick wavey hair it should go fastish
my hair locked up once it got a certin length. and there waspetty much nothing i could do.
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alternatereality
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Re: Help me with dread locks [Re: notapillow]
#11373162 - 11/02/09 09:58 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
notapillow said:
yeh
if you have thick wavey hair it should go fastish
my hair locked up once it got a certin length. and there waspetty much nothing i could do.
Yeah. My hair is long and super thick and curly.
If I leave it alone for two or three days it gets so tangled I have to pull the knots apart.
Id have dreads forming in a week.
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Somnivore7
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Whiteness+dreadlocks is almost always a no no.
It works sometimes I suppose. In the end most whites end up looking like a wook.
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Lucidx
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Re: Help me with dread locks [Re: Somnivore7]
#11373223 - 11/02/09 10:06 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Whats with the allegations that I'm white?
Is Don a very white name?
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Re: Help me with dread locks [Re: Lucidx]
#11373259 - 11/02/09 10:10 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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I never said you were. what are you? Natural curly and wavy hair? black?
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Lucidx
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Re: Help me with dread locks [Re: Somnivore7]
#11373301 - 11/02/09 10:14 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Yes I'm black, white people with dreads usually end up looking like jesus.
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Somnivore7
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Re: Help me with dread locks [Re: Lucidx]
#11373318 - 11/02/09 10:16 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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The natural curly hair, please dont touch. Know a little freak in hollywood... haha.
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notapillow
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Re: Help me with dread locks [Re: Somnivore7]
#11373376 - 11/02/09 10:21 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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keep yer black straight hair
thats rare
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Somnivore7
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Re: Help me with dread locks [Re: notapillow]
#11373397 - 11/02/09 10:25 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
notapillow said:
keep yer black straight hair
thats rare
Yes! Keep that shit natural yo. You know how you can tell a black woman is in showbiz? Her hair is straightened. It really doesn't look that good, white folks love it though.
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Re: Help me with dread locks [Re: Somnivore7]
#11373687 - 11/02/09 10:59 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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GOOGLE: KnottyLocks.Tk for dread info...
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