travis barker dreads

hi ive been just growing my hair its about 6 inches long and i just let if fall over the side of my face which is starting to look emo and thats not me.

then i saw a few pictures of travis barker back in 1998




as you can see there not very thick and there quite short i was just wondering how would you get them like that i dont even know how to get dreadlocks in the 1st place i hear its just by not washing your hair???

can you please help a noob

btw im not a big fan of travis barker of blink 182 this isn't a "i wanna be like travis" thing i just love that hair

 

Most people will just say "Don't comb your hair and they'll dread" That's true, but that takes a long time, and the results aren't always visually appealing.

There are quite a few guides online which will tell you how to back comb the hair, which then forms dreads. I won't go into detail about the back combing because I'm too lazy to type it all out, but here are some important tips.

- Don't wash your hair for the first two weeks. The hair needs time to knot before you can wash it.

- Use residue-free shampoo. Residues are what make hair tangle-free, which you do NOT want, as dreads are just tangles in one's hair.

- DO NOT use wax. Was just glues your hair together, it doesn't make real dreads.

- After the first two weeks, wash your hair at least once a week.

 

section ur hair approx 1inx1in backcomb it then jus wash it when u feel it needs to be..
u can crochet them... u can rip and twist them.. theres a few different ways to get dreads.. oh or u can go the natural way...

 

my hair was about that length the past two times ive done it. maybe an inch longer. just section your hair out and backcomb em. and yea def wait a lil while to wash em so they dont come undone too much. and just let em do their thing. u can roll em if u want em to look straighter.

 

ahahah may i ask what a back comb is or means, im probably gonna regret asking that

and how do you do it so its thin dreads not thick ones??

and you can see in the pick were there in the water he has it scaterd out and not all his hair is in knots how dose he do that??

 

Back combing is when you take a section of your hair and comb it backwards (towards the scalp). This causes it to stay in place, letting your hair lock up nicely.

You'll know how thick your locks are by how big the sections that you back combed were.

I'm not sure I understand your last question, but I think I know what you mean. Usually, not all of a person's hair is in the dreadlocks, unless the person has really curly hair, like on black people. In people of other races, where the hair is thinner and not as curled, not all of the hair dreads so easily, causing some to stick out before they're absorbed.

Also, I'm not sure that you know how dreadlocks work. It's not like getting a Mohawk or Cornrows where it looks awesome as soon as you start to do it. When dreads start, they just look like hair, depending on how curly and thick your hair is, it can take anywhere from half a year, to two years before your dreads are matured and look amazing.

 

those are most likely natural
you just let em happen seperating often to keep em from getting thick
they dread at different rates thats why somes not dreaded
mine looked exactly like those a few weeks or a month or 2 after i stopped combing

you dont hgotta do a thing to dread
except wash

but if u section into 1 inch sections they will be 4 times that sixze or so
those are closer to 1/4 to 1/2
they are not all even either
and dont look puffyu like backcombed
they look pretty natural to me, just dips in ther ocean alot will do that

 

drool. Travis was my first big crush back in junior high! Hahaha.

 

ahhh got you my hair is very straight and thin

 

hes so tiny....
I like big beefy boys

 

take a look at my dread timeline... mine r pretty thin...
i haad really stick straight fine hair... im pretty happy with the progress mine have made...
its definately a journey...n if u decide to backcomb u need to use a metal comb with teeth really close to eachother like a flea comb or a comb for dogs with long hair..

 

here is the link...
http://www.hipforums.com/newforums/showthread.php?t=352660&f=209

 

I highly doubt those are natural. Note how they all stick up? Thats what backcombing does And hair that short wouldn't dread naturally for ages or till it wasl onger.

1 inch sections won't make your dreads 4 times bigger 0.o The best thing I read was choose a section of hair, and when it settles down and matures it'll be thicker than the held section of hair but smaller than the section on your scalp I sectioned mine to 1 inch/half inch sections and where the sections are the same the dreads are the same size, they only differ if you change the sectioning size. I.e., My 1 inch sections gave me mature dreads at a thickness of roughly 10mm, and half an inch gave me matureish ones of 6/7 maybe 8mm ^^

If you do go down the BC route, I'm sure all of us wouldn't recommend buying a Knotty Boy or DreadHeadHQ kit. I'd just say get a NEW flea comb, with one lot of teeth (not the ones with two sets of teeth) and just backcomb with that: The combs you get in the kits are pretty much exactly the same You aren't missing much from the kit, only the shampoo, and I've head good things about KB but I think we'd all recommend Dr Bonners

Edit: I've just noticed on the first Travis pic he has elastics on the ends of his dreads xD Defo not natural!!

 

yepper Dragon, I was thinking the same thing but didnt want to get into another 3 page debate with the eagle

 

Ditto!

 

lol. I prefer my men scrawny and covered in tattoos.

 

those dreads are the farthest thing from natural that I have ever seen

 

Def not natural:


I'm very shocked that SE could think that these were natural dreads. Erm, isn't he the all knowing dreadlock guru?

 

I know this is an older forum, but I'm also interested in getting shorter dreads like this. I haven't really seen dreads like this until I watched the video for Blink-182's "Adam's Song", so I picked apart the best dread shots in the video and some pictures off the web to make this



I'm not trying to be him or anything, cuz I've wanted dreads for a long time, I've just never found the right style. So how do I get dreads like this?

 

How has this thread not answered your question?!!