I am going to attempt to clean up the loose hair on the sides of my head. Here's the question: Will the felting needle make more damage than progress...? And, would i have better luck using a hook? and lastly, when using the needle, all you do is repeadadly send it through the dread trying to snag hairs on the way, right? thanks guys, i felt like i should post here before messin around.
Havent tried a felting needle (yet), sounds good as long as you dont do much in any one area. I personally would avoid using a crochet hook, here's why. I regretted crocheting my last set, because I ended up with thin braidlike dreads. I palmrolled, crocheted, and tried to make them look better; but it was a big mistake in the long run. My advice is, try and keep em loose so they have room to knot up and shrink. That's what Im doing this time around. It'll look a mess for quite a while, but I want thickish dreads so it'll be worth it. If only I'd listened when others had told me that. *rolls eyes*
don't use a felting needle, I used it, but it doesn't do any good.. Crocheting doesn't make braidlike dreads by the way :S at least not for me and other peoples dreads I crocheted.
well i got your msg a little late because i had already used it last night. so far i tried it for three different things: i integrated a loopy back into a dread and it worked perfectly!!! and the other was to integrate loose hair above my sideburn into a dread, that worked really well too!!! and lastly i cleaned up a few ends. I showered this morning and will see how it all results over that next weeks. when you say that it doesnt do any good, do you mean it worked well for a few days then the hair would become loose again??? Bottom Line: it proved to be the most useful tool ive ever used to clean up the dreads a bit. BUT be carful because i am only just using it for the first time and do not know what im getting myself into, and be carful that you don't poke yourself cuz this tool it SHARP!
i used it...i put the loose hair in, then there would be more left in, and i would keep like "sewing" it in. I like when dreads are crazy and natural though...but if you want them a little cleaner, then i would suggest it.
i look at it this way, the thinnest needles are many times thicker then the thickest hair everytime a needle then passes through a dread it must rip through many hairs breaking them and weakening the dread alittle might not matter..but alot might dreads will allways have loose hairs they dont need to be forced into place, they'll go where they wanna go when they wanna im sitting here looking at my dreads, at each loose hair to get each hair into a dread and have em all smoothe and neat would take..hmmmm about 18 years why bother? did u dread just to make more work for yourself?
