Ok, so i backcombed the front row of my hair by myself. My hair is only 4 inches long and I did it about 30 mins ago. However, it already feels like its coming undone, and its barely been a half hour. The tips arent dreaded at all. I am strongly considering using wax even though its always discouraged. I just dont want them to fall out so soon, because i did it a week ago and they fell out overnight and went back to completely loose hair like before i even did them. What am I doing wrong? Since I have short hair, should I use wax for a little while then use soaring eagles sticky icky wax removal afterwards? What can I do? I dont want to backcomb the rest or have people waste time on it if its gonna fall out and I want to backcomb it before i go off to college in a week. Help please!
Your hair is pretty short then? I honestly waited till I had longer hair, with short hair its alot easier to go for thin dreads, wear something on your head to keep em down like a pair of stockings Alex
well if u condisder using wax use a very very smal amount but i wouldn't. i guess its okay to use a tiny bit to start em off. but if u just section if u dont want a variety of big and small ones, backcomb, wear a wool tam, wash liek once a week with residue free shampoo (i would reccomend dr.bronners) and give em some time theyll dread sooner or later and look great.
backcombing to be effective has to be agressive and painfdul,, (ot so i hear) and even so it almost always falls out b4 it dreads theres really no quick dreads theres just ways to look dready quicker..but to really get dreads theres only 1 way..patience u wont have dreads in a week no matter whgat u do
