its hard to knot? huh?

i find it funny when people with naturally straight hair say their hair isnt knotting when my entire life ive had to fight and fight against the evil knots that would form in my hair overnight.
knotting is to straight-heads as unknotting is to curly-heads!

eace:

 

word

 

i could knot in my sleep




which is good cause im lazy

 

my hair is thick and very straight. it would not lock up even after 6 months. people who have finer hair can lock up super quick though. the diameter of the hair shaft is the key- the thinner the diameter, the quicker the knots.

i went without combing for 6 months and came out with 2 dreads at my nape. sooooo frustrating!

had i been able to dread naturally i would have. i had to backcomb.

 

not really that true mines incredibly thick
only slightly wavy
thick hair i think knoits easier then thin..
maybe yoiurs was lil short still for goin natural or u had a habbit of fingercombing without realizing it?
i had a coiupole in the very frint i hadta five a lil helpin hand too cause i kept accidently runnin my fingers through em when tryin to toss the rest of the dreads outta the way..

 

My hair is really straight, only wavy if I wash it and sleep with it damp, but it's rather dry. I think the dryness and texture of hair has more to do with it then the straightness or curliness. Infact, curly hair is often dry, so maybe that is one reason as well.

 

yeai think your right about that
i dont think i could get my hair oily if i tried

 

yeah it pry does have a lot to do with the dryness

 

even with my striahgt hair I used to get a load of knots, but my hair was down to my hips

 

oh damn arliaa cant wait to see ya with your dreads to your hips....

 

I'm loving that you brought this up windcriesmary. I realise now that I effing had dreads when I was younger...at least the beginning stages.... I went without combing my hair (because it made it frizzy...er.....) for a while and now looking back I realise I could've just continued and had dreads! My hair has always been knotty.... I've knotted quite fast now I've chosen to. For me I feel so much more natural without combing it, otherwise if I comb it I ruin all the curls.... but with everyone around combing their hair you feel like you SHOULD be combing your hair. HOw I love not combing my hair!
x

 

lol i remember way back in my highschool days 1 of thoise combs with the handles stickin outta your back pocket was just part of the fashion of the day..lol
i always hated havinb to comb my hair... and even worse was cuttin it
even when i was really young like 5 ..bith my parents had to tackle me and pin me down to cut my hair ..almost lost an ear that way..lol always fought against it

its been almost 1/2 my life now that i havent cut or combed my hair... and irs definately been the best 1/2

 

lol... if your hair being dry makes it knot up, no wonder it took so damn long for me! it didn't want to lock up even after i backcombed... my hair is usually pretty oily, and very well moisturized in the hair, without me having to do anything to it. i've finally gotten it trained to where i only wash it once a week. it's pretty oily by that time though. i'm just too lazy to do it more often. and i have to root rub or the roots never lock up, because it's so oily there. oh well! i gots dreads and i love em, so it all be good!

 

cause my hair was straight as a pin and not oily. i used a clarifying shampoo the whole time too. my hair was colored and pretty damaged, i thought it would lock up fast, but it didnt. i didnt touch it but it still wouldnt do anything. i gave up.

and then years later i went on this website and knew what to do! so im glad there are so many people with so many ideas on how to get and handle dreads. you all have helped me figure out whats works and doesnt work for me.

the first time around there was no internet!

 

haha yea bothy times i started minethere was no net and all i had for info was 1 guy i met on the street that just said ..dont comb your hair and they'll happen
ofcoyurse he neglectedto tell me to seperate em so several months later i had 2 horns stickin straight up and a big wide pillow behind my neck

2nd time around i still had no motre inmfo but at least figured out that if yu dont seperate they combine...


luckinly thats all i needed to know

 

root rubbing? whats this? mine are kinda loose at the root too.

 

my hair has always been pretty straight and occasionally wavy too, but it was after i backcombed when i started to notice that alot of my loose hair is curly as hell...like in the very back, where my dreads end...there's some loose hair thats REALLY curled up...like forming circles...its like that near my ears too. dno if it could've been the backcombing...but doesnt make much sense, no idea what it is.

edit: rootrubbing is when you take a dread between 2 fingers, at almost the root...starting from the loose part and then start rubbing it on your scalp in a circular motion. but its not needed as soaringeagle can tell you, its natural to have like an inch of loose hair starting from the scalp and it'll do its thing, rubbing can damage the hair and probably the scalp too. so basically there's alot of people who do it who dont complain, and there's alot of people who never have done it and dont complain. but as i've heard around here its not advised....esp. for you, you knot like there's no tomorrow, no worries x)

 

every couple of weeks, after i wash them and they've dried, i'll take each dread (i don't do this very often, as it takes for fucking ever) and rub it in a clockwise motion around and around really fast, but not pressing real hard against my scalp. it creates a bundle of fluffy knots right at the root. so i look like a big puffball until they get wet again, or i wash. but then that stuff locks up really quick. i usually do it the day after i wash so it has a whole week to lock before i wash it and it all falls out. but it helps the roots start locking. once they've got that start they do fine. but if i never do anything to the roots, they just don't do anything, and i have inches of completely straight hair and then dreads, and it looks horrible and feels horrible too.

sometimes when i don't feel like rubbing each one individually, i'll just rub my flat palm in circles all over my head and that helps too.

 

My hair was very strait and hardly ever knotted, and my hair dreaded very easily anyway so no mater what do it haha

 

I would love dreads down to my hips
a little way to go though I think