Why everyone told me to take my hair down and start over. Everywhere it's twisted and braided it will never dread. There will be weak spots. I just realized after spending 45min taking one dread out that I really need to do this with all of them I just realized that the 4 hours of work I paid $220 to this woman to ruin my hair is nothing compared to the amount of time it will take me to untwist and unmicobraid 57 wanna be dreadlocks. I am sick over this. This will take forever. So far I have two locks completely unraveled. So much so that I can run a brush through them. So, 55 more to go. I can't say it enough - NEVER LET SOMEONE TOUCH YOUR HAIR WITH WAX and DAMN SURE DON'T LET THEM TWIST AND BRAID YOUR HAIR!!!! Why couldn't I have found this board sooner?
dont fotget.. never pay hundreds of dollars for hair..lol 1 giy wasnts to spend 450 his is way shorter u think they'll do a better or worse job? im betting worse
awww, sweetie.... what an incredible learning lesson though. i know for myself, i always need to learn things the hard way.... sounds like you're going through a bit of that too. but just think, a year or 2 from now when your dreads are amazing, beautiful, long, tightly locked, and best of all COMPLETELY CLEAN and free from wax, just think of how much you will have accomplished, and how satisfied you'll be with your dreads and their progress. i know it sucks now... but just try and flow with the process, and you'll be dreaded in no time. do a few at a time, every day or couple, undo a "dread" or two, and backcomb or whatever it is you want to do to lock it up (if i remember correctly, you have TONS of curls, which will lock fantastically well, you might not even need to do anything to it!!!), and you'll have a full head of completely beautiful DREADS, not waxy braided twisty things. just know that we love you, and feel your frustration, but you'll be through this in no time!!
thats crappy =[ i took my last lot out after 8 months, they were waxy too. use washing up liquid, itll untangle any tangles and get rid of some of the gunk, might make it easier
I understand your frustration. Just try to keep your head up, count it as a learning experience (and possibly a journey you had to take for some reason unknown). I don't think many things happen by mistake. ::hugs::
Wow....people are paying that much money to start the dread journey these days? I mean that sucks that it didn't work out for you, but in a way it's a lesson well learned. Is it because people who want to begin the dread journey look at us really natty dreadheads and aren't willing to have em look like anything other than perfect little cylinders of hair that they spend so much money? Is it due to a lack of understanding in regards to what exactly dreadlocks consist of? There's probably some other reasons I could see people having for spending so much money on what's suppose to be a "quick fix" to dreads, but I'd like to know why would you spend so much in the first place? (Not trying to act negatively towards whatever your or anyone else's reasons are, I'm just very curious.) On a personal side of things, dreads to me symbolize my struggle to stay away from Babylon (materialism, greed, anger, money etc...), so I find that spending a lot of money on something that is representative of that would be just a bit hypocritical. Those are of course my views on the matter, therefore I could only be disappointed in myself if I had spent around $200 for dreads. We all have our reasons and we're all different, that's what makes humans so beautiful and why I want to know.....why? I'd say I wish you luck with your next set, however there is no "luck" involved in this matter. Jah's blessing (universal creator/connector) be bestowed upon you and what seems to be your long awaited dread journey. (I hope I didn't come off as though I have a big problem with backcombing too...I partially backcombed mine, it's just the ideal of spending that much money....but hey sometimes you just gotta do what you think you gotta do, then in the end realize it perhaps wasn't the best "route" if you will)
i have a friend that's a hair dresser and she told me once i could put fabric softner in my hair to brush them out (lol just told me that out of the blue and i was like what are you trying to say lol) good luck and if it were me i just sit down and pop a couple of good albums in while i comb out, music always makes things better
yeah, if you condition the hell out of them, they'll come out a lot easier, which will help you keep from breaking so much. i didn't do that when i combed mine out a bit before i ripped them apart, and i broke off so much hair. it'll be years before my dreads are really healthy. i wish i lived closer to you, i'd help you out too... i know you're a busy mom, and you've got a LOT of hair!
id beno help id probly hurt ya alot and rip a ton of hair out i just have no experiebnce with using a comb so id be clumsy and awkward and most likelky borderline violent in my attempots to figure it out id try to be gentle as i could but i imagine it wouldhnt work pout that way when u get em all out deep cleanse to strip away the conditioners.. sea saly yp o kick in a lil knttiness then everytimne u wash just give ema vigerouse shaking out i bet yu start seein dreadiness in no time
