Hey everyone who is reading this. OK well i have a question ok So when i had regular straight hair 2 1/2 months ago I would take a shower and you know when you take a shower sometimes you look down and you would see a couple hairs laying on the bottom of the tub Not sure if that happen to you guys but it would with me. So the question is now like i was messing with my dreads today an i was sliding my 2 fingers down my dreads and in some dreads i would end up with a piece of hair in my hand. Is that normal? And also like at the roots of some dreads you can see few peices of hair that fell out but are still in the dread tangled up. Is that normal? Thats it Thank you.
Yea everyone loses a lil hair but not like most people. Since ive started mine I rarely ever leave hair behind but at the beginning after backcombing some brittle hair would fall out I guess. Nothing to be worried about just dont mess with em for a bit
Within the first 6 months Anytime I would run my fingers down the length of my dread a hair or two you come out. Like wise when I looked at the roots I could broken hairs. Over time I just didn't notice anymore and almost a year into the process I hardly ever see a loose hair and if I do it's almost always due to clumsy finger and pulling a hair out. And occasionally I will loose a hair or two when I rip them apart. Other than that I see very very few hairs falling out. But at your stage, it is completely normal as long as your not getting handfuls of hair or something. I backcombed rather vigorously in the beginning and was very damaging. It's taken this whole time for the new growth to take over and not be able to see the damage that was done.
Cool cool Thanks no i dont get hand fulls maybe just like couple hairs here and there. What did you meen by "its taken this whole time for the new growth to take over and not be able to see the damage were was the damage at.
Ignorant at the time like a lot of people, I backcombed and used rubber bands. (Even wax like 3 or 4 times.) I really the wax was bullshit right away, but for what ever reason I thought I had to have rubber bands in my hair for like 3-6 months...just change them or whatever so they don't get sucked into the the locks. Everytime you changed those damn things you would break lots of hairs. When it was all said and done I could see white tips of broken hair all over around the roots. That's when I quit doing anything except ripping and been doing that for 6 months. Now the broken hairs are turning from frizz to new locks but mostly combing with others. A lot of the longer loose hairs now loop over and getting tucked back in to the root of a dread.
I think I read somewhere that people lose 50-100 hairs a day normally, and they are replaced by new hairs. Dreads will basically trap them all, so that's why you'll be getting the white tips in some spots, because the hair that you would normally lose in the shower is staying in your dreads.
absolutely true. we loose loads of strands of hair every day. people who brush their hair see them on the hairbrush, but if youre not brushing them out, and you got dreads, they'll stay in the dreads. thas how they get fatter : ) so if you brush them out in like 5 years youll be brushing out 5 years worth of hair, that would normally fall out! and ive read that people get scared about that, they think their hairs damaged but its all coool.
wo but listen after a while if we loose 100 hairs a day what happen when one dread finnally lost all of the hairs that made the dread and the new hair just kept it going so that meens hafe the dread would be dead hair. you get what im saying. hair falls out new hair comes in soon all the old hair will fall out an youll have new hair an have a dread with hafe dead hair.
most of the dreads are actually dead hair. if u have dreads for 6 years most of it will be dead, except the new hair at the roots. and when i had dreads the hair that falled stayed inside the dreads and i didin`t loose any hair at all
well it depends how hard are u pulling after all. u can fuck up your whole dread if you start pulling and ripping and all that shit. its still just hair, but if u leave them be they will get hard and strong and stiff dreads
The other day I felt the dreads of a guy who had them for 16 years. You could seriously knock someone out with them they were so hard. I mean hard, you couldn't squish them. I was amazed.
hairs dead anyway =] i think i lost a huge % of my head hair when i washed it yesterday (undreaded), the shower was full of the stuff ='[ but i dont brush it, so they dont come out that way.. and someone mentioned about combing out 5 years worth of hair that shouldve fallen out - 8 months worth is bad enough!!
My dreadlocks are nearly 4 months old, i rarely lose hair unless its the occasional few strands of loose hair i have hanging out of my scalp, which is normal i spose lol
Is true, is totally normal, everyday we loose hair is the normal process. But you also have to remember that dreads is a big change even for your scalp, you have to make sure that you also take care of it. Now the scalp is holding more weight, is recieving less sun light and is getting washed with much less regularity, so you have to help your scalp to be strong. Even for people without dreads the scalp is key for a healthy hair. • Take some vitamins, Iron and vitamin C. • Use an infusion of tea (green tea recomended) and let it dry on your head (is good for both scalp and dreads) • Dont tie your dreads too often, I know sometimes is anoying to have all your dreads in your face, specially when your are eating or working but tie your dreads too much cause a lot of tension in your scalp and might break your dreads • Leave your dreads free help to recieve fresh air so your scalp can breath and avoid bad smell in your dreads • Try maybe once every two months a treatment of natural oil (coconunt oil is good) to keep scalp moist, a dry scalp cause dandruff, not cool dreads with dandruff. Is a lot of work but worth to have lustrous and strong beautiful dreads.
