i know its been posted before but what the hell

so for the past couple of days i have been tossing around the idea of making more dreads. aka razor blade cutting the dreads in half. what are peoples opinions?

 

don't. accept your hair in its current state.

personally, i think cutting your dreads in half would cause more harm than anything.

 

Don't go for it.

 

You Never Told Us How Big They Are,So How Can We Offer Good Advice



Cheers Glen.

 

Cutting them with a razor blade would not work. One dread is made up of many hairs that travel around the whole cicumference of that dread. If you cut it right down the middle, you'll get lots of tiny little hairs. Its like cutting a stack of lots of little rings in half. It would be pointless, and you'd just destroy your dreads. Separating solid dreads won't work. If you have a congo where it separates at the end, you can just about separate those, but NOT with a razor blade.

If you want more dreads, do extentions or start again. Once your dreads get mature, there's no going back!

 

crazyness

 

you'll mess them up, DV said, if you cut down the middle your going to split the majority of the hair in half somewhere, so you'll most likely just have loose hair falling out because it's no longer attatched to the scalp. Granted not all of it would fall out, as lose hairs generally get stuck in dreadlocks but I'd be fairly sure the structural intergrity of the dreadlocks would be rather fooked if you started doing it to all of them.

 

I did it(but with scissors), like I said in the other thread, and this was only at like seven or so months. Not a hair lost from what I can tell, and all the little 'half' hairs weaved back in and everything worked out. You have hair constantly falling from you scalp anyway and those stay in as well.

But.....if you are considering doing this for a lot of dreads that is not a good plan. You didn't really specify the reason in your post though. I'm assuming you want to take every dread you have and cut it, that should be avoided.

If you want more either comb and change them or learn to be happy with them.

 

cut and ripppppp. I did it to one of mine, I'd try it on a small/shitty one first to see if it would work

 

alright then thanks for the advice