Sup. I've got, on the tip of one of my thinner, really thin, dreads an extremely tight ball of hair that cannot possibly be actually connected to my head, like the hair is uprooted and detached from my scalp but remains so tangled with the lock that it won't come off, no matter how hard I pull at it. I found it after washing my hair about a day after doing some mass tearing at my roots. Not sure how this thing got there, but it's fuckin' weird. The lock it's attached to really isn't a lock either. It's just a tiny collection of hairs that gathered after some root ripping and it sits awkwardly in between the two I had to tear apart. It's probably half an inch at the root (barely enough space for a thin dread to occur) but has less hair then usual due to ripping but the tip, where this ball is, is fuckin huge (in comparison, it's only like half of an inch wide itself, but that's massive compared to the hairs it's attached). This ever happen to any of you? Anyone know why? And how the hell did these hairs get so tight if they're "uprooted."
You need to stop ripping so much/hard, that's why you have little roots. The hair in your dreads does not need to be connected to a hair folicle, and won't be, for the most part, when you have reasonably old dreads. Leave it alone and stop ripping the roots of the dreads apart as often/much.
This is what I kind of thought. Thank you two for the replies, it's much appreciated. I had to rip, though, because after foolishly wearing a beanie cap for two months and not doing anything, the top of my head was well on it's way to becoming a mono-dread had I not done anything. The one behemoth lock's base hand engulfed the roots of at least ten other dreads. I'm don tearing, probably for good now. I don't mind the fact that some dreads will share roots or start to form together, I just didn't want a big, six inch thick dread.
