Solution(s)?I have a single dreadlock that is officially a year old as of today. (Happy Birthday!) Up until about a month ago it's been dreading quite wonderfully. The loose hairs pulled themselves in, the roots were healthy, and as a plus my hair grows abnormally fast so they lengthened up quickly. As of last month I noticed that my dreadlock has began to thin out about half an in of mature dread. I didn't think much of it, I assumed it was the dreadlock doing its thing, slowly tightening up. However, the root itself doesn't seem to be as thick as it use to be and I think I know the cause.... With only having three dreadlocks total, I throw my hair up in a top-knot constantly; I feel that the stress from the dreadlock up in a tight bun has caused the dread to thin out drastically; and now I'm hoping I can solve the problem before it's too late. How do you give a dreadlock back it's thickness at the root to prevent needle thin dreadlock disaster? I've read I could take surrounding hair and tie it to the dreadlock itself and wait for the dreadlock to absorb the hair. I've also read I could use a dread hook and hook some hair into it.... What's the best possible way to save my baby?
Hairs break. Put some back in. That'll partially help. But apart from that there ain't much you can do. When you have over 40 dreads, most of which are thinning at the roots, there is usually quite a lot of loose hair. But as the dreads move around it's difficult to keep that hair in.
If you have locks, in general, they will take care of that. With one, you're probably brushing hair around it, and it's going to be under a lot more strain. I would say, as you said, literally take the hair that you WANT in it, that's NOT in it, pass it through the lock's base in all different directions, and a few times per bunch of hair, and then tie them very firmly together..... will look funky, but it will work. I had a few locks I combined by weaving the bases together or pulling one through the other, if they pissed me off by acting like they should be one. It worked fine. Though you should make sure the knot(s) is(are) tight and done to some degree of redundency, make sure the hair's not pulled so that it's shorter than the root of the lock, or it will hurt like a bitch.
I have a particularly thin rooted one on my temple. The root is sometimes really thin and I think it's going to break off, but it never does, trust in the hair to do it's thing!
