Dread the Dreads

The barefooters lol..

 

If we were as bad as the barefooters, the forum would be filled with posts like "I wore my dreads to bed!" "I went outside with my dreadlocks today, why doesn't everybody do this!" "How many places did you go with dreads today?"

P You got the edit in, just a split second before I quoted.)

 

its' more like, "did anyone else go to the office barefoot today and get really hard at the site of your own bare feet on the office floor" :drool5:

 

Or maybe even something like "Where did you go/what are you doing today with your dreads?"

 

All this talk of dreads being seen by others is makin' my dick hard. Imagine, if they see the dread's dirty soles, all free and gooey in their square faces....

hawt.

 

it's not a bad thread to get traffic. maybe now more people will understand how dumb it is to ask.

 

There are no stupid questions, just stupid people who refuse to ask them.

 

The " I heard dreads require rubbing poo in them. Is this true? " question is indeed fucking stupid. And yeah....people actually ask that.

 

though you may be saying those people are 'stupid' for not asking said questions,
I see it as there are questions that come from stupid people...

 

except "where did you go barefoot today."

 

Is that why I got the "I know you are but what am I" response when talking about things that were once believed not harmful that were found out to be. I read alot of posts on here and hear sheep bleeting "Products BAAAAD!" or "Just neglect them they know how to form themselves", funny they can also form beaver tails and dread hats by themselves. Most people I know who have dreads and are professional stylists have told me that actually playing with them and rubbing them in make them stronger as it has been pointed out on here that friction puts dreads in. If you read ingredient labels and instructions plus put thought into how stuff works and use common sense.

I've posted what works for me and my hair (that's the key phrase here "My Hair") and told "that doesn't work" by people dead set in their ways. I used very little wax on the first dreads I put in and guess what the heat from the shower melted it and it's gone now. Have you ever noticed how your ear wax comes loose after a hot shower.

It's the responses that I've gotten to my posts on here that come across as dogmatic that make me not want to post here.

I'll give posting here a couple of more times but I really don't like this bullshit.

C/S,
Rev J

 

Beaver tails are awesome, though.

And if you don't want it, it doesn't mean a big hair session, it takes about ten seconds to locate the locks that are joining, and rip. Then you can worry about it if it needs another rip.... three months later.

Besides, can you imagine a hair stylist who thinks hair can take care of itself?:mickey:

 

@ Maelstrom, A Response Would Be Appreciated....



Cheers Glen.

 

Nope.

 

Speaking of wax. As I have finally concluded my own wax experiment.

When I first dreaded, I was skeptical of the dogma and everybody have such strong feeling about different methods and I had no clue on who to trust. So what I did was, I backcombed a good chuck of my hair. I left some to go neglect. On some I used wax. On some I tested felting needles. You get the idea...

Well, tonight I did my first trim. All of the dread cuts had a nice congregation of lint and dandruff in the middle, as I pretty much expected. The waxed ones looked like the others but definitely felt sticky in the core.

Nothing personal. This is not an attack on anybod. Just reporting my own results.

 

146 Words In My Post Where I Explained The Truth About Dreadlocks,

And I Get Honored With A One Word Response....

Seriously Sad....



Cheers Glen.

 

My experience is that I have 2 strikes against me in the dreading process:

1) My hair is fine. Curly but fine in texture.

2) I'm going grey.

These 2 things I've learned partially from experience (granted about 6 months) and partially talking to others with dreads who are going grey that some extra maintenance is necessary. As hair gets grey and loses some of it's natural pigmentation it also changes the texture and consistency. In my hair if I want dreads to stay together long enough to form on their own I need something to hold part of them together. When I first started I had my girlfriend section off my hair and put rubber bands on it for the beginning stages. Then she got into an accident and tore a ligament in her thumb. The rubber bands stayed in longer than I really wanted them to but some nice dreads started behind them.

I found the twist and rip method only works when there is something already started and fairly tight otherwise the whole thing falls out after about 2 days.

I used a very little amount of wax on the first 2 or 3 rows of dreads I put in. Some fell out due to the fact that I was twisting during upkeep. Learned the lesson the hard way on that. Also learned the evils of backflipping roots the hard way too.

So what I have learned works for me and my hair is spraying with a mixture of Sea Salt, Lavender, Peppermint, and Rosemary. After talking to herbalist friends I've learned what these herbs do. I'm sculpting the parts of the hair a very little bit at a time using a finger roll method that are mostly tight working down towards the tips. What isn't worked in is dreading on it's own eventually I'll have them worked into the rest. Eventually I might crochet in the loops that don't get worked in.

Like I said at the start I don't know if these methods work for anyone else but they work for me.

I'm getting ready to post pics.

C/S,
Rev J

 

@ Maelstrom

I see you've already been corrected, but just in case you want some more evidence that dreads don't have to be dirty; I've just pulled off another dread and dissected it. The lighter side is the outside that has been bleached by the sun and the darker one is the inside of the dread. However it's completely clean - It's just hair.

My dreads are nearly 10yrs old btw.

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Holy crap that's awesome! The power of the sun!