How to round off your tips

I initially wanted to let my tips be loose but I now want to have blunted tips and I just wanted to know if my hair was looking alright at this point. A lot of my dreads in the back feel like they are coming apart. They are flat and the ends are split. They are still knotted pretty good though. I have an appointment with my dread doctor for next week to get my tips finished but I was just wondering what ya'll though about it so far. They are about 3 weeks old but after 2 weeks I had them redone partially so I guess they are really only 2 weeks old.

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even if you tried to blunt your tips (which you can do with a crochet needle) they would come loose because your locks are so young. locks mat from root to tip, so tips are the last to lock. i am just now starting to see my tips start to lock and i'm 6 mos in. but, my hair was a lot longer than yours when i started. i'd say forget about your dreads for a few months, then decide about the tips.

 

Mine took about 2 years to blunt up

 

^^did they all blunt up?

 

Just about. I have about 20 dreads and only one or two of them aren't super tight at the tips

 

Respect...

 

Thanks :cheers2:

I think the ones that aren't completely blunt yet are the ones I tend to chew on lol

 

when i started out, about 3 weeks in i crocheted the tips, all but one fell out so now i have a stubby one in front. pat, how thick do you say your dreads are? mine havent thickened up yet, on average about the width of a pencil, some are about the width of a sharpie.

 

I blunt my tips by holding the dread at the tip (just above where you want to blunt it) with your fore and middle finger with the bit poking out on the side of your palm, then rub the tip into your other palm. For a few seconds it won't feel like its doing anything, so I tend to do it for a minute or so, or untill I feel a ball forming under my fingertips. This has worked really well for me and none of the tips I used this method with have come undone. Good luck with it ^^

 

I have some the size of a cucumber (couldn't think of what else to compare to) and a few that are about sharpie size. Most fall under the cucumber range

 

lol what's the range of a cucumber...

Sorry I'm being an idiot, but I'm sure a European cucumber is a different size to an American or Canadian cucumber... :cheers2:

 

ummm maybe if you were to tie four sharpies together? about that size

 

ok.. A sharpie's a pencil, right? Or is it a pen? A make?

 

It's a marker/highlighter

 

gotcha, thanks:cheers2:

 

john holmes

 

There are different types of cucumber??!! WHAAAT!! What is the size difference between a euro cucumber and an american one?! Our cucumbers are huge 0.o

Sharpies are soo cool xD Mmm colours *dreams*

 

^^I have no idea if there really is a difference, just I have a friend who lives in Japan and he said that japanese cucumbers weren't anything like english ones, or the size of them. I am being serious right now btw, and I also know that Japan isn't in America or Canada

Just following on on the idea that there might be a difference in size, as well as being a twat, I also haven't measured a european cucumber either...

 

Well we can buy cucumbers at the grocery store and they're called "english cucumbers"

I dont know if actually from england

 

my tips never blunted. i have maybe 4 blunted tips at most. i dunno. some say to hold the tip in your fingers and rub it in a clockwise or counterclockwise direction in your palm. i would think that this would cause a lot of breakage though.