ok, so like a week and a half ago, i backcombed my hair, and a couple days later put rubber bands in it. now it's like half fallen out of the backcombing, but the sections are still stuck to each other in sections. but i took the rubber bands out of one lock, which was an incredibly painful experience. now i'm trying to backcomb it again. but there's a strand of hair that's like wrapped around the whole thing, which either happened... i dunno, it must've been when i was taking the rubber bands out. but my hair looks absolutly ridiculous. dreads are too much fucking work! people think that someone's hair dreads because they never wash or comb and are completely lazy. but i've had dreads before, and they are a LOT of work. and i do wash occassionally. a clump of knotted hair just fell out of the dread i'm working on.
that's funny...my dreads aren't any work at all. I don't comb my hair and am completely lazy about it. No work at all. hmm Don't force it.
i do maintenance, but not much. i maybe palmroll 5 min when i go out in the morning to get rid of the worst frizzes, then i leave them alone. but then again, mine doesnt look any good.. it is starting to go from backcombed dreads making a transition into looking more like neglect dreads
don't do bands. they're more of a problem than anything and they don't do much anyways. if you wanna backcomb, cool, but you have to understand that a lot of it is going to fall right out and the best thing to do is to let it re-knot on its own. if you keep trying to knot your hair your own way instead of letting it do its thing, it IS going to be a lot of work. i've had my dreads for a little over two months and the sections that i left alone when they fell out have really started knotting up so tight. those are the best dreads on my entire head. be patient, it'll be good!
I don't know how it can't be some degree of work - I spend a good deal of time (and a bit of pain) trying to keep my whole head from turning into just 5 congos. I swear I have some dreads that have a greater pull than a black hole and my whole scalp is in the event horizon. (Though I did see a fellow once with his whole head sucked into 4 dreads and it looked nifty, it's just not where I'm ready to go yet)
hmm........i've had locks for a long time, and i've never done anything to mine other than wash them.........im white but im full up natty. Im a firm believer that the harder you try, the more you will fail. Dreadlocks come through patience and humility, not through a self seeking agenda of vanity and materialism. Dreadlocks are an outward sign of the freedom that exists within your soul.....now if you want "tour locks" hit up knotty boy or something otherwise, just......................stop..................................................trying.
I'm a firm believer that everyone is an individual and entitled to wear their hair in the manner they want for their own personal reasons without having to justify it to anyone else.
This statement is just common sense, er it should be at least. It seems like your trying to play off my statement in a judgemental, negative way. Let me spit some knowledge to ya, I didn't in any way mean to imply that someone needed to justify ANYTHING..........how or why you collected that connotation from my statements is beyond me, climb down off that high holy pedestal now, and take it at face value, I mean no harm, just words of wisdom.
Your words of wisdom read with an air of condescension. Perhaps that was heavily coloured by the fact I'm getting really tired over all (not just talking about Hip or you specifically) of folk that seem to think if you don't do dreads X way or Y way, then you aren't getting 'it or it's all a trend 'cause holy shit, ya used a comb or you're white girl (yeah, I've run into that one already). It just seems to be everywhere, this sort of underlying dread elitism and I suppose it's put a hair up my ass. If you meant it otherwise, then fine, it was a tainted misread on my part. The statement is also a born of a similarly related frustration over "ZOMG FAKE HIPPIES" threads that come up, often, elsewhere. One would think if it was just common sense, there'd be less of them.
Well sorry, I didn't intend for you to take me that way.........that most definitely wasn't my intention. As far as the dread elitism/fake hippie thing...........I don't know anything about that, never had any issues.....nor would I give the slightest bit of time to blowhard sheep speak (you shouldn't either, fuck em) Anyway.......I didn't mean to come off negative.........im about positivity, and their is no negativity in positivity......I was just saying how I felt, in my experience, the harder you try, the longer it takes....i've seen it with alot of different people, it seems to be a relatively new trend to maintain your dreads.......I think it was started by those wax companies or something, cuz back in the day.....dreads were associated as being maintenance free........kind of part of the appeal.......anyway i've watched kids on tour for years put all type of shit in their hair, and try all kinds of voodoo lot magic to get dreads.....i've watched endless palmrolling sessions, crocheting, weaving, waxing, and a myriad of other "methods" and often times those same people get frustrated that "nothing seems to work" and "my hair just won't dread" but inevitably the more they tortured themselves, the less their hair would submit to their efforts.......dreadlocks are FREE.....they require movement to lock up....that's what im getting at......the more you interrupt the natural (natty) process, the less you will see results. Personally I feel that dreadlocks are an extension of your wisdom, when you learn to be ok with yourself, all of the parts of yourself (your hair) begin to feel relaxed and comfortable.........you eliminate the ego and they join together in an embrace, finally loving and accepting all parts of self.......that's my wisdom.