Hair Growth
Normal hair usually grows about a half inch a month. You can take herbs like horsetail, salmon oil, vitamin E.
Well that all depends on how much work you want to put into your dread locks, if you start your dreads with 2 inches of hair, then you will be putting a lot of work into them but they won’t really look like dreads. If you start your dreads with 5 or 6 inches of hair then you will have a much easier and rewarding experience with making dread locks.
You don’t have to shave your head. There are a couple ways to get dredlocks out, if you haven’t used a dread perm
1. The Easiest way: cut your dreads off a little below root and have about 2 inches of hair. You won’t have to spend hardly anytime with this, and if you are not partial to your hair then this is a good way for you to do it.
2. Cut the first half of your dread off, from the tip of the dread to the middle. Then soak the rest of the dread in conditioner and comb the dread out. This will take some time, but you will have cut the strongest part of the dread off, so it will be a lot easier to comb the rest out.
3. You just love your long hair and don’t want short hair: I can completely understand this, this is probably the way I would choose if I were ever thinking about cutting my dreads off, but I’m not so I don’t have to think about it 🙂 Soak the whole dread in conditioner, and comb the dread out. Let me warn you that this will take a lot of time, probably 4 or 5 times longer than it took you to put them in, but if you love your hair, it’s completely worth it. Some people will say that you can’t do this, but you can, I know a person who did this, and I helped them take some of them out. I didn’t stay the whole time, but I know when I came back the next day, they were still working on taking them out.
4. And if you have chosen the silky dread method all you have to do is take out the extensions.
It depends on which method you use.
Backcombing
You will loose about 20%-30% of your length when you dread your hair, you will loose more if you make the dreads really big or if you backcomb large amounts of hair at a time and you will loose less length if you make smaller dreds and backcomb a little bit of hair at a time.
Twist and Rip
You could loose, 50% of your length or 30%, it could go either way, your hair chooses, how it wants to knot
Neglect
You could loose, 50% of your length or 30%, it could go either way, your hair chooses, how it wants to knot
Dread Perm
You shouldn’t loose much length at all, but you could loose a lot, because a lot of your hair could break off.
Twisting
You will barely loose any length, maybe 20% at most.
Comb rubbing
Well you don’t have much length to start with; you won’t loose enough to notice.
Dread Braiding
You will probably only loose about 10% of your length, because braids do not take much length once they are in and the hair won’t have much room to move and shorten.
Silky Dreads
You won’t loose any length; these are just temporary dreads. When you are tired of them just take the extensions out.
Industrial Dreads
It depends on what method you use first to make your dreads. Industrial dreads are just dreads with wire in them so they are flexible
Loomed Dreads
You will not loose any length with loomed dreads because they are temporary. Loomed dreads are dreaded hair extensions added to your hair.
Twist & Pin
You will loose 10%-20% of your length.
Use the clockwise rubbing method. Rub the dread against your scalp in a clockwise motion.
Yes, actually your hair will dread easier because the hair has been damaged, so it will hold knots a lot easier. You can use any method and the dreads will lock up.
Backcombing
Well there are three things you can do
1. Dread them in with the other dreads
2. Make little dreads out of them. I saw one girl with little dreaded bangs, and she looked so cute!
3. Leave them just like they are, have dreads and straight bangs, I’ve seen it once before and it was neat.
Twist and Rip
Your dreads will really decide if the bangs are in or out.
Neglect
They should dread in with the other hair.
Dread Perm
1. Dread perm them in with the other dreads.
2. Make little dreads out of them. I saw one girl with little dreaded bangs, and she looked so cute!
3. Leave them just like they are, have dreads and straight bangs, I’ve seen it once before and it was neat.
Twisting
1. Dread them in with the other dreads.
2. Make little dreads out of them. I saw one girl with little dreaded bangs, and she looked so cute!
Comb rubbing
I doubt you have bangs, but if you do, and they are longer and you can’t dread them in with the other hair
1. Cut them
2. Backcomb or twist them
Dread Braiding
You can braid them in with the braids.
Silky Dreads
1. You can braid them in when you are forming the dreads.
2. You can leave them out and just have dreads and bangs, I have seen it before and it looks really cute.
Industrial Dreads
Check out the methods above
Loomed Dreads
Your stylist will most likely leave them out and you will have braids and dreads.
Twist & Pin
You should twist them and make little dreads out of them.
There are two types of thick hair
1. Thick strands- usually Asian people have this kind of hair, it is harder for this kind of hair to actually lock up, but if you use the backcombing method with a good wax, you won’t have many problems. Neglect, and twist and rip will not work well with this hair type.
2. Lots of hair- people who have curly have usually have lots of it. The stands are usually thin or normal size, and the dread great. A person with this hair will have no problems getting dreads, with any method.
Extensions are hair that is braided or dreaded into your hair to make your dreads fatter, or longer. Most salons can put them in your hair, but you should check around and see how they put them in. It is better if they dread it into the hair, because if they braid it in the braided part never dreads and it looks really funny, but if they dread it in it looks like your real dreads.
Of course, dreads are not picky. Actually thin hair is easier to make dreads in than a lot of other hair type, but it’s practically impossible to get the dreads out of thin hair if you ever did want to take them out.
These are the two things you should make your decision by
If the dreads get really long they can pull on the scalp if they get really long which can make you loose more hair.
Another way to look at it is that you will get to keep the hair longer, because the dreads will hold the hairs together.
It’s really a give take situation, but I have never heard of anyone’s hair follicles being damaged because of have dreads, it’s just a warning that needs to thrown out there just in case anything did happen.
Yep, dreads do grow; they grow at the same speed your normal hair grows. Even though it seems like they are growing slower because the hair has to spiral and twist and knot. So it seems like dreads are growing ¼ the amount that normal hair grows. The hair does not grow into the dread unless the roots of the dread are locked up. So it is very important to lock the hair at the root, you can use the clockwise rubbing method to do this.
It’s not really a good idea, because the dread will start to unravel because the hair that was holding the knots together before is gone. You will have to wait for the tip to lock up again and it’s just a pain in the arse. But if you are going to do it the best way to cut it is like a flower, cut it at an angle, and put a rubber band at the tip.
You can, and you can keep the sides short if you want, or let the sides grow out and dread them later.
There are a couple herbs you can take to make your hair grow fast
1. Horsetail- the is the most effective one
2. Salmon oil
3. Vitamin E
Scalp massages also help hair grow fast