1. Dreads take a bout 2 hours to re-wax the day after a wash and an extra long time to wash in comparison to normal hair. So the difficulty of day to day maintenance is contingent on how often you wash your hair. Recommended is about once a week. Not too bad, really.
2. Your hair will be about 1/3 it's current length once in dreads.
3. The best method for starting them is to see someone who does it for a living, but that's retardedly expensive. The second best is to give yourself a tightly curled hair destroying perm, and then follow the basic back-combing and twisting directions you can find on the web. If you don't have natty hair when you start, you'll have a much more difficult time maintaining your locks later on.
4. Dreads are done in a way similar to braids so all you have to do to monitor how big they will be when done is to twist sections of your hair that are about the right size. Obviously the more hair you have in any given twist, the stouter the resulting dread will be.
5. They will look great the moment you are finished twisting them, but they begin to sort of "settle" after the first few waxes. So about 6-8 hours to do your whole head initially, and then about a month of maintenance before they begin to look the way they're going to look forever.
Nicole and I did a lot of research after she got hers put in.
lol, thanks D! It weirds me out to purposely nattify my hair (in a cleansing/clarifying sort of way), and then NOT condition it afterwards! Ack! But I managed to purposefully get pregnant after all these years of avoiding that and that's way bigger and scarier than natty hair, so I think I can do this. ;-)
Hey no trouble. Dreads are intimidating to begin and difficult to keep looking nice if you don't know anything about them and I'm in favour of a dreadlocked world, so I'm glad to help.
2. Your hair will be about 1/3 it's current length once in dreads.
3. The best method for starting them is to see someone who does it for a living, but that's retardedly expensive. The second best is to give yourself a tightly curled hair destroying perm, and then follow the basic back-combing and twisting directions you can find on the web. If you don't have natty hair when you start, you'll have a much more difficult time maintaining your locks later on.
4. Dreads are done in a way similar to braids so all you have to do to monitor how big they will be when done is to twist sections of your hair that are about the right size. Obviously the more hair you have in any given twist, the stouter the resulting dread will be.
5. They will look great the moment you are finished twisting them, but they begin to sort of "settle" after the first few waxes. So about 6-8 hours to do your whole head initially, and then about a month of maintenance before they begin to look the way they're going to look forever.
Nicole and I did a lot of research after she got hers put in.
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