And you will loose so much hair it probably won't be worth it. Coat a couple of rows of dreads in coconut oil one evening, turban hair or wrap in glad wrap for the night. Wake up and get as many friends as you can to gently and slowly start combing one dread at a time open from the BOTTOM up. When I say slowly, this is VITAL, because if you just go hell for leather and start ripping into the dreads with the comb, you will just break all your hair and loose it.
Depending on how long you have had the dreads and how they were made, they will either be easy to uncomb or very very difficult. NOTE: dreads made well with a crochet hook are locked very tightly and that means they are very hard to get out. Natural neglect dreads are fairly easy to uncomb too, unless they are quite mature. Keep going with patience.
Watch lots of movies!! Each night, rub in more coconut oil to new dreads to start the softening process. Immediately, another 12 inches were cut off. After that, my hair was still past my shoulders, and the end result was a surprisingly healthy and resilient head of hair. This deceptively simple process requires extraordinary patience.
I had locks on my head, and after five years of growth, each one took minutes of tedious work to unlock. The entire process required around man-hours by professionals. This is not an exaggeration. There are no shortcuts and I did not find an easier or faster way to reach my goal of healthy length. Your hair could take more or less time, depending on how long the locks are and your technique. But the end result speaks for itself: Me and my team were able to maintain a lot of length while having a lovely head of hair in the end.
Wearing dreadlocks is a serious commitment that requires time and effort to maintain. Removing them requires the same commitment — and in my case, time and effort. It may seem silly, but the journey to leaving my dreadlocks behind began with a journal entry. I asked myself things like, How have my dreads served me? How have they impacted my life? How do they make me feel? Tighten the band as much as possible; in most dreads, this will not harm or break the hair. Blow-dry your dreads on high heat to seal in the wax.
Grab each dread, and pull it away from the rest of your hair, moving the blow dryer from the roots to the tips. Do this until every dread has been blasted with heat. Tracy Moore holds a bachelor's degree in communications with a minor in graphic design. She has extensive experience using graphics software in her professional and personal life.
She also writes a column for a local newspaper on the latest technology developments. This method is often very difficult to remove at any age range due to the formation of instantly tight knots.
You will struggle more with this variation of the crochet method and you are likely to lose more hair. The more time that passes with these methods the more difficult it will be and a greater amount of hair will come out. The towel rubbing method is probably the most difficult type of dreadlock method to remove. The reason is because rubbed dreadlocks tend to get extremely solid and dense within a short amount of time.
When knots are this tight it will require much more effort, patience, and products to loosen up those dense dreads!
The products you use while you have dreadlocks may play a very big role in how easy or difficult it is to remove dreadlocks and how much hair will be lost in the process. Each product will either contribute toward tightening the knots inside your dreadlocks or contribute to lubricating your hair allowing your knots to be much looser.
Tightening sprays made with sea salt or swimming in the ocean can dramatically tighten and mature dreadlocks which can make Dread Removal far more difficult.
Sea salt water is effective at absorbing and reducing oils from the scalp and other lubricating oils and products. As a result, the knots in your dreadlocks will tighten quite noticeably. The only exception to this is the twisting method, where the twist will come undone in the ocean due to the products that are used to hold the twist in place. The shampoo you use for your dreadlocks plays an extremely important role in your dreadlock journey. Any shampoo that helps to tighten your dreadlocks will result in a more difficult time removing them.
When removing dreadlocks you might want to completely skip using a shampoo for several reasons. First, most shampoos are high in pH — more on why this is important below. Second, shampoos are designed to clean the hair and therefore will help to tighten knots. These two reasons should help you loosen knots in preparation to combing out your dreadlocks. Conditioners and oils tend to loosen knots and are great for Removing Dreadlocks! Conditioners should be used with hair that is kept wet for removing dreads.
Not all conditioners will get the job done well, so we recommend finding one designed for extreme detangling. Oils such as Olive Oil should only be used on completely dry hair that is product free for the removal process. Water and oil repel, so the hair must be free from moisture in order for the oil to penetrate the knots to help loosen and lubricate them. Bleaches and any dyes that lighten hair undeniably weaken the hair. In order to lighten hair the outer sheathe of the hair strand is removed exposing the lighter part of the hair shaft underneath.
This outer sheathe is basically the protective armor that protects each hair strand. Once removed, your hair is exposed and the structure of the hair strand is compromised resulting in much weaker, dryer, and damaged hair.
With that being said, you may end up breaking and losing a lot more hair with bleached dreadlocks. In some cases you may still be able to remove dreadlocks that have been bleached. But if your locs have been bleached harshly and a lot of time has passed, you might experience a significant amount of damaged hair that comes out when combing out dreads.
The pH of hard water is typically above 8 and when pH levels are over 7 the cuticles of the hair remain open which leads to tighter knot formation. When the cuticles are open while removing dreadlocks the cuticles may rub against each other likely to result in damage and breakage. Afro Hair is the most brittle and the most damage prone hair of all ethnicities.
As a result, the products and methods used on Afro hair are important to keep the hair strong and healthy. If your products or methods have resulted in weak and damaged hair then you may experience a significant amount of hair that comes out during the removal process.
Even with the best products and the most gentle methods Afro Hair may still be too brittle in some cases — proceed with caution.
0コメント