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**brownmouse**
do you have dreads? i just noticed your siggy and was wondering...i'm thinking about getting them and want to know anything and everything there is to know about them 
my hair is pretty long right now and i'm thinking of getting dreads, keeping them for a while until i get sick of them, then cut my hair really short....i really want them to be semi thick, not super thin.
my hair is pretty long right now and i'm thinking of getting dreads, keeping them for a while until i get sick of them, then cut my hair really short....i really want them to be semi thick, not super thin.
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Re: **brownmouse**
Haha! I wasn't the Bump at all, but a bumpie put a comment about this post on my facebook.
Yeah, dreads.. I've had them about two years now. They were a lot of work in the beginning, but I've always been bad at brushing my hair(meaning, I never brushed it, and it always looked like a rats nest).. So it's nice not to need to!
I knot mine, so they just look like a series of knots all the way down each of them. I just knot them sideways, then vertically, thensideways, then vertically, if that makes sense... Don't know how to explain it any other way..
Don't listen to ANYONE who tells you that you don't wash them though. That's how you get nasty dread rot, lice and many other nasty things that can happen. I wash mine with Dr. Bronner's Tea Tre Oil Soap. Keeps you from getting lice. Although, I'm not around anyone who has lice, or havn't been yet anyways, so there is no risk of getting it..
Don't spend your money on "Dread Shampoo" or any of the "Dread Head" products, they are a waste of money. If your hair is straight, and your having trouble forming them, put three tablespoons of sea-salt in a two cups of water in a spray bottle and spray in on them a few times a day. Or if you can swim in the ocean, it'll do the same thing.
You can also felt them using felting needles, if you don't want to knot them. You can get felting needles at craft stores or yarn stores. Just get the section you want to dread, twist it into a tube like thing, and felt away. It takes a lot of work, but so does knotting them...
Maybe google it?
And expect it to take a REALLY long time if you do your whole head at once. Mine took me about 8 hours do start my whole head, and then you just have to keep knotting them as they grow out. Or you can not knot them, but you'll have puffy weird hair at the top and that makes them sit funny. It has become a habit to knot mine.... I just end up playing with them every once in a while and find one or two that need a new knot.
Um... I dunno of anything else I can say... If you have any specific questions, you can email me. brownmouse@rocketmail.com
Just to warn you, for the first little while(maybe a few weeks) sleeping on them might be a little strange... But you get used to it after a while. Mine are pretty thick, so sometimes after knotting a bunch, sleeping is uncomfortable that night. My husbands are much thinner so he doesn;t have that problem. But he also has a lot more of them. I have a LOT of hair, and it's pretty thick, so I have about 50 dreads total.. he has about 110, maybe 120.
Oh, and two more things.
If you're not planning on keeping them for a long time, I wouldn't waste your time. It's a LOT of work for only having them a short while, and they look like *** for at least the first few months. Mine only started looking really nicely formed in the past year. And like I said, it's been two years(longer actually...)
And the other thing, don't (DON'T) waste your money going to one of those hair salons that put them in for you. It's a complete waste, because you can do the same thing yourself for free, and that tends to be REALLY expensive. The one place I saw that does that charges like $400 to do your whole head. I can't see spending hundreds of dollars on my hair. Seems crazy to me.. But I guess some women do spend that much in a few months on haircuts, highlights, etc....