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Courtesy of www.knottyboy.com What you'll need to complete the operation: - Three inches of hair or longer to start dreadlocks using Knotty Boy Dread Wax. (For people attempting to start dreads without it, you will need hair at least 6 inches or longer, and a lot of luck and patience for the next few years!) - A good, patient friend or two or five to help you start your dreads. You can start your dreads yourself, but having help makes the job go much faster and easier. - A jar o' Knotty Boy Dread Wax (you may need a second jar if you have super-long hair). - A comb with closely-spaced teeth, like a good strong plastic comb or a pet flea-comb (not used on your pet, dum-dum) will work pretty well, too. But the best are our Knotty Boy Professional Dreading Combs. - Paper towel to wipe your goopy hands on. - Hair claws, clips or elastics to keep the other sections of hair out of the way. Step 1: To start, you can either section the hair into uniform sections, like a grid, or just start at the back and work forward, grabbing locks that are about the size of your index finger, or as desired. (Note that the shorter the hair, the skinnier the dread must be.) I also recommend that to avoid the blinding part down the middle of your head, grab sections randomly from either side of that part and dread like that, criss-cross style. Jump! Jump! Step 2: Take the first section of hair, and with the dread comb, "back-comb" the hair like crazy starting from the very scalp and working your way down to the tips. Back-combing is the process of combing the hair TOWARDS your scalp. This process will tease and tangle up the hair. Step 3: It's actually very important to make sure the hair is really good and knotted at the base, next to your scalp. We've found that a really good way to keep the roots tighter for longer is to braid each section a few times tight against the scalp before beginning to backcomb. So anyway, do this back combing thang a couple of times until you feel it's sufficiently knotted and tangled, then twist that lump of hair into a semi-dreadlock. Step 4: Now, open the Knotty Boy Dread Wax and remove the dust-cover. Inside, the surface of the wax will appear hard and smooth, so take your fingernail or the tip of your comb and just break the surface in, using your finger to start softening the wax up, making it more workable and pliable. Step 5: Now that you've got your goop ready and your new dread knotty, take a blob of the wax on your finger (work out any little clumps of the wax) and start working it into the tangled hair, starting, again, from the scalp and working down to the ends. Take more blobs of wax as you need it and just get it thoroughly waxed and twisted up. Use your good judgment about how much your dreads need to keep them together in the beginning. Just keep repeating the grab-backcomb-twist-and-wax process the whole live long day! Well, it won't really take all day... actually,yes, it will...well, about 3-5 hours of it anyway... All done? Well, hot dang...! © 2003 Shoreline Community College™ |