Ways to Make Dreads

You might be wonderstruck with the dreads that most of the famous personalities sport be it Andrew Symonds or Whopie Goldberg. Learning to make these dreadlocks can be complicated procedure. You may even get contradictory information from nears and dears and online too. Here are described some popular ways by which people get dread.

Natural method- This is believed to be the oldest means of getting dreads. You must be wondering dreads must be common hair do among the cave men. Well how to get this is, to wash the hair and not to brush it. Wash the hair with residue free shampoo. By doing so the hair will dread in natural way and by the time it reaches 6 inches you will have natural dread locks. After this you may have to go for rips and tears for maintaining the length and prevent the head from matting.

Twist and rip method- The procedure is less painful. In this the hairs are ripped and teared. In this the dread piece hair is twisted tightly and then the two pieces are divided and pulled down. The steps have to be repeated. The hair is divided and twisted and ripped to get the desired dread.

Backcombing- in this procedure the hair is dreadlocked by combing the hair back. The hairs are sectioned and the then the comb is rubbed towards the roots from the shoots. Generally one inch section of hair in diameter is taken. But see that which style suits your hair most. The size should be just correct according to the size, texture and length of hair. Random, natural pattern, grid pattern are popular ones.

Waxing method- Wax could be used fro dreading but see that it is used in sparing way. Generally this procedure is not recommended and hence makes is not so popular way to dread locks.

In the first three procedures you can wash the hair whenever you feel like with residue free shampoo. Dreads have to be clean.