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Post by Wondering on Nov 19, 2017 23:03:44 GMT
So I have pretty dumb Q.. I have not so long hair. But is it possible to attach cutted hair and make dreadlocks? I really dont know does it even work and if work.. How? Do You make from cutted hair dreadlock already and then attach to your hair or You attach then in process..? Or You just wait and grown your own hair..?
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Post by james on Nov 20, 2017 6:16:27 GMT
Pardon?
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Post by james on Nov 20, 2017 6:18:06 GMT
Yes you can dread attached hair. To be honest all the hair growing out your head is basically ‘dead’. So it will all work the same.
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Post by james on Nov 20, 2017 6:21:03 GMT
Oh right.... yeah some folk do make dreadlocks out of hair extensions and attach them. That’s cool, it’s fine. But if I can, I steer you towards ‘locking’ your shorter hair. Before you know it a few years zoom by and your hair will be funky town.
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Post by Wondering on Nov 20, 2017 13:27:33 GMT
Oh right.... yeah some folk do make dreadlocks out of hair extensions and attach them. That’s cool, it’s fine. But if I can, I steer you towards ‘locking’ your shorter hair. Before you know it a few years zoom by and your hair will be funky town. Only thing. Those hair aint extentions. Their just cutted hair.. But almost same thing..? Hair was made into ponytail and cutted.. So what I need to do is make dreadlocks out of my own hair and make those cutted hair in dreadlocks and then just attach them.. Right? That work?
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Post by nanolu on Nov 22, 2017 10:44:44 GMT
Hello!
How short is your hair now? You can attach cut hair to dreads but you would probably need a good overlap with your growing-from-your-head hair for it to stay.
Has anyone here tried this? There might be some timelines you can look at.
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Post by Dreadlocktruth on Nov 22, 2017 11:29:02 GMT
There's nothing in my timeline that would really help but I have done it before, though I've done it with dreadlocks I've chopped off and re-attached somewhere else ("dread transplants" as I call them lol). You can do it - you'd need to make the hair into a dreadlock itself, first and then attach it to dreads that are already on your head. As nanolu said, you'll need a couple of inches of overlap and you basically "sew" them together using hair the from the end of the extension (which you'd need to leave loose for this purpose) and the end of your dread, which you'd need to also be loose. Then you sew the hair from one dread into the other. Note that you'll need the dread that's already on your head to be pretty solid for this to work so I wouldn't do it any earlier than 7 months into locks, or preferably after a year.
I've never created a dread from scratch with hair that wasn't attached to my head so I can't help you there, but this video might help.
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Post by nanolu on Nov 22, 2017 23:13:39 GMT
("dread transplants" as I call them lol) I'm suddenly reminded of Lance Longthorne's new arm in the League of Gentlemen. It's conjuring a wonderful dread-related horror movie in my head. Slightly more on topic: How well do extensions sit on a well formed dread? I've never tried on my own. I always imagine there would be a clear denseness difference?
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