SEPARATE DREADLOCKS: CUT OR PULL?!
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- Опубліковано 18 жов 2014
- A important part of dreadlock maintenance is separation. Dreadlocks are made from hairs which knot together. Unfortunately these hairs don't always knot exclusively with hairs within their own dreadlock and you will often find them knotting up with hairs in neighbour dreads. These dreadlocks will need to be separated back out again in order to avoid them from knotting together further and forming 'congo' dreads. In this video I will compare the differences between separating via cutting and separating via pulling.
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This video helped me A LOT. I've been freeforming since December 2014. I noticed a mini Congo on the side and it was not budging. Three locs were in a relationship lol. I contemplated on using scissors but came across your video. Thank you. With lots of patience, water and praying to GOD lol I was able to separate all three successfully.
SC RAYE Glad you got it sorted out! :)
I find that the best, easiest, and least painful time to pull apart dreads is when I wash them and they are all sudsy from the shampoo. I have a pretty sensitive scalp so I never used to pull apart my dreads because of the pain, but in the shower, I feel nearly no discomfort at all during separation. When dreadlocks are wet, they are easier to separate than dry dreads but with shampoo in the mix, its like 10 times easier on you as well as your scalp.
Omg I was crying and super frustrated seeing that my locs were forming into Congo’s but this video saved me! Lol I love you man!!! Thank you for being so detailed as well. Now I know how to maintain my locs. Now I feel great know that I’ll never have to cut my hair!
You're so good at explaining :) Thank you so much!
Thank you so much! I had 3 pretty matted dreadies on the base of neck in the very back and it was uncomfortable to even sleep. Took your advice and carefully, slowly cut them apart towards the big daddy one in the middle and it totally worked. After working them tighter with some bees wax they look fresh and tight.....and seperated!! Thanks so much dude!!! 🤙🏽💫💥
My dreads are 6 mos old and my concern with pulling to separate at the base is I am afraid of pulling hair out by the root. They are doing great otherwise. Your videos have been extremely helpful.
Great video man! Thanks. for sharing
Most likely informative video I’ve watched on this subject. Thanks
I get a professional to seperate and she cuts them but literally takes hours but I'm reassured that it was done correctly
For me personally, pulling my dreads apart is the ABSOLUTE WORST part of having dreads. -I'm one of those people who ideally should be pulling them apart daily... but don't, because even though I have a fairly high pain tolerance, headaches are my kryptonite, and I end up with a headache and sensitive scalp for the rest of the day... Sometimes 2 days. :(
I tried cutting once but it ended badly, so I now stick to pulling them apart every 3 days to a week (but when I'm leaving it a week, I try to keep my hair tied up as much as possible, so they don't join too much).
In saying all of that though, I ABSOLUTELY LOVE my dreads, and can't imagine ever getting rid of them! :D
What happened?
I just started my dreads a month ago with pretty short hair (3-5 in) i was wondering when they start to hang down. There kind thin also
That was what I have been looking for all day. My locks has fused together in three places. I have tried to moisturizer, but I am still trying, so now I am using a plastic bag, hoping it will soften the dreads. If this doesn't work, what can I use beside using a sizors.
oohhh i just cut a few that i wasn't able to pull apart and then i watched your video and one seems really thing at the root. i didn't really section my hair at the scalp when i did it because .. i couldn't see the back of my head ... seems to just be really matted at my scalp now :/
I really need help, so I have I’d say like 6 or 7 Congo’s and they’re all like 3 or more dreads in one, is there anyway at all that I could seperate all of them, they’re dreaded at the root also like very thick
Your my favorite
Hey, so I have young dreadlocks (about a month and a half old now) and I've found that it has matted/formed a Web around three to four dreads, and one dread is now together with another (which I don't mind). Should I let the hair grow out for a couple more months then try to cut the Web out?
GamerScrub that’s what I’m experiencing. I see that your comment was about a year ago. Did you ever figure out what to do?
Thanks I got a super dread lol I love it
I have been working on this process for months - mine are 5+ years and the matting is quite extensive.
Question: what do u think of lock extensions and do they need to be cared for differently and I have seen hair that is like 6 inches long being locked with extensions that are like a foot long is this ok?
Brad Stone There are many different types of extension - different materials, different methods of locking up the extension, different methods of attaching the extension. My personal recommendation is not to attach them straight onto short young dreadlocks... but beyond that you'll need to ask the person who you want to create / attach the extensions.
I am 1 months in and the back of my head is fked . My roots are all matted . I need to start over and keep sperating my young dreads every day or every wash . I hope they will turn out fine . Ty for your help !!!
Yo I hope you're journey is going great!
Seeing as you've been doing it for a year (hopefully), could you give me a few pointers?
Its only been 2 months for me. I've got straight hair and started with 10-11 inches on the top with my sides shaved. So far it's been going pretty well, I started with the towel rub and rubbed for the first few weeks but after that I've just been letting them go. I've got about 8 locs getting pretty strong so far however 2 of them are about 1.5 inches wide and split about 4 inches in where I've tried separating by pulling but fail because they're too thick. The rest are pretty small, about half an inch thick at their thickest areas and all of them are loose at the roots, including the 1.5 inch ones. The rest of my hair is loose but curly from no maintenance and very slighted sectioned however I don't like how they are sectioned..
Do you think I should restart, or would it be possible to cut the thick ones and section all of them with rubber bands and then go from there?
My main concern is I feel if I cut the thick ones they'll fall out as the roots are very loose still.
@@rxev.mp3 helllo ! Yes my journey is going well . My dreads are so cool ( I look like a lion lol ) . . I faced huge problems with my dreads . I did not retwists them + a lot of them were skinny + I just seperated them after every shower = the roots become so thin that when I tried to seperate in the next shower they fell off . I saved my dreads by merging 3 / 2 dreads together . They became stronger and better looking . 2 are a little big but everything is doing well . Roots are strong . Now I retwists them once every 3 months to not repeat the same mistake again !! This is my strory and now I understand fully my dreads . Retwisting is mandatory if you want them to not fell off . In your case 2 months are nothing . I highly recommend restarting ( the sections should be not too thick and not too skinny ) to not regret anything in the future . And cutting dreads in half is very bad . The new roots will be fked up . In worst case you should merge the skinny ones because I can guarantee they won't last . Stay away from rubber bands . Death sentence to your roots
i have had my dreads in for over 4 years and want to know if there is any way to separate the original dreads. a lot of them had congo'd together in the very beginning and i wasnt consistent with separating back then and some of them are just thicker than i want them now. before dreading my hair this time i had the same problem with my 2 year old dreads and ended up just doing the conditioner/combing method and redoing them but then my hair was SO THIN! i dont want to have to take that route again but i dont want them this thick for the rest of my life. help please?
Brenda Watt The problem is that the hairs inside a dreadlock don't run from the root vertically down - they zigzag inside the dreadlock so if you try and split one by cutting it you're going to end up severing a lot of hairs midway along their length and so the two new halves that you get out are going to often be damaged and weak. When possible I recommend people to just brush out the dreadlocks in question and then resection them - as you know, that can be pretty rough on the hair too... but there's no real win-win option, dreadlocks are complete structures, they can't really be dividing up once they're formed.
I'm wondering the same thing as Brenda Watt. I have some dreads that are thicker than I'd like and I'd love to separate some of them into 2. Even if it's a long process, can it be done?
Amanda Brodeur The problem is that the hairs inside a dreadlock don't run from the root vertically down - they zigzag inside the dreadlock so if you try and split one by cutting it you're going to end up severing a lot of hairs midway along their length and so the two new halves that you get out are going to often be damaged and weak. When possible I recommend people to just brush out the dreadlocks in question and then resection them.
@@LazyDreads What if they're too thick to restart?
Thank you kindly, I've been wondering about this recently. I also washed my dreads for the first time the other day and I was a bit worried about how much separating I had to do. Is that normal? I assumed it was just because I'd been giving my scalp a good scrub. Thanks again, for this and all of your fantastic videos.
+Jorn Overa It is not all that uncommon to have to separate every day while they're young.
Thank you for your fast response. I'm sorry, I didn't quite explain it properly. I usually need to do a few pulls each day just to keep everything in check. But they became very tangled after I had washed and dried them, and I had to spend a good 30 minutes untangling and separating everything. I was wondering whether that is a normal thing to happen, immediately after washing them?
Washing them can make them messier and leave more loose hair which can get tangled up.
Aha, that makes sense. Cheers!
Quick question: what do I have to do with a huge messy tangled up nest on the back of my head? I have my dreads for 3 months now and I really don't know how to get it apart. It's just one big mess :'(
I had the same issue on the back of my head. I wore my dreads in a pony tail almost daily and didn't bother to pull them apart, so they eventually started clinging together in one massive Congo. It took a while but I found I could pull them apart easily (better when wet). It seemed overwhelming at first because you don't know where it starts and ends, but I still had a general idea of where each dread was before the Congo. I just started on one side, and started pulling. I had to start but cutting a *very* small part of it near the bottom, but once I did that I just pulled the rest down to the roots. Then I did the same thing with the rest of the hair. Once you get started and get the first couple separated, the rest will be a breeze. It's just getting started that seems a little confusing and overwhelming.
My hair has formed into just 5 locks. All are thick but I have a full-fledged beaver tail on the back of my head. What do I do
Blake Dugan If you've left them alone long enough for that to happen then you'll probably have to cut them apart if you wish to separate them back out again.
Ahh I guess I'll keep the beaver
If I just got my dreads about a week ago and I'm not happy with how many I have(25-27) what should I do? Also the top of my head only has a handfull on it so there's a lot of space inbetween them.
jacob skogen Depends if you want more or if you want less... but either way at only 1 week in, it's going to be easiest to take them out and redo them more to your liking.
Lazy Dreads thanks man I was hoping there was a way to split them or something haha
It seems as though parts of my scalp is lined with dreadlock, they're congo-ed so at the root it's all covered, but along the rest of the dread it's separated. I've gotta wonder if this is normal.
Kameron Hood As the dreadlocks grow, that web of hairs will get lifted off the scalp and will become separable.
Ah, much obliged!
I have two HUGE congos at the back of my head and I don't really want them, but what happens if I were to cut them and then maybe a year later I wanted to take out my dreadlocks? Would that make that section of the hair shorter since the Congo was cut? Because I know the Congo is now too long to separate
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***** You sort of have two options when it comes to splitting thick dreadlocks / well formed congos. You can either split them at the root and force them to start growing out split - at a later date you can then trim off the unsplit part and be left with perfectly healthy individual dreads... but this is obviously very slow - you have to wait for them to grow out split from scratch and this will take years... and they look a little strange while growing out split... and also when you do finally come around to cutting off the excess, well the new separate dreads will be shorter than the rest. The other option is to simply cut down the middle - this one is kind of what people go for as it's instant... but when you do that you can end up with the two halves being much weaker than regular dreadlocks as you sever a lot of hair links... however when the alternative is to grow them out and cut the excess off anyway, I guess it doesn't really make much difference.If you cut a dreadlock in half and sever some of the hair links, if you do come to them brush the dreadlocks out you'll find that you get a fair bit of loose hair out of those dreads due to all the severed links. It's not all going to be shorter, but more thinner overall. However hair is generally going to be thinner after dreadlocks whether you've cut congos or not simply due to the separating. I think really it's not a huge worry.
Thank you so much that was really helpful!
Help... my eight year old son started getting dreads (neglect style) about two months ago. He's white, but his hair seems to dread really fast. My husband tells me to leave them alone, but what has happened is that about 1/2 of his head (underneath and one side) have formed dreads that are partially separate on the ends, but essentially have become one mass connected at the base of his head. If I leave it alone will it continue to separate and form individual dreads on it's own, or will it just keep creating one massive chunk of matted hair. It's already to the point it is very difficult to separate. I tried one and it took a very long time and was painful for my son. Any suggestions!
sounds like trouble!
If you wanted them separated, you should have been separating them all along. Check out plica or beaver tail dreads. Maybe brush it out to the point that you can separate them.
Question!!!! I have a pixie cut that's relatively short i want dreads but my hair grows at a snail's pace maybe slower how long does my hair have to be to get extensions put in??
I myself can install permanent human hair extensions with only 4-6cm of growth, braid ins (synthetic or human) require around 6 inches, though this does vary on the loctitian :)
QUESTION
Is the "cracking" sound normal when you pull them? THX!!
+Cesar Contreras Dreadlocks need separating when hairs start to connect two or more dreadlocks. In separating them, whether you pull or you cut you will end up breaking those hairs that are connecting the two dreads - and that makes a sound.
+Lazy Dreads are you irish?
I'm about 5 months into my dreadlocks and I want to make one that's on the middle of my forehead into 2.
Your funny man!
I know this is an old video but quick question can you separate one big dread into two if it's too big or is that impossible?
Yes
Can you just trim the loose hairs along each dread, to prevent congos?
jd jade just get get retwists
Just trim your bad attitude lmao
How long would my hair have to be for my dreads to be a foot long after shrinking?
Georgia Dipper Somewhere between 1.5 - 2 feet... although it's impossible to say with any accuracy.
Awesome! Thanks man!
Can seperated dreads congo again?
Christian Brinkley yea
Ive got a 5 dread congo on the side of my head lmao
it just adds character
im trying to stop mine lmao
The roots at the back of my head are literally a big mat.
I always pull my dreads to separate, yet I have a mega congo right at the root that is boarder-lining being matted and is about 5 dreads thick, and all 5 dreads are close to matured so they have to desire to be pulled apart.. What is the best way to go about this? I need to stop it before it gets any worse, but i physically can't pull it apart, and I'm nervous to cut by the root.. =/
iSkiCliffs You either have to pull... or cut. If you can't pull... well then you're options are pretty limited ^^
I pull until I can isolate the strands that are holding hands with other dreads. Then I try to gently remove each strand. It's a painstaking process and often ends with hairs breaking.
Scissors.
"...don't roon with ✂️"🤨😆😆
If i have a congo * one dread + 2 dread tips * can i cut em down the middle back to 2 locks ? 😹😹😹😹😹😹
I got the same issue. What'd you end up doing?
I have no clue if I will ever get dreads or can. My hair is so soft.
Lovelife090994 If your hair forms knots, it'll form dreadlocks.
Lazy Dreads When moisturized enough, never, when it gets a little dry or very, yes, very much.
If it forms knots, it'll form dreadlocks.
Lazy Dreads Does my hair need to be a certain length to have dreads? Can twists form dreads? No one mentions twists. And my hair is uneven from my mother dearest wanting me with short hair. The hair on top can come down to my brow, but the sides and back are not long at all.
The required length depends on the method you're going to use - different methods work best with different lengths of hair:
Hair Length Required For Dreadlocks
Dreadlocks can be started from twists if they're left long enough - but this only works on afro-textured hair. People do mention it, but mainly those who have that type of hair texture. I have caucasian textured hair and twisting does nothing for that hair type so it's not something that I personally blog about.
Pulling is thinning mine to the point that a couple are about to fall off
Is your hair thin? Mine have been free forming for 2 and a half years and I have always separated them by pulling after I wash them once a week. No thinning other than one that I should have let Congo with another one since they were both pretty thin... I lost it about a month ago 😒 lesson learned.
Yeah but separating them it’s pretty painful
Whenever I pull, hair breaks. Even doing it carefully 😶
I’ve tried pulling it’s so Congo that I have to cut it tbh
im dealing with a congo'd section right now. i did freeforms and had congos already but this is a whole section of like 5-7 dreads.... how did it work for u cutting?
@@ripperonis8118 terrible dont do it unless you get a professional to do it. i did it and they fell out and now are about 4 to 6 inches long compared to the others. i learned the hard way lmao.
I want dreadlocks so bad but my parents don't want :( what can I do?
Mery Frisa Try to address the reasons why they don't like them.
Lazy Dreads My mother says my hair is too soft.
Lovelife090994
all hair can be dreaded man.
ImSkyAdict Apparently to my barber mine can't until it is nappy and will cost $60.
Lovelife090994 Thats cheap.. you do know how long it takes and such right? i paid 550$ for 7hrs dreading by 2 african ladies at once :P
Can't believe a white boi helped me deal with my 4A hair