The Dreadlock Bloggen

Today, I have a question here from a girl on Instagram. She writes, “When do you suggest washing your baby dreads for the first time?”

When you start to have dreadlocks done or you maybe go to a salon or you make them yourself; it is really important for the first like few weeks that the hair can rest because a lot of tension has gone into creating your dreadlocks. So, what I highly recommend is that you, in the beginning, palm roll your dreadlocks a lot. That will the process to speed up a bit more and if you want to wait like 2 weeks, 4 weeks, it all depends on how you feel in the scalp.

A lot of people think that they get dandruff from having dreadlocks because they have to wait this process until they can wash their hair. And usually a lot of people are really used to washing their hair maybe every day. So, a good thing, if you’re thinking about getting dreadlocks done is to start to wash your hair maybe once a week, leave the conditioner out....

How many times have you heard the story about Bob Marley’s dreadlocks and what they found inside his dreads when he died?

The story is that he had several new beetle species in his dreadlocks when they cut them off (or some kind of insects).
The fact is that Mr Bob did not even have any dreads on his head when he died due to that he was to weak to hold them up.

There are so many different stories that are going around, people usually say that a friend of a friend know a guy or a girl that had a spider living in their dreadlocks, or any other kind of insect.

You might have heard that you use dirt or poo to make dreadlocks? Is there any truth in this?
Well if you are in the Namib Desert in Africa you can find the Himba tribe, the women of this tribe wears dreadlocks and cover their whole body and dreads with a red clay that can be found in the desert.
But apart from tribes in nature reserves in the world you will not find dreadheads that have made their dreadlocks...

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