How To Make Dread Roots Tighter
Grab the dreadlock that you would like to tighten. The best way to knot up new growth the straight hair at the roots is to use clockwise rubbing.
Hold them together right where they start to dread just below the unlocked roots.
How to make dread roots tighter. As the dreads tighten your hair will dread closer to the roots with less help especially with larger dreads and textured hair. To tighten your dreadlocks using the palm roll technique simply do the following steps. A good residue free dread shampoo like those from our Dread Empire range will deeply clean and encourage hair to knot and lock up efficiently.
Clockwise root rubbing can be helpful to knot the hair at the base of the dread. Use a clamp to hold your dreadlocks away from the ones that you would like to tighten. However Ive found one of the easiest ways to tighten roots is via the clockwise rubbing method.
Because the Dread Wax prevents the knots from loosening on their own between palm rolling sessions the dreads are able to make much faster progress. However its important to realize that loose hair at the roots is a constant issue youll have to deal with and maintain over the lifetime of having dreadlocks. As the name suggests this involves palm rolling the roots of your dreadlocks in a clockwise motion allowing the stray hairs to work their way back into nearby locks.
After about 30 seconds you will start to feel the roots becoming tangled. You need to make sure that the length of your hair that you are using is not long enough to grow to that area with PPE Health and Safety. Pull three locks at a time out of the ponytail.
Push down slightly and rub the locks in a circular motion on your scalp. After a few palm rolling sessions youll notice the once puffy knots are now much smoother tighter and more compressed. The process calls for pulling the length of the dread from the end through the loose roots.
Palm rolling involves using the palm of your hand to roll tighten and compress the knots in your dreadlocks. Im not that vigilant about tightening my dreadlocks because I like a little. If the dread is thoroughly dry inside and out I like adding a light coating of Knotty Boy Dread Wax to my palms at this point to keep the lock looking tight and groomed but thats up to you.
You want to cut off the roots so that they will not grow there unless you keep them trimmed. Come see us or any reputable dreadlock artist for that matter and well fix em up good and tight. This is done repeatedly until there is little space left to pull the dread through resulting in tighter-looking roots.
Tightening my dreads up finally with some proper root and length maintenance. When youve got a good knot starting to form at your root go ahead and give your dread a solid palm roll to the tip. I show how I keep my dreadlock roots tight.
The tightest part of your hair will be where the roots connect to the scalp. Place the roots of the dreadlock between two fingers and rub it against the scalp in a clockwise direction. Speaking of professionals that is the next thing you can do.
Everyone has their own unique approach to this problem.
