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Removal of Neglect-Lock {Dread-Locks}

  • 16-07-2008 12:24pm
    #1
    BaconZombie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,813 ✭✭✭


    My hair is very curly and long it starts dreading it's self even as I brush it.
    But a few months ago I did not do anything with it for over a week and when I tried I could not get the locks out of it.

    It used to be most of the way down my back and is now in to locks only reaching my shoulders.

    Does anybody know the best way of removing the lock without cutting?
    I've seen "Emergency Dreadlock Removal kits" but they are mainly for the removal of the wax that used for proper locks and because my hair is matted it does not come apart easily.

    I have tried socking and then spent a few hours tried to works them out but only got about 20cm of one freed.


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  • #2
    Piste
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,440 ✭✭✭✭Piste


    Drench, and I do mean DRENCH your hair with conditioner, the slipperier the better! Essentially it will act as a lubricant (no sniggering down the back!) for your hair and the knots should slide out of one another easier. When my hair was longer I used to have fierce trouble combing it, it would take 20 minutes of combing every time I washed my hair, using a pile of conditioner too.

    Try to de-tangle it every second day or so with a wide-tooth combs and plenty of conditioner.


  • #3
    BaconZombie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,813 ✭✭✭BaconZombie


    Thanks Piste,

    I''ll try this again, I'd heard mixed reports of either to use tons of conditioner or under no circumstance us conditioner....
    Piste wrote: »
    Drench, and I do mean DRENCH your hair with conditioner, the slipperier the better! Essentially it will act as a lubricant (no sniggering down the back!) for your hair and the knots should slide out of one another easier. When my hair was longer I used to have fierce trouble combing it, it would take 20 minutes of combing every time I washed my hair, using a pile of conditioner too.

    Try to de-tangle it every second day or so with a wide-tooth combs and plenty of conditioner.


  • #4
    Piste
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,440 ✭✭✭✭Piste


    Hmm I can't understand why you wouldn't use conditioner...it really makes things so much easier!


  • #5
    WilmaRidesAgain
    Closed Accounts Posts: 125 ✭✭WilmaRidesAgain


    I have this long curly hair, the only way to de-tangle it is to wet it, throw on one bottle of conditioner, one piece at a time brush from the bottom (that means the tips or ends NOT the roots) upwards painstakingly slowly.

    Do not try to brush from the roots downwards, it will come out.


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