Dread it up Continued...

Now's a good time to spray your hair down with the Locking Accelerator. Grab a towel and run outside. Put the towel around your neck and flip your head forward. You should spray the Locking Accelerator on your hair pointing away from your scalp. Allow it to partially dry so it doesn't all run down on your scalp.

See, just like this! You do not need to soak your dreads with Locking Accelerator. You just want to spray enough so there's a lil' on each section.

Step 2wo) Now for the actual dreading. Can you believe it? It's finally time! Grab a section you've made, add some Lock Peppa to the section and blend it into the hair.

After you have Peppa'ed your section, take the hair rubberband off. Save the rubberbands, the kit comes with like 250 but elves eat them if you know what I mean. Start at the back of your head and work your way to the front. Backcomb the hair with the comb.

Backcombing is kinda like teasing the hair and kinda not. If you took the comb and stuck it in the strands you're holding and slid it up towards your scalp, not letting any hairs slip loose and get pushed forward, not much would happen. I suppose if you did it real fast your hair would get warm but that's about it. The trick is to very slowly let a hair or two slip on each stroke forward. These loose hairs will get pushed toward your scalp and start to form a dread.

Pack the hairs in tight by pressing the comb firmly against the newly forming dread on each stroke. You can turn and roll the dread as you go to make sure it comes out round. Make sure the knots closest to the scalp are as tight as you can get them. This does involve some pain. - So What? Are ya gunna squirt some? Are ya? Sniffle sniffle. Do you wanna wear the daddy pants? Do ya?-- Take it like a knatty soldier you're gunna have plenty of phatty dreadlocks baby!-

When the hair grows you want it to get tangled into the dread. Keeping the knots that are closest to the scalp tight will help new hair to dread as grows. Continue to back comb the hair slowly (yes it does take a while) working your way to the end. Keep dreading until you get to the end and have nothing to hold onto.

Step 3hree) OK, now a rubber band to finish it off. Tighten the tip up as much as you can with the comb. You'll notice it's kinda hard to get a good grip on the lil guy cause you have only a small bit of hair to grab and pull against. Grab the very end in your fingers, fold the undreaded hair you have left back on itself, and fire an elastic on to hold it. Make sure the elastic is really tight. If you want to, instead of folding it over, you can just put the elastic on and clip the very end of the tip off where it sticks out after the elastic. If you do, cut it on a bit of an angle, otherwise the hair will have a tendency to flair out instead of forming a little point. When you feel loose hairs on the ends, get in the habit of rolling them in your fingers to tangle them up...in time this will give you nice smooth rounded tips.

Step 4our) Now its time for the wax! Unscrew the lid. Bring it up to your nose and sniff. Woo Damn! That's a great smell! With your thumb press into it and scoop out a little bit, about the size of a chicklet or an M&M. You should start waxing at the roots right after your rubberband. (Roots are where the dread connects to your head. I'm guessing you probably know what roots are by now.) Rub the wax in with your thumb and forefinger. Rubbing the wax smooth between your fingers before applying it will help it melt in evenly. Work your way from the root to the tip. Add more wax slowly as you need it. The amount you need to use for each dread will vary with the size of the dread. Unless your dreads are really long you shouldn't need more than like 2 or 3 M&M's worth. Don't over do it. Your dreads should have enough wax that you can feel it, but not so much that you can see it. You're not makin' candles here. After you have waxed your dread, use a hair dryer to heat the dread and melt the wax inside the dread. You'll know when the wax is fully melted and worked into where it's supposed to be when it disappears. The hair dryer isn't necessary but if you try it I promise you'll like it.

There he is, your very first dread. This is a proud moment. Well, go ahead and name the lil fella. I named my first dread Ned. Write down his birthday somewhere, and you can measure him if you want : )

Depending on the size dreadlocks your making you probably have about 30-40 more to go so get busy......

Don't forget to read through all the other sections for tons of great info on taking care of your dreads.

"A dread on your head is worth three in your bush" -a very knotty girl

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