Comments on: How to Create and Maintain Dreadlocks http://www.blackhairplanet.com/blog/create-maintain-dreadlocks/ Black Hair Magazine for Natural and Relaxed African American Hair - blog. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:35:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Ekafurds http://www.blackhairplanet.com/blog/create-maintain-dreadlocks/comment-page-1/#comment-19376 Ekafurds Fri, 17 Jun 2011 01:11:19 +0000 http://www.blackhairplanet.com/blog/?p=239#comment-19376 I am appaled by the failure of the article to capture the truth behind creating and sustaining locs, this ariticle is full of so many holes and misinformation. If this website is supposed to be about black hair and all of its forms then it has surely failed in the realm of dreadlocks. With all the talk of natural hairstyles on this website its a shock to see such a poorly written article on one of the most natural hairstyles on the planet. Dreadlocks do not have to be a messy, unwashed messed. Yes if you choose to go the rasta way, which is totally fine, you can go through a messy stage. But even then, it does not have to go unwashed as this article erroneously states. For one, there are many ways to start locs and the most popular, which is not even mentioned here, is by getting comb twists which are then maintained without a comb until the loc forms. This hairstyle as well as all the ones mentioned in the above article can be washed, even weekly, by putting a stocking cap on the hair so the twists do not fall out. No one has to go around under a cap while starting locs that is a horrible misconception, your hair can be as beatiful as you are. It is best that you wash your hair using a clarifying shampoo like "Dr. Bronners" which will clean your hair but not leave and buildup behind in your hair. Also the notion that locs are a lazy hairstlye is totally not true, at least if you want well maintained locs. The fact is if you have to spend just as much time as you would with processed hair, especially when the locs began to form. Locs can take hours to do after you have had them for a year or more and they, as well as, your scalp needs attention on regular basis. Going without washing and caring for your scalp can have dire consequnces for your hair follicle and root. And products that are noatural like shea butter or essential oils are best for the job.The bottom line is that you have to maintain your scalp whether you go rasta or refined. The baseless simplicity and misinformation in this article makes it seem as though someone who has never had locs wrote it. There is not way on this earth, not even using the rasta method your locs will form in days or weeks. It takes months up to a year to have decent locs. I suggest that if you propurt your website to be a legitimate place for blacks to come, learn, and celebrate their hair you do a litlle more research on this topic before you make a posting as such because you are misleading people. I am appaled by the failure of the article to capture the truth behind creating and sustaining locs, this ariticle is full of so many holes and misinformation. If this website is supposed to be about black hair and all of its forms then it has surely failed in the realm of dreadlocks. With all the talk of natural hairstyles on this website its a shock to see such a poorly written article on one of the most natural hairstyles on the planet. Dreadlocks do not have to be a messy, unwashed messed. Yes if you choose to go the rasta way, which is totally fine, you can go through a messy stage. But even then, it does not have to go unwashed as this article erroneously states.

For one, there are many ways to start locs and the most popular, which is not even mentioned here, is by getting comb twists which are then maintained without a comb until the loc forms. This hairstyle as well as all the ones mentioned in the above article can be washed, even weekly, by putting a stocking cap on the hair so the twists do not fall out. No one has to go around under a cap while starting locs that is a horrible misconception, your hair can be as beatiful as you are. It is best that you wash your hair using a clarifying shampoo like “Dr. Bronners” which will clean your hair but not leave and buildup behind in your hair.

Also the notion that locs are a lazy hairstlye is totally not true, at least if you want well maintained locs. The fact is if you have to spend just as much time as you would with processed hair, especially when the locs began to form. Locs can take hours to do after you have had them for a year or more and they, as well as, your scalp needs attention on regular basis. Going without washing and caring for your scalp can have dire consequnces for your hair follicle and root. And products that are noatural like shea butter or essential oils are best for the job.The bottom line is that you have to maintain your scalp whether you go rasta or refined.

The baseless simplicity and misinformation in this article makes it seem as though someone who has never had locs wrote it. There is not way on this earth, not even using the rasta method your locs will form in days or weeks. It takes months up to a year to have decent locs. I suggest that if you propurt your website to be a legitimate place for blacks to come, learn, and celebrate their hair you do a litlle more research on this topic before you make a posting as such because you are misleading people.

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]]> By: Cassidy http://www.blackhairplanet.com/blog/create-maintain-dreadlocks/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Cassidy Sun, 12 Jul 2009 10:43:25 +0000 http://www.blackhairplanet.com/blog/?p=239#comment-10 Great article about dreadlocks! Thanks for sharing your tips, I will give it a try. Great article about dreadlocks! Thanks for sharing your tips, I will give it a try.

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