It takes a lil wurk to make dreadlocks happen in straigt hair, but you can handle it. I'll try to give you some tips and instruction and see if I can help you sport some phatty dreadlocks asap! Dreadlocks are prolly the koolest hair style ever. Chicks dig'em on dudes, Dudes are all about'em on Chicks...theyre just plain kool. First of I gotta say that dreadlocks are not dirty like sum missled peoples believe. Sure, they can be dirty, but so can you hair when its straight. It's just a matter of how you take care of it. You can use dread wax to start your dreads and they will be totally washable. No need to let that shizz get all rank. Dreadlocks actually tighten faster when you keep'em clean. There's two things that you never ever wanna submit your dreadies to: Conditioners or Combing.. After you start your dreads you won't comb or brush your hair, the idea of a dreadlock is that the hair gets tangled and knotted, then after a lil while the knots get tighter and smooth out into a dread. You can help this process a lot by 1) knotting the hair up to start -and- 2) Using the right stuff to hold the knots together in that crucial time when they are "locking up". The knotting can be done with a fine tooth comb, any will wurk as long as its really strong. Metal pet combs are great cuz they won't break no matter how hard you pull on'em. The proccess of dreading up this hair, or knotting it up really, (the dreadlocks happen after you wax it) is called backcombing. You backcomb the hair by grabbing a bundle of it (usually about the size of ur finger) and sliding the comb tward your head.

You bunch up the hair as tight as you can get it. Its best to have a friend help you. Its even better if ur friends gettin dreads too. That way you can help each other out. So you tangle the hair up with tha comb like you are teasing it but you pack it in real tight. It's ok if you don't totally understand this cuz I'll have a link to a page where its explained really well later, this is just to give you the jist of the whole dreads making process. So you get it knotted up into a shap that looks like a dreadlock, it's knot really a dreadlock yet though. Dreads take time, this is preparing your hair to dread. Dredlocks cannot be made overnight, no matter what you do you'll need to give the hair time before it will form dredlocks. Dredlocks is a process and these methods make dredlocks turn out great over and over. If you do this stuff right you're gunna have sweet ass lookin dreadlocks in about 4 or 5 weeks. If you just leave the hair alone and don't wash it or comb it, hoping it will turn into dredlocks, it usually takes about 7 to 8 months before you have dreads. You'd prolly end up cutting it all off long before that thought cuz it would look frizzy and wack the whole time and itch like a bitch cuz you didn't wash it. So the secret is use dread wax. Using the wax you can keep them clean and they will look good while they are locking...and of course they lock way faster. One quick cation to all you cats runnin for the toothpaste right now...Don't play scientist with your hair. You can really damage your scalp by experimenting with random house hold products trying to make dreads. People try peanut butter, toothpaste, eggs, polyurithane, gum, normal beeswax, honey, mollasses, and about a zillion other things...none of the shit works and its makes your head nasty and itchy. Some things will actually dammage your hair folicles and you'll go bald at 25..don't play, use only approved hair products. The best one by far is called Dread Head. They make other stuff thats good for dreads too like dread soap, and somthin to help your dreads tighten faster. But any way, back to our story....After you get the hair knotted into the shape that you want you put rubberbands on each dredlock. Put one on the tip(end) of each dreadlock and one on the root)base of each dread. The root one you'll take off in a few weeks, the tip one you can leave on there, the dredlock will swallow it as it grows and leave you with a nice round tip. Ok, now you gett'em secured, its time to wax'em up. I use a hair dryer to heat the dreads as I wax them. This way the wax melts into the dread where it does the most good and the out side of the dreadlock won't feel waxy. Take about 1/2 a finger tip full and squeeze and rub and twist it into each dredlock.Keep goin till you got all the dreadlocks waxed.

Ok, so you got a phatty head-o-locks, now what...well DUH..go sport'em! If you used a quality wax they should look cool as hell right after you do'em so go clubbin or sumthin and show'em off! So how about taking care of your new dreadlocks? Well thats not to hard either, you need to keep them clean...wash them about every 5 days or so. Put a panyhose nylon over your head while you wash them for the first few weeks. Wash them through the nylon with it on you head the whole time. This will keep the dreads from loosening, dreadlocks are delicate for the first month or so. What you wash them with is really important. Some shampoos and soap have conditioners, moisterizers and other additives to make the hair smell like apples or feel soft.....well all that stuff really sux for dreadlocks. Things that the soap leaves behind can build up inside of you dreds and loosen them over time. Eventually it can evern destroy the locks you wurked so hard for. What you need to get is a soap that doesn't leave anything behind in your hair. The HQ has some soap that wurks great on dreadlocks. Its very approprately called dread soap. I've used it since I got my locks and it's good stuff. Whatever you do, don't ever use conditioners on your locks, it will kill'em fast. There are a few things you can do to help your dreads tighten faster. First and foremost is of course Twistin'&Rollin'. The more you twist and roll your dreads between you fingers and palms, the faster they will tighten. Do it all the time...twist those dredlocks ridin in the car, twist those dreadlocks sittin in class, twist those dredlocks while youre dickin aroun on tha net, twist those dredlocks while youre fallin asleep..you get the idea. One thing that wurks really well for tightening dredlocks is the ocean. Dunk your dreadlocks twice a week if you can. Dunk'em and let them dry in the sun....it helps sooo much. If you don't have an ocean handy you can get stuff called "locking accelerator". It works just as good or better than the ocean and you don't even have to get sand in your underwear.

Your dreads will look better and better the longer you have them, especially if ur takin care of them. After your dreadlocks mature you won't have to do much as far as maintenance. You'll always twist the ends and roots in your fingers but it won't be work, it will just be habit after a while. Kinda like scratching ur ass, uh I mean chin, while you think. You can also use the dread wax occasionally to condition them if they feel dry. The dread head wax has vitamin E in it and hemp seed oil. This will keep the hair healthy so you don't have to worry about the dredlocks gettin too dry and breakin. Broken dredlocks are knot phun.

Finally I wanna leave you catz with this... Not everyone has dreadlocks, its a unique hair style. It kinda sets you apart from everyone else in a way. People tend expect you not to act like every other poser and prep when you have dreads...don't let them down. Be your own person. When you get dreads you kinda step across a line, is like saying "hey look every one I don't fall in with the rest of the sheep" Its a great feeling and I think everyone who has dreadlocks feels it to an extent. We all share that....its kinda like a brother hood or something. With that in mind don't pass another dread head on the street with out some nod or smile of acknowledgement, and if you can stop and talk. You'll prolly find you got mad shit in common. N E way, you get the idea... I'm outta here...

Oh, you thought I forgot....didn't you...here's tha link to Dread Head HQ, if ur serious about gettin locks these guys will help you out. Thier page is tight, thier stuff wurks and if you have any problems dreading or need advice about your dreads they won't leave ya hangin, every time I have written them questions I got an answer the same day...