Ok -- I am the mom of FOUR boys so why the heck am I in here???? Well, my oldest son (aa) wants long twisty dreads (like the football players have) so we have been growing his hair out for a YEAR ... now it is around 6-8 inches long and had been braided and the roots had "locked". It was beginning to look horrendous so I have spent three hours a night for the last three nights COMBING IT OUT.
Yes ... apparently it IS possible to comb out dreads if you use entire bottles of detangler. He absolutely refuses to have it cut ... we live in a small town in CAnada with not an aa hair dresser in sight (the one we used before has recently moved away).
He has this absolutely beautiful
afro now and I have not a clue what I am going to do with it when I finally get it all combed out.
His hair is not tight curly but it is capable of locking eventually. I used beeswax in the past but its so STICKY now when trying to comb it out and I am finding all sort of lint in the dreads attached to the wax (I suppose that is normal).
Why do I have to have a son who is SO into hair? ugh lol I thought I would be off the hook with 4 boys.