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23 Feb '18

If you're fed up with those uncontrollable loose hairs in your dreads? Here's how to tighten up your dreadlocks.

Directions: 

  • Start by finding the loose hair you want to work on. 
  • Add Lock Powder and rub the hair in circular movements until the hair tangles into a hairball. 

Now you are ready to work the hairball into the dreadlock. We prefer a crochet latch hook

  • We always start with a little bigger crochet latch hook 0.7-1.0mm. to get more hair into the dreadlock, and save time. 
  • Carefully work in the loose hair to the dreadlock from all angles. 
  • When the loose hair is inside the dreadlock, we begin to tighten the dreadlock with a smaller crochet latch hook size 0.5-0.75mm. 

MIND YOUR FINGERS! 

Continue with the crochet latch hook until you feel the dreadlock is as tight and smooth as you like. 

Finish off by rolling the dreadlock so the new knots will settle inside the dreadlock. You can use Tightening Gel while rolling which will give a firm hold.

Now it's your turn! :O) 

15 Jun '15

Using a Latch Hook Tool for Dreadlocks...

Posted by Steve Green in dread, dreadlock, dreadlocks, dreads, hook, latch, latch hook, tool

Using a Latch Hook Tool for Dreadlocks... The Latch Hook... a tool for helping pull loose hairs into their dreads. No matter whether you are pulling in loose hair at the roots, body, or tips of your dreads, the process is the same. 1). Isolate the loose hair that needs to be pulled in making sure it does, indeed, belong to the dread in question. 2). Once you isolate the hair(s) - twist them a bit to hold them together. 3). Next estimate how far up the dread the hair will get pulled and insert the latch hook in at that point. 4). Feed the latch hook through the MIDDLE of the dread and poke it out in the middle of the loose hair. 5). Place the loose hair in the hook and close the latch. 6). Holding the loose hair taut, pull the latch hook back up through the dread, pulling the loose hair with it. 7). Repeat as desired.

The Latch Hook... a tool for helping pull loose hairs into their dreads. No matter whether you are pulling in loose hair at the roots, body, or tips of your dreads, the process is the same. 

  1. Isolate the loose hair that needs to be pulled in making sure it does, indeed, belong to the dread in question. 
  2. Once you isolate the hair(s) - twist them a bit to hold them together. 
  3. Next estimate how far up the dread the hair will get pulled and insert the latch hook in at that point. 
  4. Feed the latch hook through the MIDDLE of the dread and poke it out in the middle of the loose hair. 
  5. Place the loose hair in the hook and close the latch. 
  6. Holding the loose hair taut, pull the latch hook back up through the dread, pulling the loose hair with it. 
  7. Repeat as desired.