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Not thinking about getting them done, but a friend of mine with dreadlocks made me realise something.
OK, I understand that hair falls out after a given time, then grows back to a length determined by genetics. But what happens to dreadlocks when this happens? The hair that falls out of course stays in the lock, so how does the new hair grow from underneith it? You'd think this would eventually make your dreadlocks look like absolute crap, but this doesn't seem to happen to anyone I know, and see with dreadlocks.
Another thing, will having dreadlocks weaken the scalp, possibly even induce hair loss?
Thanks for any help recieved.
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JoNty
The new hair pushes under the rest of dread, gets twisted, somehow gets knotted with the rest of the dread, and off it goes...
Growing natural locks is a funny/interesting experience, and a good patience teacher heh.
I've never heard of anything like that. i've heard many say it actually helped.
-vincent
Just wanted to bring it to your attention that you reversed your name and subject fields when posting. Should be:
Name: JoNty
Subject: Dreadlock Query
You had them reversed.
Mistake.
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JoNty
You are correct in your deductions. . .the hair stays in the dreadlock permanently, but doesn't make it look like crap (unless the dreads looked like crap to begin with). One result of this is that dreadlocks do not have a terminal length.
I have never heard of anyone getting thinner hair as a result of having dreadlocks, no matter their length. Generally, an inch or so of hair near the scalp stays undreaded (it doesn't have enough length at that point to tangle), so the scalp isn't under any new stress.
