Palm Rolling Dreadlocks - how to and when to do it
Youtube video about dreadlocks palm rolling
Palm Rolling Dreadlocks means simply grabbing the dread between the base of your palms and rubbing it back and forth, along with compressing it with your palms.
Many people believe that palm rolling helps the knots to compress and tighten and therefore to become dreadlocks.
I personally from my own experience don't think so, I have done it when I started my first set and it really didn't do anything to my dreadlocks, It gives you an instant neat look for your dreads but that doesn't last very long since the hair does not actually lock inside the dread, it just lay on the dread from the outside for a while or until you wash your dreads.
But palm rolling dreadlocks could be useful in some cases:
* If you are using wax or cream: I do NOT recommend using wax on dreadlocks, any kind of wax, but I don't judge people who do use it especially organic wax. In this case palm rolling really helps a lot. It gets all the frizzy hair to stick with the dread and gives dreadlocks a more matured look.
* When you are backcombing or twisting your hair: because the dread is still in the process of forming, palm rolling while backcombing or twisting really helps, it does get all the messy hair inside the dread before being back combed by the brush or getting twisted in, that way it stays inside and helps tightening the dread.
* The ends of dreads: palm rolling can also help locking the tip of your dreads when they loosen up, because in that area it is easy to get the hair to lock
* In the lumps and bumps phase: when your dreadlocks go through the shrinkage phase (if they ever do), palm rolling them after washing could help speeding up the process of uniforming.
Again that is just my own experience. The outcome will be different from hair texture to another, but you may try palm rolling and see how it works for your dreadlocks. Sometimes I do it just because I like to play with my dreads
But Remember, no matter why you're palm rolling your dreads, never do it too hard and never do it close to the root, you may break your hair and hurt your scalp.
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