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Never hold your farts in! They travel up your spine, go into your brain and that's where shitty idea's come from.
Written by: knottylocks
Mythbusters: What Knottyboy and DreadheadHQ didn’t tell you. (A short FAQ for those spoonfed by wax companies)
Too often, people join Knottylocks asking how much wax to use or if, perhaps, they are aren‘t using enough, or too much, or why their locks look like crap. Nine out of ten times, we tell these new members that they don’t need wax. Usually, about a month or two later, these are the same people complain about their locks looking like crap (looking the same as the day they first backcombed them). If you are one of these people, please listen to us! The only reason that Knottylocks.tk exists is because Knottyboy.com closed their forum due to people spreading the word that wax is unnecessary.
Knottyboy and DreadheadHQ will do just about anything to sell you their products. If you have just learned of knotty locks, then good. It’s not too late do dispel the myths they have been telling you. Mainly, that you need wax. This is their biggest lie. Many people were deceived into thinking that you NEED wax to make nice clean knots in your hair, when in fact this is not true. Locks have existed since the beginning of time, and these companies have only been making wax since 1998? (knotty boy).
The truth about these companies is that they just want to sell you some shitty wax that will stop your knots from forming. This causes people to panic that their hair isn’t locking up, so they use more wax. The only way to form REAL KNOTS is with (say it with me here) TIME. And anybody with real locks will tell you that. No amount of wax will give you some instantly neat and tight locks. Impossible.
Below are a few short quotes pulled from these wax companies’ websites and my response to them.
***following items in quotes pulled from www.knottyboy.com website***
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the GOOD news is that Knotty Boy Dread Wax helps speed up the whole process of "letting them come together" in a BIG way, binding those locks together so they don't come apart in the soft, new dready stages, and lets them get a good head-start
That’s the biggest misconception Knottyboy and DreadheadHQ want to put out there. YOU DO NOT NEED WAX TO MAKE LOCKS. Wax simply acts as glue, holding your hair in the same place. Locks need to move to get tighter. Wax can only hurt new locks. You will get more progress using your own aloe vera gel, salt water, or simply nothing at all.
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Knotty Boy keeps them together a lot better than if you were using nothing at all and just letting them mat up randomly over the years. And that's the good news!
Look around Knottylocks and see how many people wish they hadn’t used wax, or didn’t use wax and their hair turned out fine. In fact, there are a few pictures floating around here that shows a dread cut in half to show the built up wax that hindered the locking process.
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Contrary to popular belief, using an all-natural product like Knotty Boy does not create ‘fake’ or ‘unnatural’ dreads - but rather, it utilizes the properties of natural, earthgrown ingredients to facilitate and speed up the natural process of dreading. Nothing unnatural happens when you use Knotty Boy - it just helps to make better dreads, faster!
Yeah because putting goop in y our hair helps make “better dreads, faster!”. The truth is that hair tangles up on its own. It’s an invention of mother nature and no amount of wax will help to create knots. Horses get tight locks in their manes on accident, dogs do, wild animals get them, anybody who doesn’t brush their long hair will get them eventually. They didn’t use wax emoticon
***Taken from the FAQ page (supposedly from somebody who used the neglect method):***
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Hey, well, I think I've got a problem. I started to do the neglect method (my friend formed the dreads with some knots and braids), and what you said was going to happen pretty much happened. It's matting, kinda gross, and full of dandruff.
Yep. Because if you don’t backcomb your knots you’ll have gross hair and dandruff. If you believe that neglected locks look nasty or gross, then maybe locks aren’t for you. Click this link for cookie cutters : www.knottyboy.com emoticon
And if you think it will give you dandruff? Give me a break!
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When you wash, give your scalp a really good scrub with the Knotty Boy Dread Shampoo Bar or Liquid Shampoo . Don't use regular shampoos from the drug store or salons - they contain conditioners and other chemicals that soften and detangle hair, not knot it up!
You don’t need Knottyboy’s shampoo, nor do you need HQ’s shampoo. They will do fine for your hair, of course, but what works just the same for a much much lower price, is Dr. Bronner’s bar or liquid shampoo. Any natural glycerin or tea tree shampoo will work. The only criteria for making a shampoo “dread friendly” is that it contains no conditioners, no SLS, and no residues.
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You will need the following stuff :…(A jar o'Knotty Boy Dread Wax)
It’s been said before. You don’t need wax.
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If I use a blow drier will that help set up and dry out the dreads after I've waxed? What about going to a hairdresser and asking to sit in the perm chair? Will that help the dreads set?
Yes, heat really helps melt the wax into the dreads and stick 'em all together. Try it with a blow-dryer, or sitting in the sun, and if you can sit in the perm chair, that's an even faster way of doing it. This isn't completely necessary for good locks, though, just another thing you can try to speed up the process.
Using a blow dryer right after you are all freshly waxed will also melt the wax right into your dread, realllly saturating it. This is also great if you can see the wax at all, or if it's making your hair look a little dull. Blow drying each dread till the wax melts will fix these probs easily!
DON’T USE A BLOWDRYER ON WAX!
It will only push the goop deep into the center of your “dreads” and create candles from the inside out. Candles are not locks.
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We are pleased to announce the addition of our new (and lower-priced) recycled t-shirt dreadbands! Made right here in oh-so-environmentally-minded Vancouver, these nifty items keep your dreads off your face in a different, lighter style. Ideal for the active dreadie, they are available in various shades of green, blue, black, the VERY popular black w/ rasta stripe and now... brown! All are slightly different and unique!
So Knottyboy’s plan is to cut up some old shirts, sew them together, and sell them to you for $15? If you are really that hard up for an old shirt, go to goodwill or a thrift shop. Knottyboy sells their hats for as much as $45 plus shipping. If you really need a hat, there are many crafters on Knottylocks that can help you out with a hat for much much cheaper.
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Can you tell me what Knotty Boy Dread Wax exactly does to get dreads all tangled up??
Knotty Boy Dread Wax binds the undreaded hair together really tight so that your new dreads get a good chance to knot up, rather than them just getting matted over time and after not washing for months and gross stuff like that. It lets them start dreading right away, plus it makes you look like you have dreads even if it's the first day you put the stuff in your hair. It's still just tangled hair for the first few weeks, but then those locks start getting tighter and harder, and that's when they're turning into dreads! Usually this process takes months, even years without anything in your dreads to help – Knotty Boy Dread Wax gets them going in a matter of weeks.
How would beeswax create knots? Simply by sitting in your hair it will make your hair knotted?
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Believe it or not, we're not all about selling you dreadlock products! True, the products we've developed are, in fact, helping thousands of people out there achieve healthy, happy dreadlocks easily and naturally, and we would never, ever sell our customers a product that was all hype and no results.
Are you kidding me? emoticon
***following items in quotes pulled from www.dreadheadhq.com website***
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For really severe lumps that you have to do something about you'll need to comb them out. Just start at the tip and comb the hair out with the dread comb working you way toward the bump. Comb it out and then redread it. Work your way back to the tip. Use a rubber band and some wax to hold the tip tight while it re-dreads. Some loops and lumps add character or at least I think so, dreads are not supposed to be absolutely perfect and symmetrical.
That’s a brilliant idea! Undo what time has done for you just to get rid of some loops! Retarted!
Loops are a natural part of having new locks, the more loops you have, the tighter your locks will be. Loops are simply the locks shrinking and getting tighter. This is definitely what you want your young dreads to do.
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It's a good idea not to backcomb any more after the 2nd week or so. Rubberbands will hold it tight
Don’t backcomb after the first time. Any more than that is unnecessary, and in fact, will do more damage by untangling the natural knots that are forming in your hair.
The bottom line is that these companies will tell you anything just to get you to buy their products. Wax is unnecessary, as well as these overpriced, bloated wax companies that continue to spread lies about the most natural thing in the world. -Locks are a natural beauty, something that you don’t need to try to rush or goop up with wax.
But hey, don't listen to me. Go ahead and put it in your hair and get back with me in a few weeks. emoticon emoticon
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Never hold your farts in! They travel up your spine, go into your brain and that's where shitty idea's come from.
Never hold your farts in! They travel up your spine, go into your brain and that's where shitty idea's come from.