WEBVTT - How Dreadlocks Work 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.840 Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve camera. 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:07.560 It's ready. Are you welcome to stuff you should know 0:00:08.160 --> 0:00:16.639 from house toff works dot com. Hey, and welcome to 0:00:16.680 --> 0:00:19.880 the podcast. I and I am Josh Clark and with 0:00:19.960 --> 0:00:23.040 me is Charles W. Chuck Bryant. I knew you were 0:00:23.040 --> 0:00:25.320 gonna I was waiting for it. You had no idea. 0:00:25.880 --> 0:00:27.720 I didn't know that, but I just I knew there 0:00:27.720 --> 0:00:29.880 was some sort of reggae thing coming up. That was 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:33.600 all the cuff tap. Really yeah, no, no way, it 0:00:33.680 --> 0:00:36.360 really was. I thought about it, and like my stomach 0:00:36.400 --> 0:00:39.080 got all butterflies, and I was like, I'm gonna do 0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:43.960 it A plus A. Thank you, Chuck. How are you doing. 0:00:44.520 --> 0:00:47.680 I'm great, You're feeling good today. I've been under the 0:00:47.680 --> 0:00:51.280 weather again. Yeah, I just don't feel quite right. Like 0:00:51.320 --> 0:00:53.760 if ten is feeling great and then one is sick, 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:57.960 I meant like, uh, like a five and a or six? 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:00.840 Is it that staff infects? And still I don't know 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:02.520 what the deal is. I would imagine that would have 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:06.280 lasting effects after for you know, it's not like a 0:01:06.319 --> 0:01:12.360 normal stomach bugs. That's like a stomach terrorist. Our podcast 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:14.040 is on a watch list now that I just said that. 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:18.280 I think so, does that mean more audience? Possibly at 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:23.080 least the ns will be listening, um chuck. Back in 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:26.600 my hippie days, uh, there was this question that was 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:30.840 on everyone's mind. There was a piece of knowledge that 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:35.720 wasn't passed around adequately among the hippie counter culture that 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:39.920 I was hanging out with, and that was exactly how 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:42.959 to dread your hair if you didn't have kinky or 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:46.240 curly hair. So the people that did that kept in 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:49.520 a guarded secret or else they didn't tell anybody, or 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:52.720 they were vague when they did tell. What I suspect 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:57.480 is based on the my experience with humorless hippie people, 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:02.880 they did say because they didn't want to overtly make 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:06.120 themselves look like jerks and say, you know, I'm not telling. 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:09.280 They would just be very vague and unhelpful. Plus they 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:10.640 probably don't want to make it seem like it took 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:13.200 too much work. You know, that's probably part of it 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:14.799 as well, because that's not as cool if you had 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:17.000 to like work at it three or four hours today, 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:19.000 or if if your mom was helping you on a 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:22.480 Saturday night, you like, it's just gonna happen man. So 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:26.160 I remember having this conversation with this friend of mine 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:30.079 who actually ended up on TV later on because I 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:32.200 guess the dreads didn't work out. He had a TV 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:37.799 show um on ht TV actually, um yeah, he was 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:43.480 called bush Whacked. He went in like guerrilla garden people's landscapes. 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:46.240 That's awesome. Anyway he was. He was talking to me 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:48.720 once he was playing with this hair. I noticed that 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:53.360 it was really really greasy. Um, like, hadn't been watching 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:55.880 several days greasy this when he had dreads. No, he 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:58.280 was trying to get I asked him, what are you 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:00.480 doing with your hair? And he's like, I'm trying to 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:03.000 dread it. And I was like, you actually have to 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:07.360 watch it, man, because that grease is keeping it from tangling. 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:11.000 And I remember this look coming over his face, like, Wow, 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:15.000 you just blew my mind. That was the closest I 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:17.480 ever came to being able to explain how dreadlocks work 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:22.040 until today. Now, after years of wondering and then even 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:25.880 more years of not caring, when you get to the 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:29.680 point where I'm finally understand how dreadlocks are formed among 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:32.680 white people especially, Yeah, sure, and I think it's I 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:34.880 think the history is a little more interesting than than 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:37.760 my stupid anecdote. No, no, than the actual process. But 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:39.640 we'll cover the process too, because there's people out there 0:03:39.720 --> 0:03:42.080 right now that are wondering it. Behooves us. They're they're 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:44.840 nineteen twenty year olds out there who are who have 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:47.640 greasy hair and can't figure out why it's not dreading 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:50.880 or they put gasoline. You ever hear that. No, that's 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:53.560 a very bad rumor that gasoline in your hair helped it. 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:59.960 Not true, helps your hair catch on fire? Having more 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:04.160 than once? All right, So, Chuck, you were saying about 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:07.600 the history of the dreadlock. What are we talking about? 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:09.440 We were talking about the history the dread Does that 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:11.760 ever come back? I can't wait to hear how Jerry 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:19.240 edits that? Good luck? Uh so, Josh. Prehistoric humans probably 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:22.760 had some form of dreadlock from the neglect method of 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:26.240 forming dreadlocks, letting it tangle up, letting it do its 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:29.799 own thing and matt matt up and weave itself into dreads. 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:31.960 Right and right about here, I think people are going 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:35.960 to have a question like, well, didn't didn't people who 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:40.360 you know lived in prehistoric eras, they didn't wash their hair, 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:43.200 So how did their hair dread. Why wasn't their hair greasy? 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:46.480 You want to know the answer of that that I've heard. Um, 0:04:46.640 --> 0:04:49.200 prehistoric people lived out in the woods and slept on 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:51.760 the ground, and leaves and dirt got in their hair 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:55.839 and actually carry the grease away. Really, huh is that true? 0:04:56.040 --> 0:05:01.080 That's what I've heard. I didn't do my standard intensive 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:05.560 research for this particular podcast. They don't know that that's true. 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:09.359 But that's a Josh theory. I like it. Well, dude, 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:13.320 they have discovered mummies. Peruvian mummies as old as two 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:21.039 hundred d had dreads, and more recently than that, Aztec 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:26.480 Aztec priests in the fourteen and fifteenth century had demanded dreads. Yes, 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:32.680 and they're not all. There's also contemporary groups. Religious groups 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:36.120 specifically dreads tend to pop up, it turns out, in 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:39.400 as as a sign of religious devotion in a lot 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:43.320 of cases. Right, Yeah, the fact like this is God's body, 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:47.000 and even grooming it would be um would not be 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:49.360 an aesthetic valve. So if you take that aesthetic value, 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:52.280 you're not even You're not gonna do anything to your body, right, 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:54.839 You're just leaving your hair to do what it will 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:58.840 naturally exactly, And um, so, who who do we have? 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:03.039 I know the Coptic Church in Ethiopia. Priests in that 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:06.479 church still um Christians with their hair, right, I say 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:11.679 that as if Christians, there's Christians in Africa. Uh. In India, 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:15.200 the Sado sect of Hinduism, they they have the old 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:18.320 dreads in honor of Shiva. Wouldn't it be weird to 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:22.040 see an Indian guy with dreads? You know, I've seen 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:23.919 dreads on so many different kinds of people. Now, I 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:27.120 don't think anything, I'm with you, but I think one 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:29.960 of the few ethnic groups that I've not seen dreads 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:34.400 on are um South Asians. Yeah. Well, and actually, like 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:37.320 in Japan it's pretty popular now. But yeah, I've seen 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:41.280 I've seen Asians with dreads. I've never seen an Indian. Interesting, Yeah, 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:44.720 with dreadlocks. That's why I'm like, call for listener male 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:46.520 right now, if you are of Indian descent and you 0:06:46.560 --> 0:06:50.160 have dreadlocks, please in a photo. That's right. Okay, Now 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:53.159 back to the show. Rasta Buddhist and Japan. That's what 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:55.400 we were just talking about. UM. Members of the Black 0:06:55.480 --> 0:07:01.760 Muslim uh bay Fall sect in Senegal, rights in New Zealand, 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:05.080 the Kiwi or Kiwi friends Mayoris, isn't it Mary? I 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:08.480 don't know. I'm gonna go with Mary and uh, different 0:07:08.520 --> 0:07:11.360 African tribes where dreadlocks a gola and then maybe at 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:16.040 places like that, right and the Rasta's right. Well yeah, sure. 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:19.040 So when you think of dreadlocks, you think Bob Marley, 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:20.640 and when you think of Bob Marley you think of 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:25.360 reggae and Rastafarianism basically, right, among other things. Yeah, I 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:29.760 left one thing out, didn't i? Um? And he was 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:33.720 pretty much the poster boy for dreadlocks and Rastafarianism, and 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:36.800 he almost yeah, you don't want to say single handedly, 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:40.920 but he was a large force in introducing dreadlocks to 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:47.120 the West and the symbolism, the mythology behind them, uh, 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:51.400 and behind how it was associated with Rastafarianism, which it 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:55.680 turns out Jamaican Rastafarianism isn't that old. Yeah, I thought 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:58.720 it was much older than what eighty years? Yeah, it 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:02.480 was came out of the artis when Hollis Selassie the 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:08.200 First was throned Emperor of Japan. Yeah, of Japan. Did 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:13.320 you know that? The Ethiopia Ethiopia right, Um? And they're 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:17.000 apparently a sect of Jamaicans believed him to be the 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:22.400 Messiah and built a religion Rastafarianism around him. And the 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:24.560 Dreadlocks are a big part of that because they feel, 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:27.320 um that it has to do with keeping you in 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:30.240 a pure state as God created you as well, and 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:32.280 they point to Samson in the Bible, even though we're 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:35.600 gonna get to that that's a myth, yes, so they say. 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:39.080 And they also it was sort of a sort of 0:08:39.120 --> 0:08:46.199 rebelling against the European invasion of the world, the imperialism, 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:50.680 European imperialism. And uh, the author of this article, Matt Sailor, 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:53.600 who I do not know, to you, um must be 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:57.160 a freelancer. Matt Sailor points out that, um, it's rooted 0:08:57.200 --> 0:08:59.960 in the idea of the West as a place of 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:04.000 captivity in Africa's paradise. And as you were saying, it 0:09:04.280 --> 0:09:08.320 kind of rebels against European ideals of beauty, right, or 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:10.240 it did at the time, Like we're not gonna have 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:13.560 the lustrous blonde hair, fine hair exactly, We're gonna grow 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:16.800 together matted clumps, and we're going to be proud of 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:20.240 it in your face, in your face. And and it's 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:24.320 possible that the Rastafarians were um inspired by the Mau 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:27.400 Mau tribe. Yeah, that's what I wanted to know, is 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:30.040 where it came from. Well, this is possibly where it 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:34.880 came from. The Mau Mau are located in Kenya and 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:38.280 they were a um a tribe that rose up against 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:42.080 British colonial rule. And actually there's a Magnum p I 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:45.840 episode that puts Jonathan Higgins in the in the middle 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:49.640 of a Mau Mau uprising in the fifties. Yeah, you 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:52.600 see that one. It's good. That sounds familiar. I think 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:55.920 it might have. Actually, Um, there's a guy with the spear. 0:09:56.240 --> 0:09:59.000 There's like a Mau Mau warrior that's stalking the the 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:03.520 estate Robin's Nest. Does it's called anyway? They think that 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:05.679 they were they were inspired by the Mau Mau in 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:09.559 their uprising against British colonial rule, which makes a lot 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:13.320 of sense. Um. And they also think that this may 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:16.960 be where the name Dreadlock came from, right, Yeah, that 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:19.360 it inspired dread in the in the hearts of the 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:22.880 British soldiers. And it's possible that it's not necessarily attached 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:27.280 to the Mau Moo. That Rastafarians realized that it possibly 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:32.160 inspired dread in the fear in the hearts of um Westerners. Right, 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:35.400 it's always dread in the heart, dread And yeah, you're 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:37.640 not gonna feel that anywhere, maybe just in the heart, 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:41.079 maybe the stomach. It's stomach dread and the loins of 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:46.800 the British soldiers loin dread is the worst, Josh uh So, 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:50.280 um dread lucks today they spread obviously, you said Bob 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:52.040 Marley had a lot to do with that, with his 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:55.319 popularity so untold in the nineteen seventies. You know, I 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:57.640 posted to Bob Marley video on the Facebook page one 0:10:57.720 --> 0:11:01.360 day and I got killed for it. Why. I didn't 0:11:01.400 --> 0:11:04.120 know that there were so many anti reggae people out there. 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:07.120 And I'm not Mr. Reggae like at all, but I 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:09.720 like a little Bob every now and then, and as 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:11.600 did some people. But some people are like, I can't 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:14.800 believe he posted this. Reggae is the worst? How are you? No, 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:19.839 that's not correct, We thank you. That's really weird. I 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:21.839 don't think I've I've heard of people who are like, no, 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:24.160 I'm not really into reggae, Like it seems like one 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:29.079 of those those music genres that's not really polarizing it's 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:31.760 either you kind of like it or you're really into it, 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:34.079 not you're really into it or you hate it. They 0:11:34.120 --> 0:11:36.640 hated it, that's crazy. I think they were you know, 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:39.280 are you sure they weren't confusing it with country music? 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:43.920 Maybe so maybe they thought Bob Marley is the country music. 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:47.200 Uh So, he and his whalers in the seventies made 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:50.440 it very popular in the United States and then actually 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:53.079 everywhere well the world. Sure he made it popular in 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:56.880 one hand, but it also increased the anti dreadlock. I 0:11:56.880 --> 0:12:00.000 wouldn't say it's a movement, but like with the whole 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:02.959 marijuana thing, and it was tied to you know, some 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:07.160 people would say, like drug use, how so, well, the 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:11.920 Rastafarians they like their their pot. Explain from what I'm told, 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:16.880 there's no explanation. And the writer Mr. Dreams Sailor also 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:20.719 pointed out movies like Marked for Death and Predator To 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:25.199 Predator To, both released, actually had something to do because 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:28.360 they depicted menacing gangs with dreadlocks. I don't know about that. 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:30.719 I don't know if they hastened it or else, if 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:33.920 they were maybe born out of, you know, some sort 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:39.560 of public view of dreadlock. Any dreadlockynism. Yeah, you know, 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:43.760 but it's a good point, like he's saying, we used 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:46.800 to view people with dreadlocks as menacing drug dealers who 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:52.200 corrupted children, and now we view them as, um, you know, 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:56.640 wealthy kids who go to college and yeah, follow fish 0:12:56.640 --> 0:13:00.679 around on tour because that's popular. So Chuck, let's say 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:05.600 you are a an aspiring fish tour kid, right, especially 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:07.760 even on tour any longer. Did they get back together 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:10.600 and break up and get back together again? I don't know, 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:15.120 we'll find out. Let's say you're following somebody string cheese incident. 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:17.320 Let's say, right, you get your hula whoop and your 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:19.760 little fairy wings, and you're like, it's time for me 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:23.760 to take the third step, which is to dread my hair. Right, um, 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:28.120 and you want to get things started, and we're gonna 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:30.520 we'll we'll talk about how to do with kinky hair 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:33.600 and with straight hair, right, Yeah, much easier with kinky hair. 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:36.840 Let's let's start from the beginning. What's what's step one? 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:40.560 Because we literally there's literally a step by step list 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:44.800 of instructions in this article. Step one, Josh, which is 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:47.040 what your friend did not do. You gotta wash your hair, 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:50.600 and you gotta dry it. Yes, that's the very first 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:53.440 thing you do. And a really good recommendation is to 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:58.200 wash your hair with a very natural um type of 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:01.800 shampoo because those things to rip your hair, and you 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:05.360 want your hair stripped and dried. Basically, you don't want 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:08.960 any residue on it whatsoever. Certainly, no grease, no grease. 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:11.760 Step to Josh, you wanna divide it into sections. And 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:15.480 by sections, what we mean is when you pull a 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:18.040 clump of your hair together and you can either like 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:20.720 clamp it with something, or you can just do one 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:22.480 section at a time, or you can separate it all 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:24.640 out right and you want to clamp it at the end. 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:27.600 The tip well, yeah, but what you gotta remember is is, 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:31.200 uh make a little squares basically, so you can see 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:33.120 your scalp in a little square. And that's a section. 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:36.320 But each section in theory will end up being its 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:40.720 own dreadlock. So if you if you want five huge dreadlocks, 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:44.120 then you're gonna have five sections. But you don't want that, well, 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:46.920 some people do, well, yeah, sure, some people let them 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:49.120 grow together. Have you ever seen those like the beaver tail? 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:53.480 Those are awesome. They're impenetrable. We'll talk about that in 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:56.800 a minute. Well. Uh, Step three, Josh is well, like 0:14:56.840 --> 0:14:59.600 I said, pay attention to the size of the section, right, 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:01.760 Like you said, when you pull your hair, it's going 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:04.440 to it should form a pretty much a perfect square. 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:07.240 And the bigger the square, the bigger the dreads going 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:09.400 to be. Right. So that's kind of your rule of 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:12.880 thumb exactly. Step forward, you want to add a little product. 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:16.760 And and this is probably the most contentious step because 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:18.520 some people are purest, right, they don't do that. Some 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:21.560 people you just use a little water, right. Some people 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:27.520 say whax. A lot of people say whax alo cream? Uh, 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:29.440 this is this is we should say this is for 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:33.760 kinky hair. Uh is it? Yeah? Aloe and cream is 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:36.560 for sure. Okay. Well, and the they say the Rastafarians 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:38.760 are are really the purest and they only use like 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:41.800 purified water to they're not putting wax in their hair. 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:43.920 But if you use straight here and you're going to 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:47.240 use product, you should use wax. Okay, where are we? 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:51.080 Step five you want to start twisting in a clockwise direction. 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:53.760 And the reason you do that is so you always 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:56.400 remember which direction you've started, because if one day you 0:15:56.480 --> 0:16:00.720 go to palm roll it counterclockwise. You're gonna start undoing 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:04.720 your dreads unknowingly. And when you when you twist your 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:06.200 hair lock, you want to you want to clip it 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:10.640 at the end and explain backcombing because I don't I 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:13.640 don't fully understand that it's it's easy. Um if you 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:17.200 ever have you ever approached a cat and um, it 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:19.640 was just sitting there, it looks all happy and content 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:22.800 and you're like, I hate cats, So you pet it 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:25.960 the opposite way of the way its hair goes. Yes, 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:28.200 cats don't like that, No they don't. It's hilarious as 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:31.680 it rubs them the wrong way. That's where the phrase 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:37.160 comes from. Um huh yeah, uh. This is pretty much 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:39.000 the basis of backcoming. So what you do is you 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:45.080 have your tight product um counter clockwise rolled hair. Actually 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:46.800 we should say this is for straight hair. You don't 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:50.680 backcomb kinky hair. Um, so you you haven't. You haven't 0:16:50.720 --> 0:16:52.920 hand rolled your your hair yet if it's straight, but 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:55.160 you have some product in it, You have your your 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:58.360 segments and are eventually gonna become dreads. Maybe it's clipped 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:00.400 at the bottom. What you're taking. What you're doing is 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:04.760 you're taking a fine toothed metal comb. You're holding the 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:08.280 tip of the hair and you're combing it upwards all 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:10.639 the way to the route, and you keep doing this 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:13.440 again and again and again until basically you really can't 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:17.920 get the um the comb up through the hair any 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:21.120 longer because you just tangle it so badly. And then 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:22.919 you move on to the next segment and do that 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:25.359 again and again. Intel Basically what you're doing is you 0:17:25.480 --> 0:17:28.400 just jump starting your dreadlocks. Well yeah, we say jump 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:32.000 start because if you want dreadlocks tomorrow, you're out of luck. 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:36.320 Not necessarily, you can pay through the nose and probably 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:40.119 be made fun of in certain circles. Um a loctician 0:17:40.640 --> 0:17:43.320 to go to a loctician who will um use a 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:47.640 crocheting kit your hair. They really look like dread they 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:51.040 look like braids. I don't know. It probably depends on 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:54.120 how messy the loctician makes them look. You know, I'm 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:55.800 gonna go ahead and go on on a limb and 0:17:55.800 --> 0:17:59.080 say that's not genuine and they don't look like real dreadlocks. 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:01.040 Well yeah, if you're one of those people who will 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:04.880 only wash your dreads and natural pure water and that's it, 0:18:05.440 --> 0:18:07.760 you're probably not going to go to a loctician. I'm 0:18:07.800 --> 0:18:11.160 the purist, Josh, are you That's how I roll. So 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:12.840 if you are a purist and you don't want to 0:18:12.840 --> 0:18:14.160 go to a loctician and pay a lot of money 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:17.159 and look silly, then, uh, it's gonna take a while. 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:20.240 And it ranges depending on your hair, you know, the 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:23.200 texture of your hair, anywhere from a few months to 0:18:23.280 --> 0:18:26.160 like a year sometimes, right And for kinky hair. Um, 0:18:26.200 --> 0:18:29.960 there's actually a couple of stages, um, the budding stages 0:18:30.080 --> 0:18:34.840 where the locks really start to kind of um intertwined. 0:18:34.880 --> 0:18:38.479 This lasts anywhere from like two months to six months, 0:18:38.800 --> 0:18:42.399 right right. Uh. And then at the end of that Um, 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:44.960 at the end of that that budding stage where it's 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:48.560 really starting to kind of like not close to the scalp, 0:18:48.920 --> 0:18:51.399 it'll start growing out and it will keep nodding as 0:18:51.400 --> 0:18:54.240 it grows out. What you have, my friend, is called 0:18:54.240 --> 0:18:56.639 the dreadlock. You're in the locking stage a k a. 0:18:57.240 --> 0:19:00.520 The point of no return. Yeah. And since you mentioned 0:19:00.560 --> 0:19:03.359 the root, if it, you don't want to tangle it 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:05.919 too close to your scalp because that can it can 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:09.400 actually break off and kill that not so you want 0:19:09.400 --> 0:19:12.159 to also really hurt Well, yeah, I'm sure give you 0:19:12.240 --> 0:19:14.480 give you the old headache. You want to have a 0:19:14.520 --> 0:19:16.400 little bit of space there so your hair can still 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:18.639 grow normally. And this is something I didn't know, but 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:21.040 it makes perfect sense. As your hair grows and dies, 0:19:22.119 --> 0:19:25.680 it's just becomes part of the dread. Right, So it's 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:28.360 not like when you see a fourteen inch dreadlock. All 0:19:28.400 --> 0:19:30.439 that goes back to the root of the scalp, right, 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:32.760 Most of that is dead hair. Yeah, it's just kind 0:19:32.760 --> 0:19:35.800 of like gets caught up and it never falls out. 0:19:35.880 --> 0:19:39.440 You can't shed, and you're certainly not cutting your hair off. 0:19:39.480 --> 0:19:42.120 So we should say what palm rolling is. I think 0:19:42.119 --> 0:19:44.159 we mentioned that twice and we didn't really say what 0:19:44.240 --> 0:19:47.080 it was. So let's say you decided to use wax 0:19:47.160 --> 0:19:49.159 or something like that. Let's go with wax because that 0:19:49.200 --> 0:19:51.520 seems to be the best thing. Okay, Um, you put 0:19:51.560 --> 0:19:55.240 a little on your on your dread and you roll 0:19:55.320 --> 0:19:58.640 it in that clockwise position. Again, it's basically yeah, it's 0:19:58.640 --> 0:20:03.760 basically just maintenance, an encouragement of those, um, those tangled 0:20:03.840 --> 0:20:07.040 knots to stay tangled. That's a lot of work, man, 0:20:07.359 --> 0:20:10.359 it is. Um. So all that was for you. We 0:20:10.480 --> 0:20:15.400 entered the locking stage with kinky hair with straight hair. Um, 0:20:15.640 --> 0:20:18.160 you want to keep the uh, you want to keep 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:21.639 applying wax a few times a week actually after this 0:20:21.760 --> 0:20:27.240 sum after the initial um tangling, the initial waxing. Yes, well, 0:20:27.280 --> 0:20:29.119 and they said to hair to blow dry it. So 0:20:29.160 --> 0:20:32.320 the wax actually kind of melt in your hair. Yes, 0:20:32.640 --> 0:20:34.400 So well we'll get to that. Let's figure it. Let's 0:20:34.480 --> 0:20:36.480 let's talk about how to do this. There's there's something 0:20:36.520 --> 0:20:38.560 that a lot of people don't understand, and that is 0:20:38.600 --> 0:20:41.800 that if you have mature dreadlocks, let's say it's been 0:20:42.000 --> 0:20:46.000 six months to two years, you've got your actual dreads going, 0:20:46.000 --> 0:20:49.320 they're all looking sharp. Um. If you don't take care 0:20:49.359 --> 0:20:51.840 of your hair, you're gonna have all sorts of little 0:20:52.040 --> 0:20:55.960 um critters growing in it a k. A. Mildew is 0:20:55.960 --> 0:20:58.520 a big problem actually. Um. That's why a lot of 0:20:58.520 --> 0:21:01.320 people wash the hair with like teachree oil based soap, 0:21:01.400 --> 0:21:05.120 because it'll get in there and kill it's an antimicrobial. Well, 0:21:05.160 --> 0:21:08.080 and that's also from improper drying too. Right, So when 0:21:08.119 --> 0:21:11.719 you wash your hair right, um, a lot of times, 0:21:12.040 --> 0:21:15.119 especially when you're washing it while it's in the budding 0:21:15.440 --> 0:21:19.000 or locking stages, it's they're not mature dreadlocks. You want 0:21:19.000 --> 0:21:21.240 to put a pinty hose on your head. Then you 0:21:21.320 --> 0:21:24.040 got a panty on your head, uh, and you want 0:21:24.080 --> 0:21:27.199 to let basically just let the water go through, so 0:21:27.280 --> 0:21:29.600 you don't want to get your fingers in there. You 0:21:29.640 --> 0:21:31.680 want to keep your fingers out of there, let the 0:21:31.720 --> 0:21:34.399 hair go through, wash it with teach reol soap, and 0:21:34.440 --> 0:21:36.399 then when you get out the drying part, this is 0:21:36.480 --> 0:21:39.840 very important, squeeze it out, ring them out. Especially if 0:21:39.840 --> 0:21:42.320 they're mature, you can bring them out more easily. Um, 0:21:42.320 --> 0:21:44.639 if they're not mature, possibly you just roll them in 0:21:44.640 --> 0:21:49.720 your panty hose, uh and then um, you blow dry 0:21:49.800 --> 0:21:52.800 the heck out of them until they're totally dry. The 0:21:52.840 --> 0:21:55.200 funny thing is there are very few blow dryers on tour. 0:21:56.440 --> 0:21:59.280 Yeah I imagine so yeah, so that you're saying they 0:21:59.280 --> 0:22:05.080 have mildewy head, he's nodding hair care products. That's this 0:22:05.119 --> 0:22:07.359 is sort of again like with all things, if you're 0:22:07.359 --> 0:22:09.359 a purist, you're not into it at all, And everyone 0:22:09.400 --> 0:22:11.760 has their own things they use from like hot oil 0:22:11.800 --> 0:22:15.560 treatments to gels and salt water accelerator and stuff like 0:22:15.600 --> 0:22:18.760 that to like really tighten them up. Lenny Kravit style. Again, 0:22:18.840 --> 0:22:21.520 if you are washing your hair using a product and 0:22:21.840 --> 0:22:25.680 you don't want to use the standard you know leaves 0:22:25.720 --> 0:22:30.080