When you stop retwisting for any amount of time, the unlocked portion of your roots will untwist after about a week—less or more, depending on your washing schedule, whether you wrap your hair at night, and the technique used to twist your locs.

Dreadlocks can actually grow as fast as regular hair, but require some special care. If you want your hair to grow faster, opt for a healthier diet. Upping your intake of the right vitamins and minerals will help your hair grow. You should also wash your hair regularly to keep it healthy.

FIRST RULES: Ideally don’t wet or wash your new dreads for 1 month – just let your hair get used to being locked into dreads before you mess with them. The reason we recommend this is because water is one of the main things that mess up new dreads! It fills them up and causes them to go slightly fluffy.

Curly hair is considered the best type of hair for growing dreads. People with curly hair also do not need to use as much gel or wax to get their dreads to hold. In fact, typically, the curlier your hair, the easier and faster your dreads will form.

Your Hair Will Grow Fast:- Your hair will grow at the same rate that it did whether you were natural, relaxed, or jerry curled. Locs doesn’t make your hair grow any faster than it usually does. Our hair grows an average of ½ inch a month. It may grow faster due to your genetics or slower because of health conditions.

Dreadlocks can trigger hair loss because hair that would usually shed as a result of the hair growth cycle, remains twisted in the dreads, causing excessive weight on the roots. If you think you are suffering from hair loss / Traction Alopecia to avoid further or sustained hair loss, seek treatment as soon as possible.

Certain types of hair are more conducive to forming in to dreadlocks, but nearly any type can be twisted and manipulated into the knotted locks.

Going along with age, the older your locs, the longer they are unless you routinely trim them back. In some cases, they become too heavy for the roots to support, which can lead to thinning and eventual falling. The thinner the roots, the more likely this is to happen, especially if the locs themselves are thick.

They are considerably heavier than loose hair, because they contain thousands of shed hairs that would have otherwise fallen out. Over the course of a year, up to 7,300 hairs can fall out and get trapped in your locks—that’s 7,300 hairs with weight that also get heavier when wet, as well!

While it is possible to get lice, spiders and other bugs will not live in dreads unless you are comatose. Lice are preventable by applying tea tree oil to the dreads and scalp.

Going to a professional for dread installation can cost as little as $200 and upwards of $800. Some locticians charge a base fee however more often than not I’ve seen that they charge by the hour, the dreading method, your hair length, and/or your hair type.