Creating Synthetic Dreadlocks Using Silky Braid - Doctoredlocks.Com

Are you looking to turn your silky braids into dreadlocks I'll, show you how, in this tutorial, silky braids will dread up just like regular Kanekalon jumbo braid as long as they're the same fiber so before you start make sure that you're working with a Kanekalon or a Low temp silky braid fiber we're going to separate our fiber away from our bundle and we're going to secure it to our surface for our purposes we're going to use a dread loom, but you can just clip it to your counter or otherwise secure one end of It so I'll take this and place it in I have the top fold of the hair is positioned out slightly, so I'm going to do a little bit more than halfway for backcombing purposes. Silky braid is a little bit less forgiving than jumbo braid, because jumbo braid has that natural kink to it silky braid doesn't have that. So the trick to it is to use a fine, toothed comb. I like to use a plastic comb. The bristles are a little bendable like that, and it's a nice tail comb. What silky brave needs in order to get those knots into place is we need wide sweeping motions to start. This is going to push some of that fiber up into place just a little bit at a time and then we're going to go back through and do smaller, tighter passes and what that does. Is it tightens down those knots and it really accentuates that bind so we're just gon na start, moving all of that into place and then coming back in tighter, tighter, tighter, tighter just keep going until you have a nice secure dread? Okay, as you get to your ends, you should start to feel your Center is quite a bit thicker and it's kind of stiff into place and the way that you'll know if you're done with your back combing is you can hold it and it doesn't really move It doesn't drop it's not that floppy fiber that you start with. So we have completed this side now we're ready to flip the entire fiber bundle. So I'm just going to loosen these and flip now when we secure this down again, I want part of my back combing hanging over the edge. That will mean that I will be able to back comb this side all the way up to the place that we started so secure this into place and repeat on the other side so again wide passes. Then we're going to tighten that up by pulling the fiber apart, we can kind of move some of those knots forward and get rid of some of the larger loops. You don't want to do that too much, but if you see things like this, that you want to get rid of, we can pull it apart and just smooth it down some. You can see now that the comb does not travel very far once it's put into the dread. That'S how you know that your back combing is done, give it that last little stiffness test and now we're ready to seal to seal our silky dread. We'Ve chosen to do an iron sealing method, but you can choose any method in our synthetic dreadlock sealing section. So to start this we have a pot of water. We have a couple of hand towels that are soaking in that water. We have our iron, which is on a fairly high setting and something to secure our dreadlock to our counter space. So the way that we're going to start is I'm going to put the dread in the loom and I'm going to leave the bend exposed on this side of the dread. Then I'm going to secure it down, then we're going to take our towel and we're going to wring out the water, not all the way we want it wet, but not dripping. I'M going to take our towel we're going to lay it across our workstation. Then we're going to start twisting our dread. Okay. Now we just lay that towel over the top pinch it with our other hand, so that our hands outside of the towel and apply the steam is actually forcing itself into the center of that dread. So we're going to open up the towel, retwist it and we're going to hit it again. That'S going to give us a nice, strong seal, okay, opening that back up make sure that cools down a little bit before you move on we're going to slide down the dread and twist again you're going to use a different part of the towel each time. If you use the same part of the towel, see how the steam is different, it doesn't have that same nice, sharp crisp hiss to it, and that's what you need to make sure that that steam is actually forcing its way into the center, so keep moving it Around if you need to go ahead and switch out your towels okay to seal your end, you're just going to continue doing the same thing, you'll need to hold a pretty tight twist on a tiny little section of hair, so you're just going to twist. As best you can fold that towel over you're going to get really close to your fingers so be really careful. It doesn't take quite as much steam because there's not much of a core there again open it up twist again, scoot your towel make sure it's wet. Really careful, okay and then you can just clip away these tiny little hairs at the end. Okay, now we're ready to flip our dread, so we're just gon na unhook, the one end you're doing it in a batch. This would be the time when you'd flip the whole batch make sure when you flip your dread, that your leaving part of the sealed end exposed because that's where we want to meet up with and add on to so now we need to lay our towel out. This is a fresh towel. It'S just come out of the water, so it's still very very damp and we're going to twist I'm using my thumbs and pushing the fiber in and down around the dread. That'S going to help give me a nice smooth dread with a lot less loop sticking out everywhere. You can see all of these loops are sticking out, but they aren't once they're twisted. So now we're going to flop that towel over the dread switch fingers and hit it with the iron. So we're going to open our towel back up and same as the first side, we're just going to twist that again make sure it's really tight move your towel over so that you have a fresh spot, wrap it again, switch your fingers and hit it again. You can hear that seam start to die down once it kind of hits such well apart. It'S not really doing its job anymore, so you go ahead and come off of it open it up, make sure that it's cool before you keep moving continue this process until you reach your other end. So now we're ready to clean up our ends and pop that off and you can see the ends - are pretty fine and wispy we're just going to clean those up with our scissors, and this completes our finished dread out of silky bread thanks for watching and if You liked this video make sure that you subscribe to our channel so that you never miss a beat and if you need products for your projects, check out doctored locks, calm for all your hair extension needs.