How to Add Loose Hairs to Dreadlocks with Dreadballing Technique

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"So right now I'm going to talk about a little thing called the dread balling. That is a maintenance technique that you use when you've got little wispies - like these, like I do, which I kind of really don't care about. But, if you want to reincorporate them into your dreads, one method that you could use is called dread balling. Basically what you do is ball up: you are going to take your hair and you are going to ball up the end of it and with your fingers roll it, and roll it, and roll it, and it takes quite a bit. But, it is also better to do this right after you've washed your hair, when it is not oily because that always helps the locking. So you are going to roll it like this and you are going to roll it up, and you are just going to keep doing this. You should probably spend at least I would say 3-5 minutes rolling it because that is going to get it really tight and you are going to try to roll it as short as you possibly can so it is a little ball. See this little ball? To where it gets really close to your scalp, and you are going to roll with your fingers and you could use your hands in there and kind of keep doing it and doing it. And your hand cramps up a little bit, and once you do it a lot it builds your muscles and you get use to it. Once you got your ball pretty much roll and it is pretty tight what you are going to do is your going to locate. You may need a friend for this. You are going to locate the nearest dreadlock to your little dread ball and because you got a little bit of loose hair on the top you are just going to slip it through there and kind of stick it with some wax to your dreadlocks. You could also kind of sew it on there with thread. That actually is probably if you can thread a like little wisp of hairs through a needle to you could use a needle and kind of weave in and out of your hair and that is a good way to do it to. But, so you got your little dread ball and it should be a lot closer then mine actually is. So you just put on some wax and you do a lot and after that you know and you keep waxing it everyday and you palm roll it a lot and you palm roll it and you palm roll it and you palm roll it everyday, several times a day and you should it should incorporate into the dread eventually. It does take a little while and occasion you are not successful but, generally speaking you can you know take care of your little wispies by doing that. "