Yes indeed. Have you given much thought to this matter?

Would  you like your dreads to have blunt rounded tips or tapered pointy tips?

When you follow the instructions on the various other dreading sites, they say rub your tips. Roll them around in the…(yes yes I’m well aware of the massive double entendres running out of control here!! lol)…palm of your hand until they’re nice and round and blunt. So you think oh yes I’d better do that, and rub rub away. Then, if you are me at least, your brain starts registering the fact that all your favourite dread pics show dreadlocks with wild straggly tapered ends, and the blunt ones you find a bit ugly. Doh.

So, give it a bit of thought!  When your dreads are fragile and freshly backcombed, and during the early weeks, tip-rubbing does have the practical function of keeping things together and reducing the gradual sliding undoing of your new fuzzy friends. However, unless you are working with dreadlocks which are so very short they need all the help they can get, the danger of your locks sliding out altogether is probably sufficiently small for you to skip the tip-rubbing, if you don’t want blunt ends.

This is a completely subjective matter, so I’m sure many people will disagree with my opinion, but here’s what I think anyway.

Blunt and rounded dreadlock tips only suit (and are perhaps preferable to tapered ones on) men and people with afro hair. Softly tapered tips are much nicer on women than blunt tips, which can look heavy and unflattering, especially when the dreads are still short enough for the ends to be near the face area.  Tapered tips also give an illusion of greater length, which is good if you’re anxious for your locks to hurry up and grow.

If you’ve made your dreads tips all blunt and kinda wish you hadn’t, it’s easy enough to unpick them a bit with some scissors, which I did on a couple of mine which had gone that way.

That’s all. So have a good browse of other people’s dread pics and figure out what you like about them and why.

Bye!