Palm rolling is one of the best techniques to tighten your dreadlocks.
After twisting your dreadlocks, keep the knots compressed and tight by palm rolling them regularly.
What Is Palm Rolling?
The technique of palm-rolling (as the name implies), involves rolling locks of hair between the base of both your palms, using a fair amount of pressure. The process starts at the tip of the dreads, progressively working up towards the root.
What Are The Benefits Of Palm-Rolling Dreads?
Palm rolling helps to compress and tighten the knots in your dreads. It also removes frizziness in locs and prevents the formation of lumps and clumps in dreads.
Regular palm-rolling prevents loose hair and gives a rounded appearance to dreads.
When Is It Best To Palm-Roll Dreads?
Palm-rolling works best when you have dread wax in your hair. The rolling motion helps to remove excess wax in your dreads. The knots would usually start to loosen as soon as you stop rolling, but the wax holds the knots in place until your palm roll them again. For best results, palm-roll each of your dreads for around 30 seconds daily after applying wax.
You can palm roll dreads when they are wet but it is not as effective and can cause loose hairs to stick out of your dreads.
Palm-roll Maintenance
If you prefer to have your dreads professionally maintained, give your local loctician at least an hour to help you with your palm-roll maintenance.
Although this technique is simple enough to do it by yourself at home, a loctician can help by covering all angles on your head, prevent unraveling of locs, and maintain a parting system in your hair – all aspects that a professional salon expert is trained to address.