quick easy dreadfall with good coverage
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- MissAnthropik
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quick easy dreadfall with good coverage
This is a really quick easy way to make a fall out of DE dreads, that requires only DE dreads and your hands (no bands, sewing, gluing, lace or anything else). This will also mean you can untie it easily at any time and have your DEs back to use as extensions. It also has a layered effect and has excellent coverage (I actually devised this method after failing to ever get a fall on and not have my buns poking out), and requires no pins, grips bands or anything else to hide your buns, it just does hide your buns!
1) Take one dread which will be the "lace" (or ribbon, or whatever else you normally use to attavh your falls to your buns).
2) Take one DE dread and knot it around the "lace/ribbon dread" somewhere near the middle, it should look like this:
or if you have it the other way up, it'll look like this:
Doesn't matter which way up you knot them, but to keep it neat do them all the same way up!
3) Do all whole row like that, I used about 9 I think. It should now look like this:
4) Now we are going to add on the next layer, and start to create the coverage. To do this we are going to attach the DEs that you have already put onto your fall together.
To do this imagine you dreads A and B on the fall already, each has 2 dreads handing down - A(left) and A(right), and B(left) and B(right). We are going to attach A(right) to B(left). We do this by taking another DE and knotting onto A(right) and B(left) in the same way that you attached A and B to the lace/ribbon dread. Obviously it looks like this one is attached going sideways, but in reality it will hang down. In my photo A is the black dread and B is the pink dread:
Make sure you push the knot up to the top of the base so as to ensure there are no gaps and there is good coverage:
5) Now attach more DEs in the same way across the rest of the row, so you attach B(right) to C(left), then C(right) to D(left) etc, until you have done the whole row:
6) now for the third row, which is the hardest to explain. You just kind of look for gaps and add more DEs in in the same way as you have been doing.
When it is complete it should look like this:
This one maybe shows the overall finished effect better because of the different colours used - the yellow and pink was the first layer I knotted on, then the next 2 were just blue:
Hope that all makes sense, i'm not sure i explained it so well this time round...
1) Take one dread which will be the "lace" (or ribbon, or whatever else you normally use to attavh your falls to your buns).
2) Take one DE dread and knot it around the "lace/ribbon dread" somewhere near the middle, it should look like this:
or if you have it the other way up, it'll look like this:
Doesn't matter which way up you knot them, but to keep it neat do them all the same way up!
3) Do all whole row like that, I used about 9 I think. It should now look like this:
4) Now we are going to add on the next layer, and start to create the coverage. To do this we are going to attach the DEs that you have already put onto your fall together.
To do this imagine you dreads A and B on the fall already, each has 2 dreads handing down - A(left) and A(right), and B(left) and B(right). We are going to attach A(right) to B(left). We do this by taking another DE and knotting onto A(right) and B(left) in the same way that you attached A and B to the lace/ribbon dread. Obviously it looks like this one is attached going sideways, but in reality it will hang down. In my photo A is the black dread and B is the pink dread:
Make sure you push the knot up to the top of the base so as to ensure there are no gaps and there is good coverage:
5) Now attach more DEs in the same way across the rest of the row, so you attach B(right) to C(left), then C(right) to D(left) etc, until you have done the whole row:
6) now for the third row, which is the hardest to explain. You just kind of look for gaps and add more DEs in in the same way as you have been doing.
When it is complete it should look like this:
This one maybe shows the overall finished effect better because of the different colours used - the yellow and pink was the first layer I knotted on, then the next 2 were just blue:
Hope that all makes sense, i'm not sure i explained it so well this time round...
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- MissAnthropik
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Re: quick easy dreadfall with good coverage
And last time I posted this some people said they found the photos hard to understand, so Itried again with MS paint!! (my OH says I should have done a video, but that's a maybe for next time)
If you didn't understand that above maybe you will understand this:
If you didn't understand that above maybe you will understand this:
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Re: quick easy dreadfall with good coverage
Thanks for this. I tried this out some time last year, and it really does have good coverage!
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Ahhhhhhhhh ok I thought I got it from the photos but by the diagrams you've shown I was doing it slightly differently lol! This is one of the best tuts I've found - kudos to you MissA!
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wow! awesome tut! thanks bunches!!
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i loved this tut when it was on the old site!
its amazing! i got such amazing volume when i had falls like that!!!
its amazing! i got such amazing volume when i had falls like that!!!
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Re: quick easy dreadfall with good coverage
i love the diagrams, have to say was getting a little confused by the photos, i can't wait to try this out
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Re: quick easy dreadfall with good coverage
ooh! thanks for this!
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Re: quick easy dreadfall with good coverage
good tutorial, these look great n most falls can be very annoying withlow coverage
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Re: quick easy dreadfall with good coverage
i was just looking on the 'hall of fame' thread and saw your wigs and you said they were tights based, how does that work exactly and would you be able to make a tutorial at all?
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Re: quick easy dreadfall with good coverage
yeah, i can do a tute, I did do one ages ago, but don't think it's on here. I think I still have the photos though. I'll do it in the next few days
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Re: quick easy dreadfall with good coverage
ah great ^^
thanks hun
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Re: quick easy dreadfall with good coverage
I've just tried this and it really does have amazing coverage! I was running short on dreads so each fall only had about 16DEs in it, but it still managed to cover up all of my hair. I'll be making all my falls this way from now on
Thanks for posting this!
Thanks for posting this!
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Re: quick easy dreadfall with good coverage
i understood your draw pics i'm def goin to give this a try how sucure are they?
roll, roll, roll, the roving make the feltie dreads
hang em up n dry em out
and get a woolie head
hang em up n dry em out
and get a woolie head
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Re: quick easy dreadfall with good coverage
how secure are the dreads? or how secure is the fall?
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Re: quick easy dreadfall with good coverage
the fall, but i've just made one and seen its really secure
roll, roll, roll, the roving make the feltie dreads
hang em up n dry em out
and get a woolie head
hang em up n dry em out
and get a woolie head
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