The thing about the loose hairs is this: you will always have those loose hairs and they are totally normal with dreads. There are a few things that you can do to help them disappear a bit, but it is a constant battle, and really the best thing to do is to just love your dreads for what they are and not worry about them.

First of all, we now have the utterly fabulous Knotty Boy Locksteady Tropical Tightening Gel to aid you in your fight for flawless locks! A rich aloe-based formula, this stuff will tame the tresses, flirt with your nose, and help get your dreads tighter WAY faster.

If picking up this jar of joy isn’t an option for you, you can try is using a crochet hook to 'knit' those loose hairs back into the main locks. Just stick the hook through a big lock near the loose strand, grab that loose strand with the hook and pull it through the big lock, then stick the hook through the other side of the big dread and pull the loose hair back through the other side. Pull the loose hairs back and forth, once chunk at a time, through the nearest dreads until you’ve 'crocheted' them into your other dreads. It helps to have someone help you with it. Then wax that puppy up to keep it in place for as long as possible. That will hold for a while, but they usually pull out after a few weeks from sleeping and pulling your hair back into a ponytail, and then you hafta do it over again.

If you’re ok with doing a bit of trimming with scissors, you can carefully trim loose hairs that are sprouting from the side of dreads to clean things up a bit. Some people even carefully trim loose hair that’s not dreading around their forehead, ears, and neck. If you are going to try this, just trim a little at a time so that it doesn't look chopped and with ends everywhere. The hair on your forehead that’s not dreading, trim close to the roots but not too close - you don't want spikes of hair growing back again. Just make it soft around your forehead, use the tips of the scissors and snip a little at a time in an upward motion toward the scalp. This should help. You can also try trimming away the crazy hair that makes your head look fuzzy, but again, don't chop right against the scalp or you'll get spikes of hair growing back. Just do a little at a time; you can always trim more later on.

And as time goes on, those loose hairs become not so bad, just sorta eventually dread into the others. Patience, my pretties!