It's a process that helps already-formed locks feel tighter at the scalp. All you do is take a crochet hook and stick it through the roots, or use your fingers and make a hole through the top of loose roots, then use the hook or your fingers to thread the tip of that dreadlock through its roots. Then you stick the crochet hook though the roots again on the same dread, but in a different place, like on the other side of the section of roots than where you stuck the hook through the last time, grabbing the dread again and pulling it through. Do that until it feels tight enough, and then work on the next dread. Just kind of twists them up to make them tight, pulling them through themselves. Hope that makes sense, and if it doesn't, don't email us for a better explanation because that's the best way we can explain it!

Some other root solutions offered by Knotty kids:(The following have not been tested by Knotty Boy staff; so please don't email us about these methods!)

Some people have put plastic beads over the roots...they look cute and really help to tighten them up and keep them together! They aren't tight and restricting like elastics, either.

KnottyMorten:

"I've got the perfect way to get the roots dreaded. If you take a small piece of string and tie it TIGHTLY at the very root of your dread, it will help the dread process a great deal. Especially if you use some KBoy along wit da strings. TIP: use a string that is the same color as your hair (almost invisible that way)."

Knotty Ryan:

"I have found that taking the dread...pushing it on my scalp and rubbing it clockwise for 10mins works! It left me with a locked root...the dreads grew as dreads with minimal straight hair...this is just my opinion and just a suggestion..."