What kind of dreads are these?

 

Are these even real dreads?

 

Real or not, how could someone get their hair to look like this?

 

I am an obsessive guitar and synth player. The weirdo guy is the guitar and synth player (what a surprise) of the band "The Kovenant". He is a true virtuoso musician, and one of my idols. I came across the picture on the band's forum. I have always like the basic look of dreadlocks, but I don't like that "giant mass of hair" quality that dreads usually have.

 

I found this pic and his hair seemed to have the dreadlock look, but without the tons of volume. So now you know my motives.

 

I finally asked the "weirdo guy" directly, and it turns out that they were in fact real dreads. I sure wasn't going to harrass the man for further hair styling tips though.

 

In his pre-dreadlock days, the "weirdo guy" had extremely straight, smooth, silky hair. I'm talking HAIR MODEL hair. That's the only reason I can think of as to why his dreads had that look to them. But then again, I know absolutely nothing about dreads--that's why I asked you folks.

 

If you research synthetic dreadlocks you'll constantly hear Kanekalon mentioned as it is usually used for synthetic dreadlocks but I think that human hair was also used because of the way that the colour changes near the root (unless the colour was changed in photoshop) looks like human hair when the roots haven't been dyed for a long time. Also, I haven't seen colour transitions like that done with Kanekalon, but then I'm not a pro. In the front where they twist to a thin bit and then there is backcombed untwisted bit it looks like how dreads made from Kanekalon look before they are finished i.e. after steaming and drying but before cutting and sealing the ends.

 

I've never used human hair to make synthetic dreadlocks as Kanekalon is a lot cheaper so I can't really tell you how to make ones like in the photo. There are plenty of good tutorials on Youtube about making synthetic dreadlocks with Kanekalon so I'll refer you to there as it would be difficult for me to expain here as I don't have any photos of me making them.