HOW TO MAKE DOUBLE ENDED DREAD-EXTENSIONS WITH AN IRON.

In this tutorial you can se how Morgana from www.morgeve.dk makes her dreads.
Picures by Desirée from www.daniello.dk

1) First you take a section of the kanekalon-fibers, depending on how thick you would like your dread to be.

2) Then you go to your workspace. Here's a string on the back of a chair, but there's many ways of doing this.

3) Fold the fibers in half and secure the end your not workning on.

4) Start back-combing working your way to the tips of the dreads.

5) Make sure the back-combing is even and not lumpy.

6) Now secure the back-combed part, and work on the other end, so the hole dread is back-combed.

7) Now the dread should look something like this, and is ready for sealing.

8) Now the dread is all ready to be sealed, and again you work on one side of the dread at thetime. So secure the dread. You will need a steaming iron and a bull clip.

9) Working on one half of the dread, twist the fibers by twisting the dread.

10) Keep on twisting.

11) Now pressing up against the board, holding the twisted dread in place with your body, cover the dread with a damp cloth, and steam the dread with a rolling motion.

12) Working your way down the dread, but making sure not to burn your belly.

13) The tip of the dread, that was folded over the edge of the board holding the dread in place, now needs to be sealed. Move the dread to make space for it, then fold and twist it.

14) Again holding the dread in place by pressing your tummy against the board.

15) Again put the damp cloth over the dread and with a rolling motion use the steaming-iron to seal the dread.

16) Now its time to seal the tip of the dread. Twist the tip hard and secure it with a bull clip, so you don't burn your fingers.

17) Place the tip of the dread on the board and cover it with the cloth, but leave the top inch uncovered.

18) Seal the tip of the dread, the same way as before, going over the very tip directly with the iron.

19) Now the tip is sealed.

20) Snip the tip with a pair of sissors.

21) It should look something like this, a bit lumpy, but now you go over the hole dread a last time. Cover it with a cloth.

22) And a last time ironing, the dread will be evened out - half done!

23) It's time to do the other half. It's done the same way...

24) Twist.

25) Cover with cloth and seal with steam and heat from the iron.

26) Now the dread is finished, and here's the result.

27) That's one down and a lot more to go...