Wrapped Transitionals

[Hotmess]

Wrapped Transitionals : For the People who get fed up with doing Transitionals the hard way!

I think with wool dreads this is called felting(?) with a needle and such and such. As a matter of fact, I think there was a tutorial on the old HH with something like this.

How do wrapped transitionals work?
Simple. I usually make full length, fully backcombed, dreaded and sealed DEs (or SEs), and then I take a section of KK hair, backcomb it a little, and then I take a bobby pin and pin the hair through the middle of the DE and then I start twisting the hair around the dread. After that, I seal.

P.S. This works the best with Tri-Color Transitionals, and transitionals that go from a Light Base, to a Darker Color.

Does anyone else use this method of making Transitionals?

[Ice_Pick_Abortions]

Rhaniel's method is a bit easier i think and it can hold up a bit better. i'll use the example of a black to pink. in her method, you take the top colour of the transitional (black) and back comb that, then about a third of the way down, poke a hole and insert the bottom colour (pink) through and back comb that. then when you twist it all comes together. i'm not sure how easy it is to picture that in your head!

it's easy to do triples like this or make extra super long dreads by using the same colour the whole way down. may take a few goes to avoid getting a bump where the bottom colour goes through the hole in the top colour.

[Amb3r]

Rhaniel's method is a bit easier i think and it can hold up a bit better. i'll use the example of a black to pink. in her method, you take the top colour of the transitional (black) and back comb that, then about a third of the way down, poke a hole and insert the bottom colour (pink) through and back comb that. then when you twist it all comes together. i'm not sure how easy it is to picture that in your head!

it's easy to do triples like this or make extra super long dreads by using the same colour the whole way down. may take a few goes to avoid getting a bump where the bottom colour goes through the hole in the top colour.

I totally agree. The trick is that you have to backcomb a bit more than usual and don't go so far down the first dread to poke the hole since that will make the dread look really skinny in the middle. Also, make sure that the second dread color has the same thickness as the first when you loop it through the hole.

[ANNloses]

I use Rhaeniel's method, it's just simpler and quicker for me.

[dreadstarrs]

i use rhaniel's as well. however,i havent tried the other so maybe i will experiment with it at some point.hhmmmmmm....

[kezerb]

I'll have to try this as it seems easier than the looping method. Thank you

[rivetlicker_]

I tried this, but I failed. I used a felting needle too. I guess I didn't do it properly.
My transitionals are more wrapped, I do SE's and backcomb hair like candycanes (this method is like Neon Hair's striped dreads method), although make one colour shorter, then wrap that hair around the other colour so it becomes solid on top, then in the middle, it starts to candycane where the top colour starts to taper down. If you know what I mean? Haha, I'm so bad at explaining it.

[doclocks]

They both sound great.

I usually just blend three different lengths together and back comb. The shorter will dread up first and cover the others. You have to get your blending really nice to do it this way though. I think the other methods would be easier for most. I'm excited to try them out!!

Doc

[IKickShins]

For the transitionals I sell, I use Rhaniel's method and trim the ends of the top color to control how much swirling there is between it and the bottom color. I originally made them wrapped because I find its easier to do it that way, but I don't like how stiff the wrapped part gets compared to the rest of the dread.

I've also done the blended kind for some of the dread wigs I used to make, but I usually only use that method if the colors are similar (like red-orange-yellow, a darker shade to a lighter shade of the same color, etc).

[rivetlicker_]

Yeah, the stiffness is a bit too much, but it's just easier to make!

[[Phexxie]]

i cant remember whos method i use, but its the easiest ive tried, Rhaniel's method produced lumps and skinnys bits when i tried it and i got annoyed and gave up lol

you basically backcomb your first colour (say black) then backcomb your second (say blue)

then, take the blue and position it about a third of the way down the black, and start to wrap the black around the blue
then when you feel youve done that enough, switch to twisting the blue as normal, making sure that you twist the last little bit of the black too as if you were doing a candycane

eventually the little bit of black runs out and your left with just the blue to twist, then seal the whole thing as normal and trim off any bits of blue that are sticking out of the black from where you joined the two together

et voila! one transitional, hope that made sense??

ive never had problems with lumpy bits or the colours pulling apart when ive used this method, i think as long as you put the second colour in high up enough then theyre nicely secured