Whoopi Goldberg

I was watching Whoopi Goldberg in The Associate from 1996 last nite and I noticed that she wore pink sponge rollers to bed at night.  Even though she had dreadlocks.  I have heard over the years that sometimes her hair is extended to give thicker fuller dreads.  So I am wondering if she wore the rollers as just a prop for the movie or if in fact sleeping in rollers would help keep the extensions from tangling?

Anyone have an thoughts?  It was just quite curious.

Hi Kalika,

I had always heard braids would be best to keep dreads organized but of course they would have less dramatic effect for a movie.  When I first saw them I was like...huh?  Which made me wonder why they would do that.  Thanks for your insight.

I've never had dreads, but really, why sleep on rollers any more than necessary?  Even my spongy flexi-rod curlers are uncomfortable to sleep on.

leia1979 wrote: I've never had dreads, but really, why sleep on rollers any more than necessary?  Even my spongy flexi-rod curlers are uncomfortable to sleep on.

Hi Leia,

I hear that.  I recently tried after years of no rollers to sleep on the pink sponge type from Conair and I tossed and turned all night long.  YUCK.  The only thing that I have found to be comfortable are old fashioned rag rollers which are a pain to put in.

I never tryed hot rollers - I used to use those bendy long sponge
rollers, I'm not sure of the proper name of them. They gave a
spirally effect. Hot rollers would work fine though, natural dreads can
be styled just like normal hair within reason, especially if they are
skinny like mine were. To be honest I wouldn't have been able to use
hot rollers due to the sheer volume and length of my hair - twenty
years of growth is a lot of hair and would've needed several sets of
heated rollers I should imagine!
I used to braid them together a lot too - to get a wavy look.
Using rollers and rods to curl dreads is very common in black salons
- it's referred to sometimes as 'texturising' dreads.
I don't have natural dreads anymore - I cut them off a couple of
years ago due to the weight giving me major neckaches, my dreads
were halfway between my hips and my knees and I have very thick
hair so you can imagine how heavy they were! But I do use a lot of
the same techniques when making my synth dreads- if I want curly
dreads I usually use skinny perm rods and immerse them in hot
water, let cool and dry and bingo curly dreads!

No - 'texturising' dreads that are allready established is a temporary
thing just like setting normal hair in curls or waves - I guess it just
means adding texture. It will only last till you wash or wet it and will
drop over time the same way too.
Dread perms are a whole different thing and are a quick way of
getting firmer dreads if you have straight fine hair that is difficult to
dread - or of course if you don't want to wait the several months it
takes for straight hair to matt together. Doc loc's has an excellent
tutorial for how to do it in the demo's section of her site.

Hey Isaac,

I was just talking about you yesterday to Celeste, who works at HairBoutique.com.  We were talking about dreads and extensions in New York and I mentioned you.  Glad to see you are alive and kicking.

We need to catch up one of these days.

Karen