Can you take out dreads without cutting your hair off. All the hair that s coming out is shed hair that i would have shed had my hair not been in dreads so don t alarmed by the amount of hair you lose. This video is way more detailed and i answered a lot of you guys questions on my process. Due to the tediousness if that s a word of this that s why i chose to do it myself because i don t want to spend hundreds of dollars going to a shop or sitting in somebody s else or 40 000 hours while they try to pick at my hair. If you comb out your dreads you can keep your hair the same length but it may take a couple of days to do. Cutting your dreads off is the easiest and fastest method but will reduce your hair s length. Just as dreadlocks take many months and plenty of patience to cultivate they take time a slow hand and a little help to remove especially if you don t want to go under the clippers. So i am back here again with another dread loc take down video. Before you choose a method consider how much time you want to spend on taking your dreads out and how long you want your hair to be. So to be clear she pointed out that when you comb out your locs you will encounter a lot of hair that stayed in the loc shedding and breaking off because it s no longer attached to the scalp.