Now that my hair has gone insane with the loops and flattened sections I have a new daily game that can sometimes keep me entertained for the better part of an hour. My son enjoys playing it too. It's the first thing we do when we wake up.
I call it "What's this dread look like?"
I have one dread that evolved from a car to a semi truck to a cherry blossom branch. Another one has made it way through all the loopy letters of the alphabet and is in the process of figuring out what comes after W. I have rabbits, bumblebees, bears, snakes, and dinosaurs roaming and coexisting in my hair alongside all the other "objects" I find on a daily basis. I love it.
I'm now at the point where more of my dreads are loopy than not. I almost feel bad for the tiny handful of non-loopy dreads. Pitiful things only ever look like chopsticks, pencils, or skewers. Thankfully there are only maybe 10-15 like that out of 60-70ish.
I'm so glad I made the decision to let my hair do it's thing after setting up the twist and rip. I couldn't imagine "maintaining" all the wildness out of my dreads.
If it weren't for my incessant need to have my fingers in my hair I'd undo it and go completely natural but then I'd never have dreads and that would be no good. I do have some natural dreads though, hiding out between the TnRs, and they are dreading like lightning. They've actually completely surpassed many of my TnRs even though they've only popped up in the last couple of weeks. It's amazing. The shrinkage on the naturals is nuts though. I've got one that is about 1/3 the length of the rest of my hair and I don't think it's done shrinking yet. (For the record, it looks like a cherry!)
If anyone reading this is currently questioning which method to do...I highly recommend natural. If I had the ability to keep my fingers from frolicking in my hair I'd be doing it instead. It is so much fun finding new dreads where I'd swear I had loose hair just the day before. It's kind of like hunting for easter eggs!
So now that I'm done rambling...What do your dreads look like?
updated by @tied-up-in-knots: 02/14/15 09:37:04AM