Im currently working as a registered nurse in senior citizens home care. Elderly people are so polite and no one has said anything negative about my dreads. It would be nice to hear if someone with dreadlocks has experiences about working in health care.
Its now 10 months since I started my journey. Here are few pictures what kind my dreads are today. I have kept my hair up alot because I cant work with hair open. So that might slowed the progress a little.
Thanks for your reply! I will definetly read more info from this site. Im also happy that I found this site because there seems to be lot of ways to destroy dreads with wrong methods.
I have 35 dreads + few tiny ones. If I could start over I would do smaller ones because I have, as you noticed, few big ones on the back side of my head. The biggest one includes two dreads. I didnt notice that they combined because I did all dreads myself and after I found that they were combined it was too late so get them separate. So the scalp area of that combo-dread is something like 1x2 inches. Other ones are just a bit over 1x1 inches or smaller.
I have washed my head few times and here where I live (Finland) we have a natural soap what is meant to use washing carpets. Its made of pinewood and it have very roughing/buffing effect to hair. But it also dries scalp so it needs to use only dreads.
Im waiting to see results but it seems to take a long time. During that its a time to read how others have took care of their dreads. Its also exciting because I think that Im propably the first dude here where I live who have dreadlocks 
Ive planned dreads a long time and now the time came
Hello everyone!
I decided to do dreads from my super straight hair. I have had long hair about 4-5 years but I didnt like to let them be free because I looked like those heavy metal people. So, I started to do backcombing dreads 2 weeks ago. Because my hair is so straight I couldn manage to do dreads that way and I tried twist n rip technique. That worked well and now I have had dreads a bit over 1 week. Heres few pics how they look now.
