14 months natural dreads timeline
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gorgeous!!
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what has been the best part of your journey?
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I'm really starting to feel like myself. I feel so much more comfortable with my hair. I love every part of this journey. even the mistakes.
Hair dreading too close to the scalp
Dread Maintenance
I have the same problem. I think i might have tnr too close to the scalp, since my hair was short when I started. and I only have this problem near the top of my head too. its been 6 months since I started, and still less than 1/2 inch of loose hair at the scalp near the top of my head
and it feels uncomfortable when I pull on them. is there anything I can do to loosen up the roots?no maintenance, by the way.
Dreading my lion's mane
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Ok I see... So the scalp shouldn't be showing? And just make sure all the dreads are separated?Thank you so much for clearing up my concern. I was very confused with many people telling me different things.
Dreading my lion's mane
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I see. I'm just afraid all the dreads at the back of her head will form one giant dread.So its ok if I don't see distinct parting? Because I sure don't anyone.
Baba Fats said:
Even with hair as curly as yours, you shouldn't have to separate daily. Most people separate once a week. In your case, I'd say no more than 2-3 times. The more you separate, the slower the process. You will be pulling apart hairs that actually should come together. If you think you need to d it every day, they will get caught up again in the impatient mindset of having to maintain you hair.
If you separate every few days to once a week, you will see so much more progress in between sessions. and the few days between wont harm your hair or make it any harder to pull apart. What it will do is help define you sections a bit more and make it easier for you to select how large of sections you want your locks to grow into.
Plus it will keep you from getting annoyed that some loose hairs are still there. You won't worry so much about how far along you are.
A tip for separating, as well... don't do it in front of a mirror. a mirror will only make you nit-picky and you'll end up separating so much that you pull locks apart that should form into 1 lock
Dreading my lion's mane
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Aww thank you! I miss her curly hair, but I think this is the best choice for her.
Christina Rivers said:
I thought it might be you! I saw no angela in Valerie's friends list but I peeked at your photos and you and your daughter do appear to have similar hair to mine; beautiful, by the way! Her hair is so long & pretty, I can see why you'd have to tie it up when she's eating. I'm definitely just going to bear with the mess and leave it down & remember to separate daily too because I do wake up with big poofy patcches
Dreading my lion's mane
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I think I'm the Angela she is talking about
I think my daughter have similar hair to yours. I have to separate her hair everyday to keep it from merging in together.And I only tie her hair up when she is eating
My Dreadlock Journey!
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Your curls reminds me of my daughter's hair before she started the deadlock journey
I'm glad you took them out, because they gets stuck in your dreads and cause all sort of problems.Patrick -Dreadz- said:
It's cool Baba. Well it seems that the core of each dread are locking up great, id say the bottom 3/4th of each dread (if that makes sense) are locking up, and i have about 1-2 inches of loose hairs near the root.
Thanks again you guys, now that i joined this site ill be posting more instead of just browsing. Lol.