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Those methods may not cause "harm", but you have to constantly maintain them. Like interlocking or crocheting or whatever....

Doing it naturally, or just twisting and letting it do it's thing pays off in the long run. No going to salons every few weeks to have them "maintained" or buying wax or anything like that. They will look bad for the first year, but so what? They'll be 100x stronger and better looking (eventually) and you'll never have to go to a salon.

Lots of people who "lock" do it with combs or needles or rubbing and pulling and ripping....but sheesh even bob marley said in the video posted here "just don't comb it. keep it clean." and that was it.

and it doesn't matter at all what type of hair you have. it all can dreadlock

My mother is half black half native, and my father is dutch. My hair was very frizzy, curly, 'textured' when I was younger but got straighter and lighter in my teen years and is now very straight, however it was always very tangly. Thin straight hair I think does better with bigger locks, because it has it's little support group, and I sectioned big because I did light backcombing to start mine and the sections seemed medium to small then (they got thicker during shrinkage phase and due to the nature of maturing dreads). I think it's easier with curlier/frizzier/kinkier hair to do smaller locks because they stay together and strong even when they're small. I think you'd be fine with smaller locks, but the texture of your hair is really the tell all. For instance, though all my sisters have the same genetic parentage as I do, one has super frizzy/textured/kinky hair but it is nearly blonde (very light brown). Another has almost asian dark and straight hair. I have a combination, and mine has changed as I got older. We all are different results of combinations of our very different parents, and though we all look related we are all also very different. Some people think my little sister is mexican, while my other little sister is as pale as porcelain. It's just what happens with mixed heritage.

I personally think that with textured hair, curls and such, you'd have better luck with more, smaller dreads, where as with straight or fine hair does well with larger, thicker dreads. Make a few sections and pull on them, if it feels secure and safe on your head it should hold and be fine. My hair has gotten thinner and straighter and so I am more comfortable with large sections because I think it affords the support needed, whereas if I was working with my hair from my youth I would have done a 120 dread route. Also, a combination of small and large is a good idea, as some of my "loose hair" is becoming small thin dreads on their own, so really your hair will decide what it wants and communicate to you through congos or splitting, etc.
As far as methods, I think TnR is the safest and least dangerous if you don't want to wait on neglect method, and I personally did back combing because I didn't know of TnR at the time, but I also am a bit of a pansy on scalp pain and stress so my backcombing was very loose and gentle.
You can do dreads yourself easy, and maintenance would just be pulling apart the congos. One of the benefits of a more textured hair type is that it congos/combines a lot less because the hair is in tighter ringlets and doesn't mingle much, so lots of dreads like that shouldn't be hard to maintain as far as pulling apart congos goes.

Hi Jerry! Pleased to meet you! There's lots of great information on this site, read the FAQ section and dreading methods, and for sure do them yourself! Salons are veeery risky. I'm sure there are lots of bi-racial dreadheads on this forum, just browse around Take care!

1 do not "get dreads" in a salon ever
2 all your research unless it was here was bad
3 minimal mainrenance no matter what hair type wash and seperate only

lastly how are u getting dreads if youir research was on youtube forget every single thing u think u know and read the dreaducation thread here

best way to drewad is to go natural just stop combing otherwise twists or twist and rip (depends on how your hair is moree black or white)


120 dreads is really thin..and can be a pain to manage 20 is tyick 30-50 medium thick 50-80 thinner 80-100 pretty thin over 100 very thin
120-200 or more is getting into the micro dread range