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So. I had started my dreads for the second time on the 1st of December 2011, and right after Christmas I took them out : ( soo im starting again.. for the third time. idk what my obsession with dreads is/ nor what keeps making me comb them out. But this time lets see if i can do it : ) i didnt like the part of my hair before so i got my hair cut and got my bangs back.. yay.. dreadies again!! I need to not listen to people when they say they dont want me to have them.. especially my boyfriend. I know he will still love me weather i have dreads or not.. i just get tired of hearing how he misses my hair sometimes lol. so this time too bad baby 
they are staying!
So, The reason I haven't been on or posted anything in awhile is that not much has happened. Namely, it was 5 months of natural dreading on Jan. 11. for me, and I only have one natural dread that's now getting kinky. I tn'r-ed a couple, just to see if they would progress faster or slower than the natural one, but they seem to be doing just about the same.
This is just me telling you about my hair. I am not getting impatient, in fact, I like the phase I'm in. My hair is separated and kinda kinky, with knots everywhere (I find them occasionally, eg. when I get stuck in trees, on Christmas decorations, and when I move my hand rapidly, and my big ring pulls my hair. :D ), it just does not seem to be doing any real dreading yet.
My mother is convinced it will never dread, and one of my closest friends thinks that, since nthing has actually happened yet, it will all happen overnight for me.
It gets really funny sometimes, when I try to explain dreads to my mom's friends. They don't get it until I tell them I'll look like a Puli dog. :D
And the thing that's freakin' me out is... Well, when I use this site on my computer (I'm on my mom's laptop ATM), there is no music. But here, some tribal music (drumming) is played every few seconds, fr a few seconds. Is that coming from this site, or is this laptop screwed up? Or maybe I'm just going crazy... :D
So, that's it.I know this is just random stuff. The reason I wrote all of this is that I went to a funeral today, and did not feel like hangin' out with people tonight. And even though this was not the first funeral I attended, it sure was a wake up call. I realized I want to do and change so much before I go, so I decided to reconnect with this site, since it is a community I want to be an active part of, and I also would love to find/create a community like this right here where I live, one that's filled with love, hope, support...
Aaaaand... Cut! :D
P.S. I can't find blog categories here, so if it needs be placed somewhere, please tell me how to do it, or place it somewhere for me, oh, you people who run this site. :D
I started my dreads on 12-23-2011 by just losing my brush and using a residue free shampoo. I had tried the back combing method about 7-8 months prior and had screwed it up entirely I had used Dread Wax(the Devil) and had to brush them all out 3 days later. It was a very painful process in which I lost a lot of my hair. Over the next 8 months I let all the short hairs that had ripped try catching up. At first I set a goal to not wash my hair for a month to let them start locking up then I would do a wash once a week or so after that. After a week of not washing I started researching and people were saying that clean hair locks up faster so I started water rinsing with hot water to cut back on how greasy my hair is every day or two and now I wash ever 3-5 days which has helped tremendously I feel like my hair is actually locking up faster than expected. Ill update this blog as much as possibly I dont really have many pictures over the first month but ill post a few. 
Ok let me start off by saying hello to everyone, Im gonna trim through the fat and get right down to it. I am 30 yrs old and have always wanted dreads, But I work in the medical profession and that is frowned upon. Well guess what to bad work because for the past 6 months I have decided to grow out my hair for just one purpose to let it dread. So I figured since I was really interested in seeing how the natural process works I am gonna start a time line to share with others that might be on the same quest. My method is simple to go natural no products and no combing just good old fashion time and patience. I will try to post a new picture everyday or at least every other day. I feel this should help make a solid time line. 
(This is day 1 top view of my head) ps I washed the night before with BS.
About 2 weeks ago, I sat at the computer as often as possible to research dreadlocks as much as I could. I've been admiring them for a few years now. Just decided I really wanted to do something different with my hair, so why not look into it more seriously this time?
I landed at dreadheadhq and DEVOURED everything on that site. A new internet friend stopped me in my tracks and pointed me here. I can't tell you how many hours I spent reading as much I could here. And I am SO THANKFUL that she caught me before I actually purchased one of dreadhead's crappy kits. She saved our dreads before we even began the journey.
Once we discovered that there's a much easier way {natural/neglect}, we jumped right in. Switched over to no 'poo {baking soda/apple cider vinegar} and stopped brushing/combing our hair. That was this past Monday.
Jason's hair is already separating very well. He's got curly, sort of course hair, so I expect his will get going before mine. Jason's told me he can see some separation action beginning on mine as well ... but I've been trying to stay away from a mirror right now lol
This is a journey I'm very glad we're both on .... and I can't WAIT to see our awesome dreads, whenever they get here 
I've been dreading for 8 months now, i started with back combing but my dreads will not stick together so i decided to use the crochet method now I don't want to crochet them anymore because i have one dread that i left by itself and i prefer the texture of the natural one, should i just leave my hair alone so it will dread by itself?
Hello all,
I've never kept a blog more than like 3 posts but I figured maybe since I go to this site so much anyways perhaps I would keep one here =/ maybe.
Right now I am feeling dread regret... maybe it's going around because I saw a few other people feeling the same. I don't mean dread regret that I want to go back to my "normal" hair, I honestly didn't like it very much anyways. What I am regretting is doing twist and rip. My sections have gotten kind of, um, mad at me lately, trying to eat each other more than just simply hair flying around but I believe that I sectioned them against what they naturally would have liked to do. Especially on the left side of my head it takes me about 40 minutes to section them after I get out of the shower because the roots just want to fall in a different direction than how my husband put them.
I've also been watching more videos and reading more timelines of natural freeform dreads and it just seemed so much more natural-duh. Prior to today I have been so rushed feeling, wanting my dreads to be perfect yesterday, that this whole process was going too slow for me. For a while I even wished that I had backcombed them because they look fairly instant dreads, rather than this "mess" that I have right now.
Well, if this makes sense at all I realized that my issue wasn't necessarily that my hair was dreading too slow, rather it was dreading too fast. If that makes sense. I would love to start over natural, that's how I intended to start this journey but for reasons I decided to tnr instead. I wouldn't even know how to start undreading my hair, and honestly I don't know if I would even want to start over at this point either. This might just be a rant that even though natural seems more intimidating at first... you get to a certain point to where it can be appreciated.There will be a time of regret like "Oh, I get it now, I understand the significance," and your ego attaches even to the idea of letting go and tries to control it by saying "you should have done that too."
So I made it almost two weeks with my "dread"ed journey. I finally got the blessing of my husband in that he understands that dreads are something I have wanted for a very long time and that it is something spiritual for me. So he relaxed his position and even started teasing me....telling me that i could no longer talk to him unless I spoke in "pirate".
I understand that this is a long progress, and honestly, I have seen some of the baby photos posted here and some are absolutely amazing....and others, yes, a little unnerving. It makes me wonder how mine will look after 18 months, and could I make it that far. The answer......no....at least...
not yet! You see, I was handling it all pretty well, but I got this control issue. I want to let them go, but I also want to prune...so-to-speak. I want to guide them, and raise them in how they should go....hahaha...but i pretty much resisted and enjoyed washing and going....no muss no fuss...but then...
i returned to the spring semester, and got the "...ewww.yo..ohhh...are you trying to trying to grow dreads? I knew i was looking rather scruffy, but I hid it well but by the end of the day it progressively deteriorated. When I got home I was already feeling a little scuzzy, but I was determined to persevere. However, as I walked to my 16 year old daughter's room (see picture post) to talk to her she said, Mom! Did you go to school like that? No offense, I know you want dreads, but honestly, it looks really bad. Your hair is too thin to grow dreads. You look like you haven't had a shower in days."I went to my bathroom and took a shower, washed my hair, took out the blowdryer and styled my hair. Perhaps that makes me the ultimate in vain, but I decided to postpone my journey for summer when I have a nearly three month break from school...with modification...
I am still going to live the "dread"ed lifestyle. I still take a shower and I kept my hair bling. A friend of mine does the the hair wrap with string and charms and so I have added a couple of those to my hair, and I will sneak in anew one from time to time. My daughter had one afew months ago and had it in for like 8 weeks or soand when we took her to the salon for an up do for prom, we had to remove it, but when we took it out, we noticed that her hair dreaded from the point at the top of the wrap to her scalp. I was so jealous, it looked so cool. Anyway, I am going to see if the same thing will happen to me.
Additionally, one habit has remained. I am still not using the comb, (I may blow my hair dry if it is really cold outside), but then I just let it be the way it is and it is surprising how much healthier my hair feels. It seems to have a natural wave to it, and if by not combing a dread forms here and there, so be it.
In the grand scheme of things, it may not be the worst thing for me to coordinate my "dread"ed journey to take in bits and pieces and then work at it during the summer and see myself through the first awkward months. Maybe by that time I will have a few friends added to mhy profile and it won't be quite so lonely on the road to "dread"ed bliss.
Peace
soo latley ive really been missing my hair, been tempted to take out my dreads but i just keep remembering what happened last time i cried and started dreading them 3 days after i took out my first set,
so i decided maybe i just need a change... so i bought a box dye, it said brown on the box but i guess since my hair was so light it rected weird,
anyways i eneded up with black hair, i was freaking outt!!!!!! it looked so fake on me, i have naturally dirty blonde hair and never have had my hair this dark before so i got some stuff to undo the dye that i put in
due to all the washing and dying my hair undreaded A TON at the roots i mean like alot it looks and feel like normal hair, only the bottom half is dreaded on alot of them, and my hair is still super dark,
tomorrow is my 1 year dreadaversary and my dreads look like crap 
why couldnt i have just been satisfied, i wish i could go back in time i never would have tried to change them..... LESSON LEARNED =/
Ive been having sleeping problems for a while and i'm SO TIRED! but i managed to 'borrow' some beads from work today that coincidently are very similar like the ones i was looking at last night.