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So I've been wanting dreads for a million years, but there have always been reasons ( or excuses ) for me not to commit to starting them. The main one being that I needed to move out of my parents home--for obvious reasons. I guess that I also thought that my hair was incapable of forming dreads. The last time I brushed my hair was years ago, but they never formed so much as a knot. Coming to this site, I realized it's because I always conditioned my hair. So hopefully now, without the conditioner in the picture, my hair will be able to do what it wants to! Super excited about beginning the process and committing to it.
I'm also excited about having found this community. I'll try to post photos sometime soon to use as a reference in the future.
Liz
youll need: 1 bag flour, a package of balloons, a spoon, a funnel and ur hands lol
you might need to gently work the flour down ward to make sure to work in down to the rest of the balloon
then keep repeating that step, may get plugged up, just work in down again with ur hands
u can keep filling it as big as u want to, to allow more room for flour take funnel off and hold stem push in straight down swishing balloon flatter this will give it a weird shape and allow for more filling
good luck making your own
you can decorate it with permanent makers, or stuff it in a clean colorful lost other match sock lol
hey gives u a new use for it lol
if u hav any questions or wanna share ur creation feel free
most important happi de-stressing! peace
vote by simply adding comments with what vote you decide on. thanks so much! i am making my second batch of Dredlock Jewels!so voting choices are:more metal? or more beads?/ second vote: bright beads do u like better? or neutral earth tone beads? refer to the pics below.include thoughts and opinions thanks! 
3rd week, only neglect and BS-ACV washes... Added some pictures...
I'm playing a bit with my essential oils, today's rosmary + lavander + rose smelled really great. Also rinced with cold water to avoid scalp over-drying - I'm not really prone to dandruff or itching but I guess it cannot hurt to take some precautions.
Still not a lot of knots, considering my curly hair I thought I would be much faster to tangle! I even barely have to separate. I have a nice loopy one though which I check every day because she's trying to eat hair from everywhere around my head. I'm pretty much afraid of shrinking but well - with curly hair, it was already shrinking all the time due to the curls anyway !
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poor sweet innocent beautiful lil children say a few prayers or meditate for them, whatever you believe in send them your love and sympathy. and may each an every child lost find its way! may their be justice found for every child's family. peace b with u my 6yr old daughter made this card for them aww 
h u all.
hi i am writing about my new lil baby dred and its birth story ha. so i had a dred that was like suposed to be two dreds and the fused together. but the roots were all seperate and in two formed peices i had to decide weather to leave it huge and watch it grow out to figure out wat would become of it. it was already tight and locked so to separate it back to two somehow wasnt an option really. well it was down to ripping or actually had to cut. so i couldn't rip or snip it apart cuz already made itself into one dred so i cut the dred root sort of in half an let it be one bigger dred and now the other lil section. is a brand new baby one. that will need some monitoring sd id grows because i want it to be its own dred not congo again. so my dred count is at 20. but now its going up to 21 aww. they often count down a few not up. 
well its my llil one. let me know wat i think or advice or ur story. 
I have one thats amazingly mature. Most have blunted themselves and I love the super skinny ones that are still whispy like paint brushes.I live in Austin Texas and it feels great to start my journey here. It's very excepted and a lot of people are sporting them the only thing that's weird about it is I've only seen one other person that seems to be natural! Also it did feel funny in the beginning when people with dreads didn't understand my method choice and treated me like a kid because they knew more about dreads and how to "make" them. I know they were just trying to help.So the other day I had a very good friend of mine at a party that I was co-hosting drunkenly tell me how I was too pretty for gross hair and how ugly I wil be when I have to shave my head. It hurt my feelings I tried to share my knowledge but it was like talking to a brick wall. Everything was apologized for the next day but it still sucks. I pretty much am venting because I feel like I live in one of the most accepting city I've ever seen and still get shit for being different.Thanks for listening:)I've been lurking the site for over a year now.. Feels good to finnaly be a part of it.Thank you all and I love y'all:)Amanda L. Vick