Exactly 1 yr and 6 months today since I started. Neglect pics.

My hair gets lighter as it dreads, it's turning black to brown, is this normal ? I'm only washing with baking soda.
updated by @jahwillprovide: 01/13/15 09:19:30PM

If it was dyed baking soda will strip the dye slowly, but sunlight will also make your dreads lighter

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I don't know about the hair getting lighter being normal, but it seems normal, because I've seen a lot of people on here where some of their dreads seem to be lighter than other ones. Anyway, fantastic progress pics, looking awesome

It's totally normal. My hair is a dark brown, but as it locked up, they turned a lighter shade over time.

And by the way, I love that one in the first pic a little to the right. It looks like a tuning fork. That's the music geek in me