My two strand twist timeline started November 2011

Well, I thought I would try to help out a bit by making my own timeline on here. I have not seen many things on this site talking about two strand twists as the beginning method for dreading so hopefully this timeline will be enough to illustrate the process a bit.

I have not used any type of product on my hair besides the baking soda and apple cider vinegar combo mostly although i did try using only dish soap for a while. Anyway, I switched back to the bs/acv in the end and have had nothing but smiles since then . My hair was initially twisted without any type of product in it (just out of luck I guess since I did not know much about dreading at the time) and all I have ever really done is separate. I did try re-twisting three of them for a while (like once a week) but those three became ridiculously thin at the bases and I just cut them off.

This is me without dreads:

Then this is me with my twists at first (for some reason I look pretty serious here ):

Here, they were starting to grow out a bit (like four months I think):

Here I am at the moment (current profile pic). It has been about 8 months so far.:

Sorry if it is a bit short right now; I'll definitely be updating it more (maybe bi-weekly or so) from now on.

Well, I suppose it is about time for me to update this timeline a bit so I'll add these pics for now as well some pictures i found from earlier on:

(BTW, so far it has been officially 9 months for me since I began early in November last year.)

My hair got a little bit lighter in spots after spending about two weeks in the sun in Belize so it has changed quite a bit in color I think.

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Well, it has now been about ten months since I started so I suppose it's time for another update!

They are starting to lengthen faster finally!!

That's all for now folks!

Guess it's high time I threw in some more updates here, so:

me at 14months

me at 16 months

me at 17 months

me at 18 months (started lightening my hair)

Current status (19 months!). Much lighter now.

Looking forward to more changes

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UPDATE!

20 months

21 months

updated by @jeff-mitchell: 02/05/15 10:12:49AM

This is great information to have out there for people who use this method, especially since you are showing such wonderful progress! I look forward to seeing further updates.

Thanks! I will certainly keep updating. BTW I really like your hair; if you have a timeline, id love to see it

Valrie said:

This is great information to have out there for people who use this method, especially since you are showing such wonderful progress! I look forward to seeing further updates.

this is great especialy since u retwisted only 3 and endxed up cutting them off cause of thinning and u used no products so hopefilly others will learn from that

they are progressing nicely tho looks like u have over 200?

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Thanks SE, I hope people will find this helpful over time.

Man, I have no idea how many I have

I do think that there are around that many though maybe more than 200, it's total madness on my head haha!

soaring eagle said:

this is great especialy since u retwisted only 3 and endxed up cutting them off cause of thinning and u used no products so hopefilly others will learn from that

they are progressing nicely tho looks like u have over 200?

I have been keeping a blog and updating through the comments there. Should be a link on my main page to it.

Jeff Mitchell said:

Thanks! I will certainly keep updating. BTW I really like your hair; if you have a timeline, id love to see it

Valrie said:

This is great information to have out there for people who use this method, especially since you are showing such wonderful progress! I look forward to seeing further updates.

Coolio, I'll search for it now then.

Valrie said:

I have been keeping a blog and updating through the comments there. Should be a link on my main page to it.

Jeff Mitchell said:

Thanks! I will certainly keep updating. BTW I really like your hair; if you have a timeline, id love to see it

Valrie said:

This is great information to have out there for people who use this method, especially since you are showing such wonderful progress! I look forward to seeing further updates.

looks great , i think i'm going to try this method.