Hello everybody, I'm Jonas, 23. I did my dread locks because I got very spiritual in the past few months, due to major changes in my life. I'm on festivals almost every weekend and a traveler of life, so I loved the idea that my dreads will follow me on the my way and will later on also save all the moments and times I spent on festivals.I got my Dreads 3 days ago at a Salon in L.A. I was one of those people who believed that spending money would make it :D. Well, and it actually kinda did. I think I got lucky with my stylist or at least partly. Unfortunately, I only have a webcam yet to show you.
The handsome black lady back combed my shoulder long hair in about 4.5 hours. I noticed that she interlocked, when the hair was harder to separate. She told me from the beginning she doesn't like wax, but she'd use a tiny bit, if my hair wouldn't hold at all. Which was kinda strange to me cause why should you interlock, back comb and use wax? To my luck, she used very very little wax and only on the first 10 or so until she realized that my hair gets perfect without it. When she was done, she told me three times very specific not to use wax in any case. Also not to wash them for at least 3 weeks and after that just washing them normally every 3 days with a residue free shampoo. Of course, two days ago, right after getting them, I stumbled upon this site and was like, nooooo, daaaang I've wax in my hair. But I did a very strong bs cleans yesterday and I think I got most of it out, definitely saw the wax coming to the surface. Afterwards, most of my back dreads opened a tiny bit, but nothing extreme. She told me to dread them everyday clockwise, which I stopped though. I realized after the first few hours already that this isn't right for the hair. Of course, I'm still one of those people who looks into the mirror every hour and freaks out if one of them opened. LOL. But this forum took a lot of my paranoia already 
I guess I just gotta go with the flow.
Peeace
updated by @jonas-weber: 01/13/15 09:01:35PM
