How many dreads should I have?
updated by @mama-jme: 01/22/20 09:33:16AM
@baba-fats
12 years ago
2,702 posts
39 is just fine. On average, people have between 28-35. People with more tend to have pencil sized locks or smaller. I have 17 locks. So if you need an idea of how big those would be, check out my video of my congo's. That shows the best pics of the size at the roots.
@soaring-eagle
12 years ago
29,637 posts
lol the how many should i have question always makes me laugh but funnily enough its 1 of the top 100 search terms as if there is a right answer
how many you should have is how many you have
today it might be 39 next year 68 the next 28
why are you counting
ok thickness u say last set they were thinner were u crochetting? palm rolling or root rubbing alot?
(assume mnot twisting or interlocking) some maintenances can thin them a bit
but a normal healthy dreads roughly the root section size
oh and 39 is a happy medium so relax
thicks 20..med thick 30 so 40 is really about as medium as medium can be
50-60 thinner-med
60-80 thinnish 80-100+ thin-skiny
100-200 very thin
200+ micro (sisterlocks tends to start off round 400)
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@heather
12 years ago
1,291 posts
i have thin, fine hair. i have 75 dreadlocks. last time i counted i had 67 so i gained a few over the last year. most of mine are pinky and index finger sized. just realize that all of your shed hair is going to accumulate in the dreads creating locs that are much larger than when you started. its a lot easier to congo small locs later than it is to rip a big one apart. i've done that and it hurts like hell.
@heather
12 years ago
1,291 posts
i just looked at your pics and i must say that some of your sections are quite big. you might want to consider redoing some of them.
@baba-fats
12 years ago
2,702 posts
You always tend to gain some over the years. Loose hair, new growth, flyaways, every strand that just so happens to not be in a lock at the moment, eventually forms a new lock. So as they mature, you end up with some new baby locks.
You never reach an end point where every lock is mature
@aya-heartright
12 years ago
91 posts
I don't know how many I have. I started off at around 40 or so I think but I know a lot have congoed since then... I'm probably somewhere between 34-38 now. It was the most that I could get out of my hair without them being super tiny because my hair is/wasridiculouslythin.
I have a friend who has 80 dreads and each one of them are bigger than mine. Her hair is HUGE.
So, with that in mind, I would say put in as many as you feel you want. It's always easier to put in more though, because its easier to combine than rip apart
. I think the varying sizes is the keythough I have one in the back that is massive like 3 inches, and then i have ones that are the size of micros. It didn't start out that way, it was just what they wanted to become.