Thanks Heather! I think I'm going to take a look at my hair in another week or so, maybe get some hemp, and go through and see if I can wrap a couple/bead a couple that might be too clumpy. I also am nervous about the mold, though so far, drying has not been an issue.
updated by @kass: 07/22/15 11:44:07AM
My Natural Dreads Timeline-Dreadlocks can form fast with neglect
Hi everyone... sorry I've been crappy about updating. But... hey, it's a little over 5 months and I've got some great progress to report!
Excuse the stupid looks on my face and the sweatiness, I was about to go to bed and I said "Eh, why not?"
Little bit of a better idea of what's going on back there. Sorry I suck with pics.
SHRINKAGE FOR DAYS! Seriously. My hair is now shoulder-length except for about three pieces which are taking forever to catch up. It looks very stupid. I CAN'T WAIT FOR IT TO GROW at this point. I imagine in in 5 more months though it will look just about the same. Haha.
I dunno I just liked this pic.
This too!!
Soooo YUP! That's my hair right now!! I'll probably get back to you guys in like 3 more months lol!! Hopefully it's looking AWESOME by then!
I'm even starting to get compliments/comments! Very exciting. Can't wait until it looks like actual dreads and not just like a nest of... nest.
updated by @kass: 02/05/15 10:12:49AM
they are coming along great 
congrats and i like thoe 2 too for the great big happy smile
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looks great!! your hair is knotting so fast. just imagine what it will look like at a year. amazing:)
are you still using maylees bars? i wish i could but they leave a residue in my hair.
I was. But then I used them up and I just bought something from the all natural section at Wegmans. It is still bar soap. I like it a lot. I forget what it is... but it comes in mango butter. Lol. Very good smelling. Though I love Maylees and was using it until a week ago.Honestly this is gross but I spent 3 weeks with my boyfriend who hadn't washed his sheets in like a year (they smelled awful) but they knotted my hair in like 2 seconds because I guess my hair just stuck to them!! Gross. I washed it almost everyday when I was there haha. But still. Lots of dreadies.Sooo yeah. I am so excited to see what they will be like in a year. I can't even imagine. I don't even understand how the rest of this will knot up!! Crazy.
ewww.....boys and theirhygiene. lol!
i just tried dr. bronners bar soap today. i'm not so sure what i was expecting but i think it conditioned my hair. some of my new knots disappeared
it didn't feel conditioned when it was dry but it still doesn't feel completely clean like it had with shampoo. i would really like to find a bar soap that will work for me and my hard water.
Ah!! It's called Nubian Heritage. I am sure that my water here at college is very hard because I can't imagine them putting money into soft water. My hair feels very clean after I use this soap--getting used to how your hair feels after being washed with bar soap takes a bit, but when it dries, always feels very clean. I love the Shea Butter, that's what I use. :D
As usual, I haven't updated for like four months, oh well. I'm surprised to look back at the post I made a little while ago and discover how far I've come in these five months. I'm hoping that by a year, my hair will look even more like dreadlocks than it does now!
I never really see them from behind, so these next couple of pictures kind of surprised me!
Here's what I mean when I say it looks like a mess From the back, you can definitely tell it is dreads. But all of the loose hair on the sides here clouds the look! I don't know what to do about it, honestly. It's just hair that sticks out of the dread, so I'm thinking of wrapping it or putting a bead on it or I don't know. I hope it clears up soon.
Frizz wouldn't bother me, but this is more than frizz. So much loose random hair ugh!! I don't like the way it looks.
Buuut, my dreads look cooler from behind than I thought. I thought I was gonna cut these paddles off when my hair got long enough, but they actually look kind of bad ass so I might keep them.
Mess mess messy
w/e I'm still cute.
So, I haven't gotten to use the shampoo from dreadlockshampoo.com yet but I'm hoping that washing with that will help my greasy/dry dread/loose hair problem. Here's hoping. If that doesn't work I'm holding out for that gel they have... I plan on slapping it all over my head. That'll show that loose hair!!
Hope everyone likes my hair... I love it, despite my issues with it. Would not go back--just hope that when I graduate I can get a job. I'm planning on just wrapping up every day, worse comes to worse.
updated by @kass: 02/05/15 10:12:49AM
it looks awesome its still in thaty stage but its getting nearer mature
update in 2 months and bet u u r more satiusfied
it might not be copmpletely there but really close
and in that time use the gel and shampoo and report th effecvt if its drastic enough
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