Sea salt spray

This is at about 1 month 2 weeks

This is 4 months

Just those little balls at the ends that will probably fall out. The rest is as  straight as can be without straightening my hair. No tangles knots or anything.

nah they wont fall out but yea its dreading a lil slow..not alot

you don't need the sea salt but it cant hurt and should help

your not in any way unusual though

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@alter I'm by no meams an expert nor can I speak from experience but I have heard a lot that hair can dread from the ends rather than the roots so I'd guess as the rest of the length dreads those "balls" will just get sucked up into them.


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almost always dreads from ends or middle not roots

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I don't really understand how knots "migrate"

they dont migrate they build on eachother

you get a single tangle and more build on it

how do christmass lights always end up tangled no matter how neatly you try to put them away.. once ters a lil unevenness from a tangle theres loops for other hairs to loop through  which creates more, and more

it really only takes a single tangle for it to build into a dread over time

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Are you at 4 months now?

If so you're further along than I am.


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@soaring-eagle is that how you avoid tight roots? If so, that makes a lot of sense. Also it makes sense that the dreads end up the size of the section. There's a grad student in the physics department of my uni that uses wax. His sections are like twice the size of his dreads.

@femalepheromones do you count time starting from when you combed out your crocheted locs? Yours look better than mine in my opinion. I would have kept the old crocheted ones and just gone natural from there, let the knots build up, and then once the natural neglect part grows long enough, cut off the crocheted part. I almost took my brother's offer to pay to have mine crocheted but I want the bragging rights of saying that mine are freeform.

the longer it takes the more you have to brag about

the rots won't tighten beyond a certain point just cause of how the hair grows from the scalp and has to have room to move to knot  and dread

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@alter yeah I'm at about 3 and a half months from when I combed out the crocheted "locks" (they weren't locks they were fucked up hair).

I am so glad I combed them out. Yesterday I looked back at my first thread on here and the pictures I posted. Awful. They were all hard and rigid and didn't want to bend and were stuck in shape.

It actually took me 2 weeks to fully comb them out and my hair thinned out a lot in the process but it was so worth it. In a way I'm still really happy with myself that I bothered to do it when I did. Yes I regret ever having my hair crocheted, if I had found this site beforehand I would have started natural and be nearly a year in now but in the end it has world out. I know I definitely would have regretted it a lot more if I hadn't combed it all out.

This month has stepped up quite a bit too. I've been keeping my timeline as monthly updates so keep an eye out for my 4 month on on the 28th.


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