Its not my math, its basic math. If we took the minimal of what someones square inches of hair coverage it would be between 80-90 sq in. If you hair is 8 inches across and from front to back is 10-12 inches (most peoples its more) do that simple math and what do you get...
think if you shaved your head, how many of these you could draw on it lol
Most of my locks are between 1/2 and 2 inches. I have 3 locks that reached the 2 inch mark at the base. I have 19 locks, and that includes the few new really thin babies on top of my head that will congo together once they get long enough (They're only about 1 inch long right now). 80 1 in locks is just not possible.
A bandanna will restrict movement of the portion of you locks closest to the root. But the majority of the lock will have more than enough room to move around. But you do want to let them hang free as much as possible
th4e base area and the lock width are the same
im telling yiou ypur maths way off
1 inch dreads makes about 30 locks
not 80
10-20 dreads is mega thick bout 2 inches or lil more
20-30 over an inch
30-40 about an inch
40-50 3/4 inch or so
yours are under 1/2 an inch if you have 80
100 drwads and they are 1/2 the thickness of a pencil or so maybe pencil sizd
micro or sisterlocks have around 400 and are super thin
80-100 dreads are thin range pinky sized at most
look at your wrist your wrist is about 2 square inches if you did have 1 inch sections and they did congo youd have dreads the size of your wrist wich would take days to dry
The average human head as 100,000 hairs. There are roughly 2,200 hairs per square inch. Do the the math. That's about 45 square inches. Not 80. So if you have perfect 1 inch sections, you'll have about 45 locks. If you make 2 inch section, you;ll have around 20-25 locks.
The average hair is 100 microns in diameter. 1000 microns = 1mm. 100mm=1cm. 2.54cm=1 inch. so 1 hair = .000394 inches. .000394x=1inch^2 x=2,540 hairs in each square inch.
the average human head has 100,000 hairs. 100,000hairs/2,540hairs per square inch= 40 square inches
Well im still going to say its about 60 square inches. I dont know how you cant accept simple facts of math.
Seriously how far is your hair in inches from where it starts in the front to the back and multiply the length in inches from one side to the other that's how you get square inches. I guarantee you will get atleast more than double what you are trying to tell me. There is no 'well my dreads are about x inches and I have about 25 or whatever'. That's not how you measure.
I will make up a diagram if you can understand pictures better...
Oh fun.
This is actually very informative about hair loss and it states that "The average human head (an average scalp measures approximately 120 square inches or 770 cm)..." Now that is most certainly an average since heads are varying sizes as well as heads in comparison to ACTUAL scalp.
Scalp, by definition, takes into account the varying sizes throughout, since the hairline is not a square.
Sorry but, even by measuring cross-width/length it would not equate to the square inches of the scalp because the hairline varies the width dramatically from inch to inch.
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Hair
Since everyone is different and we are talking about averages, not accuracies, lets just say for the sake of sanity that we are all correct.
Now, all that sexy mathematics aside, your hair looks fine Kevin. Give it a lot more time before congoing though because if your scalp is really covered with 1"^2 sections then congoing now will make your dreads super huge and possibly a pain in your ass to care for. It's much easier to go bigger than to go smaller.
Good night loves.
