Also try looking into some of the other forums on here...there are all kinds of topics that will be beneficial. I can't even begin to describe all the help I have received from them. I started in oct, but didnt find this site til the end of dec....I cannot even begin to explain how much progress I have made since I started the BS?ACV washes and stopped messing with them...Good luck to you!
hello all!!!! Here is my 5 1/2 month update...VIDEO style lol!!!!
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4 months folks enjoy.......
thanks everyone!!! 4 months old on Valentines day!!!! I will update my timeline tonight. They look radically different to me!!! So excited about this process and journey. I cannot waiot for my mature dreadies! I have changed so much already.....
I just let them seperate on their own , but once they started to seperate I twisted them fiercly every night..(I know now not to do that). after about a month of playing with them and manipulating them constantly I found this site, the most encouragment, and wisdom and left them alone. Now I just do some seperation after I do a BS wash. I do have a question tho....how does everyone else seperate.
Thanks SE...I think I should have taken a tutorial in how to upload a timeline.....that was sooo hard for the technologiacally challenged as myslf.
Well I am going to try my hand at this timeline stuff. I am not too good at this blog like writing,but I think it will be really cool to see how much my babies mature over time. I know that I have "matured" (for lack of a better term), since I began this process on Oct. 14th 2012. I have wanted dreads for as long as I could remember but I was never patient enough or strong enough to commit to them. It was kind of a case of "you will know when its time". Well that time has come. I have learned so much about myself already in this short amount of time. I have an incredible partner who encourages my journey and give me kind words of wisdom whenever I am feeling overwhelmed by "frizz" or "loose hairs". I never knew I could be so patient. and patient seems like all I can be. As the months have passed I have found myself becoming almost obsessive about dreads and their natural beauty. I love to see how my own change form and shape in just a matter of days...each becoming closer and closer to perfection,. Every loop, every bump, every zig-zag...my smile begins to take over my face. I love my babies and I love watching them grow. They a poetic works of art and a self discovery. I will try to keep my timeline updated and welcome all words of encouragment. Peace..
2 wks old...(I know it's not a great pic)
(2nd pic) They are 1 month old.
(pics 3,4,5) These are 2 months... 
These are now at 3.5 months....
and these also.....
And last but not least.....these are from today...(1/26/2013) 
Wheatberry bread with jalepeno aiolli midrare tuna roma tomato sliced avacado
cranberry pnut butter and homemade apple butter
Hawiian roll with grilled jerk pork tenderloin pear chutney cranberry aiolli cabbage, sprouts and tomato
I wish I could remember the name of the kind I used last. but I did buy it from sallys...I hear that the natural henna dye leaves beautiful shades of reds.
I am definitely not an expert but I can tell you that I dye my red and the BS wash, washes the color right back out in a matter of days...another thing I gave up on. Haha I have been dying my hair for so long I am actually excited to see what color it is underneath all the dye!!! I wish you well on your journey...Happy dreading!
