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I'm making progress....I think?

General Questions

Alright I'll try this next Sunday when I wash! But one question, I have naturally oily 16 year old teenager greasy hair, so should I still be doing the acv to condition or no?

I'm making progress....I think?

General Questions

Yeah I haven't used that crochet hook or had the rubber bands in at all for about a week and I'll try increasing the amount of bs, and btw I really enjoyed that post, thanks man

I'm making progress....I think?

General Questions

So it's probably been about a week and a half give or take since I started my "dreads". I haven't been doing anything to them really at all since that time I had rubber bands on for a day and crocheted a few of my sections. I've just let them completely be. The other day I washed with baking soda and I used the 1/2 cup for 5 cups of water and let it soak for 10 minutes. When I went to rinse out my scalp was literally CAKED with this white shit. At first I thought it was bs, but then discovered it was skin and sebum, there was so much I didn't know what to do, I tried getting as much off as possible but still trying to be gentle with my babies. Since then I washed with that suave stuff because I was too scared to do bs again and have all that crap in there. What should I do? Also my sections have been loosening up quite a bit with lots of loose hair and some have stayed tight at the bottom, I know it's normal so I've just been letting it be, but about 3 sections on the back of my head have turned back into completely straight hair and have no knots at the bottoms like the others. My other question was what should I do about this? I'm sorta freaking out. Is all of this normal or am I going backwards...it's just my hair looks like my old mop and everyone is like "Dude your dreads are falling out or your dreads are gone or your hair isn't gonna even dread man" and it's really discouraging to me. People's opinions on how I look influence me a lot. But does it sound like I'm making progress? I want to have my dreads go the best way possible for my hair, but presentable in a timely manner. I'm pretty impatient but I'm trying to get over that with starting dreads. I could always post some pics of my hair but yeah. Sorry for the long post I'm just nervous :p
updated by @corey-ledgerwood: 02/14/15 09:04:28AM

Need More Advice..

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Alright thanks you two. I'm definitely going to do the baking soda wash tomorrow since its hella late and I want fresh hair on Monday for school lol. But I read that 1/2 of a cup of baking soda per 5 cups of water? Does that sound right? And also should I sorta scrub the baking soda out when I rinse or just let the pressure from the shower do it. Thanks so much again

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So I took everyone's advice about taking out the rubberbands, not wearing a hat, and not crocheting. They feel alot better after not having rubberbands in for this one day already. And the dreads that were never crocheted or anything even feel tighter. But now I'm at the point where my hair is really greasy. I don't have the nmoney es at the moment to go order dread shampoo or drive up to trader Joe's for that other stuff, and I have really hard water, like well water. I want to try the baking soda instead of Tue suave to wash, but is it okay with hard water? Also I washed my hair 3 days after having them backcombed, and tomorrow will be one week of having them, so would it be okay to wash them so quick? Thanks
updated by @corey-ledgerwood: 01/13/15 09:53:37PM

questions and concerns

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Alright thanks, I think I might check up at the windmill because there's TONS of handmade stuff so hopefully ill get lucky

questions and concerns

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Yeah I've deff been looking for beads but don't know where to find em really...but shit! It sounds like I really screwed up my hair haha. And when I said they're 4 inches long, I meant they are now, they were probably 5 and a half in the majority of spots before I had them done.

questions and concerns

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Alright thanks my dude. Just one more question for the people who know about the crochet hooking. Should my hair recover if I've only done it on like 3-4 serperate occasions?

questions and concerns

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Well I mean honestly it would be nice to have them look nice all the time but really just for that day. And I do have hard water so ill look into that website and ditch the crochet hook. Thanks for the quick replies everyone, hopefully they'll just start looking better soon instead of just a big ball of messy hair lol.

questions and concerns

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Alright. So there's really no way I could have my hair looking semi presentable in 2 weeks? I have my first job interview in then at the Buffalo Bills training camp and I kinda wanted to look neat. But the way its looking it sounds like it isn't possible