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Free form dread section too big.

Dread Maintenance

Yeah I mean not being good with measurements I still think this is almost already 1 1/2 minimum.
The one on the exact same spot, opposite side of my head is about the same size, its definitely still too big.
Im a little worried that I should have been a lot more attentive to separating them earlier but I was always afraid of messing up progress.
I always wanted them to kind've be fatties but I think even with all your amazing information and help I still went overboard.
Always justified it "If it starts to seem to big I can just separate it then" now thats i know its too big its like impossible for me to separate it :[

Free form dread section too big.

Dread Maintenance

I have a hard time trying to see how large they are, im not amazing with small measurements in the first place and not being able to see it makes it 100x harder for me.
I will see if I can get someone to measure the exact length of it tomorrow or something
I did take these two 11 second videos that might give you an idea of how bad it is.

Free form dread section too big.

Dread Maintenance

So ive determined there is at least 3~ dreads forming where the sectioning is far too big.

How do I go about fixing this situation. Ive tried to split them from the top but after about 2 hours of trying to use my hands to split it apart it wasnt working.
I grabbed a soft brush comb and started at it, after about an hour i saw little to NO progress in it coming undreaded.

I noticed that 2 of the 3 are in the same exact spots on the nape of my neck behind my ears.
Does this mean even if I split it, it will eventually re-dread like that over x amount of years?

Whats even more bothersome is its in kind've a upside down L shape on both side,  I feel like the empty space of the L will end up sucking in the dreads that are forming/will form there.

Question on Parting Dreads

Dreads Hair and Scalp Health

Strange because their website has it listed as "salt" not "sea salt". Sea salt is sodium chloride also by the way, all salt is sodium chloride. The only difference would be the "impurities" like zinc, iron etc.
What specific bar is it?

https://www.drbronner.com/retailers/ingredients-castile-liquid-and-bar-soaps/

Question on Parting Dreads

Dreads Hair and Scalp Health

Bronners bars contain NaCl (Sodium chloride; table salt) which chemically isnt different from seasalt.
Seasalt is still NaCl but depending on where it is from contains lots of different trace minerals.

I dont know enough about locks to know if its the salt, or the trace minerals that actually help tighten them up.
All salt came from the sea, the only real difference as far as I learned in school was that table salt is processed to remove said trace minerals.

(To clarify when I said all salt comes from the sea - Yes there are mines which means salt is coming from the earth but those deposits had been caused by an ocean that used to be in that region of the world)
updated by @irie: 02/27/17 03:49:20PM

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Member Journals and Timelines

Threw away my comb on July 1st 2016, I really was trying to wait to get a decent camera before posting pictures but Ive noticed notable changes that I want to document.
I still don't have anyone to help me separate so I struggle with the back of my head.

updated by @irie: 01/22/20 09:33:16AM

Straight hair in dreams.....nightmare!

General Talk

I liked reading those stories.
I was wondering (assumed I wasnt alone) if other people have strange dreams like this.
A few weeks ago I had a dream that I was showering and washing my hair, my dreads seemed a lot more mature than they are now but when I was washing them one (at least 2/3rds of it) just pulled out of my scalp with no resistance. I was trying to reattach it unsuccessfully lol.

Woke up in such a panic its strange how our brains will make us dream about stuff like that.
I wonder if its my brain telling me its afraid of unintentionally losing them, it happened only a few days after I had an African lady tell me she would "cut them off herself" if she ever saw me again....smh.

Dealing with Criticism

General Questions

Just have to remember whats right for us isnt right for everyone else.
Opinions are like  assholes, everyone has one and they all stink eh?

Ive come to understand people who hate dreads dont know much about them in the first place.
They assume dreads=low life drug user or dirty bummy hippy.
Need to explain to them dreads are the natural state of human hair, and they are the ones who are actually strange for spending so much excess money/time trying to fit the "normal" standard made by humans.

Its all love from me but sometimes I wonder, did theses peoples parents ever told them "If you dont have anything nice to say dont say anything at all.

Is it normal for only like half of your head to be dreaded by 11 months if you are doing freeform/natural/neglect?

General Questions

yeah, from what I understand it can take up to two years for most/all of your hair to end up in dreads.
I personally started on July 4th, what has formed mostly seemed to be around the edges of my hair. Along my forehead, along back of neck, around ears etc it like makes a circle around my head but most of the "crown" of my head doesnt seem to want to dread as easily. Im sure it will just take more time/patience.

How to use Vicki's just for dreads shampoo

Dread Maintenance

Cheers, thanks for the speedy reply!
Its been 3 months now going to start taking pictures and posting them.