What if my hair is thing and only seems to be very few hairs in the section that can even dread? That's why I've been letting them get big. I fear that with my bangs and sides of my hair, they aren't dreading at all.
It feels like they always need it, especially at the roots, I don't know what is what in there. Also I don't really know how to gauge the size or if I'm just going to end up tearing them. I have a crappy phone right now, but by the end of the summer, i should have a better phone with a better camera to take better pictures and get some feedback from the community here.
i'm really afraid of separating and just completely undoing all progress, t hat's what happened with one of my locks, the little ball of hair at the end just ripped out and I was very upset.
So I'm at about 6 and a half months now. I haven't been uploading pictures because of work. I work 12 hour days 7 days a week over summer break from school. Unfortunately wearing a hat in 100+ degree weather isn't helping my hair. But I need advice, six months in and nothing past the front of my crown and ears is dreading at all. Also, is it even possible to get 50+ dreads with freeform? I don't know if that's possible with my hair type (see my pictures for reference). Any and all advice is welcome. Again sorry for the inactivity but I'll be uploading a huge dump of pictures that I take weekly to track my progress, despite the past 2 months looking almost identical for all the pictures I took.
@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.
i know exactly
3.5% of the water volume
i don't know what units of measure you'd use but google or even Cortana or whatever can help ya with conversions
start with like how many tablespoons in a cup 16 tablespoons per us cup
hmm just read its by weight not volume and 3.2%
3.2-3.5% salinity
weight or volume
only changes by temp
1 thing id only leave vickis in longer then a lil while.. because of added proteins and vitamins
it does what it will do in 10 min 2 hours is bout the longest id do
hers i left in the few times i used it
i get her prototypes ..and test them
ive tried hard to create residue grinding 1/3 of a bar into 1 dread or using whole bottles of rot knot or shampoo ( dont do it my god the rinsing) i find lil too much liquid can fill the shower floor (where my dreads are piled) with overflowing suds but of how clean
i dont generally recommend leaving salt water in longer then a couple hours, but feel hers is safe to
can you show an update pic and 1 about 2 months ago? how old are they?
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.
I was even thinking of going down to the beach with a couple of empty gallon jugs and filling them with ocean water.
I don't feel the liquid is enough. I don't feel it's working too well. I haven't really seen any progress at all. I look at my weekly timeline on my gallery and don't see much of a change. Especially in the front and top of my head.
I tried it out yesterday, just spraying a bit around my hair, and it made a huge significant difference. My hair was only knotting at the ends. Forming little wrecking ball like things that I assumed were just going to fall out, but after one use, the hair suddenly started kinking up and coiling and knotting much closer to the root. Especially the few dreads that I actually do have, they got a lot tighter. I'm going to try your advice about rinsing my hair every day with warm water as opposed to once a week. My hair usually gets out of control by the second day without a wash. I'll use the spray each day as well after showering and see what happens. If I notice any breakage apart form my separating, I'll reduce the use of it.
