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The Seed of Freeform

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I recently got one of those at the end of one of my “dreads”, it stayed for a while slowly growing larger and then I woke up and it had fallen off and the “dreadlock” is about half and inch shorter now. 

Is that supposed to happen? I am not losing my hair, it isn’t happening to the rest of my hair that isn’t locking up yet, nor my other dreads, just that one. I am getting that little ball on another one and it looks as though it is about to fall off any week now. 

Flattening my hair

General Questions

Haha. Thanks for that, and your’re right there. I just needed a bit of validation to make me feel better. 

And thanks, guys, I like this forum because I can always count on someone to make me feel better about my hair. ✌️

updated by @aquaguy: 09/13/18 03:34:16PM

Flattening my hair

General Questions

Really? I’d love to see what you were picturing? Haha

Flattening my hair

General Questions

Haha.

updated by @aquaguy: 09/11/18 12:06:56PM

Flattening my hair

General Questions

My hair has started to stick up, all over the place, very badly and I personally don’t care about it but I’m in a hotel and eating in the dining room you’re supposed to look “smart” or smart-ish, and while I put a shirt and pants on my hair is insane. I mean, I love my hair now because I’m looking forward to seeing what it looks like fully dreaded but yeah...

If I take my hand and just flatten some of the hair that is sticking up all over the place, will it prevent it from knotting or hinder the process in anyway? 

Also, how do I get chlorine out of my hair without washing it too roughly? It’s kind of made my hair go all stiff which kind of makes it look even crazier. Haha.

Thanks. Peace.

The vegan diet and myself

Dreads and Diets

I’m vegan too because I don’t think we have the right to eat another living being. The only exception is if we live in the wild and our only chance of survival is to kill an animal, but even then we should acknowledge that the animal died for our survival and show it respect and say a prayer (non-religious, just a mantra) for it. 

I’m also growing dreadlocks because I believe it to be the most natural hairstyle and, like you said, it’s freeing. Like not caring what society thinks of you, what they deem appropriate or untidy, etc. Just being yourself. People have told me (I’ve been freeforming for a few months now) how my hair looks disgusting and untidy and scruffy, etc, but I don’t see why they care personally. It’s only hair...

Are you still freeforming your hair now? 

Peace.

updated by @aquaguy: 08/28/18 06:48:13AM

Have I screwed up?

Dread Maintenance

I’ve got some photos on my timeline somewhere, in some old posts. And it’s about 7 inches, I think. If the curls are stretched out it reaches to the top of my shoulder.

Have I screwed up?

Dread Maintenance

Well, to say they were “knotting” is a bit of a stretch. Yeah, the curls were getting less curly fractionally but on the ones I’ve TnRed they weren’t really knotty enough to undo much progress. My hair is just insanely matted, that’s the main progress, going from un-matted to matter and one obvious knot and some I’ve probably not noticed.

I have a freeform one forming at the back of my head and I can genuinely feel it knotting up, like if you touch it you can feel knots in it but the other curls that I TnRed lightly to avoid any damage to my hair, I don’t feel, had reached that point. 

You might be right, I might have undone some progress, but I guess we’ll see, right? Live and learn, haha. 

I should have taken some photos from the start to put on here, but oh well. 

updated by @aquaguy: 08/28/18 04:28:57AM

Have I screwed up?

Dread Maintenance

So...some of you will know I have been freeforming for around 4 months now and my hair had begun to knot up very slightly. You could see the curls separating and could feel some knots if you touched them. They still look like curls but they were sort of straightening a little bit and they felt sort of “stiff”. 

However, I have just TnRed a few of them where the knots were beginning to show, mainly as an experiment to see how the TnRed ones look compared to the freeform ones, but am now worried that I might have screwed up nearly 4 months of near neglect (except washing). I do expect some, of not all of them, to completely unravel tonight or very soon but don’t mind that as I’m hoping it might had sped up the freeform process...hopefully.

Am I worrying over nothing? 

Thanks. Peace.

3 months in♡♡♡

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They look great.