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Hello! Third time with dreads

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Can you elaborate a bit about this? What do mean exactly? Like you don't care what others think of you type of way?

Mistakes made. I will keep on..

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Thanks G! I'll take compliments any day. I don't do anything special, no makeup, maybe mascara every now and again and that's it. More natural for sure.

I think the spacing is great now. I have around 5 dreads that are thicker than the rest. The rest differ between thin and medium. Just depending on where they are on my head. As for the frizzness. Should I be doing anything or just leave them be? When going out in public, (kids school etc) I look a mess so I tend to pull them back, gently, in a loose tie. I keep them down at home. Also should I be washing my hair more often? Weekly? I was going to wash every 2 weeks, Which is much more than the my hair is used to. 
The biggest section is not over an inch, probably slightly under.

Oh and last question. I have some dreads that are folding over themselves. So say a 8 inch long dread is now 4 inches because of the folding. Do I just let this happen, or pull it apart so I continue to have loose ends? I do want loose ends, but I do want the dreads to thicken as well. 

I keep thinking of things to ask. Should I cancel my one month dread maintenance appt? I'm thinking that answer is going to be a, yes. 

updated by @coffeelover: 09/05/18 06:30:00PM

Mistakes made. I will keep on..

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Hi everyone!

So glad to find an active forum with the hot topic of Dreads as its main topic!!

Half my head was done at home with tnr and backcombing. (Um whoops!?)  Other half was done at salon with twist and pull and very little backcombing. I believe salon also did some some interlocking. I have at least 1 inch free from my scalp to the start of each dread. 

So, after reading on this forum I see that I probably should have gone the natural neglect method. Which my hair always wanted to do anyways. I have curly hair underneath the top layer, enough to have multiple kinks in it. The top layer of my hair is straight. I don't know why...     My hair drove me nuts. I always ended up with my hair in a bun. 

My hair before becoming dreads was a few inches past shoulders. I do still have some free hair around face, which is what I wanted. Hair is fine, thin, curly and straight. Blonde and just stringy looking. Before dreads I would only use shampoo every few weeks. I washed my hair (with water) and used conditioner, the good kind I think, twice a week. My hair was healthy, growing like crazy, but still fine and thin. Just always tangled so easily.

I always wanted dreads. Since I was in my 20s. I decided when I was 39 that when I turned 40 I would get dreads, and so they have begun. 

My worries. I don't have enough dreads, I have 33. My hair is so fine and thin that it just doesn't seem full enough. But without dreads I thought the same thing. So not sure. I do not want to comb these out. I have already combed out half my head before. It took days to do around 10 dreads ( I thought they weren't spaced correctly) and so I got them redone. 

Also the frizziness. Just embrace it right?

Anything else I should be doing?

Oh and I use a dreading shampoo, no residue. I've washed them once since salon, and once with just water. My hair is pretty used to not being washed often. But I'm also used to washing with water and conditioning the ends. Which I've obviously stopped doing. 

I hope to include pics of my dreads. Thanks all and happy dreading. 

P.S I wish I would have gone natural and just wore a scarf/hat.