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A.C.V wash? help?

Dread Maintenance

It's not necessary to. You really could use bars from the start. But washing with a bar is a little more aggressive than liquid. I'd say switch to a bar when you wash and the don't untangle much or at all.

As far as the ACV rinse. It's a rinse, not a wash. You should only do it after you wash with BS. The BS should stay in for 10 minutes. the ACV should only be left on for about 5 seconds. It doesn't clean your scalp of hair at all. It just softens it up and resets the pH after the BS wash raises it.

Daydreamer, never use lemon juice, or lime juice, or any citrus fruit juice at all. Citrus fruit has citric acid in it, which is very damaging to your hair. It seeps into the hair shaft and breaks it down from the inside. People use lemon juice to lighten their hair. That lightening is how the damage shows up.

And NEVER mix BS and ACV together. The chemical reaction is not good for your scalp, hair, or health. Check out youtube and watch the videos of people mixing BS and vinegar in water bottles. They explode. You don't want to do that on your head. It won't explode, but it fizzies, which it what happens when the heat created starts to burn. You can really damage your hair and scalp by burning it

New, Help and Advice needed please :)

Dreading Methods

Palm rolling your hair is not natural. Natural locks mean you did nothing but wash and separate. Palm rolling is an active process to create something.
That said, it only does 1 of 2 things. Either it does nothing because yo do it lightly and it doesn't create lasting tangles. Or you do it to the point where you do create real knot. If you do see progress from it, you are doing it too hard and too much. This will irrevocably damage your hair. Palm rolling destroys your roots. It's a damage that you don't see right away too, which is the worst kind. In a year you will see that your roots are so much thinner than the lock itself. This makes it so that in time, the lock can actually fall out because it weighs so much and the root hairs can't support it. Check out my video on palm rolling and what it did to my locks. You'll stop right away. I only did it for about 2 weeks

Cut my dreads for a job. Now I have a job, and I want to grow them back again.

Dreading Methods

I use chrome regularly. I haven't had any issues

Cut my dreads for a job. Now I have a job, and I want to grow them back again.

Dreading Methods

Like Rainbow said, every time you reTnR it, you set the progress back to the first day. It'll never progress past that.

hey will have to go through a messy stage in order to lock up. It's the natural progression of locks. I'd recommend you get a nice plain black tam, and wear that at work. It's professional, and will cover your hair ruing the messy phase. Plus tams allow for a general knottiness to form. It will need a bit more separating to keep them from congoing together, but it will help promote knots.

And never twist your hair. It causes traction alopecia, which leads to baldness if it isn't allowed to heal

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That was nice of you. But why couldn't you cover them, or just tie them back nicely?

starter knots sizes?

General Questions

no such thing as too small. But the smaller they get, the more you have. Sometimes when you have more than 100 locks, you get stuck in car doors and such.

It's easier to let them congo together than split them apart when they are mature.

How big are they?

starter knots sizes?

General Questions

When mature, they usually end up the thickness of the section. The biggest most people want to go is 1 inch sections. I wouldn't go bigger unless you really want it. Fatter locks take longer to dry and need a bit more care.

Just separate them into 1 inch sections or smaller

KnotLadys Timeline :) UPDATE.

Member Journals and Timelines

They look amazing.

I'd love to see a timeline of just the loops. I don't think anyone's done that yet. Good call

IS THIS LONG ENUF TO DREAD?!

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Like Ixchel said. I'd recommend just starting growing natural locks. Wash like you have locks now, and let them section themselves. As they grow, you will see them start to section themselves. Separate the sections if they start to grow together. If, in a few months, when they are longer, you want to use a starter method, you will already have sections defined to use

May as well do a progression. :)

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Very good progress. I can't wait to see more