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why not retwist?

General Questions

well ok. but for the most part my hair looked like this even before i wanted dreads.soi guessthats why i dont see progress. i never really used tocomb myhair though lol.

soaring eagle said:

dude u got plenty of progress

you dont see those sections? them srartijng to dread? if u tnr u will reset that to day 1 just kep going your doing fine

if you had no sectioning at all and it was perfectly like you just combed it then mayn=be it would be woryh trying but u got pretty much average progres for within 3 months wich many backcombed ir tnred dreads end up exactky where your at

if u weant to add sea salt to the bs well that might help but i think u would undo alot of progress if u start over

why not retwist?

General Questions

welli hope that worked. let me know if it isnt displaying properly.

soaring eagle said:

hmm well lets see a picture

why not retwist?

General Questions

SE,i figure when i first did them i was not careful enough, and therefore they fell apart. this time around i wouldalso usestuff tohelp them lock, salt water for example.and looking back i dont think itwisted as randomlyas you should. most of the time i was doingnearly equal amounts of hair ineach hand.

soaring eagle said:

backwards progress is progress what would you accomplish> you tnr again and in 2 mnths they fall apart you tnr they fall apart.. just leave em alone and they will dread

lets see em i bet ya thety arent as unraveled as u think

why not retwist?

General Questions

i TnR'd about 2 and a half months ago, and almost all of my sections fell apart. i was told that i shouldnt redo them because it destroys progress, but i have none. all of the areas i'd be redoing are completely unknotted. so what progress would be destroyed?

updated by @jacob-macdowell: 01/13/15 09:28:41PM

1 month update

Dread Maintenance

well its been about a month maybe a few days more since i went with TnR, and i think overall its going nicely a few sections have come completely undone most only partially and some havent at all. i have a few questions though:

1. a few of my "dreads" go like this: loose roots, very knotted moderately compacted section, a more loose section and then curly tips. is that my hair dreading? (the 2nd part).

2. i have balls of hair hanging off the ends of my "dreads" which are attached only by hair that's fallen out but still stuck inside the section, what should i do about this? cut it off? pull it out(gently)? or just let it hang and get snagged on things?

this picture should show what i mean.

and here's a couple pictures of the rest of my head (right after i washed it)

so my third question is how fast does my hair seem to be dreading? slowly, average, quickly? as usual any and all replies are welcome.

updated by @jacob-macdowell: 01/13/15 09:24:56PM

just starting out, need advice and help.

Dreading Methods

im white with wavy hair, its thin and i've already grown it out (below my shoulders now) i was wondering what methods to use and how the end result will look. im not a fan of larger dreads and i have thin hair so ideally i'd like to get alot of smaller ones. (hoping mine will look like jonathan davis from KoRn).

updated by @jacob-macdowell: 01/13/15 09:21:28PM