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seems like a good idea that could have an impact in time
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Did I do something wrong?
Dread Maintenance
yeah that sounds about right, I thought my hair was just one big fucking mess at that point.
Hello from Quebec!
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hey your english reads pretty well to me, Welcome to the site!, least you only used it once, I used,, much much more than that >.<</body>
ello I am melanie joan of arc fischer :P
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hey welcome!can't imagine how much of a pain in the butt it'd be to comb that out
Hallo to the dreadheads, i'm Natalya
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hey that sounds almost exactly like me in the first paragraph,Welcome to the site
dreading the tips
Dread Maintenance
I used to *still kinda* have curly tips, what seemed to happen to them was they either kinda overlapped each other when i slept *mostly on the back of my head*or they stayed curly like my previous natural hairor since some of the hair was so thin they kinda just broke off to where the dreaded hair was,I did take a crochet needle of one of them though and blunted that one, I do love the way that it looks and can provide a before after picture to show you that in all honesty it worked out really well for that particular dread, I probably would have done a few more if I hadn't lost the needle and never bothered to replace it, I guess you could say it doesn't look natural, but personally I love the way this one looks with maybe having only spent less than 2 minutes to do it,I definitely wouldn't recommend doing it to many dreads its just that if I didn't the hair wasn't gonna do anything other than just break apart more anyway.but just so that I don't have to respond to my comment about breakage, yep, loose hairs have popped out of it, maybe I even broke some hairs *after all I only used the needle briefly with no real experience* but I left it alone after that and still like the way it looks months later.
how many is too many...
General Questions
soaringeagle said:
theres a complex equation for determining the right number of dreads for your head
1st measure the circumference of the hairline
then the distances front to back and side to side
after that count the hairs per square inch, multiply that by the area covered by hair, devide by the square root of the circumference
add 14 to the per inch squared hair count then subtract 7 for every year in age over 25
then ignore the sum of that equation and count the random number that naturaly occur
nice I started with exactly 50, now got 48I didn't really want about under 40, though I do like having a few big ones
So i started my dreads with wax
Dread Maintenance
I'd just leave the patches alone and let them develop, it'd probably look pretty cool in time.
Hi, My name is Lucy and I'm a dreadaholic....
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*says in AA tone*Hiiiiiii Lucyyyywelcome
thats awesome you're letting your son grow dreads