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how many locks do you have?

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Ever counted them? When I cut off my first set I counted them up because I was curious. I had 207 locks.they were about the size of 3 or 4 shoe strings put together in width and about 19 to 22 inches long. Now on my second set I think I have less. Haven't counted yet though.
updated by @average-joe: 01/13/15 09:07:27PM

how often do you wash your locks?

Dread Maintenance

Yea no hard feelings

Trina Sandress said:

I apologize if my comment seems rude. I didn't see your comment at firsttalking about how often you cleanse your dreads. I just didn't see the reason why you are asking if not for advice or just mere curiosity.

I guess you arejust trying to get a discussion going and trying to get to know people here. So no hard feelings.:-]

updated by @average-joe: 07/03/15 04:29:33AM

how often do you wash your locks?

Dread Maintenance

Are you blind or something? I wrote how often I wash mines a long time ago. Seems like you have it out for me for some reason.it ain't that serious man

Trina Sandress said:

From all of the responses so far you can see that it is all a matter of the individual. And I told you that before. So I don't know why you need to hear everyone else's washing schedule before you share yours. It just seems pointless.

how often do you wash your locks?

Dread Maintenance

oh okay. do you ever use like oils in between washings to keep your hair smelling good? every five days or so i use this wonder 8 oil because it smells great. i used to use it motr often but it ended up being too messy and didn't feel good. kemi oil also smells good too.

Vince Ferrer said:

when my hair starts smelling or itching i wash immediately. ends up being around 12 times a month, 13 on a leap year.

how often do you wash your locks?

Dread Maintenance

thanks for all the replies. before this i had just never heard of people wasing their hair 3-4 times a week, even without dreadlocks. i never thought it was neccessary to wash hair that often. i mean if feels great when you wash your hair but idk. i know people that get keep braids, and every two weeks they take out their braids, wash their hair, comb it, and then get braids again and repeat every two weeks. so they are going two weeks without washing their hair. i was hoping people didn't get self conscious and start saying they wash their hair often as not to get looked down on or looked at as dirty by others. i don't think anyone is though.

how often do you wash your locks?

Dread Maintenance

soooooo this thread got me looking up hair washing on google and i came across some interesting stuff. im not sure how credible it is though. btw i know some people hate labels(like myself) but for the sake of simplifying this i'll use labels. i saw a site comparing hair washing times between white people and black people in reference to hair type. it mentioned that in "white" hair it gets oily faster which causes people to wash more often and stop oil buildup and residue in their head. is there any truth to this, and does it go the same way for locks? one person even said they wash their hair twice a day every day.

how often do you wash your locks?

Dread Maintenance

how often do you wash your locks?

Dread Maintenance

i've heard varied times so far on this site and i just want to get a general idea of how often people wash their locks. i'll post how often i do mines after a few replies i guess. but i can already tell you some of you wash way more often than me.
updated by @average-joe: 02/14/15 01:23:13PM

twisting.

Dreading Methods



BONES said:

haha each to our own and all that, thats cool by me but u say u get impatient when u had to maintain yr locks when they got longer so wouldn't it of been less hassle in fact no hassle at all if you just let them grow with no maintanence except separating them? It would do my head right in havin to go through that every few weeks. Not knockin you ... just saying man

hah i see your point but back then when i started(10th grade) i didn't know anything about going natural, and by the time they got long i was use to someone twisting them for me for maintenance. and yeah separating would have been a huge hassle if i went that route though. my hair is really kiny, so after a few weeks they'd clump together at the roots and id have to pull and rip them apart and sometimes use a scissor to separate. going natural seems like id have to separate more often than i do now.

twisting.

Dreading Methods

haha im not angry at all. i ended my first set due to a lot of factors. i can be impatient and once my dreads started getting a lot of length(after like three years) i used to hate getting people to twist my hair and it taking 2 to 3 hours then sitting under a hair dryer for an hour or more. due to my carelessness and lack of knowledge my dreads were starting to get filled with lots of dust,lint, etc that just seemed to get worse if you tried picking it out. i had so many on my head. when i cut them off i counted them and i had 210 dreadlocks all at least 20 inches or longer, so it just seemed to be hassle. with me being young i also wanted to try different hairstyles, but having locks sorta prevented me from that. if i went swimming and didn't have a professional blowdryer around it would take up to a whole day for my locks to air dry, or a few hours of killing my wrist and holding a normal blowdryer to my head trying to dry them. i just wanted to redo them this time the right way.now i have next to no lint in my hair, i don't use beeswax at all, i have a consistent loctician i go to that at the most takes an hour to twist my hair(fairly fast compared to others in the past), and i know a lot more about my hair now. i often times wish i didn't cut my first set of locks due to the time and money put into them and just to see how long they'd be now, but im better off now after restarting them.once again in not angry and thanks for replying.