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from personal experience can I say, rule out Arizona before you even go? haha, I just moved from there (Mesa, Phoenix, Tempe, Scottsdale, Glendale) to Colorado a few months ago and so far I love my decision. Arizona heat is unbearable, it's summer 3/4ths of the year and fall the rest of the time. Colorado you can experience all four seasons in a day and rain three separate times in a day, beautiful hiking/backpacking scenery, some great kayaking, and of course it's fantastic for winter sports if that's you're forte. although around Aurora and Denver I've gotten some negative responses about my dreadies, stretched ears, tattoos, and such but if closed-minded people don't bother you it's AWESOME to be here if you haven't been before

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I've never met someone who was a dick and has dreads haha it almost doesn't make sense oshinn said:

i am oshinnnnn

SE mandyland is still active in the dreadlocks forum over there.

i am excited to be around positive people who are not dicks

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haha I've been hearing I should have gone natural but I couldn't be any happier the way they turned out I thought it would have taken like a year or more actually until SE told me otherwise just a couple days ago haha Jessica Reyes said:

SOOOO what I was thinking...
I looked at the first pic and was like, "Oh I hope he lets that bad boy dread naturally...cuz DAYUM he's lucky..." lol

soaringeagle said:

wow with that hair i dunno why u bothered to t&r at all that hairs a dreadies dream it woulda dreaded overnigyt almost if alowed to go natural but your off to a great start anyway..omghg if a salon dared to dread perm that hair i woulda shaved em all bald and dyed theyre faces fgreen...
your hairs meant to dread ..a dread perm on the perfect dreading hair? eeeek

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I'm glad so many of you think so, thank you. I thought the before and after would show just how drastic of a change it was haha Ippy said:

I don't care what anyone says, they look freaking awesome. I love the before/after. Fantastic improvement!

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thanks man, much appreciated Ivan said:

nicee job dude. they look really good already.

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wow that's surprisingly fast from what I thinking, if I would have known that I might have thought about going natural instead soaringeagle said:

naturals very hard to predict with your hair i could imagine it locking very very fast
mine well a week or 2 average a couple months tho some as long as a year
id guess most fall in the 4-6 months range but its not uncommon for some to dread in weeks

Dwayne Salazar said:

not too bad now, I'm kind of tender headed so it was starting to hurt but nothing I couldn't handle. good luck with the natural method. how long does it take for them to start really locking up?

Robb said:

Hey they look great! Seven hrs of Tnr!, hows your head feeling? I just started mine on Wed. I'm going try the natural thing. enjoy

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not too bad now, I'm kind of tender headed so it was starting to hurt but nothing I couldn't handle. good luck with the natural method. how long does it take for them to start really locking up? Robb said:

Hey they look great! Seven hrs of Tnr!, hows your head feeling? I just started mine on Wed. I'm going try the natural thing. enjoy

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haha thanks, it's actually a band shirt from this local band in TX called Upon A Burning Body unfortunately it was a design they only used for a small west coast tour so there aren't many around hahathanks they turned out much better than I thought they would so I'm pretty pleased with them Emily said:

woww nice shirt i want it. they look soo good for just one day awesome youre just gonna love them more and more as they grow and do their own thing.

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I saw something somewhere about a shower cap so I thought I'd askand what are congos exactly? I've heard of them and can make a guess at what they are but I'm not sureyeah I've been looking for a good tam and have seen a few I'd like to get but haven't made the purchase yet IllumiKnotty said:

sure! it will keep your scalp from drying/itching

dont treat your dreads like celebrities -- do what you would normally do.

pretty much forget about them, throw all the mirrors in ur house away.

feel around for congos and separate them (maybe invest in a summer tam)

bamboo is natural anti fungal, absorbs swead/prevents mold

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that's fine, I'm not trying to rush them actually I just bought some a couple hours ago so I'll start using it tomorrowone question I do have since we're on the topic, on the days I don't wash them should I wear a shower cap or will it be okay to let them get wet everyday? IllumiKnotty said:

yeah there is nothing you can do to speed up this process. sorry.

how often are you shampooing with residue free shampoo?

u should try to "ween yourself off"

first week wash every 2-3 days
second week every 3-4 days
third week every 4-5 days
and etc etc etc

your goal is to wash it once a week, maybe twice

after a while your hair will not get oily