General Talk
alright, i sent you the info via PM, its easier to keep stuff like this organized that way
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General Talk
that sounds awesome. i would love to take care of one for you if you would let me have a shot at it.
General Talk
im curious as to what is involved as well. i think helping out the site this way would be awesome.
Churches agains't Gay's
Alternative Lifestyles and Subcultures
the people you saw were westboro baptist church. theyre inbred (confirmed), rude, and seem to be clinically insane. they protest at a bunch of military funerals (saying all soldiers are fags and they go to hell), concerts, rallys, movie premieres, etc. they have a band of bikers that follows them sometimes and when they protest they all get in front of westboro and start revving their harleys to drown them out, and hold a blank banner in front of them to block them out. i think its kinda funny really. anyway, there is nothing good about these people. it seems like their entire mission in life is to infuriate people for some reason. they do everything in the name of god, but there has to be something wrong with them if they cant see how what theyre doing is something god wouldnt approve of, maybe even damn them for...
pressing dread issue,... i dont know what to do
Life Issues Facing Dreads
a call center is probably going to be your best bet job-wise. a lot of them dont care what your hair is like because the customers will never see you. i worked for 4 or 5 call centers, the one i was at for 3 years would let anyone wear anything as long as it didnt have profanity on it (i got away with death metal shirts, hot topic pants, and a tiger tail attatched to my belt loop if that helps), and a dish network call center i worked at had a guy with some really long natural dreads. come to think of it, i wonder if SE knew the guy (he lived in my town for a long time). anyway im rambling, but try applying at some call centers. the work sucks once the novelty wears off but its damn good pay ($9-14/hr in most places) and you can keep your dreads.
12 months backcombed timeline *ONE YEAR UPDATE*
Member Journals and Timelines
thank you KS. im not sure ive ever heard that compliment before but it means a lot to me 
eventually (when i can afford it) im going to order one of your peyote stitches to put in my hair and decorate them a bitKnottysleeves said:
They're coming along great! Last August I split a bunch of thick ones too and it's taken awhile for some of them to settle down and re-dread. Not that they were unravelling or anything, but the knots shifted around a lot after splitting and now I have new zigzags and stuff.
I really like your texture.
12 months backcombed timeline *ONE YEAR UPDATE*
Member Journals and Timelines
haha well a few different ways. i alwas tried to separate as much as i could with my fingers but eventually we resigned ourselves to taking a knife and scissors and cutting some straight down the middle. you cant even tell they were split now, and they never developed any funky looks and their strength didnt suffer at all. it was mainly a factor of having halfway split a dread apart and the rest being too dreaded to split with my fingers
Sarah Hagan-Stuff said:
how did you split them?
12 months backcombed timeline *ONE YEAR UPDATE*
Member Journals and Timelines
Hello dreadies. I felt like its time to make my own timeline. im at 1 year, started with backcombing. waxed twice, day of backcombing and 2 days after. after that i worked on getting the wax out and just went natural.
Any thoughts on my dreads are welcome!
(edit: im sorry for the formatting in that one area. was still figuring out the insert image formatting options)
This was them at about 2 weeks:
And the above image is about 1 month.
They were pretty huge, i didnt want thin dreads at the time, and when backcombing we sectioned them into 3" sections. Little did i know just how huge they would be...
2 months:
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They were locking up quite nicely, though they were huge, and i started to notice how much fatter dreads get when they start to lock up. I then worked on splitting fatter dreads. i started out with just 16 dreads, im up to at least 30 now but i havent counted in a long time.
These are at 4 months. I had split quite a few:
They were coming along quite nicely, though they were still pretty new i suppose and hadnt locked up very hard, but they looked really nice.
5 months:
nappy nappy head. this was the first point in time where i thought my head looked bad, but i knew very well that it was just a phase my hair was going through, and pressed on.
9 months: this is where im at right now, most of my dreads are getting really really thick and hard near the roots and tips, a very few of them are still unmatted in the centers but thats only maybe 2 of them. most of them are rock solid in most places on the dreads. theres still a lot of loops, even around the solid parts. i wonder if the loops will go away or not if that area in the dread feels like a rock o.O
**ONE YEAR!!**
i just hit one year today (may 16th), and i took some photos out in the sunlight.
So thats it so far. Im not sure how my progress is going compared to others, but im happy with it.
What do you guys think? any comments are very appreciated!
updated by @jackal: 02/03/18 12:18:45PM
crochet dreads way too huge what should i do?
Help! Save My Dreads
im not sure what to say that SE hasnt covered, he did a good job with covering everything that needs to be said. take it from me, your dreads would be huge and hard to manage if you dont rip them into smaller sections or start over. SE linked you to my timeline, and at 16 dreads some of them were literally almost as wide as my arm. dreads that thick will hold more water than most necks can handle and they take like 2 days to dry, and create tons of mold problems later on when they tighten. i know how much work and effort you've put into them, but starting over or attempting to rip into smaller sections is definately the way to go.