I have quite a few questions about the natural method.
Dreading Methods
Meg, I just started my dread journey about 5 weeks ago and I also have very thick and curly hair (soooo frizzy!). I sectioned and backcombed (hadn't found this site yet...if only I'd known!) and while the sections have certainly stayed more or less as they were originally, the backcombing essentially fell out immediately and it's now redreading. Now my hair is congoing like mad, so I'm constantly ripping sections apart, which suggests it would have dreaded naturally really well.In retrospect, I should have just gotten myself a wool cap, slept with a sweater on my pillow, and let my hair do it's own thing, ripping it into appropriately sized sections as time went on. Instead, I spent many hours backcombing, only for it to fall out and redread naturally. For what it's worth, I've been wearing a sleeve (literally: it's a mens XL tshirt sleeve) over my hair since I dreaded it, and underneath it is locking up SO well.Congratulations on your decision! As fuzzy and nuts as my hair currently is, I am absolutely thrilled with my decision.