Forum Activity for @tatyananashi

Dreadlock Shrinkage - my results

General Talk

Hey everyone! Thanks for the additional comments, I haven't been on in a while so I missed some of these. Thanks for the encouragement on me pulling off short hair: I personally love having short hair sometimes, but I am the heaviest I've ever been and I feel fat with short hair, but the encouragement makes me see myself a little less tubby looking LOL.I have more pics, and for others going through the shrinkage phase or pondering what results will come: I have tight roots, I don't know quite why because I only loosely backcombed and my roots started out quite loose, and I always am seeing people complain about that inch or 2 of undreaded roots and I wish I had that much! The tightness came with the shrinking. Like you, MagicMeganMama, it happened fast. Just a few days before my shrinkage occured I had looked up and commented on "when will this loopy phase end?". Don't get me wrong, I loved my loops and now miss them a lot (though I still have a few and I know those loops are deeply tightly hanging around in my dreadies) but I was curious because it was a long and ever changing phase and I thought my hair was just going from loopy to different loopy to wild loopy to other loopy. The shrinkage happend one day after washing my hair- I did nothing different than normal, it just happend to one in the front. It freaked me out at first and I tried to add oils to condition that one (my front widows peak dread) and loosen it up, but it didn't work and seemed to only assist the shrinkage (I have no clue how).Well that's my long reply, thanks for the encouraging words and I'm uploading more pics soon.

Dreadlock Shrinkage - my results

General Talk

Actually my hair is very fine, straight and thin, but in the loopy stage it certainly looked like I had naturally curly hair. I don't know why they're bending up on themselves besides from the loops.They are definitely going to be TIGHT and thick when they grow out, so now I just need them to GROW. Though they're still a bit bumpy I wouldn't hesitate to call them "mature", because they feel like it, they are super tight and thick now, and maybe 1/3 the length I started with. And to think a few weeks ago I was wondering if they'd ever get out of the loopy stage.

Faelwynn said:

wooooooow

And to think, I thought my shrinkage was bad! Do you have naturally curly hair? That could be what's causing the doubling over... I'm just absolutely amazed!

Dreadlock Shrinkage - my results

General Talk

Yes, I separate congos, but really it's not congos causing the shortness, it's that they are doubling up on eachother.Obviously the texture is a little hard to see, I have a lot of loose hair because I don't sew it in or roll them, and they're only 5 months so there are somehairs that don't try to be a part of dreads yet, still letting them do their thing for now.

soaringeagle said:

holy ..wow
umm
do u seperate at all?
some seperating might help so they arent all gobbled up into a biggassed matt
and seperating u might tregain a tiny lil bit of length

but those dreads are gonna be sooo amazing when they grow
my freind chevy's dreads started off as waist length hair that shrunk up to your length theyre at now and got real fat like yours too 2 years later tho theyre back to like shoulderblades i guess
so dont worry it wont be too long b4 they start to get long again

Dreadlock Shrinkage - my results

General Talk

Yeah I like that it's progress but I am not liking how short they are now. From where my hair started this is like soooo short.I am toying with the idea of adding real hair extensions, but my journey thus far hasn't had any maintenance or anything like that and I don't want to taint my effort. But extensions can be taken out, and I would only sew them in, no crocheting or anything like that...It's still up in the air for me.

rawsum said:

Whoa ! those are EPIC ! already ! very cool tatyana that's got to be pretty exciting progress for you ! ! !

Dreadlock Shrinkage - my results

General Talk

And one more picture of the back of my hair after shrinkage

Dreadlock Shrinkage - my results

General Talk

Holy Shrinkage Batman!I just wanted to post some pictures of my hair in my third week after backcombing (when it was still long) to what my hair became. I'm entering the shrinkage phase, and it is fast. I went to sleep one night with my front dread as long as you see in all these pictures, woke up it was half that size, I was disappointed cuz I thought it was done forming, but the following morning it was half of THAT size. IN 2 DAYS I lost 6 inches of my dread! A lot of others have followed suit, some are doubling up on themselves then gobbling in, some of my ends are pointing upward because a loop or bend became so extreme it allowed the tip to be eaten by the dread. I don't do any maintenance at all.Here are some pictures of me with longer hair in my first few weeks of dreading, and then comparison my pictures with some crazy shrinkage.
updated by @tatyananashi: 02/14/15 08:35:45AM

sleeping without any head covering: bad idea?

Dread Maintenance

I never sleep with a head covering, and mine dreading up just fine. I think I tangle more because no cover, but who knows why. The side I sleep on the most (my right side) is about half the size of my left due to the shrinkage and dreading, so I think sleeping without cover hasn't hurt at all.

I wanted to add to the "natural" discussion :(

Dreading Methods

Right, I think what she means to say is provide the info but don't critize someones choices because whatever their reasons for dreading, it's their hair and their choice. Give advice when needed but no need to overreact if someone decides to do something to their hair regardless of the advice given, and in the long run if it does damage their hair we'll be here to help them figure out a way to fix it. We're all friends here, and I think she was just saying some people get extremely judgemental on this site.

Knottysleeves said:

Well said, Bird. There's a fine line between "promoting" natural dreads (which I believe this site was originally intended for) and disrespecting a person's individual dread journey, and sometimes that line clearly gets crossed around here.

I'm all for sharing information about least-damaging methods and so on, but it's disheartening when someone comes to the forum looking specifically for information about (for example) backcombing and all they get is comments that belittle their choices. "Why would you want to backcomb?! You'll look stupid and goofy!" and "If you care about your dreads and want to keep them more than a year then going natural is the only choice" and so on. I don't like that. Not everyone is interested in having their dreads "saved" or being recruited into the natural/neglect/spiritual/etc mindset... they just want information without the hype.

My TnR timeline - update at 25 months

Member Journals and Timelines

Shrinkage is a great sign, and yours are maturing sooo fast! Great dreads!

any odd behavior from the server/site post here

General Talk

it keeps logging me off and I have to relogin, it even logged me out in the middle of a discussion post and in the middle of uploading pics, I am getting maybe 3-5 minutes on before it makes me log in again.
updated by @tatyananashi: 07/18/15 06:20:11PM