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Mandy2
@mandy2
10/28/10 10:57:02AM
55 posts

lies lies lies!


Dreading Methods

It's amazing the misinformation that's on the internet.It's also amazing how I never noticed it until I actually started letting my hair dread. I guess myself, as well as a lot of other people out there, assume that if it gets high rankings on search engines, or that if it's well known, it means it's legit info.I think what would be awesome is if Mythbusters did a segment on dreadlocks. Ha! :)
Mandy2
@mandy2
10/28/10 10:46:49AM
55 posts

lies lies lies!


Dreading Methods

Yeah, I met a guy once at the mall who got one of the dreadheadhq kits, and told me that I was doing mine wrong. He also told me that he has had dreads 4 other times, and usually cut them off after a month or two because they got so "out of control". I also had a guy once that told me I was being racist by having dreads. I've looked into it a lot, but I still don't understand the reasoning behind that.Maybe I'm just a magnet for verbal dread abuse. xDLol..
Mandy2
@mandy2
10/28/10 08:55:33AM
55 posts

lies lies lies!


Dreading Methods

This is so unsettling.I was at work when one of my coworkers stopped to question me about my dreads. She seemed puzzled as to why my hair wasn't all stinky and gross. Couldn't seem to fathom it. So I explained to her that I keep my dreads very clean, as one would their own hair, that for the most part it's just a misconception or that it's due to poor knowledge of maintenance. She seemed even more confused, and I asked her why.She explained to me that her son wanted dreadlocks, which was why she was asking me. That she refused to let him do it because someone had informed her that the only way to make dreadlocks was by rubbing horse manure in your hair and then never washing it. Ever.I didn't even know what to say to that.Where do people come up with this stuff? The internet, unfortunately, as I found by doing a quick google search on the phrase "dreadlocks horse manure". There's even a site that claims the original origin of dreadlocks to be from some ancient tribe in India and that the only true way to make dreadlocks is to rub horse manure in it, like the tribe did apparently. Actually there are quite a few online references to using this "method" for dreadlocks.I understand that there's a fairly common perception of associating dreadlocks with uncleanliness, and I've been questioned about it previously, but that one knocked the breath out of me.Has anyone else been hit with out of this world questions or concepts regarding dreads?
updated by @mandy2: 02/14/15 06:26:37AM
Mandy2
@mandy2
10/27/10 06:47:37PM
55 posts

why am I paranoid??


Introduce Yourself

I actually had the same thing in the back for a while. I thought it would never fill in, but after several months of shrinking and fattening, it actually just filled in on it's own.Just leave it be. It'll take a while but it will fill in, especially if you let it go enough to get a bunch of loose hairs in there. Then the loose guys will fill in the gaps naturally as they get sucked into other dreads.
Mandy2
@mandy2
10/28/10 09:38:37PM
55 posts

New girl here.11 months-ish. Need some advice.


Dread Maintenance



Nicole said:
I love them! I'm so happy to see your post/pictures! I need to take pics again, but mine look JUST like yours on most parts of my head. My right side is verrrrryyyy slow to do anything so my hair is like 7 different lengths now. lol. But I dont think they are locking like that due to the original length. My hair was about an inch past my shoulder blades when I started locking. My dreads are now above my shoulders. They shrunks up A.L.O.T. Im thinking that how hair locks depends on the texture. My hair is very fine, and thinner. How is your texture?

Ok, off the topics. lol. I LOVE yours and now I am loving mine even more.

Thank you and you look amazing!
My hair is really fine, thin, and wispy normally. It's also very dry because I dye it a lot, as you can see in the pics on my timeline. I'm also having the same thing where my dreads are locking unevenly and thus the uneven length. The dreads on my left side are probably twice the length of the dreads on my right side.
Mandy2
@mandy2
10/28/10 11:00:04AM
55 posts

New girl here.11 months-ish. Need some advice.


Dread Maintenance

Thanks soaringeagle! :)Coming from someone who has the experience that you have, I think my self confidence just multiplied tenfold. LOL!
Mandy2
@mandy2
10/28/10 08:42:56AM
55 posts

New girl here.11 months-ish. Need some advice.


Dread Maintenance

I am very well aware of what a dreadlock is lol.I guess then I should have rephrased my question as "When will my dreadlocks mature?"It's mostly just the fact that the only information I have on dreadlocks at this stage is from the internet, and most of that information is from people who actually "made" or "maintain" their locks rather than just letting the hair do it's own thing. So unfortunately my idea of what my locks might look like at this point is kinda skewed. Like I said, I know a couple of people who have very mature dreads, but they've all pretty much told me they don't even remember that far back lol...I just didn't know if there was something I should be doing to them other than what my normal routine is. But I'm happy to know now that it isn't the case. :)
Mandy2
@mandy2
10/27/10 06:37:43PM
55 posts

New girl here.11 months-ish. Need some advice.


Dread Maintenance

I honestly think that if it weren't for the area I live in now, I wouldn't have even noticed, or been bothered by it.I moved to a pretty conservative part of town several months ago, and I'm constantly getting asked about my hair. Every so often I will get a compliment on the dreads, but it's usually somewhere along the lines of "What did you do to your hair?" When I respond telling the person that I'm letting my hair dread, the reply is usually somewhere along the lines of "Oh! I would have never guessed those were dreadlocks! When I see them on African Americans, they don't look like that..."le sigh.... lol:)
Mandy2
@mandy2
10/27/10 06:27:09PM
55 posts

New girl here.11 months-ish. Need some advice.


Dread Maintenance

Thanks.I really just needed to know that it was normal at that stage. I know three people with dreads and they're all between 5-12 years of maturity so I don't have anyone to look at that isn't already amazing.I try not to be picky with them. I actually consider myself a lot less picky than may people I have met. It's just hard when all the pictures you see that are around 1 year and you're just like Wow! Why don't mine look like that yet?
Mandy2
@mandy2
10/27/10 05:33:54PM
55 posts

New girl here.11 months-ish. Need some advice.


Dread Maintenance

I can't believe i didn't find this place sooner! :)Over nearly the past year, I've been looking all over the internet at timelines and what not for inspiration. The thing that bugs me the most is that on my timeline, I'm never even remotely close to looking as awesome as others. My dreads seem to look more like shirley temple curls that haven't been brushed in a month than they do dreadlocks. It's just a loopy, curly, frizzy, poofy mess, and at almost a year! Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of days where I am absolutely in love with them, but those are far a few in between as of lately.Just a background: I actually dreaded for the first time a little over a year ago. My hair tended to do it naturally, and I love the way it looks, absolutely beautiful, so I went with it. I originally backcombed, but they fell out after a couple of weeks. So I ended up just letting them do their own thing naturally. No wax, no rubbers. I pretty much just wash (sometimes I salt soak every couple months to get them real fresh feeling), and every couple months I might have a couple of them try to join together, and I rip them back apart. They're already pretty big, don't want them getting any bigger. xDI also have probably 2 or 3 little braids in there, too. I always thought that was pretty.Basically, I've had a hard time dealing with them lately. I've been very patient, through the good times and the bad. Problem is, everyone keeps saying "You're almost there! Just 2 or 3 more months!". I've been hearing this since month 2 though. LOL!What I'd like to know is whether or not the way they look is normal for their age. I've also had a TON of growth since I started. I started them off at only 3 or 4 inches worth of hair, and they've grown what would be equivalent to shoulder length undreaded, if I account for the shrinkage.So, I've got a few pics posted here. A couple full front pics, and some close ups of what I'm describing with the whole curly, loopy thing. Every dread looks like that in some fashion or another. I've also got a bunch of flat guys in the back, I'm guessing from the fact that I always sleep on my back, and I never roll or twist them into shape.I'd like to keep them natural, if I can. I just don't know if they will get any better without "maintenance".


updated by @mandy2: 02/14/15 09:11:07AM
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