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6 MONTHS!!!

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Updated 4/7 - last 6 pics from this morning - just over 5 months!

6 MONTHS!!!

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Just added one more pic collage to the slideshow... 4.5 months! Loops!

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Maybe this is a stupid question... but what happens to all the loops? Do they normally just fold up onto each other and fuse together? What do you mean that some my not go away? I know in the end they will look great, and I will love them, do you have any examples of people's dreads that are loopy? So I can kinda see what to maybe expect? Now that I split most of the fatties the little babies are dreading up nicely starting a couple inches from the roots, after a few days of super frizziness but I think I went from about 20 dreads to closer to 40.

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The last 8 pictures are from today... 6 months of not brushing and a little t&r!

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updated by @hendrixmama: 01/13/15 08:56:40PM

Does separating take a step backwards?

Dread Maintenance

Were your ends really frizzy after splitting? I see that your hair is pretty short, mine is half way down my back, but man my hair turned into a giant frizz ball after splitting... the roots have a bit of loose hair then a couple inches of dreaded hair then its just frizz city to the tips... I am hoping that it settles down after a few washes... cause it's hard to keep them separated from each other at the ends.

wagerbomb said:

hey just wanted to say that a few days ago i seperated a bunch of my fatties .... i went from having 32 dreads to about 50 from just splitting the ones that wanted to split .... and since my dreads are not even a month old yet it made it easy to do ... they are you and mine frayed out as well ... i ended upp putting bands on the tips to try and have them stay in there sections most ppl advise noit to do this but they are lockiing faster then they did without them .... and another thing i have been doing is sleeping with a loose wool hat on ... i think from the static from the wool it is helping them dread up faster ... and the frayed parts have settled down and locking back in again ... and since i seperated them they are now laying down flat ... and i dont look like a "pineapple head" as my gf says good luck bud

Does separating take a step backwards?

Dread Maintenance

That's pretty much what I did too, the roots were separating on their own, but the t&r seemed to be stopping the natural sections, so I had to undo a little bit at the bottom of a couple. I probably should have just gone "neglect" since it seems like the back which I left alone with no t&r is looking like it's progressing faster and in way better sections... oh well tho I will get there eventually, your hair looks GREAT!

Eva Lovelocks said:

when mine were doing the splitting thing in the beginning i just totally undid the tnr i had in and remade them into two or three or whatever. if you were able to pull them apart, that's cool too. they sound like they're doing what they should be!

Does separating take a step backwards?

Dread Maintenance

Ya, I was splitting from the root, cause a few of my sections were really big, like 2"x 2" and they were starting to dread separately at the roots, in more reasonable sized sections. They were sorta like a "Y" with the 2 ends as roots, so I just ripped them all the way down to the tips into 2 and some wanted to be 3. So I am left with like 2 inches of undreaded hair at the root, another couple inches of dreaded hair, then 1/3-1/2 of the rest is just dry frizzy loose hair down to the tips. Like I said, I'm not worried or anything, I just wondered if anyone has done the same sort of thing and what happened is all.

Thanks guys.

Does separating take a step backwards?

Dread Maintenance

So, my almost 4 month old dread babies have been wanting to divide into 2 or 3 dreads, and I have been encouraging that since I started out with only about 20 dreads and wanted more like 30-40. My question is the ones I separated are just frizzy from about half way down to the tips. Will those just eventually loop up like the rest of the ones that didn't need separating, and mature later? I'm ok with whatever happens, I'm just wondering if it sort of undid the progress of the what would have been giant dreads?
updated by @hendrixmama: 01/13/15 08:56:07PM

when did you start getting loops after TnR?

Dreading Methods

For me, I think my t&r babies started to loop up around 3 months...(I'm at almost 4 months now) they took longer than the back of my head which I left to do it's own thing.

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If you read some of the wax info links at the top of the page there are different ways. I am not exactly sure how to, but I know there's some really good info on why NOT to use wax and how to get rid of it. This whole site has GREAT info on everything you need to know about dreadlocks.