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One Year Birthday of T&R Dreads

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My one year timeline can be seen here

It's a public FB album, so you shouldn't have any trouble viewing it! 30 photos from Jan 2011 to Jan 2012...

Enjoy!

updated by @macrina: 01/13/15 09:17:06PM

Flat to rounded

Dreading Methods

My 6 month old twist and rips are coming right along but the parts I have that are seriously looped up are completely 2 dimensional and just flat and ugly! They are also very uneven in thickness, with the bottoms being a loopy matted mess and the top being a thinner rounded firm section. When will they round out? And how do they do that?
updated by @macrina: 01/13/15 09:06:13PM

6 months in: pictures

Dread Maintenance

Iseparatedaily. They are in a ravenous stage! Why do you ask? Do they not lookseparatedenough to you?

6 months in: pictures

Dread Maintenance

6 months in- how is the progress do you think?
updated by @macrina: 01/13/15 09:06:03PM

Loops not coming back "down"

Dread Maintenance

Thanks so much for yourencouragement- it's a new stage! I feel like a newbie all over again!

Loops not coming back "down"

Dread Maintenance

Thanks for your patience...bear with me. The shape of the looping is not rounded, they are obscure. They will "shape up" if nothing else?

Loops not coming back "down"

Dread Maintenance

I will love little ones. But this is hair looping at the ends and climbing up until there is one fourth the length left and staying balled up there for weeks. But I'll wait, with more confidence now

Loops not coming back "down"

Dread Maintenance

6 months in, in the past all my looping has looped, tangled and then kind of straightened back out nicely. Now I have about 30 sections in loops, some very tight, and some that have been that way for weeks, and I am worried they aren't going to come back down and straighten out. It's looking pretty crazy in back. I just need to give them more time probably right? This is what the next 6 months will be about, huh? Just need affirmation please!
updated by @macrina: 01/13/15 09:05:02PM

Help me understand my progress

Dread Maintenance

Thanks for theencouragementguys!

Help me understand my progress

Dread Maintenance

3 week old twist and rips. Did them pretty tightly, maybe too tightly in retrospect. Most of them have loosened nicely now. I have loops at my roots. Is that where the looping starts? I have been waiting (not so patiently) for looping and such and I just want to know if this is the progress I have been waiting for. I had three weeks of good hair days and since the looping at the roots it's now a slew of "bad" hair days. I don't mind so much if this means they are actually knotting. Thanks for any encouragement or guidance....
updated by @macrina: 01/13/15 08:54:45PM