Backcombing Vs. TnR
Dreading Methods
Ok i was just curious if that would be an effective method to well not fix them... but try to get them more dread like lol. And when it dreads itself it turns into a huge dread that is under the rest of my hair and looks bad. I also havent brushed my hair in over a year or so and my hair doesnt naturally dread anywhere else aside from the back of my neck.
I am also very picky and i was my dreads a certain thickness, and based on what i have seen they will not have the desired thickness i want if i do them naturally. now i would love to do them naturally because honestly i have a sensitive head and i would prefer not to have it pulled and combed, but i really want dreads and it seems like that is the most effective way to do it
I think the TnR method looks alot less damaging, i just know there is alot of discussion about how it works and looks compared to backcombing. and my friend just got her hair dreaded (backcomb method) and it looks good, but i worry about the roots and how those will turn out... given she has only had them 3 or so weeks it is too early to tell lol.
Ok i wasnt sure if there was any difference, as you said i guess in the end they will all look like dreads lol. And i dont mind wearing a tam at all, i just wanna show off the dreads, like i said im really impatient lol. and i know it is a journey and i need to be patient, but i want them to be mature and awesome immediately!! 
i also make my own tams so if i do have a bad hair month or so i can always switch it up
thanks for your responses!!
soaring eagle said:
croch4et to "fix' them is way more damaging then crochet to start them crochets just bad all the way
umm if it dreads itself already unintended why would u ever consider any other way but bnatural
i would really reconsiser that and if u think it takes so much patience your wrong natural is exciting day to day to dsee profress..backcomb or tnr u see backwards progres for month so its pannick and worry from the start
backcomb and tnr takes way more patience cause u expect instant rwsults instead u getthem falling apart
now ill answer the questions but 1st give u a reading assignment
http://www.dreadlockssite.com/forum/topics/the-beauty-of-the-early-...
after you read that..then we can move on
backcomb
not as damaging as crochet but you say u have split ends from hell thats from combing gently with the grain the hairs covered with scale like cuticles like a snakes sca,les or a roofs tiles when u comb gently these get a lil roughted up on the ends
but when they are combed backwards gently these scales are priesd open permenantly ry]ugghed up and damaged ..but backcombings not gentle its agressive (a mother of 4 said it was worse then 18 hous of labor) painful hair pulling and agressively hacking away at it
the end resulrs are puffy sausage like messes that stick straight up
tnr is gentler no or very low damage ues the hands only soerta like a randomized m chaotic braiding
the looks nice neat dreads that hang right ..if u didnt randomize enough a lil braid like at 1st that goes away
no matter how u start dreads go through a mesy stage..this is the fun stage wgere u fal in love with the messines..
its not worth fearing ir shoul be embrased