I've always be a fan of dreads and been on the fence on whether I wanted them or not.
July 31st, I created my first dread on my left temple using the backcomb method. As I did not have a proper comb to do it, I did not get satisfactory results. So I did more research on alternate ways of dreading and tried the Rip and Tear method. On August 4th of this year I uncombed my original dread and did it again. Sadly, it came out thinner due to some pulled out hair.. I planned on only keeping that one dread, but as one of my friends put,

"Dreads are addictive. Once you made one, you'll want to make more."

And he was right. On September 20th I created my second dread on my right temple. They are my two babies and they are the only dreads I have now.

I do plan on dreading my whole head. I just don't know how I would like to go about it. My hair is at mid back and I really want it to grow down to my butt. So I'm stuck with the decision of whether to dread all my hair now, let it grow then dread it, or continue going one by one. As of my maintenance, I was palm rolling them, but noticed it didn't help and after research and this site's Dreaducation, I've definitely decided to just leave them alone and let them do their own thing.