Dread maturity?

How many months did it take before your dreads felt realllyy tight and "mature"? im at 10 months now and i think im gettin there

 

about 18 months before they started to STOP shrinking and gain some length....

 

it took me about the same as tannaleigh.

 

im at about 22-23 months and im still not there

 

It took about 2 years before my locks were tight and stopped shrinking.

 

Slowly mine are getting there at 17 months in. I have about five which are pretty much locked, and the rest are nearly there to nowhere near locked. I have some pretty severe new loops going on and I think it may have been a velcro related incident. :willy_nilly:

 

mine never went through the shrinking stage. maybe that's a benefit of neglect? i notice a lot of tnr and backcomb heads do a lot of shrinking...

 

I think the shrinking phase depends on hair texture more than method. I have coarse hair and it didn't shrink at all, I would say mine were at maturity in 8 months or so. Of course I used the DHHQ kit so that obviously helped speed things up.

 

lol

 

i used the taco bell method

 

well when i started my last set 20 or so years ago, i backcombed them in and they shrunk up a good deal, but when i neglect, i don't get the shrinkage

 

didn't hippyhillbilly go neglect? from what I remember anyway and he posted pictures of before he started and his hair shrank to half the original length.

 

NP mentioned taco bell... and now Im starving for some!!! mmmmmmm

 

What I want to know is when are they considered mature? How do you know when they are done shrinking?

Some of mine seem like they aren't going to shrink anymore while others look like they haven't shrunk at all, I have one that is almost the same length as before I started. And others that are less than half the length from when I started.

 

mine are backcombed in front and neglect in back and I think the front has shrunk more than the back... but I think curly thick hair shrinks less, too. mine are 7 months old and nowhere near mature.

 

my last set of dreads when i got rid of them at1 year and 10 months still were shrinking and tightening, the set prior to that i had for 4 and a half years and i would say mine completly finished shrinking and got really tight at the 3 and a half year mark, they were my most favorite ever set of dreads, i have pics all around my house from those days and sometimes it makes me sad because i miss them so much, but then i turn that sadness into inpiration for the set i have now!!

 

im past two years, i i dont think they are very mature looking yet.
i recently had a kid ask me if i was "trying to get dreads".
so i guess they arent proper dreads yet lol.

 

I got the same thing from some kids at school And another girl told me I did it wrong....not sure what she meant haha.

 

About two and half years. They stopped absorbing water at that point

 

lolwut?
your hair must absorb water. ive never heard of anyones locks being impervious to water.