In the process of natural grown locks, advice?

So I've been working on them for a good 7 months now. I've been doing the "neglect" method alothough i rip apart strands to section it out, I also wash it every 3-5 days with none residue soap. In the middle section of my hair I am growing these very short but oddly thick(wide) and flat dreads. Is there anything to do to make them get any longer or rounder? I've tried forming them with beads but it hasn't done much. Thanks all

 

You've been doing the right thing this whole time. Just don't do anything and it'll fix itself.

 

flat dreads are sweet.
I got a mad flattie carning at the back. However if they ain't your playground crank a bead on it and put the flat mofo in its place.

ya digg

 

flat is phat

leave them alone.

 

flat dreads come from the shape of the base of the dread at your scalp. You can help it round out more as it grows, but it will continue to start off flat as long as the base of it is shaped a great deal longer in one direction than another.

 

^^^
That never occured to me
I have a lot of flat dreadies too....I thought it meant I was too lazy or something....so I limited my laying down time. lol.

 

not necessarily. can also just be from laying on them and stuff.

 

Advice: Do nothing

 

when they're first starting yeah, but after they've tightened up, they tend not to go flat when you lay on them.

 

let em be

 

if they're loose enough to be able to manipulate their shape with beads or anything else then they're loose enough to be flattened by laying on them.

and if they are flattened constantly as they mature, they will dread flat regardless of the shape at the root.

 

Not true, two of my back ones I sleep on are always getting flatten every night but they are not flat they are round.. N they are 6 months and still not flat, like I thought they would be.

 

when you say they're getting flattened every night do you mean that you wake up in the morning and they're flat, then they get round during the day? that's weird.

 

It is, they were very flat the first 2 months, then all of a sudden they were nice and round and have been for 4 months now. Its very strange, and kinda neat. I really thought they were going to be Flat fatties

 

mine always seemed to flatten when I slept on them at night, but round out again when I showered or just from moving around during the day. I never palm-rolled them or anything and now that they've tightened up, they're round... the only flattish dread I have is one where the section is quite a bit longer in one dimension than the other, so that was my assumption... not to say that its always the case, but it seems to be the usual case from most of the people I've talked to with dreads.

 

I haven't really looked, because I have trouble looking closely at my scalp (eyes being in the front o' my head), but I'm positive that most of my sections are not perfect geometric shapes since they formed naturaly and I can tell you that most of my locks are round. The ones that aren't are mostly in the back and get slept on. On the other hand, I have three locks that are side by side and congoing together, the resulting root feels wide, but I'll have to wait and see how it grows out.

More food for thought is the fat wide beavertail look compared to people with massive "round" unilocks. Like this guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFYicH_haEk

 

Wow thats crazy, i wish I knew what he was saying though. Awesome video!

 

I wish I knew how he dries that sucker

 

Do you think he even Washes ? lol

 

do you have any images of your locks?