does it always get worse b4 it gets better

just as the title states my dreads are getting or should i say my dreadlings for they are not mature yet but i as i was saying they seemed tight for 2 weeks and now after my third they feel loose
i know it takes time but.......... with me being on shall we say this island of no dread family to ask for advise i have you guys so dread love would be great
for whats its worth thank all of you guys that have been posting and responding to my threads even when i havent been the best at posting threads and im sure that some of you have lost your patience with me i still love ya anyway

 

Ahh 2 weeks is nothing I'm still finding loose dreads at nearly 9 months S'all right though, if you sort em out early they'll be fine ^^

I'm sure everyone will say the same thing... They'll do their own thing Leave them be, they'll come together evantually, and if you help them along a bit thats cool

The best thing I learnt over this last 8/9 months is patience Thats the key

 

d's are my babies n all their glory

 

dang those pics came out xtra huge
lol

 

hahaha yea pretty much
i assume u backcombed?
backcombed hair is just backcombed hair, its not really part of the process just something ppl do to feel like they accomplished something quickly
no mattert how u start dreads they go completely crazy awhile
this is how dreads dread
its chaos creatting order
love the priocess
and remember that hairs must do crazy crazy wild uncontrolled things to become locked in place
at 3 weeks after backcombing theyd just start ceasing to be bawckcombed hair and start attempting to be dreads
typicaly if u went natural 3 weeks might be when u see the beginnings of priogress (starting to section and clump together)
so your really right on track with things beginning to go alittle wild before becomming more ordered and set into permenant locks

if they were hard at 2 weeks im guessing u must have had something in em making em hard like wax? normaly they would be pretty puffy the 1st few weeks
and slowly become more dence spongy (not hard) as they tightened

but lets say u backcombed the hell outta em till they were fairly compacted, this still is just backcombed hair that must move to lock, so loosening is a nesacary step
without loosening they wouldnt be able to really dread

come back in 3 months
thats when they'll be moving into the fully drewaded (but not yet mature) stages..with loops kinks bumps buds flat spots splits and all sorts of whacky crazy things they do in the rebelios adolescent stages before reaching maturity

dreads are a lifelong adventure, not a quick hairstyle

just sit back relax anbd enjoy the circus act happening on your head

 

they look fine. maby palm roll or twist and rip to get some of thoes fuzzies closer together... but you can just leave em. as people have said before, they get worse before they get better.... oh johnnyclean quotes....

anyway. yeah. :hat:

 

thnx eg i didnt use wax jus back comb of course and yes it did feel like i accomplished something seen in how it took over 7 hours to do it in lol i felt like accomplished liberty spikes and receiving tha name sonic the hedge hog lol and a few other names but its what ever im determined to see this through to tha fullest

 

haha ok u posted the pics as i was typing
so looking at what ya got going on it seems your hair maybe oily?

oh also, what all have u done to get to this point

ok if your hairs oily, use thyme (as a tea) sprayed on the scalp weekluy or so to help it not be oily
also deep ckleanse with sea salt can dry it some

now to the dreads themselves
they look just fine, the reletive shortness might hurt ya a bit, short hair tends to not like holding knots easily
but no big deal u got a stroing foundation that will dread more with length

also..how do u wash it..they look flattened like u use a stocking?
stop that
just pour the deep cleanse over youir head..wait a bit then rince..shake em out and go

in general they are on the right track tho..
just need time to grow up

think of em like fetuses, barely formed barely recognizable as what they will one day become
in a month or so they will be born as actual dreads but still need time to grow up and mature into adults

as a fetus all u can do is feed them right (keep em clwean and healthy) and love em and hope for the best...and trust that everything will turn out fine

 

yeah i do some palm rollin but im focusing on let em do their thing not mine

 

hahaha
yeah i also posted to ur comment u put up 1st as i did dat u put dis one up lol
yeah they have felt a bit oily i had washed them today as well and yes i use a stocking ... man ur good ... i also wear one win i sleep told it was good is that true ...... ima do that salt i cant keep tha oil down also im getin some dandruff i think ive never had it before but ive got itchiness with some not really flakes but more like a residue not dry but oil residue??? whats that about ???

 

soiunds like oil buildup what soap u useing wash noprmaly no stocking or do the deep cleanse which is zero rubbing so wont loosen things up at all better to wear a wool hat then a stocking or leave em alone stockings are too damn constrictive to alow movement and they will just flatten everything up a wool tam alows movement whoile keepoing them together and causes static which i think helps em knot try the thyme deep cleanse wool hat changes and give it 3 weeks see how that goes i never used a stocking ore anything and as u know never backcombed, and washed vigerouslywhen starting and washing helped knots form noit unravekled em so i think all the babying them is counter productive alrthough i caj see a point for a lil protectiveness early on..so deep cleanse instead of rubbing ..and wool hat instead of stockimng

 

Man I am at six months and sometimes I feel like my locks are the shiznit...other days I think they look like poop and havent made any progress...think it is all apart of the waiting game

 

They look great, as the rest said, patience is the key
Have a look at the inspiration thread to keep yourself happy
I still have alot of loose hair, you can leave it, or you can poke it in the roots
Good luck
Alex

 

you come out with the funniest things Mr.

 

i thought that it was oil build up
my hair was doing fine and the build up started after i used Dr.Bonners shampoo
and im gonna stop with the stocking it does make it flat and i noticed the flating has made in end real loose at the flat end
and when i wash i jus get it soaked no rubbing or any thing then throw some Dr. Bonners i was using just an oil free bar of soap i would lather it up on the stocking
washing it def makes it feel and look better so i thnk ima wash it a couple times a week instead of one to help cut the oild down and how do i do the sea salt jus mix it with hot water spray it on then what wash let it sit????

 

I'm at almost 3 months and I'm having a "they look like poop" week. I've nearly torn them out twice already - and it's only Tuesday. They've just shrunk so frickin much, and are a completely bonkers mass of zig-zaggy, fuzzy, loopy wierdness. On the plus side... they're definitely dreads now, albeit rather scratty ones and those that have shrunk have done so as much as they're going to (I hope). I think in all truth the only problem is that I am quite possibly THE MOST IMPATIENT PERSON IN THE UNIVERSE!! Why oh why was a blessed/cursed with such an all pervading need to dread my hair?? Oh yeah... that's why

 

yeah they're go through fazes of loking good and bad.
Im like callie sometime I think mine look crap then othertimes I love them!