To the "non-naturals"

the dreads in the back of my head are "natural", too. they are a lot more loopy and kinky and crazy than the ones in the front.... i love the little fuckers.

 

I have a few midget dreads One has just shrunk, and the other two have grown from when I last examined them xD Yay for midget dreads xD they are about 2 or 3 inches long My babies

 

i dont know a) why im fretting so much and b) what i expected to happen.. i mean, the left side of my head is really well backcombed - really tight, really knotty, nothing fallen out or gotten loose, but the right side is mostly frizz, not tight, not as knotty,, and then the 3 or 4 dreadies, i cant decide if i should leave them, or get them re-backcombed. atm im opting for the 'leave them' option - im excited to see what happens, if it falls out or knots up, but at the same time, i feel like theyre the worst dreadies on my head =[

 

i also heard that from a friend who backcombed his... haha.. that's why even though it takes me more time, it always catches up to me, the idea that natural is... i guess ... better way..

 

I forgot to mention, there were big groups of loose hair, they suddenly have formed into dreads

 

alex. you give me faith.

those loose ones i was telling ye about, they make me really sad today =[ like, theyre still in the sections, but its just not all tangled like the rest, but i shall hold out and see what happens

 

*hug* Your ahead of course! They are looking brill.

 

I've thought about it. They're fairly new and all I did was backcomb, roll them once a week for a couple weeks and then let them go. I waxed once too. Yuck. Washed multiple times. Thought it was all out. Used the water/lemon/baking soda/salt/teatree mix and the first 2 times, my hair was sticky after, but not anymore! YAY! So, they got a headstart and are being left alone now. It took 2 weeks to backcomb and I think my friend who helped would be sad if I took them out. We got closer over the combing process, and that was spiritual in its own way.

 

Yes! The fact that my husband, who I would never usually involve in anything to do with my hair, made my dreads, and could make them, and I actually wanted him to make them....wouldn't have wanted to sit at the hands of anyone else for 2 days...

yes

 

My hubby backcombed mine too Amy..and he is mr testerone...so it was quite funny. however he did a fantastic job , i was surprised!!

 

but nothing beats hanging out in the woods with biut 10,000-40,000 freinds just having a blissful time while your dreads happen all on theyre own

 

Well yeah there are plenty of things which totally beat that soaringeagle if it doesn't happen to be your thing

 

i dont think i could cope with knowing 10,000 - 40,000 people, let alone being friends with them all.

 

lol

 

40,000 friends SE? I have like 30 friends and only about 7 of them I'd call true friends.

 

Same lux, I know alot of people, consider a few people to be friends and then a smaller number like 2 or 3 to be proper close friends xD *Sigh*

When I did my dreads I wanted people to help, but no one was around, everyone I called was busy, no one was there for me And that gives my dreads a different meaning for me too, that I can pull myself through anything alone, and my new tattoo reminds me of that but also that I do actually have people around me, its placed on my shoulder, like a guardian angel

Mmmm dreads

 

2/3 years ago I started talking to this girl Vixi on myspace, she has these beautifullll dreads and told me she did them herself. Back then I was looking into how to getting them. When I told her I wanted them she said she'd do em for me. I was shocked at first, I'd never even met her! The next day she told me she'd booked tickets. I wasn't worried or anything because we'd been talking for soo long. Anyway, so the day came (we were both so excited) I met her at the airport, we hugged and giggled. It was soo weird to finally see her in 3D^-^
we got on sooo well, she did my hair. It only took a little while but it was soo reassuring to have her to do them as I trusted her and her dreads are so beautiful <3
when they were first done and all fluffy she made me feel ok and told me that everythgin was normal. My dreads are kind of a symbol of her. We are best friends, talk all the time and see eachother as much as we can. It was a time when I was realllli in need of friends. Riloh was just 2months old and my best friend had just told me she wasn't coming back from NY and I felt totally let down by her. Vixi was my lil angel^.^

sorry that was so long, was nice to remember it though
xoxo

 

Id rather be squatting between my hubbies legs for 10 hours than in a group of 40k naked yoga dudes...no thanks!

 

I love you Callie^-^you so funnayyy

 

hahaha callie you made my laugh in a really dorky way

would i go natural if i ever cut and decided i wanted dreads again? probably.
but i would never do that. at this point in time, i cannot see myself cutting my dreads ever. i love them and am very attached to them, they look so good on me and are such a perfect expression of me. i just wouldnt feel at all right without them.
and i dont give a shit that i helped my hair along with backcombing etc in the beginning. its still dreads, its still my hair, i wouldnt love it more if i had gone natural.
in fact, im not sure if i could wait the like 3 years i know it would take for my hair to form natural dreads. it looked like shit up until... like now pretty much (well, i think it looks awesome, but its not nearly as dready looking as many peoples naturals at this age).
so if i was, for some reason, to do it over again... i guess i would let it go natural, but play with it enough and twist and rip it sometimes to help it along. which isnt all that much different from what i did i suppose.
meh.

anyway i know this is an old quote:

but i just wanted to make it clear that my hair still looks like shit (by most peoples definitions) and didnt even look dready till 10 months - a year... and i backcombed.
so those numbers are perfectly accurate for many people with hard to knot hair.