Sectioning Size?

So for those of you who have used the backcombing method... what was the sectioning size that you used?

 

1inx1in depends on how big or small u want ur dreads???

 

im still debating on the size that i want, so i am just asking to see what size others used, so i can see if i would like that size on me and so on.

 

if your hair is kinda thin like mine, id say 1.5 to 2 inches feels good, not necessarily square.

 

I'd say refresh your memory about what an inch looks like because based on pics I've seen it's a lot smaller than people think, and sections claiming to be an inch are often bordering on 2.


(haha this is either good or bad news for the guys )

 

From talking to people, I would recomend you go bigger sections.

Seems like those who made small sections wish their locks were fatter a few months down the road, where as people who made big sections seem more content

 

I started with small sections (e.g. pretty accurate 1 inch sections and sometimes a little smaller) which turned out to be mega skinny and I ended up joining loads of them together after some weeks.

 

I combined all my dreads because the 1x1in rule was far too skinny for my liking.

 

I say just go for whats comfortable on your head. I didn't section mine just grabbed parts that felt most natural. hair has natural sections anyway...

 

what luxie said

 

it all depends on the hairs per square inch on your head i did 1x1s and i have 22 dreads

 

I would say the opposite. (This coming from my experience only with backcombing. I am 14 months in now) Bigger sections pull more intensely on the scalp. It's hard to itch it when the sections are bigger than an inch. I went a combination of different sizes for variety. The ones in the front and on the sides are smaller and as you go back towards the back of my head they get about twice as this. The ones in the front are bigger than a pencil but smaller than a Sharpie marker. An in the back are bigger than a sharpie. I really like the combination. I also have a congod of all the small dreads on the back of my head. They just didn't want to be small. It was constant ripping. I have one that is five dreads combined and gets painful on the scalp sometime. That's why it's important to separate them frequently or else the get too matted to rip apart. In the end I ended up with around 50 dreads but now I think I have about 42. Some have gotten fatter but some have gotten thinner as the new natural growth dreads. All in all my advice, don't use squares. Aim for hexagons or like honeycomb. No real shape just not square and make sure you don't pull hair too far in one direction or will complicate things down the road and you'll have to rip them apart more.

 

my friend didnt section as such, she just grabbed bits and made sure not to overlap the root sections too much.

 

i dunno about size...but, make the sections circular instead of square so that the corners don't tug at your scalp. mine are like oblong circles lol.

 

if you make them too big there might be an obvious grid pattern on your scalp.... as they get bigger you might end up with some baldish spots because there is just too large of a section wrapped into one cord.... if that makes any sense.

speaking of balding spots, what is with dreadies who seem to have thining hair at their scalp? is that normal, or what? just wondering about that...... anybody know?

 

i never backcomvbed ]or ever would, but 2 inches is too bifg 1 inch max definately not square
id mix the sizes so u dont look rediculousely manufactured
anywjhere from thin to thick the greatter the mix the more natural the look




as u can see these are a mix of anywhere from very thin (smaller then a pencil) to rathger thick (bout 1 inch)


the thicker they are the more potentioal issues with mold they take much longer to dry
and if youir getting up to 2 inches your gonna have trouble getting your fuingers under the roots to clean the scalp
i wouldnt go over 1 inch for that reason and mine that are an inch take forever to dry and are the only ones i worry boit mold in

 

probly crochetted
they force hairs into the dread (while breaking a bunch ) that normaly would fuill in the gaps between
the fuzz between dreads normaly will form new dreads over time
giving a more full head of dreads
but when they crochette they obsessivly force hairs into dreads leaving gaps between (and like i said brwaking a few thinning the hair through breakage)

 

do you know about the thinning/balding thing SE?? have you seen that before, do you know what i'm talking about?

 

oh, sorry, i replied before i saw your reply!!! LOL

 

i agree with this totaly
its very easy to lety dreads get thicker by congoing but if u want thick dreadsthinner your screwed
thicker dreads can cause issues like pain mold and just be hard to clean

after 18 years i started letting alotta my thin ones congo just for added strength, and let 6 turn into 1 in several places, but not 1 of those 6-1 dreads is over an inch at the base, and i would never let any get thicker then an inch..im not saying that huge dreads are ugly just that theyre way too hard to care for (the longest dread in the world is a unidread 38 feet long but is so thick he can only wash it once a year)

id say some ppl do obseess over size4 (dread envy? who said bigger is better?) so are discontent with thinner dreads if they believe thicker means nicer, but when they go too thicjk it causes alot of problems including pain

now if you grow em thin for awhile then decide youi want em thicker (id wairt a year to be sure) you can just stop ripping awhilre and they will combine
i havent ripp\ed in a year now allmost (10 months i think) and reduced the overall number of dreads by 1/2
i prevented any that are an inch now from getting any thicker but thats all, still most are well under an inch
and that makes em much easirr to care for