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Hi there I need dread advice!! How long did you go with out washing your hair?? And how did you keep them in?? Did you use wax?? What is your opinion of wax?? I know too much wax can keep your dreads from maturing and I don't want that but I was thinking just a bit of knotty boy wax all over but mostly just on my ends would be good?? How did you keep yours in?? Also where can I find a big enough shower cap?? :) thanks for your help and or your consideration and time to read this if you don't.

hey dear!

i went the natural/free form route. i quit brushing and conditioning my hair. i still washed it regularly, whenever it got greasy. i used/use organic shampoo, was once using baking soda and apple cider vinegar rinses. i used no wax. i don’t know much about it, other than i heard it can keep your hair from dreading.

honestly don’t think you need wax. the more you leave your hair alone, the more it’ll do its thing. the dreads i left alone and didn’t try to fix along the way look WAY better than the ones i frequently tried to fix and maintain. i know their fun to touch, but try to not force them to lock up, if you feel me

your hair will loosen up first, then lock up. if your dreads seem like they are coming undone, wait a few days and leave em be before you start trying to fix them. can take up to 6 months for them to start to look like dreads, hence your dread journey (;

i liked my ends not blunted, but longer and wispy so i didn’t use wax or anything, just left them be.

im not sure a shower cap is necessary, you still want to wash them regularly. i usually just put my hair in a high bun so it wouldn’t get wet if i wasn’t washing them

visit dreadlockinfo.tumblr.com for more info, thats where i researched before i started letting my hair go (:

happy dreading ~ <3

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i think i have finally made the best natural hair cleansing product. having dreadlocks and striving to live as naturally as possible is a fun challenge. for most of the first 8 months i had been using baking soda mixed with water in a squirt bottle. the water in the bottle is cold and its set on a stream more than a spray, that way i know where the water is going. its important to get your scalp, not necessarily the individual dreadlocks. then, for the later of the first 8 months i was using baking soda mixed with water and rosemary oil, as autumn was finishing off and winter creeping in, i was having a horrible time of dry scalp. being in the hospital i didn't have many options, thank goodness i was only there for five days.

now i've mixed baking soda with gel from an aloe vera leaf (from my own plant!), vanilla (since my rosemary oil is MIA), and tea tree oil to cut down on itching. and now my faerylocks are so soft :3 i think throughout the upcoming year this is the mixture i will stick to, and just change the vanilla to scents that suite my fancy. and i'm posting it for other people looking for this information.

i didn't include measurements because everyone's hair is different, so go with whats best for you.

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Hi is there a link to a picture of each of your dreads? (Not your as in yours specifically, just like, yours and everyone else's who run this blog:) sorry I'm on my phone ):

We have a drop down menu from our main page, and you can click on each one of our names and read about us and see our dreads. My page is all about my first set of dreads…I need to update that. You can click the handy-dandy links I have added below:

Aarika

Dani

-Dani

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It's time to do another deep clean on my dreads. I'm adding lime oil this time.

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MEEEEEEE!

Hey, so i started this blog because i'm an avid tumblr user, i'm obsessed with it. See shitlesbianslove.tumblr.com for my other stuff but anyway i wanted to be able to document my dreadlock journey someway and decided that this was the best outlet..

In august last year I started becoming interested in dreadlocks thanks to watching the amazing Whitney Mixter from the Real L word...

I was in love with the show and her and her style and most of all her dreadlocks.. I decided to put a couple of dreadlocks in my hair and see what it was like, how they would take to my hair, tried to learn how to maintain even though it was easy just having 1 so wasn't a true representation of having a whole head of dreadlocks. So anyway, i had 2 dreadlocks, and I left them in for around 5 months, went on holiday so they were exposed to sea salt water, i looked at loads of Youtube videos, bought beads, a crochet hook and learnt how to crochet them and palm roll and overall did lots of research about having dreads. With these dreads I blunted the ends after about 2 months and within a couple of weeks they had both shrunk significantly and one became very short and fat. I didn't like the way they look anymore so I took them out in January. This was an arduous process and even just having 2 locs, it took me a good couple of hours and a hell of a lot of conditioner to brush them out. Nevertheless.. I managed it. I wanted to prove to a lot of the dreadlock haters out there that you don't have to shave your hair off to get rid of dreadlocks, yes its hard work, yes it hurts a little, but it is possible to get them out and get back natural undamaged hair (providing you care for it while its locked up)

Anyway, then in March I started thinking about how I missed those two baby dreads, and I was trawling through the tumblr dreadlock tag everyday obsessing over girls with dreads. So i decided to dread the entire bottom half of my head. I have quite a lot of thick hair so I figured I would leave some 'normal' hair on top and having seen some girls with a half head of dreads on Youtube and loving their style I went ahead. I sectioned my hair, in what i thought was properly sectioned and I used the twist and rip method. I created 14 dreadlocks, mostly quite thin ones although I do have one which is a lot thicker than the others, and one which is tiny tiny thin and hardly a dreadlock at all! After a few weeks I realised that my sectioning was not the best as I did have some loose hair at the top of a couple of dreads trying to marry each other but i pulled the loose hairs apart, which hurt a little, and crocheted the top loose hairs to make them tighter. This seems to have worked as the marrying doesn't seem to be happening as badly since.

My dreads are now around 8 weeks old, and I have been maintaining them with a little bit of palm rolling, and crocheting around every 1-2 weeks. I would prefer to have quite neat uniform dreadlocks due to work and needing to look professional but I don't want to obsess about bumps and loose hair and crochet them too much as I know they'll get weak. I have been washing my hair with normal Herbal Essences shampoo every 2-3 days but recently have decided to try and use the baking soda and lemon juice washing method as I've heard its good for a really deep cleanse. Plus, I'm kind of trying to move away from washing with expensive products which are full of chemicals and crap because i'm starting to realise they are unnecessary and really just producing more oil in my hair.

Anyway this is just the start of my journey and i will try to update with pics and also some Youtube videos so feel free to check those out at 'Melody 17'. I only have one video so far but I intend to upload more when I have some interesting shit to talk about!

Ciao xxx