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Post by kells on Apr 18, 2016 2:22:40 GMT
Jaaaaames your hair is just so... awe inspiring! ^0o0^ I love it and you and the shaved bits and its all awesome
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Post by morri on Apr 18, 2016 6:54:54 GMT
I love your locks. It has been an awesome journey
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Post by danzia on Apr 18, 2016 14:43:10 GMT
<3 such a great timeline
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Post by wells on Apr 21, 2016 23:03:58 GMT
j, you beautiful man. you and all your hairs are awesome.
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Post by james on Apr 22, 2016 9:27:23 GMT
Cheers, good to see you around.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2016 8:18:39 GMT
ah! james. I remembered my question! ok, hypothetically i start dreading all my hair...like...did you do ANY separating prior or was it COMPLETELY neglect? like did you separate after knots started? gah, i keep asking and then I keep thinking like duh! just do it and figure it out! right? idk...guess i'm just asking wha tyou did. ??
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Post by james on Apr 27, 2016 9:02:31 GMT
It's different for different folk. All my hair under started to dread first, the top of my head was the last lot to start knotting. But I know others that are the opposite and their hair dreaded on top first, so there is no answer. My hair took a ridiculous amount of time to dread considering it is a bit curly. I don't know why it took years rather than months. I had to regularly pull apart the early dreads 'rip' for a couple of years to stop it becoming one giant dreadlock. Eventually you no longer need to do that once they start behaving themselves. That's what's odd about it taking so long because once it really got going I couldn't stop my head from trying to become a giant dreaded rats nest. I wouldn't be surprised if I started another set that it would evolve differently and I'd Have different answers. So just go with the flow.
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Post by MirandaJoy on May 14, 2016 14:15:43 GMT
This is probably the best example of freeform dreadlocks I've seen yet!!! Kudos for you for sticking through those first couple years! It certainly paid off they look fantastic!
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Post by james on May 14, 2016 19:52:51 GMT
Thank you. They are a little more unruly than they appear in photographs. I think this one is looking for water.
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Post by james on Jun 5, 2016 19:38:20 GMT
Just adding random for confusion. Think this was over Two years, more going on than it looks. Because it finally pulled together. Derp
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Post by james on Jun 5, 2016 20:04:17 GMT
Not quite got our ass-tickers a year plus ago.
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Post by cammym on Jun 6, 2016 12:43:21 GMT
Your dreads are incredible!
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Post by james on Jun 8, 2016 19:02:04 GMT
Hey thanks. I've trimmed them a bit by actually ripping the ends off a few. It's a bad thing to do, but they were thin, I actually tore a few inches off. Just went 'grrrrr' and yanked a lump of dread off. I might properly trim them a lot shorter soon. ( maybe) And these super short front ones are slowly getting longer, not much for 7 odd years. But they'd been chin length for years, started growing again. Hmmm?
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Post by divinequestion27 on Jun 8, 2016 19:34:23 GMT
Are you supposed to take the beads out when you wash?? Probably a silly question but I wasn't sure if i needed to remove them for drying.
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Post by james on Jun 8, 2016 20:01:42 GMT
Nah, it's fine. But I wouldn't put beads in until they are more mature, keep them free for tangles and knotting etc. I only have a few, they usually go missing then I find some random odd thing and shove it in and forget it exists for ages. I washed my hair 8 hrs ago and the dreads are completely dry as a bone now just from the air.
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