cancersurvivor 1.5years of untouched hair

[djurov]

Hey guys
Finihing my last rounds of chemo, and surgeries or lets just say be dragged through hell, i witnessed my hair growing out again....
A made a drowing of how i wanted to look like and the picture resembled long hair and beard, a wildsman. A promise not to cut my hair for a very long time..

So 1.5yeara later im sitting here with a massive bunch of hair that swirls, curls, and jazzes into dreads automaticly. If unwashed, fingercombed ill have something that looks like dreads.

So.... I am about to dread my hair, im doing this for controle, style and capoeira swag. But what dreading technique will be me to the dreada i want?
Pictures of pre, now and wanting.

[djurov]

This is now i65.tinypic.com/73pahl.jpg


And pre

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This is the style I am going towards. Dreads could be a bit thicker but those are fine.
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@ 4th picture with the kinda Mohawk style @ sidecut

I am still wondering what technique produces what, it seems backcomb makes more fatty, puffy dread. Twist and rip longer loser ones, and crochet more rope like.

plz help me out.

[ohphob]

All dreadlocks end up looking the same no matter what method you start out with. I say you can go natural and just let you hair dread it self just do some separating. But if you want defined sections I say do back combing if you want fat dreads the fewer sections the fatter they will be I have 30 you can look at my timeline I started with back combing and then just left them alone I prefer fat ones too haha

[jxbx]

Congratulations on kicking cancer in the ass!
Mine are bit more curly. I've gone natural for my first set. Each set after, I T&R'd.
If you want thick, that's gonna depend on how much hair combines in each dread (these you need to leave be w/o separating them) and as well as how many loops you can fit in each. The more loops and splats the thicker the dread.

[Deleted]

agree with everything said already.

My suggestion, if you absolutely feel you need to crochet...make sure you find someone who really knows what they're doing. I would personally not recommend this if you want dreads for long term though...just because, from doing it myself, it has causes a lot of issues for me, mainly residue. No smells or rot...yet! but there have been other signs.

I guess, whatever you do, just be sure you have the proper shampoo from day 1, and wash and dry your dreads properly.

best:D