Interlock method

[str8loca]

Hello I'm new here. Just wanted to know which method did you guys use and how did it turn out for you? At first I was free forming for 7 months (giving up twice, lost patience) and only accomplished 4-7 baby dreads both times. I started my dreadlock journey again last week, and this time I went to a loctician in NY while I was visiting. She did the interlock method. Right now my hair is extremely frizzy, I have a lot of loose hairs, and it looks like my locs are a mixture of braids, loops, and bumps. I know the first few months will always be crazy as they mature. Anyone ever did the interlock method? if so, how did it turn out for you? Will my hair even mature with what seems to look like tiny braids in my hair?  

[james]

Hello, welcome. I can't say much as I did the natural method and the trick was not to give up, eventually it gets its dreads butt in gear.
Braid looking hair will dread but if it is very braided it may take a long time and still have that look. The thing being that hair needs movement to knot itself. I'm sure they will turn out great anyhow, just stick with it no matter what. They'll be fab.

[dave]

Welcome! I'd usually point you to the timeline section, Danzias in particular, but that is on the other currently-broken site.
Interlocking is generally though of as a bad starting method as it causes weak spots and stress on the hair. The usual suggestion would be to unlock as much of it as possible, unfortunately, but you may get lucky and they turn out alright.
I'm sure Danzia could add a bit more insight.
With any method, it will always be frizzy and messy for the good part of a year (or couple of years if you're me) which you just have to learn to live with.

[danzia]

Hello and welcome! I'm at over 2.5 years at this point.

As Dave mentioned, it's not something that is recommended because it causes weak spots and breakage.

Based on my experience of it... I've had a few locks break off ... I have a change in texture in every lock and can point exactly where it was interlocked. I was interlocked twice. It's luckily not noticeable unless you look up close and you know what to look for.

I would strongly encourage you to avoid this method and if you can un interlock I would strongly recommend it. I'll post a link to my timeline.

I hope I haven't scared you! They will recover if you just leave them alone and let them do their own thing. I plan to cut the interlocked part off as soon as I can.

It'll be ok!!!

[str8loca]

Thanks everyone  for taking the time to reply This will be the first and last time I'll  do the interlock  method lol Even for maintenance. I'll just let my hair be for now and see what happens  in a few months. I'll  try to maybe undo the braided parts somehow  so they can lock themselves. The loctician  wanted to start with the palm roll method but she said with my type of hair it wouldn't  lock and become undone. I'll  try to take pictures  of this process  as time goes by. Don't want to have braided locs hehe. 

[Dreadlocktruth]

Unfortunately a lot of people have bad experiences with locticians... Yes, hair does fall out of the initial dreadlocks that are out in but that's just a part of the process of the hair moving and creating fiction which will lead to it knotting up. But you've had some sound advice, here, so follow what's been suggested and you'll be fine, I'm sure.