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I've been letting my hair dread naturally over the last little while, and I thought some of you might be interested in the process. So, if anyone's interested, here's a post I just made to a dread community under the cut.
I had backcombed dreads for about 7 months last year, but about a week after my friend did them for me, I relalised that i really would have preferred natural dreads so i just stopped doing mantenance to them. Then in november and december I got really paranoid about bugs in my hair (though there were none, yey anxiety) and combed them out little by little of a month.
Three months ago I decided to try again, naturally this time.
About a week before I stopped brushing my hair:
At about 1/2 months, not much difference.
At 2 months, the process has started becoming noticable:
And today:
I had backcombed dreads for about 7 months last year, but about a week after my friend did them for me, I relalised that i really would have preferred natural dreads so i just stopped doing mantenance to them. Then in november and december I got really paranoid about bugs in my hair (though there were none, yey anxiety) and combed them out little by little of a month.
Three months ago I decided to try again, naturally this time.
About a week before I stopped brushing my hair:
At about 1/2 months, not much difference.
At 2 months, the process has started becoming noticable:
And today: