TannaLeighs timeline *sigh* yes I am a copycat

I used the backcomb method. I was unfortunately uneducated when I started my dreads (i tend to jump into things without researching) so I used wax probably for the first two months. then learned about root looping. so I did that for a while (long while) and so my dreads have a braided look to them. However they are my babies...I love the look and feel of them, but luckily have learned the error of my ways and am now completely neglecting them with riping about twice a month to keep them separated!

Immediately after creating and waxing. took eight hours, and one drunk boyfriend
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Two days old


Day three
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two weeks old

 

Hey, nice diggs! Such a clean and soft looking place. Very peaceful. Also, your dreads look nice in the sunlight like that- a very cool color.

 

(assumed mores comming so not replying yet)

 

after about 6 months I stopped journalling (felt a little narcissistic) although these aren't "dread" photos but will do the best I can to show the progress.

2.5 months


about 8 months


about 10.5months (they shruck so much...)


1 year

 

dreads llook good on u

 

1 year 7 months


1 year 8 months


and yesterday 1 year 8.2 months they will be 2 years old on may 5th 2009


phew... that was tough scrounging all those pics up... thankfully they are all in one place now!

 

thanks... I defintely love them more now than when I was undreaded... mistakes or no mistakes...

And I get WAY more compliments too!

 

yea im sure u do

 

LMAO...okay so after hunting to find all those pictures I though WHY waste the effort.... so I made a one page timeline...again....sorry for wasting your time!

 

Awesome TannaLeigh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

The way you wrapped them at 1.7 years looks awesome.

 

I love your blonde dreads they look so pretty!
They look good on you and you also have some pretty funky beadage in them too

 

blonde dreads are awesome, theyre well nice =] hopefully youre a very proud momma =D

 

hopefully is not the word. I fought long and hard alongside Yale that last year and a bit just to keep him alive. He was born with Hypoplastic left heart syndrome, and has had multiple open heart surgeries and then ended up with a transplant in december.

Proud just doesn't cover it. you'd never even know he was sick now!

 

beauty! I love the bumpy/braided look they have. They lookd so nice and soft too

 

i've never overly liked the look of dreads on anyone, but.....

I LOVE your dreads!!

they are beautiful

 

You are so pretty and it must be the greatest feeling in the world to have your son be such a fighter. I admire his and yours strength.

You dreads do look so soft

 

Your son is beautiful, I'm sorry for all the heartache you were put though but I'm so glad he is ok now!!

Your dreads are so gorgeous, I hope mine get that chunky at a year!! Did you blunt the ends yourself?

The wraps are just amazing too... So many colours xD *mezmorised*

 

Thanks everyone!

Yale really is the strongest person I have ever known. I've never seen someone fight so much for something in my life.

I blunted the ends... Its far back though and I barely remember what I did. Some are becoming more whispy though and I kind of like that look too.

Its kind of funny that some think they look soft, because they're hard as rocks in some places.

 

Your dreads are amazing!
I have a cousin born with heart defects (only two chambers and one malformed) and she also had multiple surgeries as an infant and was given 10% chance to live. She is now a happy healthy beautiful teenager, plays sports, and is planning on college. Yale will do the same I am sure. What a beautiful boy (and dreads!)