don't forget about the things you can do to help and encourage knotting, wool hats, sleeping on that side as mentioned above, also there was for a while a very popular, spray your hair with sea salts or go swim in the sea trend going around, helps frizzyness and locking, you can also back comb a little to section and then let them continue on that process, the start is always the slowest
I've literally done all of those things. My hair is kinda short right so. The sides are longer then the back too. I don't want to try to backcomb the back again. It doesn't work. Imma let that area just do it's thing over time.
I sleep on my side actually. It is sooo hard to change your sleeping pattern lol. I just flip from side to side throughout the night might explain why the back is being so smooth. But it's a bit shorter in the back too. SO..
Seriously! Those are lookin awesome!! I like them all short and crazy! It does look like they're staying down a bit more though? Super cute WF
Thanks for all your kind words, it's a nice big fuck you to anyone who has said that backcombing is a poor method.
Damn it, stop saying this crap, bothers me each time i see it. Look at the knotty physics thread. If you have long, soft, strait hair, it WILL lock, and quite easily. The difference is that curly hair locks short. When it gains a few more inches, it will lock very easily. You haven't even been trying long enough to see more than a lock or two via neglect with any hair type, so how would you know that your hair locks slowly? I'm not sure i had ANY locks at your relative point in time. Coarse hair does NOT lock more easily, those with heavy asian hair should be the most concerned, but if they leave it, it should lock as well. Curls simply speed things up, for obvious reasons, if you (again) check the knotty physics thread. That thread will also tell you why backcombing slows things down, it just makes dread SHAPES sooner. Takes longer in the end.
My hair doesn't do shit in the back because it's shorter in the back then it is on the sides and the top. It resists backcombing for the most part because of the length and it just falls apart. There are spots that will likely be neglect because they flipped me the bird when I backcombed them. They're like...no this isn't happening. So there you go butt-head. I'm a partial neglecter, i'm still not a part of your fascist club that hates on backcombers, waxers and chrocheters. ITS MY HAIR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BLAAH
"backcombing failed because I picked a method that doesn't really generally work and should be seldom used, and my hair really wants to do what I should have done"
Hey man if that's the case it will do it anyways. Sections of my hair didn't take the combing so they'll be left to go the neglect route anyway. And alot of it did take. Just not some of the back. Read.