I am not sure how old they are. I've been somewhat busy. So much otherwise occupied (not necessarily productively) that I failed to post for my four month birthday.
Is it odd that time appears to pass at different rates? And it is a perception that tends to be shared. You remark to someone that a certain month is passing really slowly, and they will agree with you. July was percieved as lasting forever. Maybe it was the large amount of overly humid over 100 degrees days, which seemed to drag on. But once August hit, I remarked about a week in that August was probably going to pass quickly. And it is already the 19th. Amazing.
My dreads turned four months on August 1st. It wasn't planning that put my dreads birthday on the.first of April. I couldn't do it earlier because I didn't have the stuff, and later one of my friends would have already moved and wouldn't have been able to attend. We started on the 31st, but didn't finish until the first.
So, four months. Some on the top are starting to seem a bit firm. One of my Lock-Up-Dates said it would take longer for the skinny dreads, and some might never seem as firm as thicker dreads. Hopefully they are maturing. It seems such a slow process, I keep going through panic attacks, like once or twice a month. I thought they'd be done by now, but now I'm trying to reorient myself to hoping they're done by a year. I want to find one of those salons that fix dreads, tying up all the loose hair. However, we seem to be a bit short in Iowa.
I also think the heat and humidity were adversely affecting them. You'd think the weather that makes normal hair "frizzy" would help, but it seems to unravel some of them at the tips.
Some of the tips are soft and I'll try pulling them in. Then I encountered something strange. I was using the loose hair tool to try and pull the tip in, and sometimes I'd pull too far and get a lump of hair out the side of my dread. I have no idea how to fix this, and a result, I am very cautious about doing so now.
Otherwise, finding loose hairs and clockwise rubbing. Dreaming of what they'll be like in a year.
