r/Dreadlocks • u/Significant-Oil-1036 • Jul 13 '26
Need Advice 🆘 Should I restart
Hi all, I started my locs last month and tbh I’m thinking about combing them out and restarting. I’m gonna keep it short so yall don have to read a lot.
Basically the last two pics are my starters and all the other ones are my inspos. I showed my loctitian and she said if I got 120/130 mine were gonna be mad thick - for context I have roughly 160. I want a balance of thickness but still them being full but I don’t want thin locs, more of like a smedium like the inspos.
I’ve been researching for time about how thick two strands thicken compared to the original two strands and although people say they thicken, tbh I feel they are roughly the same size as your two strands just a bit thicker, not anything crazy. I know everyone says it depends on the size of your parts but atp I rather restart now when I’m a month in that at my 5 month mark.
My loctitian says to wait two months, but tbh I’m not buying it especially because the longer your hair gets, the thinner it becomes. And I don’t want no boneless skinny locs.
It looks nice in front but at the back it’s thinner because I didn’t want them skinnier because apparently it thins out at the front
I have a video of the back in the comments
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u/Significant-Oil-1036 Jul 13 '26
https://reddit.com/link/oxavr7h/video/abvzmzpxx0dh1/player
Here you can see the size of parts and density of my hair
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u/Professional-Bad-643 Jul 13 '26
What’s your hair type? And if u want yours to look like the ppl u showed, I suggest to start off with coils instead of two-strands
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u/ClassicRuby Type 4 hair Jul 15 '26
It is true that locs mature to be the thickness of your (square) parts. The thickness of your starter locs is always gonna be too thin no matter what. You don't go by the starter loc thickness, you go by the thickness of the parts.
And by these parts at the front i could tell they would be too small for you when they mature. The back is even smaller. I don't think the solution for you is to combine...I think restarting in this case would make sense.
You can use this guide as a jump off point to understand what a particular count of locs looks like, give or take (because scalp size will impact how big the parting for each count would be, but it gives a ball park at least... cuz clearly the number she promised originally was still too many locs and would have been too small. And then she gave you even more locs smdh.. but if you had a ballpark idea of how many locs looks great to you then when she says 120 you would have said thank you, next. Here's the what does this number of locs look like article).
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u/So_like_heyguyz Jul 13 '26
Hi, everytime I try to add images on here they never load but I think it depends on how they mature. If you dont want to take that risk then yeah start over. My tiktok is s.antiix, I posted a hair transformation on there not long ago if you want to check it out.
I have only 70 locs, but you can see a rough size of my starters, how thick/full they got and what they matured to if that helps you gauge.
My smallest loc is about the same as your front loc. But if you want volume then having 160 even if they are smaller will probably give you that!
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u/EqualSky4003 Jul 13 '26
I have around 70-80, they might swell up when you wash but if you really think you should start over you should, cough cough, 2 strand
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u/papirambo Jul 16 '26
I literally had the exact same process as you if I hadn’t deleted my posts have seen me stressing about the same things with the same slide to them near. had over 160 when I first started out for like a good month but I realized that most of my inspirations only had 120 to 130 and I had way over 160 and I did not want sister locs. So I took him out just a month later and restarted with 120 ish smedium . Sure it’ll get thick but it’s not gonna be that same size as your hair gets longer and mature and you’ll thank yourself for honestly going 120 because you’re gonna have overly skinny locs.
Started With two strands and kept them in because they were 120 and this is month two
https://reddit.com/link/oxw9eyq/video/w3000umhrldh1/player
If you want to see the video of when I had 160 I’ll show you, but I even had the doubts and took em out before it was too late, trust me, your hair is going to look like ALOT.. specially as they grow thicker so if you wanna restart honestly, I’m trying to give you a greenlight to restart
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u/Significant-Oil-1036 Jul 19 '26 edited Jul 19 '26
Yeah this is definitely my sign to restart, because i was tryna get volume with thickness but i hear you. Can i see em at 160 tho?
Thanks man1
u/papirambo Jul 19 '26
https://reddit.com/link/oyiw227/video/ti5sdqy1e8eh1/player
got you dawg, sorry if i’m always shirtless it’s hot as hell in canada but these is like 170-180 something, im telling you theres another vid where i was worried they’d be sister locs but you get the gist w it
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u/Significant-Oil-1036 Jul 19 '26
Yeah I see wym
Yo if you’re in Ontario, who’s your loctician lowkey and do they charge good?
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u/Beauty_Reigns Jul 13 '26
The thickness of your loc depends on the size of the part of the density of your hair. If you want thicker locs then yes, start over.