Write an article based on this "Stop brushing or combing your hair. Wash your hair 1-2 times a week. Keep your hair dry. Separate any dreads that are trying to join together into a larger dread. Wait up to 2 years for mature dreads to form."
Your hair will form knots and start to cling together. Your hair will naturally start to separate into sections within a few days and will form distinctive sections within a couple of weeks. Be patient. This stage can be short or take longer, depending on what your hair's natural texture is. The coarser your hair is, the faster dreads will form. If you have very straight hair, as with most Asian hair textures and some Caucasian hair textures, you may need to help dreads form by backcombing, adding wax, or crocheting dreads. Clean hair dreads best, but washing your hair too often can prevent it from dreading. At most, wash your hair every 2 days. After about a year into the dreading process, you will only need to wash once a week. Try looking for a dread-friendly shampoo. These shampoos leave less residue and help your hair knot. If you have greasy or oily hair, it won't be able to knot and form dreads. Dry your hair after showering with a microfiber towel by squeezing out extra moisture and then wrapping your dreads. You can also use a hairdryer on a cool setting to speed up the process. If you have naturally greasy hair, you may need to wash it more often to keep your hair as dry as possible. Blow dryers can damage your dreads. It is best to air dry them, but you can use a blow dryer on cool, constantly moving it around between sections. Do this by holding both sections and slowly pulling them apart up starting from the bottom and going up toward the scalp. Or, to separate 2 dreads more permanently, run your finger along the scalp along a section line, then hook your finger underneath the hair where it is crossing over into another section. Pull from the scalp away from the head. Any section larger than 1 inch (2.5cm) around will produce 'Congos' or 'fat dreads'. The area of the section where your hair meets the scalp will be the thickness of your mature dreadlocks. Short hair around 4 to 6 inches (10 to 15cm) can take as little as a year to lock up, while hair longer than shoulder length can take 2 years or more. Mature dreadlocks are tightly knotted and you can't pull them apart with your fingers. You will also notice that they don't change in shape or appearance anymore. You will need patience, but the end result will be the healthiest dreadlocks possible. There are no definite timelines for how long hair takes to lock. Everyone's hair is different and will mature at its own rate. Longer hair usually takes more time to mature, because it needs to shrink and kink more for dreads to lock up. Coarse and curly hair locks quicker than fine, straight hair.