Making Sections

• 1). Wash your hair with a residue-free shampoo. Blow-dry it or let it air-dry.
  
  
• 2). Divide all your hair into small square sections at the scalp with a comb. Decide how thick you want your dreadlocks to be. The larger the sections, the thicker the dreadlocks. Generally people create 1-inch square sections, but because your hair is thin, your sections will need to be larger if you want thick dreadlocks.
  
  
• 3). Put a small rubber band around every section's hair at the root and at the tip to keep them all separate. Each section will eventually become a dreadlock.
  
  

Back Combing

• 1). Remove the rubber bands from one section's root in the back of your head. Hold the hair taut from your head and twist it from the end at least once or twice. The longer your hair is, the more twisting you should do. The twist should be loose enough to allow a comb to pass through it.
  
  
• 2). Comb through the twisted hair toward the scalp, starting at the root. Do this about a 1/2 inch at a time until you reach the tip.
  
  
• 3). Put the small rubber bands back on the section's tip and root, and apply a light coating of wax to the length of the hair.
  
  
• 4). Repeat the steps for back combing for every section of hair, starting from the back of your head and working progressively toward the front.