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There are various ways of dreading your hair...I dont actually recommend the dread wax unless you can find a vegna (non bees wax based one) You can dread your hair fine with out it in fact most folk i know with dreads didnt us wax...try just not washing your hair for a week...but remeber once you have dreads they should be washed occassionally (weekly)...but really cleanliness is over rated hehe

Making Dreadlocks

Backcombing

You will need:
Dread Wax
Residue Free Shampoo
Metal Comb
Rubberbands

1. Wash your hair with a residue free shampoo and let it air dry.
2. Section your hair into sections that are 1 inch by 1 inch. You can use
rubberbands to hold the sections while you section the rest of your hair.
3. Start in the back of your head, remove the rubberbands and start teasing the
hair towards your scalp. Only backcomb about a half inch of hair at a time,
this will keep your dreads from forming loops.
4. Once you have finished backcombing the that section of hair, put a
rubberband on the tip and one on the root. Add about an M&M's worth of wax
to the dreadlock and palm roll it.
5. Do this to all the sections of hair.

Twist and Rip

You will need:
Dread Wax
Residue Free Shampoo
Rubberbands

1. Section your hair into sections that are 1 inch by 1 inch. You can use
rubberbands to hold the sections while you section the rest of your hair.
2. When your washing your hair rub your head in a clockwise motion.
3. Once you get out of the shower and your hair is dry pull your hair apart in the
sections where the rubberbands are.
4. After you have pulled apart the sections add a M&M's worth of wax to each
dread and palm roll.

Twist and Pin

You will need:
Dread Wax
Residue Free Shampoo
Rubberbands


1. Wash your hair with a residue free shampoo and let it air dry.
2. Section your hair into sections that are 1 inch by 1 inch. You can use
clips to hold the sections while you section the rest of your hair.
3. After you have sectioned off all of your hair, take one section down at a time
and twist it, then put some wax on the twist and keep twisting until it the twist is
twisting down into a ball on your head,

Twisting

You will need:
Dread Wax
Residue Free Shampoo
Rubberbands

1. Wash your hair with a residue free shampoo and let it air dry.
2. Section your hair into sections that are 1 inch by 1 inch. You can use
rubberbands to hold the sections while you section the rest of your hair.
3. Once you have sectioned off all of your hair, take one section at a time
and twist it back and forth between your fingers, then put some wax on the twist
and keep twisting it. The more you twist the hair back and forth the faster the
dreads will form and lock up.

Brush Rubbing

You will need:
A soft bristle brush
Dread Wax
Residue Free Shampoo
Rubberbands

1. Wash your hair with a residue free shampoo and let it air dry.
2. Get a soft bristle brush and rub it in a clockwise circular motion around your
head. You will start to notice little dread balls forming.
3. Add a little wax to each dread ball.


Dread Braiding

You will need:
Dread Wax
Residue Free Shampoo
Rubberbands
I recommend the DreadHead Wax and Shampoo

1. Wash your hair with a residue free shampoo and let it air dry.
2. Section your hair into sections that are 1 inch by 1 inch. You can use
rubberbands to hold the sections while you section the rest of your hair.
3. Once you have finished sectioning all the hair take one section down at a time
and braid it. Once you have finished the braid add a rubberband to the tip and
root. Then add a little wax and palm roll the braids. Do this to each section.


Neglect

You will need:
You do not need any products for this method. But if you use products your hair will dread faster.

Dread Wax (optional)
Residue Free Shampoo(optional)

This is the real do it yourself no maintenance method. All you do is nothing. Maybe wash and wax your hair, just let your hair do what it's going to do and one day you should have dreads.

i had dreads that were half neglect, and helped with back combing, because of how my hair is they took a lot of maintnence and ended up getting ratty and stringy so i took them out after 5 months