Dreadlocks & How to Dread - Methods: 

Backcombing: You will need: 

• Dread Wax
• Dread Shampoo
• Dread Comb
• Rubberbands 

We recommend the Knotty Boy Dread Kit - It has everything you need and guarantee your hair will dread.
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 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
Dread Shampoo
Rubberbands
We recommend the Knotty Boy Wax and Shampoo.
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 you are 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 an M&M's worth of wax to each dread and palm roll.

Twist and Pin: You will need:
Dread Wax
Dread Shampoo
Rubberbands
We recommend the Knotty Boy Wax and Shampoo.
1. Wash your hair with the dread 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 the twist is twisting down into a ball on your head.

Twisting: You will need:
Dread Wax
Dread Shampoo
Rubberbands
We recommend the Knotty Boy Wax and Shampoo.
1. Wash your hair with the dread 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
Dread Shampoo
Rubberbands
We recommend the Knotty Boy Wax and Shampoo.
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.

Dreadball Z-ing is a great way to take care of loose hairs at the roots.
How to Dread Ball Z:
1. make sure that your hair is clean.
2. gather the loose hairs and start rolling them into a ball.
3. once the ball is knotted up push the ball into the dread.
4. then clockwise rub and twist the root for a couple minutes to attach the ball to the rest of the dread.
5. put a rubberband around the root where the dread ball is, make sure the rubberband isn't to tight just snug.