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Making Dreadlocks

Sectioning Hair...
Regardless of whether you want smart, uniform, lined up exactly sized dreadlocks or different sized dreads in more natural positions all over your head, sectioning your hair off to begin with is essential.

Doing so allows you to ensure you have the correct amount of hair for each dread, its also means you can insure you make square sections; this is essential if you want round dreads as rectangular section hair tends to make flat dreads!
The thickness of your dreadlocks depends on the size of the sections you are creating. 0.5"-1" sections are about right for average sized dreads and you can go up to 2.5" sections for really thick monster dreads, any bigger than that and you may have trouble bringing them together!

The thickness of your hair is a very prominent variable in how much hair is required to make dreads of a desired thickness, with thinner hair requiring much bigger sections for the same sized dreads then thicker hair.
As you section off each bit of hair, secure it with a small poly band (available from most girls accessories shops) to keep the section neat while you finishing mapping out the rest of the head.

How thick or thin your dreads are is personal preference. But bare in mind fatter dreads tend to loc up easier as there is much more hair to tangle, but can a little scraggly and will take much greater lengthens of time to dry, where as thinner dreads can also look scraggly but are generally considered more socially acceptable.

Back Combing...
This is the bit that requires practice.
Take the band off a chosen section of hair. Next take your strong metal toothed dog / nit comb and slowly start pushing the hair upwards towards the roots, you don’t want to push all the hair in the section, what you want to do with each stroke is slowly push more and more hair up bit by bit. Its hard to describe, but if your doing it right your know as a dreadlock will start to form, if your doing it wrong you will also know as you will get a tiny, short, very fat knot of hair at the root.

Its crucial that as you backcomb you push tightly against the newly formed dread, it may be uncomfortable but it should not hurt. Keep doing this untill you have nothing left to hold onto at the very tip of your dreads you may want to back comb hard and fast to really form a good hard knot to give your tips a fighting chance.

If you are getting friends to help you with the dreading you may find one of them better than the other, as such its important they do different dreads around the head and not just one side otherwise your could end up with different shaped dreads on each side of your head.