@veganforlife420, all hair can dread up, but if you have thin, pale blond hair, how you think you’re going to look with dreads in your head, and how dreads actually look on you the person can be two different things. My daughter’s friend grew his hair out for 18 months, spent a ton of money and time on getting dreads put in, took one look at himself in the mirror, said, “I look like a F-ing jackass in these,” and headed for the #2 clippers. One of my daughter’s friends had awesome dreads for 3 years. Her hair was normally thick and curly. My daughter has very straight hair, and they did not suit her at all, because no matter what she did, the dreads were thin, and you could see way too much scalp. She took them out after 6 months. Another friend dreaded waist-long hair, but didn’t want to put the work into keeping them up, and she ended up with a half-dreaded head, that looked stupid on her.
It can lock up, but the process is different. The nappiness of black hair cause it to lock up much faster and with a lot less work. You have to do a lot more backcombing if your hair is very straight to start out with. With black hair, there’s a twisting method that works pretty well.
Regardless, section your hair into 1” – 2” squares, with a small rubber band and the bottom, and a small rubber band at the top. Use a dreadding comb to backcomb each dread, pulling it into the direction you want it to go. You should leave the bottom band in until the dread matures, then remove it. How your hair is initially sectioned will determine how the dread will lie, and depending on how thick your hair is, will give you an overall sense of the look.