starting off my dreads....
Dreading Methods
yeah it seems you have perfect hair for locking,crochet method has the potential to really hurt your dreads right off the bat, especially if done in the long term with a lot of maintenance,backcombing can to, however your really only gonna be doing it once, so that was what I went with, however they too can look kinda odd in the beginning phases of dreading, so you might have to keep that too in mind for work.another method you could look into is Twist and Ripi'm not as familiar with the other methods but if you need more info there a thread detailing most of the ways to get dreadlocks on this site