Growing Long Hair the Healthy Way
Remember when wet wrapping was all the rage in the nineties? Well, I hated it. With a sincere and very deep passion. I remember the stylist wrapping my hair while it was sopping wet with a fine toothed comb no less! Then I would be directed to sit under the dryer for HOURS. After the first hour, they would check my (very thick) hair and realizing it was still damp, they'd use their fingers to disrupt the shape of the wrap so the air and … [Read more...]
I'm back with another update on my little cousin, Jennifer's hair. I did her hair after the holidays, about 6 weeks or so after our first vlog. I want to help nurture her hair back to health and give readers some little girls hairstyle ideas with this series as well. This week we went for two strand twists up with a braidout, which she loved (although as you'll see in the video below she did NOT trust me to come up with a cute … [Read more...]
I have previously posted a bantu knot out tutorial which included tips for getting consistent curls, but that tutorial really only applied to hair that is arm pit length or longer. When you have shorter hair, doing only six knots won’t give you curls or waves, instead you will probably end up with wonky looking pieces of hair because your hair isn’t long enough to wrap around so few knots. Not to worry, first of all, it will grow and you … [Read more...]
I have so many great styling ideas in my head but what had happened was....I'm so exceptionally lazy busy that I haven't gotten around to doing any of them. Each wash day I'm like "Okay, I'm gonna do this and twist that, rodset here, and updo there" and I end up in a bun! So, finally out of sheer frustration with my own lack of motivation to STYLE my hair, I decided to do a braidout. I did four cornrows (overnight) after moisturizing with Bee … [Read more...]
Perfecting a braid out - or any 'out' style for that matter, twist out, bantu knot out - can be difficult and most of all unpredictable. I've gotten my perfect method down, how many braids for a certain look, which products work best, etc. but still certain braid outs come out great while others leave me looking frantic in the mirror. All kinds of things can go wrong even when you DO know how to get a great braidout and for those who are just … [Read more...]
I saw the above style in this month's issue of Sophisticate's Black Hair and immediately knew I wanted to try my hand at it. I decided to go with more of a victory roll updo type of look because I didn't feel like adding synthetic hair as "filling". Pardon the fold in the inspiration photo, I marked the page! I don't feel I nailed the look, victory rolls are a bit more difficult than I realized...I will be trying it again soon. A change … [Read more...]
In a couple of my recent YouTube videos I created a cute style with bantu knots and a tutorial was requested and I am happily obliging. There are a few tips I've learned along my hair journey on how to get a great bantu knot out which are included in the tutorial. In the second video I give three style ideas for how to rock your bantu knots, enjoy! How to do Bantu Knots: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bxwqtj6ATy4 Beach Wave … [Read more...]
Last weekend, after I relaxed my hair I did a very fast flexirod set using only 20 of the 1" rods. I loved the resulting curls, but realized that to preserve them, I would need to roll my hair each night. I did this on Saturday evening and had fabulous hair for church, but then I just couldn't bring myself to sleep another night in those rollers. So I did 6 bantu knots hoping to achieve a similar look with my comfortable sleep. Here is … [Read more...]
