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December 23, 2009 marked 8 years that I cut off my relaxer and decided to take a walk on the nappy side. Best decision I ever made. Check out this post for my hair story.
I blew my hair out to prep it for New Year's Eve.
Here's how I wore my hair to run some errands. A really simple style, 2 braids and a bun.
It's the dog days of summer and hair feels hat on my head. The only way the alleviate feeling like I have a sheep on my head is to wear my hair up. While watching youtube I came across this simple and cute style. It's real simple and can easily turn into 3 styles.
1. Section hair. You'll want to section a part on the side that you'll twist up.
2. Braid or flat twist up the sides. I did 2 strand flat twists and secured with black rubber bands. To get the rubber bands out I pull them away from my hair and snip them.
3. Repeat on the other side
4. Twist up the rest of your hair
5. Starting from the bottom twist hair into a french roll and secure with a large bobby pin
6. Take the remaining hair on the top and tuck it under and secure with small bobby pins. Now you'll have a mini hump on top of your head.
7. Tuck and pin any loose strands in the back and you'll end up with this...
8. Tuck the front or leave it loose I tucked mine...
You end up with..
To smooth your edges apply some gel or shea butter and tie it down with a scarf. You can curl the twists and pin them up. Wear a twist out or puff it. The options are endless. What's great about this is that it looks like you took so much time to do you hair and it literally takes 5 minutes.
I got bored with my regular twistout so while on youtube I found a way I could spice it up and I love it. It's a really easy curly fro. The method in the video didn't work for me so I tried this one which works great!
Simply get yourself some foam rollers. You can get them at the beauty supply they come in packs of 5-6 in varying sizes. Pick the roller size you want for the curl size you want. I use the mid to larger sized ones which are kinda long. Perm rods also work well but I advise using paper since the surface is somewhat rough and can snag your hair. This can be done on freshly twisted hair or on older twists when you're ready for a twistout. The amount of twists are up to you. You can do a few twists or a lot. Before I set them on the rods I spritz with my glycerin mix and rub my shea butter/coconut mix through my hair.
Step 1: Set your twists on flex rods. I leave them in overnight.
Step 2: Take out rods separate the curls than begin to untwist.
Step 3: Fluff and you're good to go!
Check out this post to see what the front looks like.
For 2009 I'm going back to my fave hair color blue black. I like to color my hair black for the fall/winter and a burgundy for the spring/summer. 2007 I went to the Dominican Republic and came back with seriously noticeable red hair. Toward the end of 2008 I cut a lot of the color out but the ends were still red and I was tired of it. I either use Feria or Garnier but the beauty supply didn't have them so I picked up my stand by Bigen.
See the color on the ends...
I used 2 boxes of Bigen which was just the right amount for my hair...
Once you mix it with water you get a pretty purple concoction...
Color applied...
Put my plastic cap on and chill for 30-45 minutes...
All rinsed out , no more red ends!
Deep condition with Elasta QP DPR11 mixed with coconut oil
Results...
No flash
I love it! There is a purple black by Feria that I want to try but I haven't seen it anywhere. I do know they sell it overseas. I don't but from overseas sellers so I'm still debating on whether or not I'm going to get it.
I decided to do a variation on the up do I did here. Instead of crisscrossing my whole head I only did the sections of the front that were 2 strand flat twisted. To be honest the original style normally has me in tears by 3pm. Those bobby pins really, really hurt. I need to figure out a way to pin it with out stabbing my scalp in the process. So I did a pin/bun combo.
Flat twist/ 2 strand flat twist/ braid the front any way you like. I'm still trying to figure out a new style for my 2 strand flat twists so I just went with my old faithful.
I'll only be crisscrossing the 2 strand flat twisted parts.
Step 1: Start with whichever side you want, cross it over then pin it.
Step 2: Repeat with the other side
Step 3: Continue until you're done crisscrossing
Step 4: Put your hair in a ponytail
Step 5: Take hair donut (more on this later) and pull pony tail through
Step 6: Spread hair around the donut and take an ouchless ponytail holder and wrap it around the donut
This is what you should end up with
Adjust the hair to cover any gaps then tuck the hair around the donut
Results:
Scuse the laundry in the background...
You can buy the donut at the beauty supply store or your local drugstore. I made my original donut years ago. It was old and too big so I checked my CVS for one and had no luck so I decided to make another one.
Step 1: Get a sock, a knee high and scissors. When choosing a knee high I say go with one closest to your hair color is you can. Since my hair stays some variation of black I went with the black knee high that way if I miss a gap you can't tell since the donut blends in with my hair.
I was trying to figure out which sock I was going to use. I ended up using the one on the left.
Step 2: Cut the ends of the sock, and knee high
Step 3: Start rolling the sock into a donut shape
You should end up with this:
Step 4: Put the donut into the knee high
Step 5: Pull the knee high through the donut center
Fold the knee high over the donut and continue pulling through the donut hole. Continue until your donut is completely covered
You should end up with:
This works great for relaxed and natural hair. If I wash my hair on a weekday I wear a bun the next day so my hair can finish drying. You can make your donut as large or as small as you like depending on the size of the sock you use, just make sure that your hair is long enough to wrap around the donut in order to cover any gaps.
I hope this was clear if not email me and I'll be happy to clarify anything!
pony tail holder pic courtesy of scunci
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