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Because natural hair is so big, a great way make it lie down a bit and define your curls is to do a twist out.
One of my favorite things about this hairstyle is that Bunny actually did most of the work! She helped with all the twists that she could reach and she took them out the next for a twist out all by herself!
Pretty cool, huh?
For braiding & twisting the hair you’ll need:
To begin, I made a thin part in the front of her hair, about two and half inches thick. After that, I made simple cornrows going straight back. Once I ran out of room to cornrow, I added a pink rubber band soaked in coconut oil.
If you look at the bottom of her twist out, you can see that some of her ends look like a rope twist out while others look a little frizzy. I'm not too worried about that because I know she'll get better with time!
Yet many people say that natural hair isn't versatile. Strange, huh? Well, I beg to differ. Four styles in one week with the same front cornrows.
Just wanna let everyone know that we are preparing for something really big. I've been planning this for a couple months actually and it's so grand that several other blogs are doing it too!
Here's a quick video on how I put a little life into that style one last time! Even though her hair doesn’t look nearly as nice as I would like it to, she still got lots of compliments on her hair and she’s happy so I’m not too worried about that.
And for those of you who are wondering, here's what I'll do in more detail:
I'll begin by carefully removing all the rubber bands and beads from her hair. It's easiest to cut the rubber bands so that's what I do.
After that I'll do ahead and put her hair into six braids, three on each. Her hair is quite matted so trying to detangle it would be impossible until it's wet.
She'll hope in the shower and wash her hair with Naked Moisture Whip Shampoo, focusing on her scalp. Once she gets out of the shower, I use VO5 conditioner to detangle her hair. Take one braid out at a time, covering it with conditioner, then using a wide tooth comb and my fingers to get any tangles out
Once I’m finished with that, I’ll rinse most of the conditioner out, add a moisturizer, and either band, braid, or twist her hair to stretch it out.
And I’ll finish by styling.
That’s it!
Dominique-Alexis
Maintaining a twist out is actually quite simple. If you recall from the post the day before, Bunny is currently wearing her hair in side cornrows and a twist out on the side.
I've recently started using the Beautiful Curls line (their shampoo, deep conditioner, hair gel, leave-in conditioner, curl activating, oil, and curl refresher) because I'm doing product reviews for the company. I used the curl refresher, which claims to do exactly that.
The product I used
Full review coming soon!
I pull all her hair up into a high bun for bed time (this way her curls aren't crushed) and she'll sleep on her satin pillow case. However, on this particular night, her hair ended up coming un-bunned, which resulted in a curly rats nest when she woke up. Yikes!
There is no way that I could get her hair to last until the weekend so I'll be braiding it either tomorrow or the day after. I will definitely be re-twisting the top layer of hair to stretch what little definition she has left.
Bunny still loves it so I'm not too worried about it.
When I first started on Bunny's hair, I thought the finished product would be a cornrow/braided headband design in the front with twists in the back. Sounds cool, right? Well, that never happened.
Bunny's before hair style was side cornrows going to two strand twists. I took all the twists out and she wanted to see what her hair looked like. She ended up falling in love with the style so, yeah, this is her style for the week!
The cornrows are quite fuzzy but her hair is clean and she's happy and that's good enough :)
