Two Strand Twists

For those of you who don’t follow our Natural-hair-care-info.com website, I recently put Bunny’s hair into mini two strand twists!

She has gotten SOOOO complements on them!

They didn’t take that long, they’re aging beautifully, and they really seem to fit her personality!

And for the record, my fingers were tingling for about two days!

Worth it, of course =)

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Also, I got quite a few emails (you can contact us on our Facebook Page or through our email address: naturalhaircareinfo at gmail dot com) about the whole process, so I wanna answer those here so everyone who'd like to learn, can learn!

Did you blow dry her hair?
No, I put it into twelve Ghana Plaits three days prior to the actual twisting process began.

Did you straighten it?
Nope, see above.

What products did you use?
Washed: Mixed Chicks Sulfte Free Shampoo
DC'ed: Mixed Chicks Deep Conditioner for Hair
Conditioned: Mixed Chicks Leave In Conditioner
Moisturized: Beija Flor Naturals Cream Brulee

Will you trim her twists?
Yes, I trimmed her hair twists the day after I finished. I took about an inch off of the bottom =)

How long will they last?
I will *make* them last at least a month!

How long did they take?
I twisted her hair over the course of three days, devoting two hours a day to her hair for a total of about six hours, give or take.

How long has she been natural?
Since the day she was born =)

Is that all of her hair or did you add yarn/extensions/weave/etc?
Yes! Every single strand is hers!

How will you maintain them?
This is about day 4 and I haven't done much with them. Those Mixed Chicks products are the bomb! Her hair still feels soft and moisturized. I did, however, pull of her twists up into a hair bun for her gym class but that was it!

Her hair in Ghana Braids
Each day I took down four braids (one braid at a time, of course) and changed it into several dozen mini twists

I parted on an angle

And then I changed each little part into four mini two strand twists

The process was very simple! We will definitely be doing these minis in the near future! Also, I will post different hair styles that we do on them as well as updates! Thanks for reading!

Let us know what you think below!!!

Hairstyles for School

More quick and easy hairstyles for school!

I was inspired to do this twist hairstyle after Jessica B. contacted me and told me that she was searching for quick cute school hairstyles for her young daughter.

I usually spend two hours cornrowing Bunny’s hair a week, however, this hairstyle only took an hour plus one break in the middle.

I doubt it will last as long as any of my cornrow hair designs do, but it’s quick and super cute!

Which makes it a great hairstyle for those school days!

My little sister’s cute twist hairstyle!

For braiding the hair you’ll need:

• Rat tail comb
• Wide tooth comb
• Hair moisturizer
• Hair clips to section hair
• Rubber bands

As always, I started with clean, detangled, stretched hair.

A picture from the top

When I say this hair style was super simple, I mean just that.

Using a rat tail comb, I parted out a box in the front and tied the rest of her hair out of the way. Using the box I’d just parted out, I began cornrowing her hair to the side.

A back view

Once I ran out of room for the cornrows to stick to her head, I tied it off with a rubber band and two strand twisted her hair to the end. I did this until I was all out of hair to cornrow and I did twists everywhere else.

TIP! You can do box braids or rope twists where I did regular two strand twists if you’d like. It’s completely up you. Just remember that box braids take longer to take out and rope twists tend to lock up if you forget to moisturize them or leave them in too long.

Lastly, a close up of her cornrows!

Each day we’ll change it up a bit with different hair ribbons, hair flowers, or hair bows.

This is an easy hairstyle that’ll last a week.

And don’t be afraid to do “simple styles”. They can be just as cute!

Thanks for reading!


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Natural Hair Straightening

Hey ladies!

If you haven't seen the pictures on the Natural Hair Care website already, breaking news, Bunny got her hair straightened for the very first time!

She hit her goal of having waist length hair and she really wanted to see how it looked straight so I agreed. About two hours later we had these results:










For more on how to straighten natural hair, click here!

Thank you for reading and have a good one!

Natural Hair Growth

Hey guys!

I hope your Thanksgiving was an awesome one filled with lots of blessings and family and laughter. And for all of you black Friday shoppers out there, I hope you found everything you were looking for and had fun!

I haven't been posting too much lately so today (tonight actually) I just wanted to do a quick one on my little sisters natural hair growth.

Early this year, around January or February of 2011

This was just a week or two ago of this month - November 2011
Check out how much fuller her braided Mohawk is!

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This picture was taken in the beginning of the year - January 2011
Her hair was a little bit past arm pit length here

Lastly, I took this one about a week ago - November 2011
And now her hair is just grazing waist length

I think people assume that she's always had nice hair because she's always been natural, when that's not the case at all. She used to hate hair time because I sucked at detangling (Yes, I'm ashamed about that now but it's true) and I greased her hair and brushed her edges with rough brushes and ripped ponytails in and out of her hair...

Yes, it's a miracle that she's still alive.

One day I was doing her hair and she was mad because I was probably hurting her and I thought, why does hair time have to hurt? After that I started caring for her hair very gently and within a month I noticed new growth! The next few weeks I learned how to twist and cornrow her hair (I hadn't discovered hair blogs and youtube yet so it was a very slow process!)

I learned a lot in that 4/5 months. It was around Christmas when I discovered the internet and found CurlyNikki.com. I thought, I could do that... And the rest is history.

Just a reminder to you ladies out there that it's never too late to grow your natural hair long, strong, healthy, and HUGE! :) Have a wonderful evening!

Medium Curly Hair Style

I was asked by J.G. to do a hair style for a medium curly hair length little girl with lots and lots of shrinkage!

This lady – J.G. – asked me to do a natural hair style that showed off some length, could last at least two to three weeks, and that could easily be maintained on a daily basis.

Despite what I originally thought, all that was no problem at all! Here’s the hairstyle that I came up! Enjoy :D

Because this hair style was going to be extremely difficult to explain, I made a how to video for this hair style instead. Hopefully it’ll all make sense! It’s right below this, enjoy!

WAIT! Before you watch this movie, let it be known by all that I never realized that I man handled my little sisters head like that. She's never mentioned it and it never really accurded to me...*ashamed*

For braiding the hair you’ll need:

• Rat tail comb
• Wide tooth comb
• Hair moisturizer
• Hair clips to section hair
• Rubber bands

As always, I started with clean, detangled, stretched hair.

More Pictures :D

I will help Bunny maintain this cornrow design by wrapping her hair at night, moisturizing the ends of the braids every morning, and misting the cornrows with a little curl fresher every other day. And that's it!

I really, REALLY hope you love this style J.G. And don't forget, I have to braid Bunny's hair every week or so anyway, so it might as well be something that you want to see! Click here to request a special hair style!

Sisters. Enough Said :)

The very first thing people say/notice/think about Bunny and me is that there is no way that we could be sisters because we look very different.

I think it's pretty sad that people don't realize that being black means you can be any color from alabaster to ebony and any color in between. I've always thought as black/African-american as being a race, and not so much a color.

The fact of the matter is that we are biological siblings.

She looks more like our mom - who is dark.

While I look more like my dad - who's fair.

Our noses are different, our mouths, our hair types, our personalities, everything.

I don't know that many sisters that actually look alike and even fewer who act alike. And if they do like the same things they ain't sharing it.

We're very different and that's a good thing, because individuality is something to be celebrated and cherished. A world filled with just me or just you would be a very strange in indeed.

"A Sister is God's way of proving He doesn't want us to walk alone."
~ Unknown

Cornrow design & Cornrow hairstyle

Hey everyone! Just wanted to do a quick post on the cornrow hairstyles that I did yesterday and today. First up, my little brohter:

Click here for how to instructions

And you may have already seen this one on our Facebook page, but here's Bunny:

Click for the how to page on this one!

And I will be doing my hair either tomorrow or the day after so be on the look out for that :) Thanks for reading and have a great night!

Picture of the Day: Beads, cornrows, twists, braids, and more!

Picture of the day!

Natural hair is very versatile :)

More posts coming very soon!

Halloween Hairstyle

Here is Bunny's Halloween Hairstyle!

Sorry that I haven't been doing as much posting as I used to do. It's getting harder to juggle a website, giveaways, a Facebook page, a YouTube channel, product reviews, reading emails, comments, this blog, and such.

By no means am I complaining (you should see how organized I am now!), I love doing this but just wanted to get that out there because some people have been asking about that.

Enough of that, on to the hair 'do!

The Side

The Back

The Top

The style took me about two and a half hours and I plan on switching it up a bit. After a few days, I will remove the Bantu knots for a braided mohawk look, then (once the hair starts to get tangled up because I know it will) I will do one Dutch with the loose hair, then who knows after that?

For the complete instructions, check out this post on the website: right here.

Thank you for reading and have a beautiful and safe Halloween from Bunny and me!

Down hair styles anyone?

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:

• Rat tail comb
• Wide tooth comb
• Hair moisturizer
• Hair clips to section hair
• Rubber bands

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!

Look Below to See How We Did Many Different Styles With This One Style:

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.

Curly long hair styles anyone?

Today is a very big day for my little sister because for the first time ever, she did her own hair! I had to do the twists in the very back, but she definitely did most of the style herself :D

It took her a good three hours to two strand twist the back (I’d done cornrows in the front about two weeks earlier) but she stuck with it the whole time with no complaining!

For twisting the hair you’ll need:

• Denman Brush
• Wide tooth comb
• Hair moisturizer
• Hair clips to section hair

It’s super easy to two strand twist hair. All you have to do is twist one strand around the other one. Once you’ve mastered this hairstyle, you can move onto twist outs, rope twists, and three strand twists!

The coolest part about rope twists is that the twist outs coming out looking like a braid out on locks! It’s pretty cool.

And the coolest thing about three strand twists is that the twist outs come out with a much wider curl pattern than other twist outs.

Enjoy these pictures of my nine-year-old sister rocking her first hairstyle!

Man, as I look at these pictures I realize that her hair has really been growing! LOL no wonder it's been taking longer than usual to style it!

Thanks for readin'!

My little brother

So, I don't know if anyone's noticed that there always seems to be a little boy (or a foot or a knee or some hair or something) in the pictures that I take of Bunny and her hair and that's our little brother.

His nickname is Buddy and he's six and the other day he was like, "Why don't you ever put me on your blog," so I couldn't say no to his little face so here he is:

(And you can see my dad's arm if you look to the top left in the background)

Him and Bunny are ALWAYS together since he could walk really. They eat together, go to school together, they sleep together, they NEVER stop talking....

Anyway, he is going to be very happy when he sees that. Thanks for reading! You made a little boy very happy :D

Breast Cancer Logo Hairstyle!

This month hair caravel theme is pink in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month. Here's a style I did that had both pink and the cancer logo cornrowed into the top. Enjoy!

More details about this style on my website: go here for those.