Monthly Archives: September 2011

Twisted

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Although my last style had to grow on me, I loved the twists in the back. I decided it was time to try two strand twisting my whole head. The first time I did this was when I did my big chop and I absolutely hated it.

The thing I disliked most was that my hair shrank so much and it looked even shorter. Recently I discovered that pineappling my twists adds some weight to it to lengthen the twists and also helps to keep them from going crazy during the night.

Last night, I pre-poo’d with coconut oil for hours (by accident) because I went to take a nap. I washed my hair with Selsun Blue. I know it has sulfates, but the dermatologist recommended it for my scalp. Dr.’s orders! I conditioned my hair for a little over an hour with My Honey Child – Olive You Deep Conditioner with some added olive oil. For the first time ever, I dried my hair with a t-shirt instead of a towel. Not bad! (It takes me a while to jump on the bandwagon). I applied Kinky Curly – Knot Tody and sealed with my olive oil mix. I did my hair in two strand twists and I thought it came out fantastic.

I really hope it lasts a week because I’m not planning to do much with my hair this week. I only plan to apply my olive oil mix, daily. Today, I wore it with one side pinned up and the other side down.

Yesterday after I t-shirt dried my hair, my hair looked REALLY black. It looked almost as if I dyed it black. I’ve always loved how black my hair is, yesterday it just stood out.

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XOXO,
Rece

Cornrows & Twists

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So the “mystery style,” which wasn’t intended to be a mystery was cornrows in the front and two strand twists in the back. I styled my hair like this on Thursday night. My hair needed to be washed and I figured I’d just go for it. I haven’t cornrowed my hair is ages. My hair was never really easy to cornrow because it’s so soft that the braids don’t stay for very long. The shorter finer hairs in the front (I refuse to say baby hairs LOL) don’t even catch into the cornrows. In any case, that was the planned style and that was what I was going to do.

For the back, I did my best with parting. We all know I can’t part the back of my head. I did find that a rat tail comb worked quite well for parting. What was I using before? I braided the beginning of each two strand twist. I saw that a lot of other people use this method to keep the twists from coming out. My twists don’t loosen up at the root, so I’m not sure why I even did that.

I had just washed my hair and I knew it would shrink a lot by the morning, so I used a scrunchie to hold the twists in the back and to stretch them a little. It actually worked.

When I finished the style, it was well after midnight and… I hated it! LOL. The twists at the ends of the cornrows didn’t fall the way I imagined and I was forced to do the stupid crown that I abhor. It was just too late to change it or do anything else, so I just put a scarf on my head and went to bed. In the morning it looked much nicer, but I quickly remembered why I don’t cornrow my hair. It just always looks messy to me.

I got a lot of compliments (not that that matters), but throughout the day I didn’t like the way the twists in the back looked. Last night I retwisted the back, but this time without the braids at the beginning. The braids didn’t help at all, my hair was loosening. I actually feel like the braided part didn’t hold as well as just plain twists.

I left the cornrows in despite how much I hate them, but I might try twisting my whole head and wearing the twists as a style. I think smaller twists look better as a style.

Without further ado… here are the pics. Cameras make my hair look sooooo much better. Lol.

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XOXO,
Rece