If you have tried braid/twist outs without getting definition this rainy season, don’t try harder because the moisture in the air won't let you get the desired results. The best advice I can give naturals this season is: EMBRACE YOUR HAIR…frizz, shrinkage and all.
Find products that will give you soft manageable hair, and try out simple styles instead of fighting your hair and the weather.
Below are some of the styles I enjoy wearing during the rainy season:
Frizzy Fro
You could also try updo's like the one I'm doing on the lady's medium length, undefined Fro. To style my frizzy fro, I took down my braids, applied some Olive Oil and let the humid Lagos weather do the rest:)
Loose Twists
I love this style because my hair looks fuller and I can style the twists in a number a ways.
My new twists
Old twists
I thought my loose twists were the best:(...click on link to see Miss Fizz's full and beautiful twists **hair envy**
Braids
These Chunky Braids are so easy to maintain!
This style lasts for 2-3 weeks.
Finally, don’t forget how terrific the African threading technique is in keeping your hair from getting matted and unmanageable.
My hair was super coily and that usually leads to knots and tears
So I used the thread on the ends and...
voila...better behaved ends:)
The threads stretched out my coils, making styling easy. Please excuse the pins...they weren't supposed to show:)
Using this technique, you could even get your hair to look as stretched as Wakeema’s hair in the picture below
Nice post. The picture of your chunky braids, is it recent? Your edges look quite grown. Is it Castor oil that did that?
ReplyDeleteWhat is the difference between loose twists and mini twists? These things confuse me.
Thanks Anon! Yes O, castor Oil has been working its magic on my edges.
ReplyDeleteLoose twists could be done on mini twists or chunky twists. What makes loose twists different is that you twist the roots tightly and make the rest of the twists really loose. It helps those of us who normally have scalpy twists pretend that we have have a full head of hair:). For better understanding visit Urbanbushbabes for the very short video on how to do loose twists
http://urbanbushbabes.com/?p=14437
I like which encourage ladies to embrace and accept. All the fighting we do to get our hair to do what we WANT instead of listening to our hair and doing what it needs could be eliminated by just taking your good advice. You know me . . . I'm already there!
ReplyDeleteGreat post! Great pictures!!
I never knew that its hard to get definitions in rainy season. Really eye-opening.
ReplyDeleteLove the achieved stretched look sis!! And great tips too!
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DatFunkyFro
Lovely hair! Lovely blog!
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