Its a family thang second edition

Its been so long since I shares my lil sister and her awesome hair. Since it was my post popular post ever! here we go again.

She is still into doing her own thing with her hair but the dreaded can I straighten it question has come up a few times. I keep her well informed on the danger that perms and relaxers pose and she prefers it flat ironed. Which is ok with me.

For this huge afro all I did was undo her braids add moisture ( shea butter) and blow out with a blow drier to de-tangle before flat ironing. This process takes extra time but I wanted to achieve a huge fro and it was an amazing success!

Genie locs un-done still wearable

This was a slow four day process of unraveling but still having my hair wearable for work. I pulled this off by completely taking out the yarn in sections. Starting with the front section for a curly bangs look. My hair is growing back thicker which is the desired effect I wanted

To remove the yarns from my hair I had to pre- wet each braid with water. The hard intertwined hair I also wet with water first then a mixture of Shea butter and conditioner with Shea oils as a De-tangler.








I used my fingers to separate each one of the braids and to pull apart the strands that were clumped together.Once the yarn was removed I mini twisted the section and this is the result. 

 

To complete the wearable style I use rollers to achieve a wavy curly bang.

Boiling yarn braid genie loc twists, hairstyle, curling style

First attempt at curling my genie locs was interesting. One thing that set me back from the curls being defined was not having a over night towel dry.
To change up this style in a few weeks I am attempting to keep these in for 4-6 weeks while still maintaining a good hair care routine with moisture and growth oil and my various herbal hair rinses. Next time I try this curl technique I will be letting it dry overnight.

There are sooo many youtube videos on "How to"all it takes is a search.






 


After a week my  scalp is nice and clean, itch free and I continue to moisturized using my daily moisture spray, shea butter cream and deep conditioning. I don't do it often but a daily scalp massage help me notice faster hair growth result I need to get on that again been kinda lazy with that routine.




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I love this style this is why I did my big chop was in a faux hawk style. My hair has been growing faster at the middle crown area and slower on the sides. My focus now is to get the sides the same length as the crown area in the next few months. Then I am on to the next thing in hair care herbs and stretching maybe even straightening with low heat and every 6 weeks a trim.











My hair journey is going great and I have learns so much and there is still so much to learn about this amazing texture of mine loving the curls naturally. My hair journey photos are all at this link see the progress I have made










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