Monday, March 19, 2012

Protective Style Challenge Week 7: Twist Out Updo

For week 7 of KandyLand Kurls Protective Style Challenge we didn't do too much manipulation to Des' hair for her week 6 style. Des' rope twists had started to come undone and rather than retwist the ones that had began coming undone we do a twist out. While I was taking Des' hair down I used It's Perfectly Natural's Marsh-Aloe Transitioning Creme to moisturize the length of her twist. Once we got all her rope twists undone they looked like the picture below.



From this point I did a variation of a style I had seen on Goldilocks N Me's blog. This style consisted of knotted ponytails formed in a diagonal pattern. I took the top section of hair without manipulating the way the twist out left it and knotted it on the right side of her head. I then took a section a little lower and did the same but more to the center back of her hair. I took the rest of the hair that was left and combined it with all the hair that I had already knotted and formed my last knot at the bottom left of her head. Since Des' hair is long, I was able to take the hair that was hanging down and wrapped it up and behind the hair between the first and second knot. The ends of the hair I tucked into the first knot. I used nothing to hold her hair in this style other than other parts of her hair. In the end, if you look at the pic you can see a figure 8 which the hair formed. I loved how quick and simple this style was and how wonderful it looked.




I hope you enjoyed seeing how we did this style, the style lasted a couple of days and one day it came down while Des was running in PE so she put it up in a ponytail. I was able to recreate the style later that night. At night, Des keep her hair covered with her satin bonnet and we moisturized daily with It's Perfectly Natural Turn Me Loose. Until the next time... Stay Blessed. 

9 comments:

  1. I love this because it never crossed my mind that a twist out or braid out doesn't have to be left "out!" So smart to tuck it in, and thank you for the shout out!

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    1. Thank you for inspiring me to use this style, I have always loved how it looked. So simple but looks great.

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  2. Cute! Her twists look like locs in the first pic. I love how you changed things up and showed variation. You take such good care of her hair!

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    1. I told her the same thing when I took those rope twists out, I was like we could leave your hair like this and you would get locs. Needless to say that didn't happen. LOL. Thank you so much. You do the same with Anisa's hair.

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  3. Beautiful twist-out and the style is gorgeous!

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  4. HAHA! I see I already commented on that bad boy!! I must REALLY like it!

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