It's a new year, so I decided to try something new with my hair. I've seen many natural hair bloggers/vloggers create cute, curly styles by creating bantu knots. After watching a handful of YouTube tutorials, I attempted a set.
I started by lightly spritzing the ends of hair with a water bottle to make it slightly damp.
Taking one section in my hand, I began to twirl the hair around itself; as the hair becomes twisted, it starts to curl around itself to begin forming the bantu knot. When I got to the end of my hair, I took the last inch or so and wrapped it around the knot and tucked the end to secure the knot. Some naturals begin by creating a two-strand twist and then wrapping it around itself to form a knot, but I chose not to because I wanted to see what kind of curl pattern the bantu know would create on it's own.
After completing my whole head section by section, I ended up with 10 knots.I kept the bantu knots in overnight to set the curls. The next morning, I sprayed my hair with
Shea Moisture Organic Raw Shea Butter Reconstructive Elixir Spray and took aloose each knot. I was happy with the curl pattern produced by the knots, but as I started separating and fluffing my hair I realize that my sections were too big, and I may have used too much product. At some places, the curl at the root was much looser than at the ends, and the hair at the back of my head was still damp so the curls hardly set at all. I ended up just smoothing my hair into a curly ponytail.
I LIVE by the Bantu Knot Out... That has been my style of choice for that last year and a half. I have found that if you two strand twist your entire head while it's still wet/damp, let the twists air dry, THEN bantu knot the twists your hair will dry a lot faster. When I tried to just bantu knot it would take DAYS for my hair to dry and I would end up with a mess. Hope this helps...
ReplyDeleteThanks for the tip! I can tell the Bantu knots had the potential to turn out cute, I'll have to try doing it that way!
DeleteI do bantu knots on my hair sometimes, but I haven't perfected the look of them yet. And I am gonna take Juicy's tip too so that mine will come out a little better! Thanks for sharing your results, Carmesha!
ReplyDeleteJuicy is gonna have us all looking right lol! Thanks for stopping by!
DeleteI'm definitely going to take Juicy's tip! I love the style, and I hate that I can't wear it a lot though because I prefer to do it on wet hair. Which means it has to air dry and that takes a day or two. I would have to do the style on Saturday for it to be completely dry and ready for Monday. I love it though and it usually lasts me all week!
ReplyDeleteLast all week? I definitely need to give it another try! Thanks for stopping by :)
DeleteLol yeah, I can usually get a week out of mine too and when it starts to frizz bobby pins are my best friend... or I'll throw a cute scarf in the front.
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