Spring Twist Hair

“com come hey girl friends today is wash day instead of my normal twist out style I'll be doing a protective style so today I'll be doing spring twist and I'm really excited cuz I haven't had a long-term protective style in a while I'm tired I need to go to bed [Music] so this is what I'm working with my hair was still super defined in the places that I did not touch it during the week I play with my hair and I am sometimes the cause of the downfall of my hair so I notice when I I don't know if it's I'm bored or nervous or whatever but I play in my hair then when it's time to wash my hair it looks like I played in my hair and it looks a hot mess it's Tangled and so today I wanted to start this wash day off with a prepoo I'm just using the Garnier fruti hydrating treat conditioner with aloe extract I love this stuff I've been using this since the days that I was transitioning to natural hair so just going to apply it generously throughout my hair just to get an initial detangle because like I said my hair was very Tangled especially in the middle that's the place where I play with my hair the most and it's also the kinkiest part of my head so I know that I shouldn't but for some reason that doesn't stop me and then I thought I was going in with the AG Care moisturizing shampoo because I wanted to put moisture in my hair since my hair was going to be in a long-term protective style but guess what you can see it in my face it was at this moment where I realized that what I was applying was not shampoo and because I was lazy didn't want to get out the shower have puddles all along my bathroom I didn't get out to replace it with a shampoo so guess what today is just a CO wash day I'm going to apply this to my hair cuz I don't want to waste the product but after this you'll see that I'm going in with the deep conditioner it's by Gabrielle unions line Flawless it is called the repairing deep conditioning mask is infused with biotin and rice oil complex it's supposed to hydrate and help redu breakage and it's for type 2 three and four hair when I see the word repair on conditioners it makes me believe that it's a protein conditioner this one has some protein in it but I didn't think the protein overshadowed the moisture I my hair didn't get tangled or hard or anything like that so it was okay in my books I enjoyed using it for today's wash day I think it did a good job at moisturizing you can see the curls starting the form of my hair after applying the product and I think that is a good sign that this product is giving moisture [Music] [Music] [Music] so I did I don't even know this is not half maybe I don't even know what percentage this is but I did my hair I started last night so I did the back part and as you can see I'm using my mirrors to help me out with the parting because The Parting is the hardest part I think that is what has taken the longest so far um maybe 3 hours to do this um I did do some pieces up here and I think as I get to the front it gets easier and easier so I'm hoping that this won't take as long I have one more row or two more rows in the back one two and I kind of have it pre- parted already so I can know where I need to go as I've been um doing each little section I've been trimming my hair because I used to be the sole person to trim my hair until I went to a a hair salon last year and I think once the year before but prior to that I I was the only one doing my hair so same thing I'm just going to cut my hair because you know when it's time to cut your hair well I know when it's time to cut my hair because I can feel right here I can feel the single strand knots and that means there's some type of breakage going on and it's normal wearing hair I think um but also it's how I keep up with my hair so like if I don't put a scarf on if I don't wrap it at night if I don't use a sill case if I don't wash it weekly I guess single Str not so um I don't know if you can see it from here no whatever I can feel it and so I know it's time for a trim and and I've done a mixture of trimming my hair when it's blow dry and also trimming my hair when it's like kind of wet or damp or kind of curly I think it's personal preference I feel that I can feel what needs to be trimmed I can literally feel my hair crying for a trim so I'm going to add some water and going to comb it you hear that that is calling for a trim so your hair it literally tells you what it needs if your comb can't make it through it's probably time for a trim so I'm going to do like a half inch where I can fill so let me fill forward yeah it's going to be like a/ inch so not a hair styles or anything but this is work for me this is what I've been doing for the past five years I've been natural cutting it myself myself so get my shears and of course you don't want to use regular scissors because those cause more splittings so you want to use scissors that are designed to cut hair so just going to and I already threw away the other hair that I cut from the back pieces so now I'm filling again there's some pieces that are longer than the rest that are straggly in so I'm going to fill for those and cut again and now it feels kind of smooth so I'm okay with [Music] that then going to do the same here another test to see what needs to be cut off you can use a rat tail comb if your hair is detangled or I have this little um three row comb I like it and wherever that stops like if it doesn't go all the way through so like right here for me that is what I'm going to be cutting I'm going to use my mirror to part this here with my [Music] finger okay so that's the clean part for the cleanest we'll get and I'm just going to put my hair out of the way using a little clip um sometimes I twist it sometimes I just do a little quick band two knot this time I'll twist it cuz I just you see the shrinkage y'all this is disrespectful look at this that's like 50% maybe 75 I'm going to separate the hair don't ask me why but it it helps when you put it in your hair it's kind of FY like this this hair is a little forgiving because it's kinky next I'm going to get some Jam or some edge control and and put it at the base and then I'm using my melanin twist elongating styling cream just going to put that on the twist cuz I already have my [Music] leave-in just add it to your liking and then I'm going to go in with the braiding here so I'll put on my shoulder for now so I'm using I'm doing a a braid first so I'm going to split it into three [Music] sections and then I'm going to start braiding so I'll have this piece on one of my sections and then the other piece on another section and then I'm going to pull it t so that it's against my scalp and then I'm just going to start braiding I'll go like two or three down and then you have this section here without any additional hair I'm just going to put it to one side and then I'm going to start twisting but so this is the way I would normally twist like this but if I do let me show you what it's going to look like [Music] and I let it go it's going to come like this so it's not this is not the twist that I want so instead of twisting clockwise you got to go counterclockwise and I'm not used to do doing it that way so my technique might look a little funny but you twist the opposite way or I would twist the opposite way that I usually go and then when it gets to this part where I'm at the end of my hair I'm going and putting more edge control so that I can lay down because you'll I'll show you another piece where it's mostly all of my pieces where the end of my hair is like really curly and it's not like conforming to the twist so trying to mitigate that by putting some edge control but I don't know what the real way to stop that would be so when I get to the bottom I'm going to use my water bottle and spray it and then I'm also going to go in with some conditioner I'm for the fake hair I'm using this um f FTI but for my hair I'm actually using the melanin so I'm not using expensive products on this hair and then you have a Twist so let me show you this one you see how my hair is like puffy and it's kind of poking out of the spring twist hair so trying to avoid that by using the edge control so now on to the next piece [Music] let me clarify something I said earlier so I mentioned you can use a ril comb or this little tiny three row comb to comb through your hair to see what needs to be cut I'm just going to show you that if your hair is moisturized I have water in my hair this thing can go through no problem after cutting it same thing with this see how it snaps at the end that means there's something I can cut down here [Music] just had to clear that up cuz I'm not saying to go through your hair all willy-nilly with a dag on rat tooth comb only small sections that have been thoroughly detangled and or trimmed I use that as a way to gauge what else needs to go [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] all right so it may look like I'm done but I'm really not I put this section up because the middle is far I'm done I got to go myun errands because I have to do a trip to New York tomorrow morning we're leaving around 8:30ish so I won't have time to do anything in the morning so I got to do it right now it is 7:57 I've been doing this for like 2 and 1 half hours and I'm tired I get my arms AR rest going to run my errands and then come back Pro tip you don't have to do the whole thing in one setting I did this before and I would wear my my hair like this to work and no one would ever know that the middle is not done so yeah I'll be back okay I'm back let me show you what I did let take this off this little thing is called swirly curly and I love it cuz it's big for like when you want to do um the puff balls pineapples so I had all this up in the back when I let down you can see that all of this is still not done yet so that's a good trick for if you don't want to or if you don't feel like or if you can't complete protect this St in one setting so I already kind of Twisted these up cuz I wanted to kind of look like it was twist but yeah so I have not a lot to go 11 more in the front and then this is about like five or six in the back so I'm going to keep keep pushing and then I'll come back when I'm all done [Music] [Music] [Music] finally done it is 12:19 I stayed up to 12:00 last night too I need to calculate how much time I spent with this but it's probably like 9 hours and The Parting probably took two of those n hours all right so we're done so there's plenty of ways I can wear my hair I can do another video I think this is so cute it'll give me a little break for a couple weeks so I don't have to do anything with my hair but I know I'm going to miss it after a couple of weeks I know you guys are wondering how much hair I cut off this is the hair from the front of my head well this is not this is from from the fake hair but this is from the front come come uh from this section and this little section here the rest I did last night and I already threw in a trash so I didn't get to have that for you guys but think about this times two maybe I cut about a half inch to an inch All Around My Head so it's quite a lot of hairir my hair is actually longer than what I kind of thought you know when you always have your hair in curls or a curly girl style twist out you don't actually get to see the length but once it's stretch you do and my hair is actually a lot longer than I thought I also was cutting it super close I only have two pieces of hair left so I'm glad that oh those could actually fit on the the few that I left as twist let's see if I can find them see how they're like really in there you will never know that these three are just twist with my hair if I wanted to I could put them put these on it but I don't really care I'm just tired I want to go to bed I think I'm just going to use a vitamin E the one the um um concoction of these um gels and oils are supposed to Aid in hair growth and it worked when I did it a couple years ago so I'm going to do it again [Music] but yeah after a couple of days I might go back in and oil or grease my scalp so yeah but if you enjoyed this video go ahead and give it a big thumbs up I greatly appreciate it thank you for watching make sure you click the Subscribe button and the bell to be notified whenever I post until the next one I'll see you later bye [Music]”