February week one style tip

Want more hang time or stretch with your twist outs?

Follow these easy steps:

1. Best to start with clean hair.

2. After you wash and deep condition hair smooth hair back into a ponytail bun. Let it dry 24 hours.

3. When you take your bun down, your coily hair will be stretched. Using only a little leave in conditioner, set your hair in about 14 flat twists.

Stretched hair

4. Part your hair the way you want it to fall. I chose a middle part with 7 flat twists on each side. Be sure to smooth your hair as you create your flat twists.  Let it set overnight.

Flat twists

5. Apply some coconut oil or grape seed oil or castor oil to hands and gently remove your flat twists. You should not have to separate your twists that much. The flat twists are already set. Just fill in spaces gently using your fingers no picks. 

Flat twist out

The main key to keeping your stretch is to use less product. The more product you use the more shrinkage you will have.

Visit youtube for tutorials on flat twisting your hair.

If you find that you still have to many spaces in your hair, then make your parts smaller next time. 

Next time instead of making 7 flat twists on each side you can try 10 on each side.

To maintain this style just set hair in large twists or very large flat twists. 

You can do two flat twist on each side. Then shake and fluff in the morning.