Twist and Roll Style

Need help in determining different ways in which you can wear your hair? Well look no more. Have you tried to wear a twist and roll style? The style below will take 3-5 days to acquire. In between those days, you can wear your hair in different styles to lead up to the style to your left. Follow these steps in getting the hair style you want.







Day 1- Wash, Condition, and Air Dry

1. Condition your hair  (As I Am or Miss Jessie's)
2. Wash out conditioner
3. Shampoo your hair (Shea Moisture Coconut Hibiscus)
4. Wash out shampoo
5. Condition your hair (As I Am or Miss Jessie's)
6. Wash out conditioner
7. Part hair in all fours
8. Condition hair with leave-in-conditioner (As I AM)
9. Oil your scalp (Jojoba Oil)
10. Place ponytails in hair to air dry

Day 2- Flat Iron and Pressed Look

1. Blow dry the next day
2. Flat iron and press out hair

Day 3- Twist and Roll

1. Place twists in the front portion of your hair
2. Put rollers all over your hair

Day 4 and 5- Roll

1. Repeat step 2 from Day three and continue to wear your twist and roll style

Natural Girls Picture Diary

Two strand twists

Twists and curls

Press and curl

Twists and Curls

Can you tell I like twists and curls?

Want to be a Natural Girl?

Have you ever thought about rocking the natural look?  Do you even know where to start?  I was in this same perdicament about three years ago.  I did not know where to start and where my journey would lead.  I started my journey, the same way my mother had taught me to find information I wanted to know; I looked it up.

I started my first lesson by looking up the word: Natural hair.  The search led me to many helpful websites such as Curly Nikki, Mahagony Curls, and other natural hair care websites.  I learned about the BC, Two Strand Twists, and Twist Outs.  You could say that I was in natural girl heaven because I was excited about all the new things I was learning about my hair and wanted to try out every example.

Next, I started asking people that were already natural about their transition.  These individuals were friends, friends of friends, and those who I met at a particular coffee shop I often visited.  At the coffee shop, pretty much everyone was natural or transitioning to be natural.  I thought to myself, this must be my sign; My journey to being natural had to start soon.  And it did.

My transition started out kind of slow.  I told myself that I would stop getting a relaxer and let the perm grow out.  Now what do I do?  That technique only worked for so long because managing two different hair textures was difficult: I had my natural hair that curled up and would not work well with my old hair products.  Then I had my previously relaxed hair that wanted to stay straight.  So my next plan was to clip my ends once a month.  This method helped me transition into my next phase: The Big Chop.

The Big Chop came about five months after I decided to stop getting a perm.  I felt freedom from having relaxed hair, but at the some time nervous.  I was free because I was no longer constrainted to the conditions of getting a relaxer every six weeks; I was nervous because my journey to having natural hair was only just beginning.

I found myself watching a lot of Youtube videos.  Remember how I said earlier that I researched various things about natural hair?  Well in my research, I paid special attention to YouTube videos by Curly Nikki and Mahagony Curls.  Their videos helped me in the beginning stages of my Big Chop.  Another important fact to my success in managing my natural hair was that I had always been a great hair stylist when it came to doing others hair, as well as my own.  I had never attended beauty school and had learned how to braid and twist hair as a child.  The videos that I watched were easy to understand and imitate.

So how am I rocking my hair nowadays?  I am very glad you asked that question!  Well, it has been over three years since I went natural.  You may see my hair go back and forth from the straight look to the wet and go look.  As my hair continues to grow, I have to find other ways to do my hair because what worked for me in the beginning, does not always work for me now.

~I encourage everyone to get to know their true hair by knowing what and what does not work for their hair type.  You never know, you may like what you see