Natural hair twist out, dry twist out

Hey Twisties,

This past weekend I ended up attending an anniversary dinner with some friends, and for it I wanted to try something a bit different with my hair. One thing that I did know is that I wanted stretched hair, and after considering braid-outs and bantu knot-outs I settled on a twist-out. Now, up until this past Saturday I have NEVER had a successful twist-out. I’ve tried different butters, creams, gels and a mix of combinations with no success. So, this time I’d decided on giving a dry twist-out a go and see if I can work it out.

A few weeks prior to the dinner I did a dry run on part of my bangs. I gently combed out my natural curl pattern with my fingers until it was fluffy hair with no curl. I then added a bit of Shea Moisture’s Curl Enhancing Smoothie and smoothed it along the length of the hair. I twisted, let set and untwist to gauge results. This preliminary test proved that this method may work so, Operation Successful Twist-Out was a go!

I began by blowing out my hair. I decided on blow drying because it was more convenient for me. I don’t own curlformers or flexi rods (and didn’t want to buy them) so I blew it out on a medium setting and as gently as possible for 2 ½ hours removed the curls from my hair.

After that blow drying ordeal and literally breaking a sweat I sat down in front of my tv to start the twisting process:

I divided my hair in half parting ear to ear and secured that hair out the way
The back was divided in quarters (4 twists)
I began by flat twisting using the Naptural85’s technique (in the below video)
I identified where I wanted my part and made it, and moved the non-working section oh hair out the way.
Flat twist down the side of my head (3 twists)
Repeated flat twisting on other side of part (3 twist)

Once all twists were completed I added my own hair lotion to the ends, and added some perm rods to add a bigger curl at the ends

And here is the final result. Overall I am very pleased. My wet twist-outs always look horrible and took forever to do. I really love the way my hair turned out and received a ton of compliments on it. Hey even my Albanian cab driver told my how beautiful and curly it was and how it’s better than the fake hair (hehe I know). So this style is defiantly a keeper. But next attempt at I will opt for removing the natural curls by hand as oppose to the blow dryer, I find no need and breaking out in sweats for the sake of hair