A Unique Hairstyle: African Threading, Braiding and Twisting

In this hairstyle, you are going to be threading, braiding and twisting your hair to this CUTE hairstyles. 

What you will need:

1. African Thread, you can use weave thread: http://bit.ly/Rubber_Thread

2.Moisturizer for the hair 

3. Gel for the base (optional)

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If you like this blog post written by Sola of DiscoveringNatural, you can find her on her Youtube channel, DiscoveringNatural,  for more natural hair tips. Click here to visit her channel.

How to properly end African Threading without Damage

The oldest form of stretching natural hair is known as African Threading. African Threading is a way of stretching your natural hair without heat. Although this method is effective, when it comes to finishing the threading, a knot is usually created at the end of the hair. If not done properly, you can end up damaging your hair when it is time to remove the thread.
In this video, I show you two ways of ending the threading so as to avoid this issue.

Watch below or click here

Stay beautiful! 💖 

If you like this blog post written by Sola of DiscoveringNatural, you can find her on her Youtube channel, DiscoveringNatural,  for more natural hair tips. Click here to visit her channel.

How to do African Threading Natural Hair with Yarn

By DiscoveringNatural

In this video, I show you how to do african threading with yarn. This is known as Yarn Threading. You can use any type of yarn to recreate this style.

If you want to learn more about African Threading, watch this: http://bit.ly/DN_African_Threading_PL
How to moisturize african threading: http://bit.ly/DN_Moisturize_African_Threading

When you thread hair, it is important not to overlap the threads.

Watch below or click: http://bit.ly/DN_Yarn_Threading



Stay beautiful! 💖 

If you like this blog post written by Sola of DiscoveringNatural, you can find her on her Youtube channel, DiscoveringNatural,  for more natural hair tips. Click here to visit her channel.

How to Moisturize African Threading Natural Hair

In this video, I show you how I moisturize african threading hairstyles, This natural hair hairstyle is called Cockscrew African Threading.
How to do it: http://bit.ly/DN_Corkscrew_African_Threading
How to do African Threading: http://bit.ly/DN_How_To_Do_African_Threading
African Threading Hairstyles: http://bit.ly/DN_African_Threading_PL
Moisturizing Natural Hair : http://bit.ly/DN_Moisturizing_Natural_Hair_PL


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How to do Corkscrew African Threading and How to Maintain it

Do you thread your hair or your child's hair? My daughter loves the corkscrew threaded hairstyle. It is so easy to maintain and lasts a long time.

How to do it:



If you like this blog post written by Sola of DiscoveringNatural, you can find her on her Youtube channel, DiscoveringNatural,  for more natural hair tips. Click here to visit her channel.

Stretching my Natural Hair with African Threading

Hey Naturalistas,

How is Christmas preparation going?

Have you ever tried African threading? I was reading some posts on ways to stretch natural hair without heat and came across African threading some time back. So I tried it.

My hair before threading... shrinkage

After threading

First, I washed my hair and applied Dark and lovely oil moisturizer and Cantu shea butter leave-in conditioner before proceeding to section my hair. My mum threaded my hair for me. She sectioned my hair into about 9 and wrapped the thread (I used yarn) on it. It was not tight and I wore the threaded hair for two days before I loosened it. 

I wore it out. People stared...

This was the result.

Let it fro

I was really glad with the result. I finally got to see that my hair is growing as I was actually not seeing much growth at first. 

My hair before and after stretch

Next time, I’d section my hair up to 15 to 20 sections so my hair would be better stretched.

 

So have you ever tried stretching your natural hair with threading? Or Would you love to try it? 

Let me know what you think 

 

Till then

Leeznijis

Finghair Tips Thursday: Hair Styling

Hairstyle Lounge on African Naturalistas - Are you courageous enough to wear this style

Hello ladies. How's everything going on? Mehn, I wish I was as uppity in this edition of Hairstyle Lounge, like I was in the last edition. I have an event coming up soon, and I have been so tied down with its organistion and all.

The good news is that this month, I was still able to cook up one style for you guys to view, and it is quite unusual.

After taking down the second hairstyle of my back to back hit last edition, I decided that you know what, I really miss twists. It has been ages since I twisted my hair, and I wanted to do it, especially because I wanted something that would allow me reach every hair strand when moisturising.

So I went to O'Naturals, communicated my desires, and the twists were done. This was after we washed with my medicated shampoo, and a regular moisturising shampoo. We steamed my hair with African Naturalistas Deep Conditioning Mayonnaise, which they sell at the salon, and they applied another treatment for my scalp, which made it tingly and soothing. We then steamed the hair for 30 minutes.

I was supposed to trim my hair before twisting because my ends were weak and scraggly. I have never seen them that way before. But we decided to wait till my next salon visit before trimming.

TERRIBLE MISTAKE! Although the twists came out well, the ends just looked dull. The hair was tucked away most time, and what was supposed to be my breather hairstyle became my Alhaja hairstyle, lol.

Two weeks later, I was back at O'Naturals. The twists were taken down there. They used African Naturalistas Moisturising and Detangling Conditioner to thoroughly detangle the hair. And then, like last time, we proceeded to wash, deep condition, treat my scalp, and steam.

I had learnt from the previous time. This time, there was no taking chances. We trimmed the hair. In fact, we trimmed a lot of the hair. Far more than 1 inch, I don't know if it was up to 2 inches. Even though I have lost hair again, at least, my hair is healthier.

Omozo decided that we should go for another threading style. This was supposed to be a modified traditional threading, in that attachment was added to the body, to make the threading look fact. Since I don't like foreign objects on my head most times, we discarded the idea of attachment, plus I don't like lengthy salon visits, even though I still sat in the salon for HOURS to get this done. And then we went way way back...

Remember this thread of our childhood days?

Source

That was what we used. I can't remember when last I saw the thread, lol. Anyway, by the time we were done, I looked like a proper school girl of the oldies. But you know I know how to add swags with earrings and heels, so I wasn't scared of looking overtly religious. In fact, it was the reason I didn't take facial pictures that day cos I had left my earrings at home, and face was extraordinarily oily, without any iota of makeup.

This was all we had

Imagine what the front view would have looked like.

Anyway, 8 days later, which was 2 days ago, this was what it looked like.

As you can see, the front had a large brush backwards. This was to make it look more mordern.

I still have this style on, and don't intend to take it down anytime soon, especially considering that I had to sit for so long to get it done. It fits my face well, and my giant loop earrings complement it well, Moreso, it protects my hair, stretches it, and fetches me a lot of compliments. So who am I to complain?

What of you? Do you like it? If yes, what about it do you like? Do you think you are courageous enough to carry this style that was previously considered to be just for school children and some religious folks? Lemme have your thought in the comment section.

Hairstyle Lounge was brought to you by O'Naturals Salon. No money exchanged hands in making this lounge a reality. To make your hair at O'Naturals, visit the salon at 54 Ogudu road, Ogudu-Ojota Lagos or book an appointment by calling 0818-802-4444 / 0815-802-4444.

Hairstyle Lounge on African Naturalistas - Back to Back Hits

Hello ladiesssssssssssssssssssssssssssss. What's gwaaaannn with y'aaalllll? Can you tell that I'm excited already? Yeah? Well, that's because on this edition of Hairstyle Lounge, we had two hits. Well, you know how they say... "At O'Naturals, every hairstyle was a hit back to back, from African Threading to Updos to..." Lol. I can't believe I just said that. Maybe I'm becoming indoctrinated to the street culture. Oh well.

 So why do we have two hairstyles when they were both hits? Well, you would find out as you read. Grab your chairs and popcorn, I promise you would love this edition. I made it very explantory.

So I went to O'Naturals about 5 weeks ago, when I decided it was time to make my hair, after that very beautiful hairstyle in the last edition that got frizzy too fast.

So we proceeded to wash with my medicated shampoo, and a regular moisturising shampoo. We steamed my hair with African Naturalistas Deep Conditioning Mayonnaise, which they sell at the salon, another treatment for my scalp.

I then explained to Omozo that I really wanted to do a particular threading style we had been discussing for months, which ordinarily should last about 4 weeks, but I would be doing something in 2 weeks, which would require a new hairstyle. We agreed that I should do the thread, and if I am asked to take down, I would just come and do a simple updo. Even though I didn't like the idea of returning to the salon after just 2 weeks, I really wanted to do the thread.

And so we started with this

And we ended up with this

By this time, Omozo had left the salon for some hustling business, so we couldn't take pictures. I had to be patient till the next day,  which was good Friday, when I was about to leave my house to attend the Don Moen and Ron Kenoly Worship event, which happened at Covenant Christian Centre.

See how steep the updward slopes were

I got more compliments than expected for this hair. Many people didn't know it was thread at first, cos it looked very mordern and diiferent from other kinds of thread. It was on the second or third look that people said "Is this thread on your hair?" I received loads and loads of compliments. Another addition to this style was the O'Naturals didn't use wool, yarn or local thread. They used a thread called Brazillian thread, supposedly from Brazil. It was very silky and shiny.

A week later, I business meeting with Omozo, so off I went to the meeting venue. By this time, the very lengthy threaded ends of the hair had begun to make me uncomfortable because they were tucked in, and I used to rest on them while working in my room. The friction was hurting my scalp, so I untucked it, and laid it over the threaded front. You can see the pattern below.

If you look at the picture below, you would realise that the upward slopes were not as steepy as that of the previous week.

After taking the above pictures, we decided to tuck the threaded ends back in. See the difference below.

I prefer them tucked in. What of you? And the slopes, the even fell further down. It didn't change the beauty of the hairstyle in anyway though.

And then the sad part. I had to take the hair down the next week. I wasn't 'allowed' to take the hair to where I was going, lol. It was so painful to take down a hairstyle that was still neat and could still go on slaying for the next 2 weeks, but I had no choice.

SO off to O'Naturals salon, I went again to do a simple updo. We didn't wash, condition or do any of those sorts. In fact, I told Omozo I planned to spend just 10 minutes, 5 minutes to lose the hair, and 5 minutes for a simple updo I had seen one of stylists cook up on a client's hair.

Let's just say I ended up spending 45 mins to 1 hour, because Omozo decided that instead of the simple updo I asked for, she decided to take her time to design my hair.

This was what we ended with

I really liked the hairstyle. Everything looked like extensions were added to enhance it. I fell in love immediately, but I had to ask her to redo the front. It was too elegant, and looked very bridal. You guys know how I like simple things. I didn't want people to think I was getting married or going for a dinner event or something.

She redid the front, and we ended up this.

You can see how simplicity is good? I asked for the three-layered pompadour.

The two sets of hairstyle in a collage.

 The next day, I had to travel out of Lagos for my meeting (the one I couldn't carry thread to). By this time, I had slept with scarf, which I had taken care not to allow compress the hair, but still scarfing had its way. Everything was more compressed. I liked the new fromt, but I didn't like the compressed version of the back. I kept moisturising and moisturing with water and oil, so the back could swell back up. It puffed up a bit, but never as much as the previous day. Maybe I should have added glycerine to the spritz.

See the compressed version, on my way out of Lagos.

See the difference in the back? Which one do you prefer? The compressed version or the puffy version?

And the next day, I still had the hair in tact. This was me ready to start coming back to Lagos.

The smile tells you how
fruitful my trip was *wink*

And that's it for this edition of the Hairstyle Lounge. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. More importantly, I hope you learnt from it. Congrats if you made it to this point.

So which of the styles and versions was your fave? And why? Let us know in the comment section?

Hairstyle Lounge was brought to you by O'Naturals Salon. No money exchanged hands in making this lounge a reality. To make your hair at O'Naturals, visit the salon at 54 Ogudu road, Ogudu-Ojota Lagos or book an appointment by calling 0818-802-4444 / 0815-802-4444.