It’s been a long minute since I did a flat twist-out on my hair so I decided to try it out this week. As mentioned in this post, I’ve never done a flat twist-out that wasn’t a protective style to begin with. This time I decided to switch it up and not keep my flat twists in for a week before undoing them.
Afterwards, I did flat twists on my hair in a particular pattern. At the front, my flat twists were towards my scalp and forehead. I included two transition twists in the middle section running from the center to my right ear. All the other flat twists ran from (just below) the middle of my head towards the nape of my neck. At the end of each, I put in a perm rod to further define the curls and avoid limp ends.
Because I needed to go to work, I went to the salon and stayed under the hooded dryer for about 1 hour 15 minutes. This helped my hair to dry faster. Afterwards, I put some drops of my oil mixture on my palm and took the flat twists down.
My hair somehow ended up in an afro. That’s because it wasn’t all the way dry and hadn’t stretched it before doing the flat twists. Lately, I find myself liking the afro more because it keeps hair out of my face without encouraging my forehead to come out and play. 😀 This comes in handy because my skin has been acting up and I suspect that it’s because of hair products and oils.
Maintaining a flat twist-out is pretty simple. All I do is band my hair in five sections and throw on my headscarf. Although banding doesn’t stretch out my curls as much as the pineapple method, I still find that the curls are slightly elongated in the morning.
Enemy of progress (Not the sacco or the specific vehicle; just the ‘breed’) Who designed these tu-things?
I will be rocking this hair before the next wash day. I have some curlformers that I’m dying to try but one pack is spiral (original) and the other is wavy (dupes). So here I am wondering whether that is a good idea….what do you guys think?