Cultured in Media

Celebrating my friend's 25th birthday tonight so I wore flat twists over night. I oiled my scalp, applied Olive Oil lotion, and Curls unleashed to my hair, then twisted.  Unraveling however, I always have an issue with. I don't know what I am doing incorrectly but it did not work out for me. Everyone at work loved it. (See picture below) Since I did not agree with the way it was, I decided to pin it up for the night to go out. It came out sort of like the pictures below.  For the weekend, I plan on deep conditoning and trying a roller-set. I hope it turns out nice and bouncy like the others on youtube

I wanted a big curly fro that would come out something like the image above. I wanted the bomb, the big, the spiral curl look that I could later put into a frohawk.  I found something that pretty much worked and I could do plenty of other styles besides a frohawk with the way the hair came out. I know you want picture results of how MY hair turned out right? Well here you go! Nice right? So you want to know the steps taken? Of course you do, and of course I love taking pics of my steps. This time I start off with freshly washed hair. I let it air dry until the water stopped slipping off the hair. When it is about 85% dry, you make sure you have all of your materials. Comb Some type of curl gel (I used curls unleashed) Shea butter I start parting into two sections. Top half and bottom half. With the top half, part with a pigtail comb a section to begin flat twisting. With the section being about two fingers in thickness, apply a thin coat of she...