Two Strands Twist

After my failed attempt at "refreshing" - where I clipped off my hair, put on a satin bonnet and hoped for the best...I got out my curls whipped cream and on my damp (at the end of the day after thoroughly wetting my hair that morning and applying product) hair I did fairly large two strand twist. All in all, I probably had about 30 twist. I went to sleep and then took them down the next day.

It looked good...and then I went out in the damp/rainy weather and they became frizzy! So, that night I used my kinky curly curling custard and did them all over. Again, they came out looking pretty good. The difference between the two products is pretty much null, but for some reason, I'm going to rank the kinky curly curling custard slightly higher. It sounds opposite, but I think the kinky curly allowed my hair to have more movement...but that could be because I left a good amount of the knot today conditioner in my hair prior to doing the twist...and my hair was soaking wet when I did the second round of twist too..so that could have had something to do with it too.

Basically, my 2 strand twist technique is...
1. part off a row (horizontal) beginning in the back.
2. begin on one side (usually my right), take a good amount of hair to make medium sized twist - don't like small ones, and big ones wouldn't give me the look I'm going for
3. apply "said" product and starting with the ends, comb through the product
4. twist in very tight pattern and twirl the ends
...WARNING: if you don't do anything to take care of the ends, they will end up looking flat and ruin your look. Some people actually put rollers on the ends to avoid this...I just twirl and twirl and most times my ends create their own curls...
...Also, while I'm twisting I smooth my hair out as I go. I like the twist to look as neat as possible, which will benefit the end results greatly.

Okay, that's my tip for today!

...oh, and I wasn't too successful on sleeping on the second round of twist either. It doesn't look bad, but it still looks too "messy" for me. I woke up and completely rinsed my hair again this morning, but I did only apply the knot today...didn't comb it through either - maybe I can get away with just buying the knot today and not the 29.99 curling custard (that would be great!).

...another side note, I have to do my daughters hair today, and I would like to get some baby butter creme to help me. I think it works well for her hair and she can wear that style (if we push it) for at least 5-6days. Her hair is getting so long now, that it takes me about 1.5 hours to finish. I'll take a picture of her hair too...maybe I can give tips...especially if her hair is thick and long as she gets older!