Twisted Sista

I am embracing my Twists hairstyle. Quite often, twists are the interim of a hairstyle. The style isn't complete until you take the twists out. But I've been loving how the twists are when I leave them as is. It has a unique quality to it and is very ethnic. The twists can be done in many ways. What I did today was a side twists with several in the back falling down. 

I love how elegant twists look. Compared to braids hairstyle, unless it is micro or additional hair, braids aren't as appealing. Or atleast I have not been able to make mine look appealing enough to wear as a style. But the look of twists is very beautiful. And I think very chic and elegant. 

Embracing this style will be more from my own willpower. People react interesting with twists or braids in. Compared to all my hair out and wavy. They give strange looks as if they are trying to understand it. I'm not quite sure what they are thinking but I feel that I get a weird response as if my hair is unkept. But look at this hair! It's absolutely beautiful. How can people see it as unkept? 

I think people are programmed to undermine twists and braids as a beauty style due to the way that we have embraced them in our culture. Many People associate these looks as poor or homely. Especially braids or "Dookey braids" as I've heard before are portrayed in Slavery movies and therefore many Black people seem to be ashamed of rocking this style unless they play sports. But to me, it is absolutely beautiful. Especially the twists. There are so many ways I can style it. 

I started on freshly cowashed hair. I parted my hair into sections and sprayed my Jane Carter Leave-In and then my Herbal Essence detangler to each section. I combed and detangled. Then i twisted each little section. When i had completely sprayed and detangled my hair. I used the sectioned off parts to map out how I would like the style to lay. Using butterfly clips to hold the hair in place, I retwisted sections to my desired look. 

I would like to perfect this look and find ways to make it stand out and just be so Bomb. The back, I got tired and didn't re twist some sections. I will need to get better at the back.  I will probably have to do a video to show everything step by step. 

As I said before this is a style I don't see used too often but it is truly a cute style that is often only used for pre-styling. It's my goal to play with the parts and how to twist to see what I can come up with. 

This style is really great for transitioning hair because it protects it for the most part. Also, there are certain sections of my hair that are stronger and grow better when held together. This is the double benefit of this style because I am not taking the twists out, the hair becomes stronger the longer it is bonded to a section. 

I plan to keep this style in over night. I will pin the ends to each side tomorrow and workout. Id like to see if the twists hold after sweating. If they do, I plan to take rollers and put it on the ends. And shower and rinse my hair with conditioner with twists still in. Let it dry and then take it out. I will follow up in another post to see if this plan of action works. I know it works with braids. But twists are typically harder to hold together especially once wet. We will see! Feeling like a hair scientist.