Diy $4 Passion Twists With Straight Kanekalon Braiding Hair | Natural Hair Protective Style

Hello, everyone welcome back to my channel, I'm recording in a different location today, so I just want to give you guys a heads up. I have two little air Kings, so you get a little teaching background. Those are my babies, so basically in today's video, I'm going to show you how I did these pageant twist, all by myself for four dollars. I only use about pretty much just one hack of hair like one and some change really and I'm not connecting on braiding hair like the straight braiding hair I'll, go up, it freezes and curls it myself shoutout to love him. I want to say it's loving speaks. She came out with this idea or she's the idea that I saw that I got inspiration from so I'm gon na. Take you guys along the journey to show you know. I did these fashion twist first off, whenever I choose with any type of braid style, I always wash hair. So that's what we're gon na be first. So, like I mentioned I'm starting out with two packs of expression, braiding hair, you want to make sure to keep the rubber bands on cuz. It just helps keep the hair more organized, so this is two packs of hair, I'm putting them in this clear drawer. It'S one of those organization tower drawers and I'm gon na fill it up with water and then add some white vinegar, I'm adding probably about half a cup. This really helps clean the hair get off all of the chemicals I'm also going in with my coconut milk and honey clarifying cleanser. You know I talked about this cleanser all the time. I love it. It is a three-in-one cleanser and it's great just for helping to clean and cleanse the hair, as I fill the water up, you'll notice that cloudy film that you see coming up. That is not the soap that is actually the chemicals on the hair that they use to process the hair, and, if you don't wash the hair off, these chemicals can irritate your scalp. So if that's happened to you in the past, that is why you need to wash the hair first. So I washed it rinsed out the soap. Then I'm going in with my Tresemme luxurious, moisture, conditioner! I let that sit for a few hours and then I'm going to rinse out each section, one by one and also just wring out any extra water, and once I have rinsed off each of the pieces, I'm just hanging them up using this hanger and I'm going To hang it up in my bathroom to dry, it takes about probably like a full day to dry, so that's how I wash and Trust the hair. Now let me show you guys how I curl the hair so now that the hair has dried. I'M now going to curl it using these foam hair rollers that I got from the dollar store, I'm going to separate the hair into small sections and start curling it on the little foam rollers in the video from lovett speech. She actually uses straws, but you know I want to save the turtles, I'm not trying to use that many straws, so I just decided to use these foam rollers that I already had on hand once I'm separating the section. Then I'm gon na start rolling it on to the foam roller, so I'm gon na hold it towards the end of the section. As you can see, the ends are already tapered and I'm going to wrap that section around in the same place about two or three times and then, as I roll down the foam roller, I'm gon na cover that section basically securing it in place so that I Don'T have to put a pin there and then I'm gon na roll down the rest of the foam roller. As you can see, I'm twisting my wrist as well as wrapping around the foam roller. This allows you to twist the hair individually as well as curling it around the roller just giving it a tighter curl overall then, once I get down to the end, I'm gon na wrap back up the foam roller. Another thing that I didn't mention is when you're wrapping down you want to leave enough space so that when you turn and come back up, you can place the hair in those spaces in between when you get to the end, you want to just wrap in place Same way I did at the beginning, and then I'm going to use an actual hairpin this time to secure that section in place. So this is what it should look like when you're finished, I'm gon na show you one more time so again holding it towards the end of the section wrapping it in place without moving down the foam roller. Then, as you wrap down the foam roller with the section, in the other hand, you're gon na cover that end piece securing it in place so that you don't require two pins roll down the foam roller leaving space in between, so that when you turn back around And come up the foam roller you're able to wrap in between the hair. So all the hairs are individually curled, so they'll all be really tightly curled by leaving that space in between, like I mentioned in the previous video with lovest love, it speaks she uses straws. So it allows for a much tighter curl, but I found that with these foam rollers you can get a pretty tight curl and it actually looks really natural. So I was really happy with the results again once you get to the end. You'Re gon na stay in place and wrap that around so cheering it and holding it in place with a hairpin in total. I think I made about like 48 to 50 of these, so I'm gon na put them right back into the little plastic container and then I'm gon na pour some hot water, and this allows the hair to heat up and basically hold that curl pattern, because this Is synthetic hair so when you heat it up, it'll take on that new shape of the roller once it's set for about 10 to 15 minutes, I'm gon na pour out the water and dry off the rollers. You want to make sure that the hair is completely dry before and and also cooled down before you unravel it from the ruler, and, like I mentioned, I did about 48 to 50, just because I think I had like 20-something 230 breeds and I use two pieces Per breed, so you can adjust it based on how many twists you have and based on how thick you want your twist to be in the beginning. You can also use larger sections if you want to have larger pieces of hair to add to your twists. So this is what it looks like when I have unraveled it from the ruler. A really nice spiral curl, just like that passion twist hair that cost six to eight dollars a pack, but for much cheaper. So after I have washed the hair curl the hair. Now it's time actually braid the hair and those different ways to braid your cash in twist, a lot of people like doing hammer badminton, but my roots and edges are too sensitive for that, like I can hear them breathing off just thinking about doing the rubber band Method, so I decided to do another method where you braid the base and then twist down to make your twist and what the braid does it locks it in at the root and it helps to secure it in place without putting too much tension. Honestly, you can do it any way that you please, if you would like to do the rubberband method, it is a little bit easier with parting and making sure you secure the roots, but, like I said, if your edges and your roots are sensitive like mine, I Would suggest this method so now on to the actual twisting, as you can see, I have finished with most of my hair. I only have this top section left, so I'm gon na go ahead and part the front section off now. Like I mentioned, I'm braiding the base of my toys and then I will start twisting down the section before I do that, I'm going and kind of teasing out the hair a little bit. I do this because my natural hair is pretty thick. So if I don't tease it, you can definitely see the transition from where my natural hair ends and the abstention here is left over towards the end of the twist going back. I think I probably would have teased it even more just so. I had more uniform twists throughout then I'm going to take two sections and overlap them just a little bit at the base. Next, I'm going to separate my hair into three sections: I'm gon na take that middle section and put it towards the back so that it's out of the way I'm gon na take the sections that I have brought together place them under the section bring that metal Middle section down, I'm gon na, do maybe two or three rows of a braid and then I'm gon na switch to twisting and it's kind of trial and error about how to start your twist, in which sections to combine, sometimes I'll, start twisting and realized that the Hair doesn't really want to go that way, so I'll go back and either split the section or combine it with the other section just so that it lays flat. There are some people who will do more rows of braids, like maybe five or six rows of braids. Before they start twisting, but I like it to be as seamless as possible, so I only do about two or three. Now I'm gon na go in with my clear ego style gel and add that to the section just to kind of lay down some of the flyaways, also because I'm doing this on freshly washed hair, I don't want my hair to expand as much as it normally Does so once I finish the twist, I'm going to twist it back and secure it in this little bun that I've created if you've seen my two strand twist tutorial. I'M basically doing the same thing that I do when I use put into a some just my natural hair, where, if I leave the twist down, it will definitely start getting frizzy and puff up a lot more and in this case, make it look way more obvious. That I've added extension hair to the twist now moving on to the next section, I'm going to repeat the same thing: I'm going to tease out the two sections of braiding hair that I'm to add, I'm going to separate my hair into three sections. Putting that middle part towards the back so that it's out of the way and then I will do the two to three rows of braids and then switch to twist and again, you can add more than two pieces to your twist. If you prefer for me, because my natural hair is already so thick, if I tend to use a lot of braiding hair, my braids or twist ends up being really heavy and really bulky to the point that I can't even really put my hair in a bun And it's just way too much tension on my scalp, so I try and use as little extra extension hair as possible and still make it look natural also just to give you guys an idea. It probably took me in total about four and a half hours to twist my hair, but the prep time definitely takes a lot of time, so the curling of the hair probably took about two hours of twisting and waiting for it to set in the hot water. Just because I wasn't sure how many sections I needed until I kept having to go back and read twists and reads if they're in the hot water. So if you kind of have an idea of how many twists you're gon na do in the beginning, it's a lot easier to just prep those twists and curl the hair ahead of time. Also, like I mentioned, I used a pack and a little bit of another pack to do these twists. So really two packs should suffice, but, like I said, if you're wanting thicker twists, definitely it may take. You may end up using a little bit more also. Do not cut the hair in half, because once you curl it, the hair shrinks, and you end up with a very, very small and short twist, so I would recommend just keeping it the entire length once I've secured that last twist down in place. Of course, you guys know if you see my other videos, I have to lay down my baby hairs. Cuz, a style is not complete if the baby hairs are not laid, so I'm going in with a little bit of water, some gel, and this doesn't need a toothbrush for my baby hairs and basically laying them down in place. Once I finish this, I'm going to add my scarf and go to sleep. Finally, I don't know if you guys can tell how heavy my eyes are at this point, it's like 2:00 in the morning and I definitely have to be up and at the hospital. The next morning, so not sure how great of an idea was to start on this so late. So that's it! That'S how I installed the hair, and these are the final results. This has actually been a week that I have had these in. As you can see, my hair is getting a little bit frizzy, but it kind of just goes with the style because it is more of a twist style. I think one downside of twisting the hair in yourself instead of buying the pre-made fashion twist hair, is that over time the curls do kind of loosen up at the end, but what I've been doing is just cutting them, so that they're, even so like if one Curl gets monstrous that I just cut it to make it even you could recur, lit and dip it back in hot water, and that would also do the same thing. But for me I kind of wanted. I wanted a protective style that was also affordable. I didn't want to pay $ 68 per pack for a fashion twist hair, but I will recommend, if you are going to do this, to take your time and just do everything on different days. Don'T try and do everything at once, especially if you're gon na wash the hair and curl here make it like one day you wash another day you curl another day you install, because it is a lot of work. It doesn't take a lot of time to install, but the whole prep process yeah. It takes a long time, but overall I really love the results. So if that is it, that is how I did my passion, DIY passion, it's for four dollars. If you guys have any questions or comments, go ahead and leave them down below, don't forget to subscribe. I have some other videos coming soon. I know my video uploads it's kind of sporadic, but I try and do what I can so go ahead and subscribe so that you don't come in my next upload. As always. 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