Bantu Knots : Long Hair

So what you need is a comb, curling, cream edge control, rubber bands or hair pins and a ponytail holder. So let's get started first. I start off by taking my hair out of the ponytail that it's been in for quite some time now and comb it all out to get all the kinks out so that we can start parting and figuring out where I want to put my party. So then I figured I want to put on the left side of my head, which is the side that I always seem to get my part on, get the part perfect and exactly what I want it to be, and then comb the hair out again after that, I parted straight down the middle and I put a ponytail holder on one side of my head to keep that out of the way from when I'm doing the left side. Again, I'm going to part that side into two parts and pin the back half up so that I can just work on the front. I comb the front part out and then I have to also divide that into sections so that when we do the bantu knots they're evenly sectioned off. So I pin up the part that I'm not using comb out to the part that I am about to get ready to bantu knot. I get my choice of a curling cream here. I use two different creams just because I like the smell of both of them and it isn't harmful or anything to put both creams in my hair. So I get a little bit both rub them together on my fingers and then run it all the way. Through. My hair now make sure that I focus on the ends just because that's where it seems to get dry it and I don't go all the way to the root of my hair, just because I don't like for it to be too oily at the top, and It starts to get, I won't say nappy, but I guess you could say nappy relief. Then you start twisting twisting our twists back backwards going towards the back of my head and then I keep twisting until it starts getting tight and creating a little circle now right here. I hold it down because it's a lot easier for me to bantu knot when I'm able to push it down, and I know exactly where the twist is going and I make sure to always twist under so it goes under the rest of the hair. Just so I could be tight and it won't come apart now I grab a bobby pin, which did not seem to focus in the camera, and I just pinned that part down right there, but, as you can see, a little piece actually came out. So I got a rubber band and was able to wrap it around the hair. I guess to secure and hold that bantu knot in place. I get the second section and I do the same thing all over. So I get the cream put it on my hair from almost the root to the tip, and I twist it away from my face and I keep twisting and twisting until we get to the end and we get to tie it at the bottom. Get the rubber band and secure it and then you're all set to go. I skipped one part in the back because you wouldn't be able to see the top part when you get to the back, aren't able to see so I'll turn around and you pretty much twist it do the same thing you did in the front twisting make sure You move all the other had the way, so it doesn't get tied into the knot, you're working on get a rubber band and secure it and then last piece for the back. You do the exact same thing all over again, so I went ahead and finished my head and got to the front since it's just me repeating the same exact thing over my entire head, and I just wanted to show you the very last piece that I actually Worked on, which is the piece right in the front at the top, and this I took voice towards the front of my face, actually, instead of going twisting it away from my face just so that this piece can fall into my face right into my face foot, It can fall forward. Your arms might hurt the makeup so long once you finish that you get your choice of edge control and I just like to put it on the front just to slick down my edges. So in the morning when I actually take it down. It'S all nice and neat and ready to go brush the edge control down, and then I get a bonnet and go ahead. Put that on until I go to sleep all right the next morning you take it off and actually put a little headband on so to slick it down even more. I get vitamin E oil and I use that to untwist all of the bantu knot that just makes sure that it doesn't get frizzy when I'm actually taken down the night and when you're doing this, make sure that your untwisting, the bantu knot in the direction that You did not twist that didn't make any type of sense so twist in the opposite direction of what you twisted in when you first started twisting. If that makes sense, I hope so now from here when everything's all down, you can separate all of your curls that'll. Make it a lot more fuller? So you just don't, have you know eight big twists in your head and you can pretty much separate them to your liking. I like on my hair, it's kind of big, but not to be soft, separating as much as I could. Since this takes some time I'll just fast forward and now I'm on the last one right at the front - and you can kind of have to play around with it, to figure out how you like it, you can flip your hair to the different sides play around With pushing some of the hair to the front, pretty much figuring out how you want to wear this look - and this is the final product