5 Ways To Curl Hair With Thread Or String | African Hair Threading Curls For All Hair Types

Hi guys today, I'm gon na show you how to curl your hair, using thread or string. You can use whatever you want. This is for demonstrative purposes only usually I'm using weave thread, but it's too dark for this tutorial and I'm also using some mousse a lot of buddies. My favorite brand is cheap and it gets the job done so, starting with your thread, you're gon na have a little bit hanging off on the end and you're gon na grab your hair at the base. Use your thumb to secure everything in place place your thread on anchor, with your thumb, wrap around at least five times, maybe fewer. It depends on how good your hair is. My hair requires five times after the fifth wrap tighten just a little bit, not too much. You don't want to lose your hair and then make sure it's nice and secure grab your thumb to help guide you going down and wrap now with each wrap. The gap in between determines how, well you will stretch your hair or how refined it's going to look in the end. So what I'm gon na show you guys now is a really tight gap and that's how we traditionally do it. This is for more long-term styles. Not short term, like I'm, going to show you right now, my preferred gap is under a centimeter at any given time. That gives me the stretch that I need and I can style my hair any way I want to, but each gap has its purpose now. On the end, this is very important: you're gon na come back up and make a loop and then wrap going down. All the way to the end, just keep wrapping and wrapping and wrapping to the end, and once you get down there, you are going to put the remaining thread into your nail and then pull over your finger so that you can push the thread through and secure. It that way - and that's all I do on the ends to protect the ends of my hair and make sure nothing comes out. This is what it looks like you can see three different types of wrapping and they're all useful for different things, so I'm gon na remove the end. It'S very easy. It just slides right off and I'm gon na unwrap one hand holds the thread while the other pulls the hair out. Sometimes it just unravels on its own when you're lucky, and this is why I don't like wrapping too tightly because look at that. It'S gon na take forever to remove now. The looser wrap is perfect for curls, but terrible with straight hair. You can see the ridges there. So if you're, trying to stretch your hair out, tighten that gap, okay, you can see its Ripley up top and it's a little bit straighter and smoother and down below now that we all know how to do African hair threading. Let'S move on to our first curl, which is a corkscrew curl you're gon na wrap up top five times like I showed you and tighten and then start wrapping coming down just under an inch gap in between each wrap, and that will give you a nice tight. Curl, if you want a looser curl, you're gon na, have to have more length in between each wrap. Okay, but we're gon na do a tight, curl. Now then, a looser curl, so you can see the difference and once you get down to the very bottom you're going to grab the thread with one hand and grab your hair with the other hand, then make sure you tension the thread as you push the hair Up so that you can create a nice corkscrew curl take your time doing this go fast. It really won't matter because you are secure when you do it this way. Now, once you get to the base really push in there and then wrap around the ends about three to five times, you can also loop the hair or put a roller there if you've got excess hair hanging out. I didn't do it this time, but usually I do that with my natural hair and then go down to the base after you wrap. However, many times you wrap, I don't know why I did it so many times, but go down to the base unwrap about three times then cut the remainder of the thread, and that thread right. There will be your guide so that you can easily remove this later. On which is the next day for me, and I'm unwrapping everything and releasing the curl. This is what it looks like it's really bouncy and springy, and we're just gon na remove the thread so that you can see what the curl looks like and take your time doing this. You don't want to disturb your hair too much. You want this curl to last, so here it is, and I love it, and this is like the most traditional way to curl your hair using African hair threading. My mom did this on me when I was a kid and it has always worked. Let'S get on with this tutorial, and this is the larger one, you're gon na get a larger section of hair. Of course, add your mousse: after adding your mousse, you are going to go ahead and wrap your hair with your thread at the base, 5 wraps and then start going down. Now you can create a longer gap in between each wrap and, like I mentioned earlier, the longer the gap, the larger the curl, the tighter the gap, the smaller the curl, so you're, just gon na go down all the way down to the end, and this is Ideal for people who love big voluminous curls, not everybody wants a tight curl and it's also perfect for people with longer hair. You don't have to just wrap and wrap and wrap forever. Now I have thread in my right hand, and I have my hair in the left hand and I'm pushing up making sure the thread has tension so that it's easy for me to glide all the way up without any problems, and once I get to the top Really just push up on it and then wrap around the ends. Again, you can use a roller on the ends or you can create a loop, something I completely forgot to do then wrap at the base and cut the thread right there. Here you can see the small versus the large corkscrew curls, there's a big difference and I'm gon na go ahead and remove the large curl. So you can see what it looks like, and here we are very nice and springy, and this is ideal again for longer. Hair or if you just want to do this quickly and get it over with, let's do a comparison between the two big and small and I'm gon na show you guys with the white paper. So there's a nice contrast. You can see what it looks like, but it always looks better when you separate so we're gon na separate this one as well, so that you can see what it's really gon na look like when you comb it out or separate with your fingers. Now I am gon na move on to curl number two, and this is gon na, be a twist out like curl, so we're starting with our mousse and we're wrapping blah blah blah and we're coming down. Now your natural inclination is gon na be to inchworm up when doing a twist out like curl, but you don't want to do this and I'll show you after I'm done doing this. Why you shouldn't do this unless you have very kinky hair, you really do not want to do this at all. It only works on the kinkiest of textures, and this is why it starts buckling in all these weird places and it's not going to look uniform when you do this and that's because each time you push up, you lose that momentum that you have when you wrap. So you can't guarantee that every single gap is approximately the same size. Now you have all this buckling and you can't really make it sit properly and evenly so what I do for the twist outs African hair, threading curl. This is great for all. Hair types is just go down with a little bit of a gap, maybe a centimeter or so centimeter and a half. What'S that like yeah centimeter and a half, maybe, and then, when you get to the end, do a little pushing and then start to you know, even it out make sure everywhere is evenly distributed. And what you'll find is that you're gon na have uniform waves with your twist out and eventually it's gon na look like perfect. Now I have to fix the ends. I have a little bit of hair hanging out, so I have to wrap all the way to the ends and just push up a little bit on the very end before I go ahead and secure it. The way I showed you how and here's the difference and now on my kinky hair, those of you who are subscribed. You know what my hair looks like. I can do it either way, but if you have straight hair or looser textured hair, you definitely want to do it. The second way now, I'm gon na, go ahead and remove both of them, starting with the not-so-pretty twist out and I'll show you guys how it's set so that you will not do this, but again it works only if your hair is like of the kinky variety And you can see the kinks where some just don't look like the others, and it's just not pretty it's just not so remove the second one and cut off the end. Knot and the easiest way to take it out is to just go up to the top and pull the thread out. That way, you're not unwrapping going all the way up and make sure you hold the hair at the bottom. Then just slide the thread out and then unravel just at the top, and that will release your twists out easily and now I'm gon na show you what it looks like with paper behind it. So you can see better curl number three, the bond two knots now I already have a bunch of not tutorial that I did on my natural hair using thread and you can search for bantu knots with african hair threading you'll find my tutorial. I'M securing it all. The way down to the ends, and if you noticed I did not have a tight wrap. Why? Because the sponsor nuts and the bantu knots are gon na stretch out, all I needed was for my hair to be secure and for my hair not to tangle. This is ideal for all hair types, so you're gon na create a nub and then start wrapping going down and basically each time you wrap your wrap should be at the base and you're pushing up the previous wrap. That'S how you create a bun to knot, and this works for straight hair and very kinky hair. Why? Because very kinky hair tends not to set well with bantu knots and straight hair tends to fall out of bantu knots. So the thread secures your hair. It keeps it stretched out and it keeps it from falling out of the bantu knot. If your hair has trouble, you know, staying in place and I'll show, you guys the difference between the bantu knot and the corkscrew curl, which is just smaller at the end kind of like wand, curls and I'm removing my bunt or not. Now so you guys can see what the curl looks like, and you can see the thread just kind of looks anyhow, because of the way that I wrapped the hair. But that doesn't matter at all, because the point of all of this was to get a nice smooth curl that stayed in place the entire time. So, let's unravel it's very bouncy, very springy and get to this juicy curl look at that. It looks amazing. Definitely one of my favorite curls using African hair threading and I'm gon na separate this one as well, but show you guys a comparison between the bantu knot and the corkscrew, and this is the bun not after I separated it. Let me show you another separated section, really, nice, no matter how many times you separate the bantu knot. Curl is gon na look amazing, we're gon na move right along to the next curl mousse. First, of course, and you can use a butter if you want make sure you comb your hair by the way you really need to comb your hair so that you have no tangles. This makes it a lot easier to do this, but wrap your hair at the base and keep wrapping going down. We'Re gon na do like a reverse, bunt or not or cocoon curl. I don't know what they're called all I know is we used to do this at boarding school back in the 90s? So that's what we're gon na do. I wrapped going all the way down and up here, I'm gon na put my hand just a few fingers. There come back up and start wrapping from the base going to the end where the loop will be, and this is kind of like a larger version of how I secure my ends using African hair threading. Now this is ideal for curling the ends of your hair. So if you want your hair to be straighter up top with a few curls on the ends, this is a great way to go and you can make it larger if you want, if you want larger curls on the end, once you get to the loop put, The threaded section in - and you won't sacrifice your hair getting tangled when you do this. Also, if you have kinky hair, you don't have to stretch your hair beforehand. You just get into the curl, it's gon na stretch and curl your hair. That'S the whole point of curling, your hair with African hair threading. If your hair is on the kinky side of the spectrum, if you have straight hair, you don't have to worry about that, but you might have to worry about your hair getting tangled. So the thread is going to act as a guard for your hair looks just like the bantu knot, of course, because it's a similar, curling method, except this would be ideal for just curling your ends. Now we are going to the last curl and this is a concept curl by the way I tried this because I wanted to see how it would look before I tried it on my natural hair, not sure when I'll ever try this on my natural hair, but We'Re gon na pin curl our hair and the reason why I'm doing this is because a lot of people have asked me if I could do, pin curls on type for natural hair and actually get beautiful curls without using heat. You guys know that's a challenge, so once I get up a little bit, I do put a bobby pin there, and this is only because the hair is long. If I was dealing with my short hair, I probably wouldn't do all this. My hair is like medium length, but I'm wrapping going all the way up and right at the base. I'M gon na go through the hair, that's just before the part where I started threading and secure that with another bobby pin. So I have a nice little hot cross, bun and the next day, of course, I'm removing this curl. So if you do have kinky hair, this is a nice way to do. Pin curls because you're not going to have to worry about stretching your hair beforehand and you're, not gon na have to worry about having kinks in your curls you're. Just gon na have smooth stretched out curls. I will try this out later on. Maybe in the summer I'm not sure yet, but I definitely I'm gon na try this on my natural hair and it was hard to get it to behave itself. It was kind of acting like a snake, but I'm gon na go ahead and separate the curls. So you can see how gorgeous they are, and this is what the curls are looking like and I'm gon na use my hand also, so you can see that ends very pretty pin curls. So you guys, let me know which curls you like the best or you will be trying. Are you gon na do maybe corkscrew curls small ones, maybe the large corkscrew curls or are you more of a twist out person or bantu knots, reverse bond to knots? Maybe a pin curl type of girl. I don't know you guys. Let me know thank you so much for watching as always take care of yourselves, and I will talk to you soon. Bye