Showing posts with label crochet_braid. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crochet_braid. Show all posts

8.24.2010

Crochet Braid update

I haven't posted anything in a little while but with these crochet braids in, there's nothing to really write about.  No product to review, no hairstyles to try out.  Plus I've been a little blehhh lately so there's a definite lack of motivation.  Tomorrow makes 2 weeks since I've had this protective style and I have only one complaint.  I miss my hair.  I can't see it and for some reason I really miss it.  However the pros to this style: I wake up, shake and go.  There's easy access to my hair so I can oil my scalp,  moisturize and seal my ends which are tucked under the hair.  As long as I take care of the hair and make sure to put it up in a scarf each night I should be fine for another two weeks.  Well maybe.  The kinky hair that I used is starting to straigten and I cannot understand why.  I liked using it because the look of different textures made it look better in my opinion but now that this hair is not cooperating it's starting to look a little off.  I've got a friend's birthday celelbration so I'll make sure to take pics and you can be the guys of how bad or good it looks.

Til then...

8.15.2010

Crochet Braid Photo Gallery

Here's a photo gallery of everything I used to do my crochet braids.

Cornrow your hair

I did mine straight back but you can braid in whatever pattern you want.  Next time I'll probably go at an angle so I can have a side part

Back view

Halfway thru

"Aerial" view

As I got to the top I started hooking the hair in closer together.  As I learned from the tutorial the hair in the back will get covered so they don't need to be very close together

Side view

All Done!

and proud of myself :)

I used 2 different types of hair because I liked the look that it gave, some looser curls and other tighter coils.  Because many of us naturals know that we have a few different textures to our hair

The 1st kind of hair I used

This is how the hair comes I separated each piece into 2 (sometimes 3)

This was the 2nd type of hair that I used.  Much closer to my actual hair type

Latch Hook

And this is key for doing crochet braids.  Slide it through your braid, attach the hair and pull it through then double knot and you're done