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Hi!
A Fashion Slave: how do your twist-outs last that long? What's your secret? Mine only last 1day, 2 if I'm lucky! what am I doing wrong? usually in the morning, they don't look that great, then sometimes after my shower, I'll try to fix them up a bit without touching too much, but it's not like the 1st day. Looks kind of limp or something after the 1st day is over. Also, do you do seperate twists like big box braids or do you do twist rolls like cornrolls? I usually do braidouts, hardly ever twistouts, but the style just doesn't hold up for some reason! Help please!
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I create my twist-outs by using a mixture of Carols Daughter Healthy Hair Butter and Paul Mitchell Super Sculpt. After I shampoo and condition I use my clips, water bottle, and my Denman D4 brush, and tiny perm rods to create my twist outs.
-First I section off a part and I saturate it with warm water. I then apply some HHB & a liberal amount of Paul Mitchell Super Sculpt.
-Second I use my D4 brush to detangle my hair. I then twist my hair while pulling it taught while twisting. One of the tricks to getting a long lasting twist-out is to twist firmly.
-Third I use a tiny perm rod on my ends. I used to be able to twist my wet hair with out perm rods, but my hair is so soft and in such good condition that my twists untwist themselves if I do not secure the ends.
-After all of my twists are done and secured with perm rods. I re-saturate my hair with my spray bottle. and I sit under the dryer for 30 minutes. The wetter the better before you get under the dryer. After sitting under the dryer a half an hour my hair is not even close to being dry, but the dryer helps to set my twists. I then sleep on my twists. The next morning they are dry and ready to remove. Before I seperate my twists my twists are a little hard from the product. But after I start to manipulate them they become soft & touchable.
I remove the rollers, apply a tiny amount of moisturizer ends & seperate my twists.
My twist-outs are a firm set but very soft to touch.
Now that I am out of Super Sculpt, next time I am going to try using Giovanni's hair gel to create my twist-outs.
To maintain my twist-outs: I apply a tiny drop of moisturizer to my ends every day. My favorite is ORS Olive Oil. It is a little oily but I only use a tiny amount every day to keep my ends moist. I am currently looking for a natural hair moisturizer to use instead. I also cover my head at night with a satin bonnet and finger style my hair in the morning. I spend about an hour to 2 hours twisting my hair every week.
I wet set my hair because I do not have the time during the week to mess with it. Because I use styling products to create my twist-outs I have to shampoo & condition. No-poo is out of the question for me when I use gel.
There are pictures of my twist-outs in my album, but those two pictures are all after I have picked out my twist-out with a metal pick.
One of these days I will put a picture of a fresh twist-out in my album.
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I plan on doing the same as you with the twist and rods (except i'm going to do the whole twist instead of just the ends) Anyway, I thought that I would have to retwist/rod every single night to keep it from being flat. Since you don't, is it because of damage or just that you don't need to. I wonder if doing it nightly will cause damage (same question as the topic)...I would think that being gentle, misting the hair,keeping the ends moisturized while doing it would minimize the damage of nightly twisting.
Do you mist with water daily or just here and there?
I spend 1-3 hours a week re-twisting my hair)
