The Lazy Way Box Braids: Official Coily Girl Demo

 Start with cleansed, conditioned, stretched hair. This hair was stretched and air-dried first by using 4 plaits. I let them air dry for about 1 hour while I folded some laundry.

Next, each of the 4 plaits were undone and then made into about 4 plaits, totaling approximately 12 to 15 total stretched out plaits. Doing this on air dried hair elongated the coils--resulting in more length to start her box braids with.


While plaiting smaller to stretch, I lightly moisturized her hair with the Eden Body Works Hair Milk. It's a great, creamy leave in product with lots of oils. Taking one of the 15 plaits, I made even smaller box braids, which stretched the hair out even longer. These are the box braids that she will wear this week. I can guess that 

I did approximately 60 box braids throughout the entire head. 


  Why I call this a lazy way box braids is simply because I stop halfway down the hair shaft. Her hair measures over 19'' in length. Doing her box braids as small and as many as I planned to, would take longer than the 1.5 hours that this took. Probably just double the time. I think this process saved me about 1 hour.





After doing a section with 1/2 of the hair shaft left loose, I gathered it into a section and dampened it with water before braiding the whole loose section into 1 plait. I continued his process until I had about 5 or 6 sections with the loose ends placed into a big plait (as shown above).

RESULTS:

Water Only Provides Extreme Definition on Coily Hair

Some things to note about this process:

•  Keep the loose hair moisturized. It is important that the hair from root to ends stay moisturized, but it is especially important to keep the ends moisturized, since they are left loose. Loose hair tends to get dry quicker. I USE WATER TO RE-MOISTURIZE (EVERY NIGHT). The water re-activates the leave in that I used on wash day. The leave in that was used is full of oils (allowing me to skip the sealing with oil step).
• Nightly, moisturize and re-plait the loose ends. It takes me about 10 minutes or less to re-plait her loose hair into about 6 plaits. Satin Scarf or Pillowcase will help keep the frizzies away.
• This style lasts longer than your average braid out. Her hair gets frizzy quickly because it is fine hair. We plan to re-braid the hairline only after co-washing her hair this weekend. We're going to use this styling for another week.

Braidout and Box Braids: Coily Hair

Coily Hair Wash N Go: No Products Used

MY REAL WASH N GO

 Hey Beauties! Last night was a really lazy hair prep for me. I came from walking my routine 4 miles, and was sweaty as ever. I took the crazy puppy with me for the first time. I was worried that he wouldn't be able to keep up. Boy was I WRONG! He ended up dragging me the last mile LOL!

Needless to say, I was full of energy when I got home and took my shower, but I still didn't feel like messing with my hair. I rinsed off the sweat with water, co-washed the ends of my hair with Giovanni Tea Tree Conditioner, while pulling out the shed hair. Then I squeezed out the excess water, pinned my hair into a bun and that was it! I took down the bun, used a t-shirt to sop up any dripping water, air dried a bit and then went to bed.

Coily Hair Showcase with Accessory to PoP

When I woke up, I had surprisingly soft bed-head! I just added some aloe vera gel to it, put it in a low ponytail while I got ready--and pulled that down. This was the result. This is my coil pattern without any product (except the aloe vera gel). I love it. The only thing is, I wish my hair was cut into a style suitable for this kind of wash n go.

That's why most people do not like to wear their wash n go without weighing it down with gel. Straight hair can pretty much get away with the random way that the hair can hang, but for the most part--people who wear their hair straight will either cut bangs, do a bob, blunt cut, or wear layered styling.

What I'm finding with coily hair types, is there isn't much hair cut/styling going on. I know why I won't get my coily hair cut into a style (at this time)--I love to wear my hair so many different ways that I don't want my coily hair cut to mess with that.

Anywhoo, just a thought for the day. I truly enjoyed this uninhibited day of hair styling. My hair was soft, tangle free, and most of all....it was me (for the day at least LOL)!