Twist Out - Take One

Okay, ordinarily, from what I read, a twist out is done after the hair has had a chance to “set” for a couple of days. But since my satin wrap was not available for sleep last night (dern dirty clothes), a couple of the twist started to unravel. And this inspired the great twist out fiasco of 2008!

I say fiasco because THIS is what a twist out is supposed to look like:

Now, keeping in mind the model on the book cover has way more hair than I do, I wasn’t expecting to duplicate that look exactly. Especially not on my first time out.

Here is what my twist out resulted in:

Very early Joie Lee/Gary Dourdan mug shot-ish. Not what I expected at all but… No one said I was an old pro at this. *lol*

NOTE: I didn’t take any before pictures because 1. It takes two hands and 2. I’m sure you get the gist of the process if you simply reverse the process of twisting. *lol*

What I figured out was the twists were not tight enough at their base to form a continuous spiral from root to tip. Well, it did on the top of my hair, but at my hair line and at the nape of my neck the result was more poof than spiral. I’m sure that is due to the length of my hair and my inexperience with twisting, so I’m not too put out about it. It’ll get better as I go, I’m told.

So now, to re-wet and re-twist and allow it to set for a few more days before I make my second attempt at le twist out. This time I’ll play with directions and smaller twists. *smile*

Blessed Be…

Idadi