Your braid takedown day arrived. You finally stopped putting it off, you put on a show, got started, and now there's enough hair in your hands to make you question every decision you have made since installation.
You are minding your business, sliding your fingers down a perfectly good strand and then, BAM. Bead. And if you have a touch of my kind of obsessiveness, you reach for your hair shears and snip just above the little annoyance. But if the hair shears aren't in arm's reach (and most people's aren't lol) you may even be tempted…
The hairline is not the place for heroics. Those babies are just babies lol. The strands are often finer, shorter and exposed to everything from ponytail tension, caps, wig friction, scarves, edge brushes, gels, to sweat and our own fingers checking to see whether they grew yet.
The hairline is not the place for heroics. Those babies are just babies lol. The strands are often finer, shorter and exposed to everything from ponytail tension, caps, wig friction, scarves, edge brushes, gels, to sweat and our own fingers checking to see whether they grew yet.
Twisting and retwisting should not feel like a weekly tax on your ends. If the hair is dry, tangled or sticky before you start, every new twist can become another chance to snap strands you are supposedly trying to retain.