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.
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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…
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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.
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CurlyNikki Says: I've tried most pomades. I keep Dax on deck (thank God I remembered!), Blue Magic works, but not as well as Dax and it doesn't contain the botanical oils that Dax has. I also enjoy Qhemet's Castor & Amla Nourishing Pomade. But if I could only choose one to help me retain length and produce defined, silky results…
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CurlyNikki says: My favorite scarf for my edges is a strip... I call it my edge strip... a piece of material I cut off of a leopard print shawl more than 10 years ago. It's a loooooong rectangle ( like 4 inches wide at least but super long), and it's not silk or satin. It's a mystery material not too…
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