Easy, Long Lasting and Chic Summer Styles from Design Essentials® Natural: Simple styles from Design Essentials® to keep your tresses healthy and stylish as the temperature rises
It's almost summer, so that means it's time for beaches, cookouts, summer travel and effortless hair.
Design Essentials® Master Educator Deshonica Kerrie
shares some of the following step-by-step techniques to help naturalistas either change up a TWA (Teeny Weeny Afro) or make a twist out last even longer on kinky, curly and wavy hair textures. See her easy tips below!
Photo Credit: Calvin Lionel Photography
Deshonica's Tips for Achieving Short & Chic TWA Finger Coils
- Shampoo & condition hair with Design Essentials® Natural Curl Cleanser and Moisturizing Conditioner
- Apply Design Essentials® Natural Daily Moisturizing Lotion
- Create finger coils by using fingers and rolling small sections of hair in a circular motion
- Use a blow dryer on cool heat to add volume to the look
- After blow drying, palm roll (placing coils in hands and rolling in a back-and-forth motion) and go!
Photo Credit: Calvin Lionel Photography
Deshonica on Rocking Out with a Bantu Knot Frohawk- An easy way to refresh a twist-out
- Apply Design Essentials® Natural Daily Moisturizing Lotion as a moisturizer first
- Part hair into big chunks and two-strand twist hair
- Then add Design Essentials® Natural Twist & Set Setting Lotion and create bantu knots (apply bantu knots only on both sides of the head)
- Gather the hair in the middle and draw the hair up using a soft brush to create the frohawk
- Secure hair with bobby pins and crisscross them for a tighter hold
- Use a comb to create volume in the fro and make sure to tease the hair in one direction to avoid tangling
Photo Credit: Calvin Lionel Photography
Deshonica on a
Round About Twist Out & Updo
- Twist hair with Design Essentials® Natural Twist and Set Setting Lotion, twisting hair in big sections (about 3 different sections for hair that is shoulder length)
- T-shirt blot hair to prevent dripping and frizziness
- Sit under the dryer for 5 to 10 minutes to let product set
- Separate curls by rubbing a small amount of Design Essentials® Natural Daily Moisturizing Lotion on hands, then continue to separate hair
- To achieve fullness, take a comb and gently pull through the roots
- Once the twists start to get old, gather the hair to the top of your head and draw the hair up using a soft brush
- Secure hair with bobby pins crisscrossing them, down, up, down, up to securely position the hair into a neat updo
All of the above mentioned
Design Essentials®
Natural
products may be purchased at your local Sally Beauty Supply, Walgreens, ULTA and select beauty & barber supply stores. You may also purchase these products from your local salon or online at
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