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Miracle Knots: A Complete Guide · The Tight Curls Project

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Hello, and welcome to
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the Tight Curls Project.
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I'm Shadia, and this is a
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special summer episode.
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This really all started because I got Miracle Knots.
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This is week eight of these Miracle Knots, really learned a lot through
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the process and been enjoying them.
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And when I talk to people, I start giving them tips and suggestions, and I
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figured I should just make some shorts to introduce how to buy your hair, how you
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maintain them, how do you take them out.
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And we started recording this short, and that was nine minutes.
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And so me and my team, we sat back and we decided, you know what?
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This can be a whole podcast episode.
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This is something that you kinda have to figure out on your own, and I spent
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a lot of time trying to understand all the pieces and how to take care of it,
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and this is here so you don't have to.
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Now, let's get into it
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so what are they?
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Miracle knots are where your hair is typically braided first in plaits,
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sectioned in plaits, and then feather crochet hair is woven in.
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And so the feather crochet hair is a string with two pieces of hair
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connected on either side, and this is human hair, not synthetic hair.
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So it's called feather crochet 'cause it's lightweight, meaning you don't have
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that heavy look because you're tying it on the string, which is finer, so you can
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get a tighter knot that's less visible.
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And this really is something that has come about in the past couple
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years, so if you haven't heard anything about it, this is the time
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to learn, and you'll be caught up.
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So today we're gonna talk about how to buy and plan for your Miracle Knots.
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Okay, first is shopping.
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Where do you get your hair?
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There are a lot of places online.
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You could also find hair on Amazon right now.
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I also looked at beauty supply stores, and they sell hair.
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I decided to go with Y Wigs because I've seen them the most and there's
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a lot of reviews and it was easy to order online and it had free shipping,
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because I'm spending some money.
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So looking at the different types of hair could be confusing.
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How long does it need to be?
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I went with 16 inches and, as you can see, the hair is coming, , almost to my waist.
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And for me, I wanted a curlier texture, so this is the deep wave.
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Something to keep in mind is that the length of the hair, especially when
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it's curly, is the stretched out length.
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It's not the length you're gonna get when you measure and you get it in the pack.
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So, you know, if you're getting a looser wave, your hair's going to
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be truer and closer to the actual length versus a curly texture.
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And something I didn't really think about till I started installing the hair is
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that the length of your own hair, because you're attaching this to your braid,
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is gonna depend on how far they fall.
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And also the look of your hair.
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So if your hair is straight shorter, you're gonna have these pieces
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all within a shorter section, so you're gonna get a much fuller look.
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That's something you wanna think about as you consider the length you wanna try.
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A lot of the colored hair is about 18 inches, , that's if you want blonde or
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highlights usually to get shorter hair, you're gonna have to get a natural color.
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So getting to the color.
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You might be able to tell, I highlighted this hair.
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I thought it was gonna be way more dramatic.
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I used Dark and Lovely in Brown Cinnamon and also Sunkissed Brown.
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I thought it would be fun, never dyed my hair before, to try and dye the hair.
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So then I went ahead and conditioned the hair and rinsed it and let it dry.
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Another thing I wanted to talk to you about is how much hair,
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because that is not obvious.
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Because this is for crochet, a lot of the recommendations about
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how much hair you need are for a whole head of crocheted hair.
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That can be confusing because they're recommending it for a
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style where your hair is cornrowed and then you're crocheting it in.
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That's very different than when you have braids and you're adding hair to it.
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What I found the most helpful is thinking about how many pieces you want on each
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braid and how many braids you want.
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Yeah, how do you know that?
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I think typically people are putting between two and four pieces in.
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I put th- about three pieces in on each, piece of hair.
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Knowing that you need about three pieces per hair, how many braids do you have?
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Mine aren't perfect 'cause I did them myself.
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They're not all the same size.
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But what I was seeing and researching and watching videos and reading about
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this, people are doing between 55 and 65 I knew I had a larger head,
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so I would probably have over 60.
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I had, I think, 63 braids so then you know, here comes the math.
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If you have an idea that you'll need around 60 braids and three pieces
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per braid, that's 180 pieces, and most of them sell in sets of 50, so I
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got four packs of 50, so 200 pieces.
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I ended up using 180 pieces, around there.
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That's how I figured out the math, and that's important
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because it costs, it's not cheap.
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You need to have an idea of how much you need to buy.
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Also, because I dyed it, I wanted to get that right, that might be
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helpful for you as you look at them because sometimes they will list it
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by grams, which is not that helpful.
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For a 50 pieces, it's about 55 to 60 grams, but that might vary for brand.
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So I think it's important to know how many individual strands you're gonna get
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so that you can make sure you're gonna have the right amount, especially if
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you're buying on a place like, , Amazon where it could, it could be anything.
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Now that we talked about the math, you know how much to buy.
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I will say that I got this on a sale from Y Wigs.
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I paid $180 for the four bundles.
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So $180 for 200 strands of feather crochet hair, 16 inch, and this style is, that
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I have here, this is the deep wave.
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I haven't washed this.
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It would be a little curlier if it was fresh out, being washed and dried.
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They have different styles, and you should think about that as well too.
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If you have a looser style, it's probably gonna take up less volume
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around your head, so it'll look sparser than if you have a very curly style.
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So like a Spanish water wave, that's a curlier style than this.
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They also have a loose deep wave.
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Looking at that and thinking about the look you want and also the, the amount
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of volume you want will be helpful.
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Now let's talk about how you're gonna prep your hair before you install it.
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Because I dyed this hair first, you follow the instructions, and that includes
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conditioning and then rinsing the hair.
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I went ahead and did that the day before and let it air dry I
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did notice though that there was kind of a perm smell to the hair.
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It didn't smell horrible, but definitely smelt like chemicals, like you would
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find maybe in a traditional perm.
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If I do this again, and for you, I would recommend that you shampoo and condition
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the hair and let it dry beforehand.
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So that will just reduce any smell, especially if
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you're - sensitive to smells.
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There's probably some kind of conditioning coating on the hair.
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I talked a lot about , synthetic hair in my braids care episode where
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we got deep into synthetic hair.
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You can check that out if you wanna know more about that.
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But even with human hair, I'm pretty sure there's something on the hair.
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And , if you look at their website, they also talk about
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just shampooing their hair.
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Then after you wash and dry your hair, you are ready to go,
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and that depends on your path.
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You pick your own adventure.
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Are you going to do a total install with a braider?
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And there's braiders that are doing that now.
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The braiders typically do a crochet method, or they'll do a feed-in method
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where they'll braid the crochet hair into your braid as they go along,
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and so that's more like a traditional braiding with added pieces experience.
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You could also go and get your hair sectioned and plaited and braided, and
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then do the crochet yourself at home.
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Lastly, you could do totally DIY, do it yourself, and that's what I did.
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So I sectioned, braided my hair, and then I crocheted it,
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This is all about how to install the hair in a way that's
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gonna be the least damaging.
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Again, this is week seven of these miracle knots.
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It's amazing because normally when I have braids, in the past I've done
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knotless braids, by week six they feel so heavy I gotta get them out my head.
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But not this time.
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They are so lightweight and easy to wear, so I wanna tell you how you can do them.
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Let's get started.
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I decided to use the method that I found with The Chic Natural, and
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she has a beginner-friendly version which we'll also highlight here.
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And one of the things that was interesting is instead of braiding the crochet hair at
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the end of each braid, you do not do that.
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You leave your natural hair on its own.
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So you can see here I'm pulling up a braid and you can see my natural
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hair is not, secured with a braid.
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I just added the crochet close to the bottom, but not all the way down.
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The reason I did this is because I want to minimize the interaction my hair has
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with the string in the crochet and also there's kind of hard plastic pieces here.
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They're flexible, but I just don't want anything rubbing up against my natural
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hair because my goal is length retention.
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I'm trying to grow my hair longer, and the ends are the
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most sensitive part of your hair.
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So if I can leave those ends alone and not have anything pulling on them or
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touching them really interacting with them, then I feel like it's giving my
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hair the best shot of not being affected and having a more protective style,
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meaning protecting it from friction.
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- Instead of braiding the hair pieces into the end, I just braided all of
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my hair, sectioned it and braided it, and then added the crochet.
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Okay, that sounds easy, but I'm not a braider.
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I'm very bad at straight lines, so keep that in mind if you're
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deciding to do it yourself.
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This step was the longest for me.
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I was going to have someone braid my hair, but I waited till the last minute
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and then I got a cold and I just really wanted to do this, so I got the materials
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and just hunkered down over the weekend.
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So I started on a Friday, did a lot on Saturday, and finished on Sunday.
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I first washed and blow-dried my hair, and then the next day I sectioned and
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started braiding, and then I continued.
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And with the sectioning I tried to look and see other people's
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patterns, but I knew two things.
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I knew I have really high density hair, meaning I have a lot of hair per
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square inch, and I have a big head.
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So I knew that patterns maybe weren't gonna work exactly,
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and I tried as a guide.
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But what I did focus on is getting the front how I wanted it.
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I know I often wear my hair parted in the middle, so I wanted to
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make sure that was clear, and also being able to pull it over.
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And one of the things I also noted is n- there is some directionality of
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the braid, meaning it's not, , sitting perfectly flat like it does if I've
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probably gotten it professionally braided,
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I usually have been doing a middle part, especially since I retouched the
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braids, I'll get into that in the next video, and they're a little tighter.
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So braiding your hair, I had braiding gel, a rat tail comb,
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a brush, and just created braids trying to keep them similar in size.
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They're not exactly the same size.
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And that's the nice part about this style, you don't have to have it perfect 'cause
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you're gonna have a lot of hair going on.
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Another thing to keep in mind is I braided them almost to the ends
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and my hair is pretty, even so I don't have a lot of layers and it
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was easy to braid it to the ends.
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Towards the end if I ran out of pieces, I twisted it, but where
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the twist is, it's not, linked enough to put the crochet there.
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So the crochet of the Miracle Knot needs to go in the braid but far enough up that
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it's not gonna fall out of your hair.
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And mine is very tightly curled so I just put a little braiding gel at the
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end of them, and that worked well.
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Okay, next.
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What are we talking about?
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The crochet.
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That is the fun part.
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You need a crochet hook like this, and then also the hair.
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And as I said before, you're putting two to three pieces per braid, and
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especially in the front, I have re-braided some of these because it's been seven
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weeks, and I didn't initially put hair at the top of the braids, but I realize
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I like that because if I want to have a look where I have a piece hanging
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down on either side, it's very nice if you have them very close to the root.
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So if you want to have it back and you have a little piece dangling, cutesy.
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I watched videos and people were saying this as well.
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So especially near the top of your head, putting them closer to your root will
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give you more coverage here, especially if you want more coverage and see less
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scalp and parts, and it's more forgiving.
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This is hair where you're gonna have a piece of string in the middle of the hair.
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And so you can see here that it is, a string that's connecting them.
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There's plastic pieces on either side, and then you have the hair.
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So it's two-sided.
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And this is what allows the style, enables the style, 'cause you
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can make a knot in the middle.
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How you're gonna do this is you're basically just going to make a loop
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around your hair this one is one where I left it off to show you.
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So there's a loop close to the base, and there's one again at the end, and it's
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not all the way to the end of the braid.
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And so in the middle, I'll just eyeball it, and you take your crochet hair.
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First I would go in with the crochet hook and then put the hair here.
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So I'm putting tension and then pull it through
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And then take the hook out, and now you have this loop.
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And then all I would do is pull this through
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And then tighten and make sure that the knot is on the string and
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not on the plastic parts on each end, which you'll be able to feel.
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And voila, that's it.
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If it didn't work out, I would just take it out.
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I would just take it out and redo it.
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It's as simple as that.
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That maybe took an hour, maybe an hour and a half, and part of it was looking
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into deciding how many pieces I want.
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If you're trying to save money or you don't want, want a really
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voluminous look, I would say three on the top, and you probably could
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do on the under layers two per piece.
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But I wanted to be able to have height up and make it feel still look full,
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so I ended up doing three all over.
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And again, the length of your hair makes a difference.
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this is where my hair ends, and so even starting here, this is why it's,
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you're getting a pretty long length considering this hair is only 16 inches.
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So that's it.
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Next we're gonna get into how to maintain the miracle knot braids.
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There's some tips there, things I did that you should not do,
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so I'm gonna help you out.
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First things first, you get your crochet braids.
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How do you maintain them overnight?
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What I decided to do from the very beginning was to section my hair
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down the middle and take two halves approximately, and just to twist them,
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just to do two twists like this, and to put a scrunchie near the bottom.
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So I put the scrunchie pretty close to the bottom, and so have two twists
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like that, and then put my scarf on.
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And then I would sleep on it.
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, My scarf doesn't cover the whole braids, but it covers my
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scalp and, and halfway down.
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And then the twists, in the morning I would take them out, wet my hands
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and put a lot of water through it.
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Specifically on the ends.
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So the ends, my ends are curled with this style hair, which is deep wave hair.
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But what I noticed, and I have not worn, , human hair in a long
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time, It's been probably a decade.
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So one of the things is with human hair, it takes the shape.
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Just like you can get bedhead, your, if you wear extensions or
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you wear weaves, you know this.
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It can take the shape of whatever you sleep in, so whether that's
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curlers or it's getting flattened.
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And sometimes I would notice the ends would get flat probably from sleeping
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on them, so I would put some water and scrunch them in the mo- in the morning.
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And also with my twist, not doing it too tightly, because you do
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take the shape of the twist.
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And so maybe you would like that, that shape or that pattern, especially
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if you chose a style of hair that's straighter than the deep wave.
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But just something to keep in mind, how you sleep on it will impact
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how it looks when you wake up.
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And I did try doing a braid, but it was hard for me to braid it
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and not be tight, and then you get a wave on top of this wave.
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So I think it's really your preference.
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But that's a really easy way to sleep.
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I think if you have a long bonnet where you can tuck all your hair in, that
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might be nice as well So then moving on, what do you do day to day, week to week?
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I think it's important to continue to wash your hair while in this style.
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It really lends itself well to that.
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I'm a big advocate for washing your hair and cleansing your scalp while
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wearing braids, and you can check out my first braid care episode where
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I go into that deeply and what does it mean for your scalp health and
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go through steps on how to do that.
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So while I was in braids, I probably washed my hair every two weeks,
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not every week, or if I went to the pool, I would make sure to wash my
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hair, and that was a simple process.
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I think also something that is different with this hair that if you're used
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to wearing, um, box braids, knotless braid styles where you don't have loose
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hair, is that you have to detangle it.
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And I learned the hard way because I think maybe three or four weeks
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in, I was finger detangling, would go through little pieces.
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I had a couple pieces in the, um, in the nape of my neck that were very
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tightly tangled, and so I ended up not being able to detangle them,
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and I ended up unbraiding the hair, taking it out and replacing it.
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You know, time is precious.
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Maybe I can get through those individual feather crochets that have the tight
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knots, but I got other things to do.
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We had a couple fallen soldiers, maybe three or four that I lost, and that's
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because I think at the back of my neck it was rubbing against my shirt, so I didn't,
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, realize that that was causing friction and that was causing some matting.
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So I would suggest periodically every couple days, make sure you go through
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and you're detangling in sections.
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And what I found was that putting my hair half up or more than half up and
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going in rows and detangling this and then bringing the next section down and
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detangling that, that was very helpful in just making sure I covered everything.
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But how do you detangle?
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I suggest starting with your fingers, your fingertips and your hands, wetting
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the hair slightly and then applying some leave-in conditioner or detangling spray.
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And so that really gives you slip to move through the hair and do as
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little, agitation as possible and trying not to pull on your braids.
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Like, you don't want to detangle a piece and be pulling on your scalp.
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So if I was detangling this, I would hold my scalp and then with one hand
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and then make sure to detangle with the other hand so you're not putting
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all that weight on your roots.
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Another thing you can do is use a detangling brush.
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I use the Tangle Teezer for tightly curled hair or coily and curly hair, and that
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was something where I would take the strands and make sure that I'm holding
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them so- Like we've talked about earl- in the earlier section, you have two pieces.
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And so this is a little tangled.
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So there's one or two.
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I would hold them and start at the bottom and work through, and do that
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with my brush, and do the other side.
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I did not lose a lot of hair, but you definitely will lose more hair if
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you're using that detangling brush.
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So that's why you wanna do as much as you can with your fingers first, and
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then go in with the brush if you need to.
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And go slowly and gently because these can be reused.
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And my goal is to get a couple more uses out of them because they do
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cost money and it would be great.
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And I like the color and the look but if you lose hair, a lot of hair,
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then you're losing volume so you're not gonna have the same aesthetic.
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So now touching on the type of product to use, I really wanted to
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find something cheap that would work.
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I got a detangling spray, the Aussie spray, and the smell was just too strong.
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I couldn't deal with that so I did not use that.
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I ended up going back to my Mizani, Miracle Milk.
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I love that leave-in spray.
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However, it's not cheap, so I really didn't wanna use it on
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this hair if I didn't have to.
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But it has a nice slip and it was easy to use and work through
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and it really did the job.
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So the Mizani Miracle Milk was the best product that I found.
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But if you know of any other detangling or leave-in sprays, please share them
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below because we can build a list and maybe there's something cheaper
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that works really well as well.
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And so one of the things I would not do again is using hair mousse or foam.
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I thought, okay, we got curly hair, we wet it, we put the, you know,
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little leave-in, we put the foam in.
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I think the foam contributed to the matting and drying effect, so then I got
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more of a frizzy look I like a little more defined curls and a softer feel
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and so I would not use mousse again.
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I tried about three different ones and that was not it.
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My recommendation, water, leave-in conditioner, and the last thing
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that I would use occasionally sparingly was jojoba oil jojoba
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oil is something I talked about earlier in the braids care episode.
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It is an oil that is closer to the sebum the material our scalp produces,
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which is a blend of oils and waxes and other things that nurture our hair.
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It's closer to what our hair actually needs and what our scalp makes,
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and you can buy it, , at Whole Foods, online, many other places.
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So I would take a few drops and rub my hands together and do one half
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of my hair and then the other half of my hair, and I would do that at
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night before I twist it together.
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It did add some softness, and then it did take s- down some of that frizz.
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So rundown is the leave-in conditioner, the water, a detangling brush, your
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hands, and maybe a little jojoba oil.
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And then again, scrunchies to secure your hair at night.
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That's about it.
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It's pretty simple, but you need to be detangling probably every couple of days,
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and that's a difference with other styles.
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The last thing I just recently saw was someone saying their milk chronots did not
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work out, and they had used blonde-dyed and curled hair So that's something
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that you might wanna look out for.
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If you want an easy, low-maintenance style, the hair that is less
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processed will be easier to work with.
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Let's think again about this hair.
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It's human hair that has been curled, 'cause this is a deep wave, it's already
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curled, so that is one chemical process.
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And so then if you add bleaching it and then applying color in some way, and
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it's usually a two-step system, that is a lot of processing and that is degrading
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the hair, honestly, to some degree.
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So that hair is gonna need more TLC.
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You probably need more conditioning treatments.
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You definitely can't go long periods of time without washing it and
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conditioning it and applying leave-in.
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That will be a higher maintenance hair in some cases, then a hair that
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is just simply curled, or even a hair that's pretty much straight.
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Something to keep in mind depending on how much maintenance you have the bandwidth
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to do, how much maintenance you wanna do.
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And it is an investment of time to do some detangling.
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But for me, it's, it's really not that bad.
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It's probably less than I would do for my own hair, especially
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when you think about the time of having to style it in the morning.
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, I'm not an edges person, which you can see.
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I've had some bad encounters with edge gel.
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Sometimes I'll put some wax down and tie it down.
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And then another thing I would do after washing it, which is in my
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braids care episode, is put some mousse on my scalp and along my hairline
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and tie that down and blow-dry that or let it, or let it just air dry.
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I did hit it with sometimes with a diffuser, but,
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, generally I'm air drying it.
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So then I'm washing it in the morning so that I can keep the curls set
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in the shape I want versus going to sleep on wet hair, which is not really
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ever recommended, and especially this hair because it does take a shape.
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It was not too much work, but it definitely was more work than a box braid
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or a knotless braid or Senegalese twist, something where you don't have loose hair.
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I did have a couple scenarios where I told you I had my hair knotting
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and then a couple pieces where the braid was Almost falling out because
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I went too low on my human hair.
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Because I did not include my hair in the braid with the crochet and
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I just attached at the end so you can see here, this is my edge.
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This is the end of my hair and the crochet is hanging off of it.
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, A couple of them where I put the braid too close to the end, I could
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feel it sliding down one came out and then maybe two others I undid the
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braid and then added it higher up.
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So in all, I probably, learned something about making it not super close to your
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ends, and making sure it's on a part where your braid is pretty tight and secure.
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And then also another thing that I did encounter was the fact that
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my roots started growing out.
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You know, I've had these in for almost eight weeks especially around
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my part line, I probably redid maybe eight, 10 braids around here just to
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keep it going a couple more weeks.
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And it's a different type of growing out than when you have box braids or
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knotless braids because with that, part of the danger is the knot is going lower
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and lower and it it creates more of a, a pendulum swinging point away from your
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scalp and it can make it feel heavier.
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This is because my roots are puffy and I'm not a braider so it wasn't
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really tight and cute and well-slicked when I did it in the first place.
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So I just wanted to get some more wear out of it and then I redid about 10.
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So I have redone some braids and I can talk to the issues or concern also that
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when you do the miracle knots, the problem is the knot when you're taking it out.
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I did not find that to be a problem.
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I went slowly and also used water and leave-in on my hair to soften it.
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And so there's a part where you're start unbraiding it and ideally the
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miracle knot just falls out, but sometimes it didn't and so then I
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would just calmly just wiggle it out.
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I didn't notice any hair breaking when I did this, so I feel
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pretty confident to recommend,
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,
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I know other people will have the feed-in method where your hair is
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being fed into a braid along with the crochet and so I can't speak to that
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because I didn't choose this way.
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But if you think about it when you're doing a loop with a crochet,
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it's a different kind of knot if you've ever done a crochet loop.
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It's not the same as taking like a shoelace where you tie it and
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you're pulling the knot tight.
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So the knot is a little easier to slip out because it's two pieces that are looped.
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And so I have not had any issue with that
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.
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smooth sailing as long as I wet my hair.
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It's gonna probably start from the top and have a spray bottle, have the expensive
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leave-in, but it's the best thing, and then go through and detangle it.
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And if you want more suggestions on how to do that, that's, again, in
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the braids care episode, so step by step on taking out braids once my
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braids are out, I plan to lay them.
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I do this on my sofa.
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I lay them over the arm of the sofa and aligned, and it's easy
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'cause they all have strings, so you can gather them together.
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And tie them with a rubber band or a zip tie, and then going head with those, and
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then washing them and conditioning them.
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I'll probably put some leave-in on them and then let them air dry so
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they'll be ready for the next time, because I plan to use these again.
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So that's it for our special Miracle Knots episode.
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