Don’t know if you remember this from last summer ….
But the aftermath was this:
Well, I’ve been meaning to see how it would work if I were to do this on one of the other girls longer hair. This last week Goose didn’t have school on Friday so I decided it’d be a safe time to try it, just in case it turned into a HUGE Afro that was out of control on her head!
So after her bath Thursday night, I dried her hair until it was just barely damp. She’s got such thick hair I’ve tried leaving it fairly wet in pink spongy rollers before but by morning her hair still hasn’t really dried and so there has hardly been any curl from them. So this would work with dry or slightly damp hair I think.
My first thought was to do them all over her head, but again – I knew what it’d done to Bee, so I thought we’d play it on the safe side and just do the buns from ear to ear around the nape of her neck. As you can tell from the very first picture – in the end, I’m glad we played it safe.
I didn’t do any clean & neat parting or anything. I just grabbed a little section of hair at a time and twisted and twisted and then turned it into a mini-bun. Once I had the hair into the bun shape I grabbed a cloth covered rubber band and twisted it around the base of the bun to try and secure the loose ends. It worked better on some of the buns than others – but either way, the rubber band needs to hold the bun in place on the head. Wrap it however you need to get it to stay put.
You can’t see them all, but in the end we had 10 of them from 1 side to the other. The bigger section of hair you take, the looser the curl will be – or it’ll be more of a wave, so I took smaller sections hoping for more of a curl affect.
She thought this was great fun to look so silly! I was worried about her sleeping on those things because some of them stuck out rather far – but she said it was no problem at all. I have an old hair net that we put over them before she went to bed to give it a little extra security from coming out during her sleep.
The following morning I carefully uncoiled them all & this is what we got.
I took the tail of my rat tailed comb and carefully picked through them. If I would have tried to actually comb or brush these out, she would have been less than impressed!
We could have just left it completely down & it would have looked ok, but the curls were kind of bothering her up in front of her face.
So I pulled it up into a simple half pony & added a little bow on top.
And by so doing, it made the beautiful curls all over the back instead of just the lower half of her head.
And voila! She was thrilled with the curls. We will definitely do this again. She kept skipping around the house wanting me to take notice of how her hair bounced when she was skipping! I think you can get the same type of effect from doing rag curls or sponge rollers – but this was rather quick and quite easy. And of course, if you don’t have rollers or the time to cut up any rags, this works even better!
So here you have it — before & after: 
Sorry for asking u a dumb question.But how do u do bantu knots?
You take a small section of hair and twist and twist it, until it sort of winds up on itself and makes a little bun – like my dd is wearing to get these curls. You can secure them w/a bobby pin, clip or wrap a rubber band around them like we did.