How I Define my Natural Hair with Finger Coils.

My hair has been a journey! Woo chile let me tell ya! After some trials and tribulations, I think I’ve found a style that finally suits me.(Be sure to check out my 2014 Hair Review here.  A couple of months ago I was all about growing out my tapered haircut which you can read about that here. Six months into my grow out I was feeling as if I had hit a brick wall. There was just no style to my hair and so I went to the Natural Hair Salon Duafe in Philadelphia to have it cut back into a tapered cut. Now wait.. before you start giving me the side eye I decided that I still wanted the look of the tapered cut, but I wanted to allow it to grow out in layers. My stylist, Katherine was great and  gave me some awesome tips on how to style my hair. 

Over the holidays, I had to wash and style my own hair and while I tried my best to recreate the same style from my stylist what I ended up with was a total different style. Taking your hair from a mess of freshly washed curls to a defined masterpiece is simple and doesn’t take as many products as you would think. I started off by doing the L.O.C method on my freshly washed hair. The L.O.C method is the application of you’re Leave In Condition/Liquid, Hair Oil, and Cream. This method allows you seal moisture into your hair and is great for Type 4 curlies. 

I used the Carols Daughter Black Vanilla Leave-In Spray Conditioner followed by  a light application of a mixture of Argan and Coconut oil. For my cream, I used the Cantu Shea Butter Coconut Curling Cream.  Although this cream isn’t enough to define my hair on its own I love to use it because it’s so lightweight and mixes well with other products that I put on my hair. To create my coils I used the Kinky-Curly Curling Custard and used my finger to create small coils all over my head. Finger coiling did take some time and so I kept a water bottle handy to rehydrate areas of my hair that were beginning to dry before I could actually finger
coil them. For this particular style, I allowed my hair to air dry instead of sitting under the dryer. However, if you do opt to sit under a dryer I would recommend using a low heat setting.

After your hair has dried spray on a light oil glosser  to give it a bit of sheen. My favorite product, to use for this is the Shea Moisture Tahitian Noni & Monoi Smooth and Repair High Shine Glosser. I opt to use a glosser instead of more oil because I don’t my hair to be weighed down. Notice in the picture the defined spiraled finger coils. This is a huge difference in comparison to what was seen in the first picture showing my freshly washed hair.

 

You can separate the coils as much or as little as you want. Play with the style a bit to make it work for you. I seriously can’t wait for my hair to grow out more so that I can continue to wear this style but bigger and better. As you can see from the picture below I’m pretty darn happy with my hair style. If you need a quick tutorial on how to Finger Coil your natural Hair check out my super old, but still very informative Youtube video here.