Braiding and braid extensions✔️ Flashcards
The hair is double-strand twisted or coil twisted and wrapped around itself to make a knot.Knots are secured by bobby pins or elastic bands.
Bantu knot or Nubian knot
Knots can be opened and released to createwavy and fuller loose curls.
Bantu knot-out style
This style involves braiding the hair when either wet or dry and then opening the braid to create a crimped texture-on-texture effect with added volume.
Braid-out set
Also known as comb twist;small sections of natural hair that are gelled and spiraled with fingers or a comb to create individual formations of tight,cylindrical coils.
Coils
Once hair is comb coiled into individual coils,then dried completely,they are uncolied or neatly unraveled to create a fuller coily textures afro style.
Coil-out
A technique with individual formations of cylindrical coils used to create coil styles or locks.This metod involves placing the comb at the base of the scalp and,with a rotating motion,spiraling the hair into a coil,with each revolution,the comb moves down until it reaches the end of the hair shaft.
Coil comb technique
Also known as canerows;narrow rows of visible braids that lie close to the scalp and are created with a three-strands,on-the-scalp braiding technique.
Cornrows
Double-strand twists that are interwoven to lie flat on the scalp with various patterns with our without extensions.
Flat-twist
Simple two-strand braid in which hair is picked up from the sides and added to the strands as they are crossed over each other.
Fishtail braid
Flat-twist set is unraveled to make a loose,wavy texture on the entire head.
Glamour waves
Two or three long,simple,inverted,thick cornrows created around the head.The extended braids are then wrapped and pinned to make a halo effect,
Halo braids
Also known as inverted braid or french braid;a three-strand braid that is produced with an overhand technique.
Invisible braid
Also known as dreadlocks or locs;seperate networks of curly,textured hair that have been intertwined and meshed together.
Locks
Hairstyling that uses no chemical or dyes and does not alter the natural curl or coil pattern of the hair.
Natural hairstyling
Also known as bantu knots;hair is double-strand twisted or coil twisted and then wrapped around itself to create a knot and then secured with a pin or elastic band.
Rubina knots