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
A technique in which the first side section goes over the middle one,then the other side section goes over the middle strand.
Overhand technique
Braid created with two strands that are twisted around each other.
Rope braid
Also known as box braids or individual braids;free-handing braids,with or without extensions,that can be executed using either an underhand or an overhand technique.
Single braids
This set can be done with rods,fleci-rods,or curl reformers of all sizes,hair is wrapped around a vertical rod,moving up the rod in a spiral movement.
Spiral rod set
Used to deeply hydrate,moistuer,and condition the hair with water vapor;infuses water hydration,opening the cuticle layer of the hair shaft and enabling nourishing protein conditioners and botanical oils to penetrate deeply into the cortex layer.
Stream
Textured sets elongated the natural frizzy hair and make a smooth-silky curl,wavy or zig-zag pattern when the hair is set wet or dry on natural curly or coiled hair textures.
Textured set and style
Hair with a tight coil pattern.
Textured hair
A rope effect on individual sections of hair made with a double stranded twist technique does by overlapping two strand sections of hair;to form a candy cane effect.
Twisting
A double-stranded twist set in unravel and opened to create a spirally,full-crimped effect.
Twist-out