Thursday, February 10, 2011

Getting Creative With Basic Cornrows







I was inspired by a style I saw on Longhairdontcare2011's Youtube channel. As you can see, the style is very easy if you know how to cornrow and it's versatile!

Instructions:
  • I started on stretched, moisturized hair, well detangled hair.
  • I split the hair from ear the ear and cornrowed the entire back section down. I did about 10 or 11 straight cornrows.
  • After cornrowing the back section I parted her hair straight down the middle and started working on the right side. I parted her hair from her hair, to the middle part and cornrowed it back as if I were doing a mohawk. I parted and cornrowed two more sections above that and did the same thing on the left side.
  • I placed the top section of left over hair in a ponytail and placed it in about 4 braids.
  • That's it! All done. Pretty basic cornrowing. Just make straight parts and you're good! :)







I wanted to show you all how to switch this easy style up within minutes.

To get the above look:
  • I simply gathered the 4 braids from the top ponytail, split them into two and started twisting them around one another, I then began picking up the other braids and adding them to each section, once I got to the back of her hair, I grabbed 5 braids from the left and added them to one section and 5 from the right, adding them to the other section, I continued twisting all the way down to the end and tied the twist off with a ponytail holder.





To get the above look: I pretty much did the same exact thing as above, only this time I braided (so I used 3 sections), instead of twisting.



To get the above look: I did the same exact thing as the above twisted style, only I split the braids into two and twisted down.

13 comments :

  1. That is a beautiful hair style!! Love your blog.

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  2. AMAZING! i love it such a simple style that can be put into other simple styles. What a great protective style!

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  3. I do those same cornrows on Syd's hair a lot and have NEVER thought to twist them like that! Looks great!

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  4. Love it! But I want to see how the front looks!

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  5. do you braid her hair while it's wet?

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  6. That's really pretty Nikki! Will you curl the cornrows?

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  7. Seemed easy enough...thanks for the continued inspiration. working on the valentine hairstyle. I may actually put up a pic. lol.

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