Revising the Twist Out

I like learning. I like being humbled. I like pleasant surprises, long walks, candle light dinners, paninis from Wawas... actually, I LOVE paninis from Wawas.

But right. On the topic of hair, over the weekend, I revisited a style that I've always wished I could love on my head. Have we talked about my love/hate relationship with twist outs? We have before, haven't we? 

-Quick recap-

* They are easy, super easy to install, but-

* My hair always looks thinner than normal when I do them.

* To counter the thinness, I separate the curls and fluff for fullness, but-

*  I get a multitude of tangles, and who needs encouraged tangles?

As a whole, twistouts just never look 'right' on me :-/. I don't know what it is.

But, over the weekend, as I stood wedged between my closet door and shelves laden with creams and oils, my eyes settled on my Miss Jessie's Baby Buttercream.

I've had this jar for months and months. Whenever I'd think about using it, I'd reread the ingredients list and gingerly put it back. The mineral oil and the petrolatum, were problematic. They still are, but since I'm close to my wash day, I thought it wouldn't hurt to experiment a little.

I completely saturated the sections of hair with the cream- like the cream seeped out of my hair as I completed each twist. When the cream would seep out, I'd swipe it off the twist, and redistribute it on my ends. Then, instead of cold rodding the ends, as I normally would, I'd wrap the ends around themselves à la bantu knot.

 A day later, the twists were unraveled. More importantly, I went against everything in my soul, and separated the sections entirely. I usually only concentrate on separating the roots and shaft of my hair, whenever I do braidouts and the like. I rarely ever separate the ends, but I stuck to the task at hand and went all the way.

 Surprisingly, the tangles were minimal.

 So far, anyways lol. At night, I've been pineappling ie, gathering my hair at the top of my head, and tying a scarf loosely around my head to keep it all in place.

I have to say I'm really feeling it. The definition at my ends is really pretty. My hair feels soft and moisturized, and I keep catching Babe trying to sneak sniffs lol.