BRAIDS: Check yourself before you wreck yourself!!!

[tailormade84]

Helpful hint from the Taliah Waajid Natural Hair Care website:
"How to self check your braided or weaved hair style for potential hair and scalp damage. Place your thumb tip and your pointer finger tip at the base of one of your braids or cornrows. Squeeze gently. Do you feel a knot? If you can feel a knot or a lump then you are at high risk for hair breakage, receding hair line, scalp bumps and other complications which always result in dryness, brittleness, matting, thinning and hair loss. Your braids are also likely to come a loose or slip out. The best way to eliminate this unwanted problem is to check the first few braids you receive. If you detect a knot, ask the stylist to stop. Make sure that you are getting professional services that will not damage your hair. It is wise to first seek a professional consultation."


You better believe im going to try this the next time i get braids/twists
Let's hold fast to our hairline ladies!!!

 

[RadiantBeauty]

Very informative! Thanks for the tip

 

[luckiestdestiny]

Thanks for the information. Luckily I braid my own hair most of the time, but I checked when I read this and didn't feel a knot so good for me! I haven't had any problems with breakage or hairline either but then again I don't braid crazy tight.

 

[tailormade84]

buming for our braiding ladies

 

[Nonie]

Why don't I get it? What type of knot? I know most people wrap the hair at the base of the braid so get something that looks like a knot, so what sort of knot are they talking about? Coz braiding without first wrapping the hair is something only some of us do, otherwise there would not have been a thread referring to the method of not wrapping first as "the African braiding way" or whatever it was called. So do they mean that knot? Coz I do know people who don't know any other way of braiding so have always had that wrapping "knot" and their hair thrived.

Does anyone have a photo or better explanation?

 

[CurliDiva]

Why don't I get it? What type of knot? I know most people wrap the hair at the base of the braid so get something that looks like a knot, so what sort of knot are they talking about? Coz braiding without first wrapping the hair is something only some of us do, otherwise there would not have been a thread referring to the method of not wrapping first as "the African braiding way" or whatever it was called. So do they mean that knot? Coz I do know people who don't know any other way of braiding so have always had that wrapping "knot" and their hair thrived.

Does anyone have a photo or better explanation?

I agree....you could have damage from braids that have nothing to do with the "so-call" knot at the base.

I'm thinking that this may be a way of promoting their style of braid extensions, but I would need a better description of how this KNOT would cause "scalp disorders" alone.

 

[Jazala]

Why don't I get it? What type of knot? I know most people wrap the hair at the base of the braid so get something that looks like a knot, so what sort of knot are they talking about? Coz braiding without first wrapping the hair is something only some of us do, otherwise there would not have been a thread referring to the method of not wrapping first as "the African braiding way" or whatever it was called. So do they mean that knot? Coz I do know people who don't know any other way of braiding so have always had that wrapping "knot" and their hair thrived.

Does anyone have a photo or better explanation?

I think they mean a knot on the scalp? I've seen braids pulled too tight where you can see little bumps.