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Crochet Braid Controversy

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How should the cornrows be done?

  • Strait back

    Votes: 25 73.5%

  • Around the World

    Votes: 4 11.8%

  • Some other way

    Votes: 5 14.7%
  • Total voters
    34
  • Poll closed .
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~Sparklingflame~

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I am going to do my own set of crochet braids in the near future thanks to Nikolite and Kbragg. I have only had them done once back in the late 90's early 2000s and I have never done a set myself.

Me and one of my BF were talking about the cornrows and how they should be done. One of us thinks it can bee done going strait back and still look good while the other of us believes that the around-the-world cornrows are the only way the hair will lay right.

What do you think?

*I know this aint controversial. I just wanted you in here* :lachen::lachen::lachen:
 
I voted straight back, but I meant to vote some other way lol. I used to get crochet braids a long time ago and the stylist that did them corn-rowed the back half of my head going straight across (ear to ear) and the front going straight back. I could create a part in different spots in the front without having to worry about the illusion of having "missed a spot" in the back.
 
Black Masterpiece does them straight back and pins the ends across the back of the head, and I've never seen them look anything but beautiful. No gaps or anything. So that would be my vote.
Here's a link: Crochet Braids
 
I wondered what the controversy was. :) Either cornrow pattern is good imo - it just depends on personal preference. I think the circle (beehive) patterns lay a bit better but you have to have a fringe falling forward to hide the front row (like a weave). If you're doing your own hair I think working straight backwards while you latch is easier.
 
I always do all of mine straight back.

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I think it lays well. Excuse my extra obvious drawn eyebrows. :giggle: I went extra hard on them that day. :lol:
 
I use to get mine done going straight back....they looked good to me like that...

sidenote: Am I the only one that use to call them interlocks...that is what we called them in the late 90's.....
 
~Sparklingflame~ said:
*I know this aint controversial. I just wanted you in here* :lachen::lachen::lachen:
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:lol: You did a good job!

I say do them straight back. I don't see the point in going through all the work to do around the world. They would over your eyes that way I'd think. Since the style usually falls with a part in the middle or to the side I'd do straight back.

But I've also heard of doing it straight back in the front with a zig-zag horizontal pattern or around the world in the back. I think that's what BlackMasterPiece does.

With curly hair it shouldn't matter either way cause the parts don't show regardless.
 
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nikolite said:
:lol: You did a good job!

I say do them straight back. I don't see the point in going through all the work to do around the world. They would over your eyes that way I'd think. Since the style usually falls with a part in the middle or to the side I'd do straight back.

But I've also heard of doing it straight back in the front with a zig-zag horizontal pattern or around the world in the back. I think that's what BlackMasterPiece does.
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Yeah, my vote was strait back. BF says around the world but to also do like what you said BMP does: strait back in the front, then around the world in the back.

Thats too much for me, so I am doing strait back. Maybe like, with 15 cornrows or so,
 
~Sparklingflame~ said:
*I know this aint controversial. I just wanted you in here* :lachen::lachen::lachen:
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:lol: :lol: :lol:

Why did I fly into this thread all curious about what the big "controversy" is behind these braids, only to find out it was a trick. But I guess your ploy worked didn't it?

I am too through. :lachen:
 
TaraDyan said:
:lol: :lol: :lol:

Why did I fly into this thread all curious about what the big "controversy" is behind these braids, only to find out it was a trick. But I guess your ploy worked didn't it?

I am too through. :lachen:
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I know! I'm wearing crochet braids now and I got all scared thinking there was formeldahyde in my hair or it was about to be falling out or something! :lol:
 
~Sparklingflame~ said:
I am going to do my own set of crochet braids in the near future thanks to Nikolite and Kbragg. I have only had them done once back in the late 90's early 2000s and I have never done a set myself.

Me and one of my BF were talking about the cornrows and how they should be done. One of us thinks it can bee done going strait back and still look good while the other of us believes that the around-the-world cornrows are the only way the hair will lay right.

What do you think?

*I know this aint controversial. I just wanted you in here* :lachen::lachen::lachen:
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:rofl:
Tell me why i rolled up in here, sooo ready for it....:look:
 
ms-gg said:
I use to get mine done going straight back....they looked good to me like that...

sidenote: Am I the only one that use to call them interlocks...that is what we called them in the late 90's.....
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Nope, I've moved around the past few years and have heard crochet briads, tree braids and interlock. I"m tri-lingual.
 
ms-gg said:
I use to get mine done going straight back....they looked good to me like that...

sidenote: Am I the only one that use to call them interlocks...that is what we called them in the late 90's.....
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We called them latch hooks. People don't even know what crochet braids are here unless theyve been on youtube and hair boards.
 
There is this lady on you tube who did micros braids (pre braided hair) was beautiful.. I think it took her a while though.. She braids the back in a bee hive and the front she has going back with a part so you can have a side part.. She also stated that she put the braid in downward this way when she pulls her hair up you cant see her cornrows.. She said the smaller the cornrow the better the braids hold because she said she has braid just slip out even with it being in a knot.. she used a lot so her micros could look full.. I am at work and I cannot get on youtube at work..

If I was doing micros I would do it like hers. I can't find the pre-braided micro hair anywhere in the BSS stores have to order it online. They kind they have in the BSS is just braided hair.. I was looking for the kind that's braided with some curl to it at the ends

Here it is I went back to an old post that I posted for someone else who was asking a question about crochet braids..

4 parts to it..

YouTube - Micro Crochet Prt (1)
 
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