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I am not sure you can call mine sleek, but I do them on stretched airdried hair. I don't use any products and I think they turn out OK. This is an example of what they look like freshly done:
This is after a wash:
And this is after about 8 washes...when they get pretty fuzzy and not exactly what you want.
All pics show the hair w/o any product in it, so I imagine an oil might've given them some type of sheen but I hate product in my hair and don't mind them as they are.
too! See, my problem is when I do them they always look so fuzzy and frizzy but yours look great. I've never done them on airdried strecthed hair but I will. Thanks!
Wow, those are
Do you twirl the hair in each strand around it's axis before crossing them over? Maybe that's what you need to do.
When I twist, I don't just take two sections and wrap them around each other. I first twist them separately and only THEN do I wrap them around each other.
I tried to show this slowly in this vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-PPsh1_Np0
And then I made this vid to show that it doesn't have to take long once you get the hang of it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm0c7KPcj08
The only thing you might not like about twisting like this is the twists come out skinny. But I fix that by CWing as soon as I'm done which makes them fatten up but also hang down straight--coz I let them drip dry with a towel draped over my shoulders.
What I like about twisting like this is the hair in each strand is kept from getting tangled with that in the other strand. So take down is as easy as this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jff-Uqfb_SA
) I thought that maybe this would work. I'm gonna try it.
