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Thanks for the compliments ladies! I am happy to report that I did both twist styles myself!
For the really small twists that are hanging down, those took 12+ hours to do and I wore a half wig over the course of a weekend until I finished. I used a shea butter mix that I purchased at another fellow natural's hair site. If you are interested you can click here to learn more. I didn't use any parts and I just watched a ton of movies and twisted my hair in sections. My hair was air dried in braids so it was slightly stretched and then I applied her shea butter mix to each section and twisted. Each twist when stretched was just slightliy larger than coffee stirrer size, but with the shrinkage and swelling, they look much larger than that!
For the twist updo, those twists took about 4-5 hours and were done with miss jessie's curly pudding which gave my twists out of control shine!!! I hated how thin it made my twists though, so I attempted to do a french roll, and using a TON of pins to keep the twists in place that were too short to reach. The style is more a lucky unintended consequence of my frustration with the ugly twists! But the outcome was great!
I hope that was helpful! Please keep the pictures coming! I love looking at natural, relaxed, tex-laxed, jherri curled, and everything in between hair!!!
Love your twist. Doing the bolded now. Will attempt to mini twist later today