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I tried it today, finger detangling all my hair the way Cipriana does it in the video took me about three hours. Thing is that I broke way fewer hairs than I did using my wide toothed comb. And when a full strand did come out it was shed with the root and all there were very few of those about twenty. It's time consuming, but I think doing it Cipriana's way might yield more retention for me.

I did the detangling before I washed my hair and I didn't have a big job of detangling afterward either. That part was cool. I just separated my hair into 6 sections and braided them up to dry no fuss no muss afterward.
 
She gets such amazing retention that way. I'd love to try, but I'm not gonna fool myself. I barely have the perseverance to do 15 twists, much less 10X that.
 
I can't even watch her video much less do all those twists. Maybe thats why I still have short hair, more power to her.
 
Another thought. If she always keeps it stretched and in twists... why not just loc it up? Less maintenance than what she's doing now.
 
^ Her hair already looks locked to me. I know she says she keeps her loose hair in twists, but when you look closely at her pictures, it seems as though she twists locked up hair. Her twists don't look the way usual loose haired twists look.
 
I've been only finger detangling for over a year and a half now and can't see myself going back to a comb. I finger detangle on dry hair with coconut oil when wearing twists and braid-outs. I finger detangle on wet hair when wearing WNGs or CG.
 
pookaloo83 said:
I might be the only that thinks her hair looks a mess and a HAM sometimes. *exits*

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pookaloo83 you're not. but hey not everyone likes the sleek or defined curly look. She likes what she likes, it's just not for me so I have a hard time watching their videos, plus they never tell me anything new.
 
The video is kind of long but I appreciate her level of detail in explaining the process. As a fine 4a/4b, I can understand the need to be extremely meticulous in detangling. It's where I lose the bulk of my hair and I'm still trying to find some balance.
 
BEAUTYU2U said:
Another thought. If she always keeps it stretched and in twists... why not just loc it up? Less maintenance than what she's doing now.
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Not everybody wants locs. I want long hair and have to keep it stretched or else breakage city but you won't see me in locs. I can't commit to that long term of a style lol
 
not to state the obvious or anything but her bun is HUGE! its about the same size as my head (afro included) :lol:
 
DayDreamist said:
@pookaloo83 you're not. but hey not everyone likes the sleek or defined curly look. She likes what she likes, it's just not for me so I have a hard time watching their videos, plus they never tell me anything new.
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I'm playing with updo's right now, too. I've been wearing my hair up about 95% of the time. I don't create a style that I leave in for weeks at a time, but I create a style every day that doesn't require me to comb through my hair.

Also, I've gotten away from the defined curl look. I find that I like the different textures I can create on my stretched hair. One of the upsides to this styling regime is that I'm learning to work with the natural volume that my hair has. I don't feel the need to pull it back tightly and force it to be sleek. As a result, I don't have any problems with thinning edges or broken hairs at my nape.

I feel like highly defined curls is just one of the options with this chameleon hair of mine.
 
Foxglove said:
Not everybody wants locs. I want long hair and have to keep it stretched or else breakage city but you won't see me in locs. I can't commit to that long term of a style lol
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Of course I understand that but she basically has those anyway (lol)
 
choctaw said:
she saturates her hair with oil to do a dry finger detangling ... otay ...
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I do that, but only when I am taking out my kinky twists and getting ready to wash and steam my hair.
 
Very happy to see this video. I long suspected her hair was loc'd; now I am sure of it. I have fine hair, and it is very easy to loc in a few weeks. Finger detangling isn't going to take all the matts out of that much hair, even in 10 hours. In that video watching the hair catch into a mat on screen assures me that the rest of her hair is definitely matted.

She has added a new technique to locs. This would be great for someone that wants the retention of locs without the permanence. Long as they have the time to unlock every month.
 
^^yeh, i dunno... i don't think it's matted throughout. kinky/cottony textures will matte extremely quickly, but much less so w/out frequent washes. and when she's in twists i don't believe she washes regularly. i think her entire head is as loose as the section she showed in the vid. i will def check out her 'long' version of this video tho to verify this (i dunno how she could stretch out this principle across 2 videos frankly but i wanna see more hair).

re: dry detangling. yes, yes, it's not completely w/out product but it's still 'dry' imo. most people say to saturate hair in condish or water to detangle. i gave up on that fall last year because i realized it was harder to detangle w/out breakage when my hair was wet. in condish or water my hair is 'wet'. in oils or butter my hair is definitely not wet. just greasy/slippery. so the term dry is still accurate, at least it makes sense to me.

i've been finger detangling for a few months now. i can't go back to combs. it takes a lot longer, but it's worth it. 10hrs for her head is fast. when i hadn't detangled in 6wks, i had to spend 3d... probably 6hr each day. it felt worth it tho. i lost a lot of hair (a crazy amt actually) but most of it was legitimately shed hair since, unlike w/ a comb or denman, i am always aware of every single broken hair since i'm working so closely w/ them.
 
She has great hair and it suits her.

God bless her and the long detangling sessions....I almost want to cut my hair off after an hour of wet fingercombing :nono:
 
Her hair doesn't look locked to me. It looks like stretched 4B hair. Her reggie works for her. It's not for everyone clearly. I like her hair but I don't like a lot of her huge exaggerated updos. I'm also not a fan of that YT channel, mostly because of the really long videos.

ETA: As someone who wears braids back to back to back- that's what kinky hair looks like when it's constantly in braids or twists (not braid outs or twist outs). My hair looks like that too sometimes if I haven't washed it and let it shrink. Her hair is NOT locked. She runs her fingers through it at about 9:00 min in.
 
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~~HoneyComb~~ said:
She has great hair and it suits her.

God bless her and the long detangling sessions....I almost want to cut my hair off after an hour of wet fingercombing :nono:
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I might try it once a month or every other detangling session but it seems a little too much for me.:look:
 
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