My Two-strand Twists are Three Weeks Old....

So over the past two months I've done and redone my two strand twists twice. I kept my last set in for five weeks before redoing them (over the course of three days) about three weeks ago. I generally recommend that people redo their edges every week to ten days in order to preserve their twists for a month or more at a time. Thankfully, I looked in the mirror last week, took my own advice, and re-did my edges.  I've found that keeping my hair in updos has helped me keep my twists in, with minimal upkeep, for 3-5 weeks at a time.

Here are some photos:

Twisty Pop
Three weeks in

This is the style that I did at the three week mark, called the Twisty Pop. It is a modification of the Lollipop found in my book, One Hairstyle, Thirty-One Ways.



Updo
Two weeks in


I generally do a new hairstyle every day, but this is the first style that I did after refreshing my edges at the two week mark. It is an unnamed simple updo.




Refreshed Edges
Two weeks in


At the two week mark I refreshed my twists, in that I did a co-wash, oiled and sealed my hair, and redid my front edges.

Edges
Two weeks in

This is what my edges looked like prior to being refreshed.  They were fuzzy and sad. But since I experience this every week and a half or so, I knew that all it would take to make my twists look good was a little time, water and product.

Fresh Twists
Newly redone twists - I was tired!

These are my freshly redone twists (from three weeks ago) - it took me several days but I washed and conditioned my hair, took out my old twists section by section, wet, oiled and sealed it, and used several shea based products to twist it.

I truly believe that we can all keep our medium and mini-twists for a month at a time without retwisting all of our hair. It is a healthy protective style that minimizes manipulation and can be styled in hundreds of (or at least thirty-one) ways. Like the book above, and check out the book links here in order to find hairstyles that can be done on twisted, loc'd, or loose hair.

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Write by: Unknown - Friday, September 30, 2011