Pressing & Natural Hairstyles
Hair is double strand twisted or coil twisted and wrapped around itself to make a knot and secured with bobby pins or elastic bands.
What are Bantu knots or Nubian knots?
Involves shaping and directing the hair into an S pattern using the fingers, a styling comb, and styling lotion or foam.
What is finger waving?
Ideal for securing longer hair.
What are duckbill clips?
Technique used to build a soft cushion or to mesh two or more curl patterns together for a uniform and smooth comb out.
What is backbrushing?
Feature a spring-loaded clamp controlled by the thumb.
What is a spring iron?
Removes about 60-75% of the curl and is accomplished by applying the thermal pressing comb once on each side of the hair, using slightly more pressure.
What is a medium press?
Involves forcing the hair between the thumb and the back of the comb to create tension.
What is ribboning?
Slender nylon and natural-bristle brushes that have a tail for sectioning and a narrow row of bristles, pins, or bolts.
What is a teasing brush?
Technique of gathering small sections of hair and twirling hair around fingers to create the coils.
What is finger coiling?
What is a marcel iron?
Separate networks of coily, textured hair that are intertwined and meshed together.
What are locs?
This base for pin curls is usually recommended at the side front hairline for a smooth, upswept effect.
What is a rectangular base?
Ideal for fingerwaves, detangling, parting, and sectioning the hair, wet sets, and thermal styling.
What is a cutting comb?
An interlocking method that uses a special tool to instantly loc any straight, relaxed, wavy, curly, coily, or highly textured hair starting from the hair ends.
What are sisterlocs?
Wearing a heat-resistant glove is necessary to avoid burning the skin when using this kind of thermal iron.
What is clamp-free irons?
Do this to your new brass pressing comb to remove any residue from the manufacturing process so it heats evenly.
What is temper?
These pin curls are placed immediately behind or below a ridge to form a wave.
What are ridge curls?
The alternating short and long teeth design can create a cushion at the base of the hair and provide lift, volume, and fullness anywhere within a finished hairstyle.
What is a teasing comb?
Curl pattern that creates volume of hair, movement, and a curl formation from scalp area to ends.
What is a root curl?
Similar to flat irons, except the plates create a zigzag or sawtooth pattern in the hair.
What are crimping irons?
Temporarily straightens all textured hair including curly, coily, and highly textured hair.
What is hair pressing?
These create height in the hair design and are fastened to the head in a standing position to allow the hair to flow upward and then downward.
What are cascade curls?
This brush provides a beveled blow-out look, adding smoothness with a bend on the ends of the hair.
Curl that is placed directly on its base and produces a tight, firm, long-lasting curl and allows minimum mobility.
What is a no-stem curl?
For a smoother and silkier result, clamp the iron on the hair, place a heat-resistant comb in front of the iron and the hair, and move the two in unison down the hair shaft.
What is chasing?