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	Khiwi's Pointless Ranting
	Khiwi's Pointless Ranting

	Long Hair Doesn't Lack Style - You Do
	Long Hair Doesn't Lack Style - You Do


I am sick and tired of people saying long hair has no style. That's ridiculous. Long hair can be styled in many, many different ways. The thing is, a lot of people don't really know how to style hair other than leaving it down and possibly curling or straightening it. So, I decided I would compile a guide here, with links to the clearest, most understandable tutorials (mostly videos) about styling your own long hair I could find. This guide will include links to lots of tutorials on braiding, buns and techniques for heatless straightening/curling. It is meant as a starting point from which to develop your own styles, not as a definitive guide to every kind of style possible. If any of the links no longer work, please PM me or comment here and let me know so I can find another tutorial to link to instead. Basic Braiding These techniques can be combined in many different ways. Use your creativity! You can find more advanced versions of these braids under Advanced Braiding. These techniques are roughly listed by difficulty. English Fishtail/herringbone Rope French Dutch(AKA inside-out French) Advanced Braiding These more advance braiding techniques are based off of the simple braiding technique shown in parenthesis after each link. Some of these are not much harder than the basic braid, while others are significantly more difficult. Hawser Braid(rope) Cable Braid(rope/hawser) Lace(French/Dutch) Waterfall(French) Crown Braid(Dutch) Ethnic Hairstyles A lot of these involve many small braids and are not styles you can typically expect to be able to do - at least well - on yourself, because of the time they take to do. These styles are marked with a star. As usual, these have the basic braiding techniques in parenthesis. Bantu/Zulu Knots(rope braids) Corn Rows(dutch braids)* Twists(rope braids)* Buns I feel the need to shamelessly plug hair sticks here. Most, if not all of these buns can be anchored using hair sticks. If you use them properly, hair sticks make putting your hair up in a bun much easier and less time consuming. I have made an effort to try and find tutorials that use hair sticks, but not all of the linked videos do. If you do not want to use hair sticks, spin pins also work well to easily anchor buns. Cinnabun with pins Nautilus bun Hypno-bun Infinity bun Lazy Wrap bun Chinese bun. Curling/Straightening The links may not mention the technique by the name I use to describe them. The names given are meant to give some sort of description of how the technique works, and I may or may not have come up with these names myself. The premise of some of these techniques should be obvious just by the name, so I have not linked to any specific tutorial. Effects of these techniques follow in parenthesis, if not obvious by the name. Wrapping(straightening) damp bunning(waves/curls) damp braiding(waves) rag curls(spiral curls) snake/bandana waves Cocoon curls Other things to try ~Half-ups - bun or braid the half-up tail ~Braided buns ~French/Dutch other basic - or advanced! - braids ~Split or combine English braids ~Use your imagination! If there are any styles you would like me to add, by all means, PM me or comment here and I would be happy to look for a tutorial. It's easy to say you'd die for someone, but would you live for that person? The Long Hair Community Khiwanean · Mon Dec 19, 2011 @ 12:55am · 0 Comments


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