Nikcoils - Shingling- Do you have any Tips?

okay the pics i posted don't give this hair style any justice. One of my coworkers actually retook some pictures with her camera phone that came out so much more brighter. I guess better lighting then at my home. so when she emails them to me I will repost them. When i saw the pics i took I even said OOOOH AHHH that is cute.

The better pics of my updo

My Blast from my past

Okay this is the oldest pics I can find which is from about 8 years ago. I was transitioning about a year here. It's was taken about a month before hubby proposed. I never had thinning issues when I had the cream crack but i did shed like a dog. I think the longest my hair was BSL with the perm. At this stae i was growing out some layers cause i used to wear my hair flipped all over in college and i loved cutting my hair short in the front and keeping it long in the back.

November 2002(transitioning for about a year)


Valentine's day 2008 (No perm all natural) just press and flat ironing hair went in a bun the next day due me having puffy hair the next day. I just couldn't get over not having that slick look.

Your updos look amazing!! I really like this current one. VERY professional! I used to have the hardest time with my braiders to come up with a look that could work at work and out of work too. This looks great!!

I YT!!

Work it...npmoore...you're my idol!

Happy Monday Ladies!


Still rocking my previous updo except I unpinned it and threw it in a low bun. I plan on taking it down this week I need to figure out another style. Well went over my mom's house Saturday to pick up my over head dryer and she ask why do you need it? I told her I was thinking of doing a roller set on my hair. Her response on your nappy hair? My response um yes on my natural hair, you know that is possible. She just reponds that is for permed hair only. I just shook my head and told her no it's not! Now I feel like the I've been challenged and determined to show her I can wear a roller set on my hair. And after this convo she said I did a good job on my cornrows...uh mom look closer they are twists. SO she asked me to re-cornrow her hair for her wig wear, I just 2 strand flat twisted her hair and braided the ends. Because i know my cornrowing skills are nonexistant. While I was doing her hair I told her her grey was coming in pretty and trying to get her to cut her hair. We'll see where this goes.

So my challenge is to do a decent enough roller set on my own hair to show her it isn't only for perm laden hair. I think I might just need to go ahead and bite the bullet and buy those curlformers. ($80 sigh that is a lot of dinero on a hair product)

Can't wait to see the roller set!!!

Nice updo and I cant wait to see the rollerset!

Wow! No, Moms did not hit you with the nappy hair comment! LOL

Yeah, you gotta take the challenge! You cannot go out like that...

What about flexi-rods? That would be pretty on your hair. They are cheaper than the expensive-azz curlformers! ;-)

i've seen alot of people doing those flexi rods i may need to try them just weird how they stay in place at the bottom without a clamp.

TheRYL1 wrote:Wow! No, Moms did not hit you with the nappy hair comment! LOL

Yeah, you gotta take the challenge! You cannot go out like that...

What about flexi-rods? That would be pretty on your hair. They are cheaper than the expensive-azz curlformers! ;-)

Oh yes her mom did. Honestly, we should start recording the naysayers. I am just about ready to hit the play button every time someone looks at my hair at home!!! Thereby saving them the trouble of having to use precious oxygen to dis my hair. Plus it's the same "no you can't" no matter how many times you can and do!!!

Your mom is challenging you!!! Secretly, I bet she knows you can do it. Maybe she's thinking of getting you to do it on yourself as practice for her styles!

(She sounds so funny!!! I can picture her skeptical look as she glances sideways at your hair!!!)

I am going to try the bendys first too but I am all over the curlformers. I'll let you know how I make out this weekend. We should check out youtube.

You're so right. It's a gift and a curse that we have to be "natural hair representatives" It's nice to show people what our hair can do. But it can be frustrating when there's so much pressure to "prove" something to people... But I digress, can't wait to see the rollerset. I'm gonna hold out on the curlformers until my hair gets a bit longer.

i've been stalking every type of roller set from per rods to curlformers. I attempted it a few months ago and it was an epic fail due to me applying to many products, Tia and Chrs told me less is more like just the setting lotion and a light oil. I may revisit the roller set cheat it is on You tube. I think a few vids or up on it and chrs did one as well and it came out pretty.

Happy FRIDAY!!!!

Well I took my 2 week old twist down today with the flat twist still in tact and my twistout is awesome!!! I have afriends birthday party to attend after work so all I ave to do is change my clothes and refresh my make up! I think in in i flat twist the other side I will finally be able to achieve my desired fro/fauxhawk look.

But YAY!! today is payday and I get to got search for some rollers either curlformers (I have to get the extra long and wide for 22 in long hair) and if i can't find those then it looks like i might have to go witth the flexirods. So I can shut the haters up in regards to me being able to do a roller set on my "nappy" hair. I really despise the fact that majority of my hair hater are on the home team and when i say that I say my immediate family. I have a aunt who is here from tennesse and she saw me a few days a go with my twist in and she gave me the GAS face and said you wore your hair like that to work?(I work in HR at a public university) I replied with my own stink face yeah! and there is nothing wrong with it, remeber sweetie i live and work in California and even though I am in HR I work on a campus where the atmosphere is a little bit more liberal, there are plenty of women on campus that wear their hair like this and hold a variety of positions...so please Auntie let's not go there about my hair, because I don't want to comment on yours. Her reply, OK i'm sorry your right i am coming from the south and it is different out here. UGH! let me find these rollers...not sure if i have the paitience for ebay.

So ladies if you've used curlformers or Flexirods? What do you put on you hair prior to applying the rollers/curlformer? and what setting lotion do you use? I have some 5 year old dusty Motions Setting lotion and I have no idea if it is any good.

My last set was a fail due to applying way to much products.

I wished there was a way to change the title without having to post another reply. especially when you forget to change it.

Hey NP,

Haters...they are everywhere! LOL So sad we have to combat them in our own homes...SMH.

As for setting lotion for a flexi-rod set, I've used the old relaxer stand-by...LottaBody! You know just be sure to dilute it (1 pt. LB, 3 parts water)...or you will regret it big time! ;-)

OK...now I may have to try a flexi-set this weekend just to see how it'll look on my fully natural hair (I liked it when transitioning).

Can't wait for your results!

npmoore i love your hair! about the haters, let them hate and i am sure that roller set will be fab-o. i plan on trying one very soon (i have 4c or whatever the kinkiest, thickest hair is lol)

Your hair looks good! I really don't see a fail!!

I love the side curled 'do! Very lovely!

My parents and sibling are cool with nappy hair. My husband and my son are the ones to win in my family. Whenever I take my hair down, he's always like, "Why don't you go do something with your hair?" That's probably his biggest fault. But, when I do it...I mean really do it (it's got to be glamorous now), he's all into it! My son, I've seen that he has an interest in mixed chics. Anytime he talks about a girl he likes, he says she is pretty and has long hair! He was around when I was wearing straight hair down my back. His dad still tells him stories about it. It's like I killed my claim to beauty to them, I guess, lol! Anyway, I just hope by the time he gets a little older, after having a mother with it, he'll learn to appreciate kinky hair. I don't think there is anything wrong with having a preference, but I don't want him dissing the sistas by any means because of his silly father's straight hair hang-ups. It's messed up when our culture brainwashes us into dissing ourselves.

I digress though. You look fabulous darling! And I like the eyeshadow too!

Oh yeah, I like flexirods but I didn't know curlformers cost so much. They didn't look to be that price at Sally's...but maybe I wasn't looking hard enough. Anyway, I just like some kind of oil, some leave-in (I use alba) and a fix like the JCS Condition & Sculpt. I haven't tried with DM Miracurl Jelly, but I will eventually because I love that stuff for a soft-hold fix too.

Happy Monday Ladies!!!


OK I have never done a review of any kind on any type of hair products so bear with me. So I bit the bullet and purchased me some curlformers. NOTE: I've been stalking every Youtube video out there about curlformes (white, black, hispanic, curly, staright, relaxed, short, long) just so i could see the process and the out come and the pros and cons each person experienced. What I didn't come across is what I experienced this weekend that i did not see on not one video.

Let me start by saying if you don't know about shrinkage being a major deception on the length of your hair you may need to literally pull out a ruler and drench your hair in water pull it as straight as you can while looking forward take a picture and then take that in to Sally's to show them how long you hair truely is....OK I was thinking of ordering the Curlformers from the company directly but i didn't want to wait. The reason why is my initial thought was that I need to order the EXTRA LONG and EXTRA WIDE Curlformers because it is for lengths up to 22 inches. I really wanted to do this style this weekend. So I went to Sally's BSS and they had a salon kit that had 40 Long and wide rollers and 6 short and wide rollers and the wand. The clerk at the store told me you should have no problem mind you my hair in twist out and my hair is at my shoulders unstretched. And i explained my hair is close to waist length I think these rollers might be to short. SO she took out a sample one I pull my hair past my bra strap and she unraveld the roller and it look like it would fit. so i bought my Elasta QP smoothe as silk styling foam and some serum and was sold. Her are the pictures of my experience, with comical captions.

How my hair looked when i went in to Sally's (looks can be deceiving)


Beginning to put the Curlformers in my hair at 10:48pm (what was a smoking starting my hair that late on a Saturday night knowing I got to be a church at 8am) Do you see what I see? about 4 inches of hair that DID NOT fit in the Curlformers so I ended up haivng to put perm rods on the ends. Oh I forgot to mention I am roller challenged. My face is not happy.


10:49pm let's start on my next section of hair (I put too much hair in the roller). Let me see what i am working with not that high up on my head maybe my hair is shorter and will fit. NOT! If your hair is BSL or longer stretched please purchase the EXTRA LONG and EXTRA WIDE Curlformers.

same section unstretched (DUMB SHRINKAGE) We have a love hate relationship. I really thought well if it is unstretched it should fit. I was so wrong.


1:31am starting on the last quarter of my head can you see I am tired and ready to just put this in a ponytail and go to sleep. Now 2 hours isn't from the curlformers which are really easy to put in. I probably would have been done in an hour. It's the dumb perm rods that keppt unraveling and breaking and was my main reanson for looking for another way to rollerset my hair.


So after I finished the last section. I just went to sleep. The Curlformers are definatley easy to sleep on. It was the PERM rollers that gave me a crook in my neck and forced me to sleep pretty. Mind you I only got 4 hours of sleep and the rollers/Curlformers were in for only that time. I want to sit under my dryer for atleas 30 minutes but I was beyond deliirious at 2am. So here is the take down at 7am before going to church.

I LIKEY! Unfortunately i didn't take pics of how i styled it (just pinned up acouple in the front.) I couldn't be late to church I'm on the Praise and Worship team.

This is the front and back today (2nd day hair). Just shook them out and left for work. Just through on a satin bonnet at night. I see how I got lazy and had bigger sections, in the upper back sections. Next time I will start earlier and make smaller sections and sit under the over head dryer for at least 30 minutes. Because the larger sections were still a lil damp at the root. but i only had the rollers in for 4 and half hours with NO HEAT USED AT ALL. I still had about 6 unused rollers. and i never used any of the 6 short rollers. my bangs were to long for those. So i used 36 out 46 rollers.

Front

Back


and my pic of my Covergirl Orange Eyeshadow I wore today(For my Make up LOVERS OUT THERE)




So if I had to give this CURLFORMERS a Rating I would give it out of 5 FROS.

Only because if your hair is longer when stretched no matter how hard you try your hair won't fit unless you purchase the longer one that are in a salon kit and they were about 15 dollars more not including shipping and wait time. I wish I could have gotten those instore and only Sally's Beauty Supply Stores are authorized sellers and the curllformers website. And all i used was the setting foam on damp hair. I could have purchased the longer ones in a start pack but you only get about 5 for $13. And they only had 2 packs at the Sally's I went to and it still would have totalled about $80 if i were able to purchase the 6 or 7 packs 5 I would need to do my entire head. I reall think they are a great investment. I plan on cutting my hair at the end of the year so I am sure they will fit by then. Have a great day Curlistas!

Great Curlformers results! I will try them when my hair gets longer.

Love the results! I applaud you for doing a rollerset with waist length hair!

Excellent results! I want to try them some time. But I'm a little preoccupied at the moment....But after seeing your hair, I'm definitely going to get some!

It turned out really nice!!! BTW I loved your facial expressions in your pictures!!!

WhosThatRedHead wrote:It turned out really nice!!! BTW I loved your facial expressions in your pictures!!!

GIRL! I seriously was thinking it's 1:30 in the morning I am goona be pissed if I did all this and it isn't dry in the morning. Maybe i should throw this last section in a pony as is...I would've been looking a hot mess at church but they would just assume it's another natural style i came up with if I went there with a half hair do.

Your hair is soooo long! Wow...

Your results turned out great! I ALWAYS get tired when I get to the back of my head while styling.