I wish I knew this when I was transitioning as a natural because I may have been natural a little while longer (but knowing what I know now, I still would have gotten sisterlocks years ago). If you are currently waiting for your hair to grow a little longer for sisterlocks or locks in general, this is the perfect way to help manage your hair as you wait.

I always thought the beginning of your natural hair journey is always easier (once you figure out what products works etc.), since your hair is very short and manageable. As your natural hair gets longer, you have to do extra step to detangle your hair even before you can even style it.

Below is a great solution to help manage your much longer hair when you are on a time crunch. Also if you have little girls who is a natural, this will help soothe her when she is wanting a little more manageable hair like her fellow classmates. I do this on my daughter hair all the time, it helps with the pain, and makes her hair a little bit more manageable. To minimize the effect of heat on her hair, I use a heat protector, and a blow dryer with a diffused top. Below is the step by step instruction on how to do a "blowout" on kinky, curly hair.

Material
- Heat Protector - I used "Kinky, Wavy, Natural Hair" on my daughter hair, but you can use Oyin Handmade or Protective Mist Bodifier or any oil base product (for example my homemade spray).
- Blow Dryer with concentrator top
- Wide Tooth Comb
- Butterfly Clips

Step 1 - Apply your heat protector, and then you are going to section your hair into four sections. Clip three of those section with a butterfly clips. Note: I assume you have already detangled your hair already when you wash your hair etc. If you need to know how to detangle, click here. 

Step 2A - Working with one section at a time, proceed to blow dry that section.  Tip: When you are using the blow dryer, pull the hair downward (lightly) as your blow dry it. This help stretch the hair out even more.



Step 2A - If you have the concentrator top, push against the hair as you blow downward. If you don't have a concentrator top, you should not blow dry close to the hair.  Note: Don't dry the hair all the way, proceed to Step 3!!!


Step 3 - You are then going to use the wide tooth comb to detangle or help separate the hair some more.


Step 4 - Once you have detangled the hair, then you blow it out some more until it is completely dry. Example of a complete blow dry hair is on the left vs. the one on the right (which is still wet).



Final Step - Repeat step 2-3 until you have done the whole head. If you want, while you are doing each section, you can either twist them or add perm rods to the hair. This will either give a curly or twist out effect.






I happen to style my daughter hair as I blow dry it. Above is the final result of her hair session. No flat iron was used!!!! Just a simple blowout to help loosen her really tight curls. I only did two posts on natural hair featuring my daughter, but if you really find these posts useful, I'm willing to share more of my findings with you guys. Just let me know below :D.

Note: I have done this multiply time, but I don't do it all the time, so please do blowout sparely. Even though your hair is straighter, it will go back to normal if you wet it, or if you live near a high humid area. Hope this post help make your natural hair journey a little easier as you wait to be locked up ^_^.