Hey YouTube World!
It's me, Evelyn here with the first hashtag BGBB, Black Girl Beauty Brand video review
of the year, of 2017 - welcome.
Y'all know me by now.
I love a good snapback and a good head wrap, amen?
Alright?
Multiplicity.
Duality.
[chuckles] Mkay?
I get consistently get asked how I tie my head wraps both in real life and online.
The truth of the matter is, you just tie a knot until it pleases you.
Uhh, but people don't really like that answer.
Chinero Nnamani is my Naija sister.
Alright?
[Nigerian accent] She's from the west side.
[Kenyan accent] And I am repping?
And I am...And I am repping the east.
I don't even know if that was correct. [kisses teeth]
Hashtag irregardless, it is a match made in African diasporic heaven.
So Chinero has a shop.
It is her name chineronnamni.com.
Link will be in the video description box for your clicking pleasure.
So Chinero sells head wraps,
but not just any head wraps.
Her head wraps are reversible.
They're two-sided, so there's two different...on the other si--
I'm giving you synonyms, basically.
Y'all know what reversible means.
Take this for example.
You have one side is all the geometry, okay?
You have this nice teal background.
But then you have the grid, alright?
Then you have the octagon with circles inside giving you optical illusions.
And then you have -- is it a diamond or a square?
And then you flip it around and you come to this side which is completely different.
It is a red, hot pink, magenta, yellow, purple situation.
Again with the hypnotics.
So you can make sure that you tie it if you only want to see this side, or maybe you only
want to see this side, but I think the real beauty of it, you know what I'm saying, the
artistry comes into play whenever you see a little bit of this poking through the majority
of this, you know what I'm saying, and vice versa.
These head wraps are really sturdy.
100% cotton.
And they're pretty thick.
You have to remember that it is actually in fact two head wraps sewn together.
Very nice, rounded edges.
There are no raggedy seams or fraying at the seams.
It is very well done.
And I also appreciate that there are no tags.
I know branding is important and whatnot, but I hate it when I do a head wrap and the
tag is like, sticking in the back and I don't know, or it's like, randomly right here sticking
up and I don't know.
Um, it's just not a good look.
So I appreciate that these do not have itchy tags on them.
For the length!
These head wraps are 72 by 16 inches.
My entire arm span if you're wondering how long that is for context.
Sixteen inches.
It is...it's touching-- the bottom is touching the ground and this is how high it comes up,
so it's long.
Okay let's get to what y'all wanna know - the price, alright?
Each head wrap is $48.99.
Stop right there.
Ima stop you right the---
I don't know what y'all pay, but what I pay for one head wrap is $20-$25.
You might be lookin' at me like...
And I be lookin' at you like...
So if you keep in mind that this is actually two head wraps, uh, you know, two pieces of
fabric, that makes sense.
The math - it computes!
Alright, now I wanna show you this head wrap, so...let me...switch.
[snaps]
Oooo!
It's giving me a little abstract, you know what I'm saying, deconstructed kente.
I love that it's giving you like, "Big stripe, big stripe.
Little stripe, little stripe."
And then this is giving me kind of Maasai, alright?
Minus the green.
But it's giving me like a slight Maasai plaid, word to my people.
It's giving me ROYGBIV.
This head wrap is very Crayola, very primary color, very "Taste the rainbow".
But I know you're wondering how I tie this thing.
Girl, I ain't got the answers, but ima try.
Here we go.
[swoosh]
♫ soft hip-hop ♫ So once you decide what side you want your
head wrap to be in, uh, you start off by tying a simple knot.
Alright?
That's knot number one.
Here you have this excess fabric, and if you actually have lots of hair this is where it
would be, but y'all know I'm bald head, so I'm just going to roll this onto itself.
Nothing scientific.
And now it's time to make our...
second knot.
You guessed it.
And now, instead of completing the third knot, I'm just going to tuck the ends into the lil'
bally ball situation, alright.
Tuck the beady beads away, and that's it!
That's how I wear my head wraps the majority of the time.
No comment.
Uh, and uh, that's what I'm lookin' like.
On any given day.
Fashion.
Class.
Next, um, this really works best if your hair is flat, so if my hair is twists still or
braids, but um, I just cross each tail in the back.
I don't tie a knot, I just cross them over in the back like so.
And then I bring them forward to the front.
And then I - can you guess?
- tie a knot!
And then I just proceed to tuck things in a fashion like such as to where they're not
sticking out.
Lots of tucking, my arms be real tired, but in the end, it's cute.
And some people like to leave this on their hairline.
I actually like to push it back a little bit and show a little bit of my hair.
Thats just my personal preference.
Hide the beady beads.
And that's it!
That's the second way that I tie my head wraps.
Um, usually on more flat hair than this, but you know, what can I say?
Another way to spice things up, you know what I'm saying, even if your hair dirty like mine, um.
I just take out the front or the bangs if you will.
And I tie the head wrap like I normally would, except now I have this little tuft!
This cute little fro-bang, you know what I'm saying?
Boom!
Switch it up!
Okay?
Got a bang [chuckles] what am I saying?
And as you can see, you just really have to play around with stuff.
Like, what is this?
But after some fumbling, I'm like "Ooh!
Is that a look?
I think that's a look! ooohh!!"
Um, instead of leaving my hair out in the front, I do like to maybe pin it back and
give it a retro vibe so that, again, when I go to tie the head wrap - and if you don't
like this little front thingy, just tuck it in, alright, if you don't want your hair exposed.
Um, so when I go to tie the knot, it's giving you a little vintage, alright?
It's just cute.
It's just a cute way to wear the same type of head wrap day in and day out.
Oh, yes.
[whoosh]
And then this one is the third head wrap that Chinero sent me from her website of reversible
duo-patterned head wraps, and I would like to give this one away to one of you.
It has not touched my scalp, you know what I'm saying, not a hair follicle.
So much going on here!
Beautiful!
We have yellow.
We have a diamond, triceratops, with--with -- what shape is this?
Remember those things we used to make like: and you open it like "Ohh, Darius has a crush
on you!" - remember those? [laughs]
That's what-- that's the shape that this looks like, like from above.
Like a bird's eye view of the -- what was that called?
Then you have the holes here.
Uh, for what reason?
I don't know.
It's fashion!
And then you have a nice sphere, a nice globe.
Surrounding that are black and forest green stripes.
It works!
Then on the other side, we have this!
This is a deep red, burgundy, maroon, wine red color.
Um, this circle is that same sky blue that's here which is gonna tie in nicely, alright?
And then you have like a bright...I don't know if this is orange or a light red - what
is light red?
And now onto the giveaway!
All you have to do is comment below.
Ima trust that you're subscribed and even if you're not...it's a head wrap, girl, I'm
not...I'm not entirely pressed.
To enter, just leave me a comment talking about your personal style and how you would
rock a head wrap.
And I will choose a winner.
No, I will not make a separate announcement or a separate post anywhere announcing the winner.
I will just notify them in a week's or less time.
Alright?
So if you have not been notified in a week or less, you did not win.
Anyway, Chinero - thanks for sending me these head wraps.
I wish you the best in your hashtag BGBB Black Girl Beauty Brand endeavors.
I'll link all the information in the video description box if you want to take a peek,
alright, take a gander.
Make sure you enter the giveaway in the comments below if you wanna win one of these head wraps yourself.
And I will see you on the Internet somewhere.
Bye.