welcome beautiful people i am Chev b welcome back to my channel today's video is sponsored by
betterlength.com and they specialize in creating natural textured clip-ins so for today's video
i'm going to be styling my hair using their afro kinky curly hair in the 3c/4a texture so
y'all ready to get into this style because i'm really excited to begin so first things first um
y'all i got a haircut okay like i had some really black bad bad i had some really bad split ends so
i got a haircut and this is how my hair is looking i got a deep treatment and everything so just to
let y'all know update is going to be in my vlog coming soon but anyway so first things first i'm
going to start off with parting my hair where i want to do the crisscross in the front now i've
done the crisscross a couple times you guys know like that's one of my favorites to do especially
um because i'm not the best braider and it's also for my girls who can't braid that well so
what i want you guys to do is to pay attention to this front part especially if you want to get the
exact number of crisscross that i did so i'm going to be way better demonstrating
than actually talking you guys through it step by step so in total i made about
eight rows so it's four on each side and as you guys saw i am using the shine and jam magic finger
gel thingymajig to do this i just find that it's really helpful when i what i'm trying to create a
clean parting space it's really helpful and also when it's dry it dries clear as opposed to like
some gel if you have other products in your hair it will leave it flaky and white
but with this styling gel it dries clear and i don't have that issue also
another step with my elastic bands i usually put them in um herbal oil i don't let them
soak i just put them in there for a little while just to create a little bit of slip
and also with this style remember guys everything is optional how tight you do your hair is optional
um what you decide to do if you want to do a crisscross or if you're a braider you just want
to braid the hair back you can do that as well i opted for the crisscross and because i'm doing my
own hair i know how tight i can go or how loose i need my elastics to be so keep that in mind
okay so yeah i'm just going to leave you guys for this section to see how i complete the crisscross
now just a reminder one more time i did eight rows going back and i did the triple cross as opposed
to the double that i'm used to doing because i wanted the hair to go back just a little bit
more so this is how my hair is looking as i said this the gel is going to dry clear after a while
so i'm going to do now i'm just going to twist my hair to put it away to prep to do the back section
with the clip in so if you want to like just any way you can to just get the hair out of the way
now for the next step what i'm going to do is i'm going to create a very thin parting
space right um after my crisscross and this is going to help to disguise my clipping so
you do not want to use a lot of that because at the end of the day you're trying to
have as little of your hair out to blend with the clip-ins as much as possible okay so you just
want a little tiny very thin roll and it's just to hide your clippings that's its sole purpose so i'm
just going to twist that as well to put it away so i can prep for um the clippings in the back
so now this is how the back of my hair is looking i just did about six cornrows in the back nothing
special just something jumbo if you can't cornrow you can do some big old plaits in the back
so this is how our clip pins are looking i only use one bundle of this here and the bundle has
10 pieces of clip ins in there i like to recommend you guys to wash your clippings before you use
them just to loosen the curls a bit so what i'm showing you is the longest length versus the
shortest width rather not length so i got this here in 20 inches so each clip in is 20 inches
long but the weft comes in different length just to make sure that it fits the perimeter
are different um sections of your hair so as i said it's 10 pieces to create a full head of
hair and i'm going to show you guys how full all these clip-ins can be together it sounds
like very little but actually it's a lot because i didn't even end up using all the clippings
so this is the first row and then the second row and as you guys can see i'm not putting it
too close together because i don't want it to look too poofy and just overly done so you want
to be mindful of that you can always go back in and fill in spaces if you feel like you need to
fill them in but you just want to make sure that you have at least two and a half inches between
each row of clipping that you do so this is my second row or third row rather this is my
third row of clipping and look how full the hair is so far and this is only three pieces
so again you're just going to keep going until you fill in your spaces and remember
always go for inches in between the clipping as opposed to doing them too close together because
once you're done you can always fill it in you don't want it to look too bulky so look how full
this is looking and this is not even the full pack like loving it so i'm just gonna take my comb and
tease the hair just to make it a little bit fuller since i didn't wash the hair before i put it in
if i had washed it it would make the curls looser and more less defined i don't want the curls to
be this defined because it's going to be easier to blend the hair with my natural hair if it's not so
defined i need it to look a little bit more frizzy so i'm just going to continue teasing making the
hair more bigger until i'm satisfied now i'm going to pull out my hair and just see how
much i'm going to need to blend or if i need any more clippings and just where i need to fill in
and also i want to mention to you guys that these clip-ins are 100
human hair so you can reuse them over and over again you can straighten them blow dry them
wash them do all type of things because it's gonna be basically a part of your hair while
wearing it so the great part is it's great quality i didn't experience any shedding with the hair and
right now i'm just going to put in the very small width right here at the corner and not the middle
you want to make sure you don't get into the middle because remember you're trying to disguise
the clipping so i'm not going to put the hair all across but i just felt like i needed those
sides to be a little bit more full and then it's gonna be less work for me to blend my hair with
the clip in so i'm doing that on both sides so i'm just using the clip in with the two combs in them
so there's two of those in the pack i think there's like two or three and i just put
one on each side and then now i'm just gonna fluff up my hair with the clip is just to see
where i need to blend and all that good stuff now the first step is water now one of the things that
i always recommend to recommend to people when doing style is always have confidence
never look at your hair half done and be like oh this is not turning out well like honestly
it's gonna look a little bit crazy before it looks all the way together so what you're seeing right
now is that i have a little bit of leave-in in my hair so once i spray the water on there
it's gonna look a little bit white and also you wanna make sure that whatever gel you're using
blends well with your leave-in so you want to make sure that it's not a type of gel that's going to
cause any type of flaking or react badly you want something that you are guaranteed to blend
well with your hair so i'm just gonna do some finger coils with my hair once it's drenching
wet i realize that my hair does better with the gel when it's wet so that's why i had to wet my
hair and then apply it all over so i'm making sure that i get the parts as well that i'm going to use
to cover and hide the clip bins and then i'm going to spur some water on the clippings just to get it
a little bit fluffy as i said i want to take out some of the definition of the clip in and then
what i'm gonna do to slay my edges i'm gonna use um we got to be glued in the yellow tube and i
really like this to slay my edges because i don't know it's it works for me in the front it actually
does like i did my makeup with it without tying it down and she stayed in place y'all gonna see okay
so i just do a little soup to do nothing extra nothing big just something real simple real cute
and then i'm just gonna like throw my hair back and forth you know see how we're doing so now you
can let this air dry but if you got low porosity hair like me you're gonna need some help so i did
a review on this blow dryer some time ago that i got from amazon and it comes with a detachable um
attachment and it is it also comes with a diffuser part so i'm just going to leave the link so you
guys could check that out on amazon and what is so cool about this blow jar is you see that ring
around it when the ring is blue that means the area is dry but when it's red that means that
part that i am blow drying is still wet so it has that sensor on there that is just freaking cool
so i'm just gonna use that until i'm satisfied and the awesome thing is it's not like super um
how do you put this it doesn't blow hot air that will damage my hair it's really cool air so once
that is dry i'm just going to take a little bit of oil sheet and spray that all over get that fresh
salon look okay girl like you want your hair to look as professional as possible and this is how
the hair is looking also what i want to recommend to you guys if you have jet black hair like mine
i would advise you to color the clip-ins black like you can just color the clip in so however
color your hair is so if you have like a number two color here recommend you get the clippings to
look like that like you can color it so i'm going to dye my clippings next time i'm just going
to show you guys what the back looks like if you need to fill in more areas and all that good stuff
and this is my final look let me know what you guys think about this hairstyle
all the details will be in the description box down below the direct link for the hair again
i got this in 20 inches one bundle only and i didn't even use a full bundle and it's looking
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at damnthatschev and i'll see y'all in my next video gwan big up unnu self bye guys