Setting Techniques: The Twist and Coil

The Twist and Coil is a twist-out with finger coiled ends. The Mane and Chic technique requires that the hair is cleansed, conditioned, reconditioned (with copious amounts of conditioner left in), detangled and smoothed in sections with fingers and/or a Denman brush. Once all of that is done, the hair is twisted until about 0.5" up from the ends. (You can go up as high as you want). Do not mix the hair. Once you begin the twist, keep the two sections separate. Does that make sense? This is very important. so let me say it again. When you begin the twist make sure the two section stay separate until you reach the ends. Again, do not mix the hair. Next the ends are smoothed around the finger to create the curl. The hair is left untouched until it's completely dry. Once dry, the hair is finger styled.

I used 1/2" size twists for this post. Stay tuned because I'm going to show the results of using larger twists. I also did a braid-out using the same size 1/2" braid. Stay tuned, that's coming up next. The most obvious difference is that the braid-out created a tighter pattern, but there appeared to be less shrinkage. It  kind of doesn't make sense because you would think that the looser curl pattern would create longer hair, but that not the case. The difference is very subtle in shrinkage (about 1/2" more length with a braid-out on this hair). These are the major reasons why I prefer braid-outs over twist-outs, but we'll talk about that later. I should also mention that the twist-out was a little more voluminous and I guess that's why women who love "big hair" prefer twist-outs over braid-outs.

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