Yay! My first attempt at Kinky Twists is a success!!!

Sunday morning I started my kinky twists, armed with the willingness to take on the task, a fantastic big sister who was willing and able to come to my aid and a plethora of how to videos from YouTube.

My hair grows a bit faster during the summer, so it is my goal to leave these kinky twists in until September to a) give my hair a must needed rest and b) help facilitate growth.

This is the hair I used. It's 100% Kanekalon, and I must say it went a long way. I used three bags for my entire head, which rocks, because I usually went through 8 or 9 bags to do my usual braided hair style.

I read that I should use the yellow wave rods, but blue is my favorite color... so I had to get the blue ones!! LOL

This is me with 1/2 the twists done. By 5 o'clock, I was exhausted and I decided to pick the rest up today. Granted, I had all of 30 twists to go, but tired is tired!

Here is a close up of the twists. I am so proud of the job!

I finished them up this afternoon this is how they looked all rolled up in the rods, waiting for dipping.

And ta-da!!!



I am so happy with the results. I think that my sister and I did a great job for this being our first time doing them.

Now I know originally, I said I was going for a Tracee Ellis Ross kinky twists version, but as I was doing them, I decided to go longer. My inspiration was Solange Knowles in her "Sandcastle Disco" video. Sort of a curly, Donna Summers-esque style.

Not sure if I was successful in translating the inspiration, kinky twist style, but I like 'em!

I am still researching a care regimen for them, which I will be sure to post when I figure out what I am going to do. All I know for certain is that I am going to co-wash them (using diluted conditioner in a spritz bottle)... but that's about it. Any suggestions?

About Me: So What the Eff's a BROOKLYN GEECHEE!?!?!?

" to the surprise of the spry seafarers/ sassafrass announced/ "i'ma be a cunjah." they laughed credulously/ sayin/ "you awready a geechee / how much more magic you want?"

--Ntozake Shange, "Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo"

Gee·chee(gch)
n. Coastal South Carolina and Georgia
1.
a. The Gullah creole.
b. A speaker of Gullah.
2. Offensive Used as a disparaging term for a person who speaks a nonstandard local dialect, as in Savannah, Georgia, or Charleston, South Carolina.

I don't remember when I exactly came up with "Brooklyn Geechee". I just remember that from reading "Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo" and ultimately "Daughters of the Dust" that I resonated with these woman, called backward, ignorant, heathen and immoral when they were basically trying to honor their ancestors by keeping to the old ways and living the most genuine happy life they could live.

I related to that because walking around Brooklyn, I felt like the onliest little black girl that wasn't into rockin' a name brand, thinking about dating a brother with rims (or even a car for that matter!), and listening to some of the goddess-awful music spewing out of the radio. People would see me with my gig bag on my back and go "You play the guitar?" almost with this shock. So I decided to call myself a Brooklyn Geechee : Ridiculed for being different, weird, heathen and strange.... and loving themselves and their lives regardless!