My BEST Bantu Knot Out

In my last post I mentioned that I gave myself a much needed trim, well thank goodness I finally came to my senses and snipped those terrible ends off. My hair feel great and my styles are coming out much better! I achieved my first decent looking Bantu knot out after trimming and OMG, I was shocked at the results. Like, seriously! I have never achieved a good Bantu knot out, ever! I credit that to my trim because I would try BNOs when my ends weren't quite up to par. Bad ends = bad Bantu knot out, I'm convinced.

So, here is what I did. I blew my hair out to prep for the trim, I used a higher heat setting this time, versus my cool/warm setting because I needed my hair "straight" enough to trim. Grape seed oil was my heat protectant of choice, as always. Now before some of y'all ask, no my hair was not bone straight. See the below picture for an idea of what I was working with.

Before the trim. My ends were in bad shape.

I usually trim in the order: blow out, twist, trim twist ends and repeat. I couldn't do that this time around. Instead I blew out, trimmed and then twisted to prep for the Bantu knots. I actually had to hold my hair between two finger like the stylist do to trim. Yes, they were that bad. Oh and sidenote: I went to cosmetology school in high school so I know a little something, something ;o).

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I used Sweet Ohm's pudding to style and my Safi Hair Care's Pumpkin Puddin' to seal. My hair smells GREAT and feels like soft cotton, I love it. It was so good to take the Bantu knots down and have big soft hair with movement. I will make a YT video on how I Bantu knot soon! It's pretty easy once you get the hang of it. Below you can see more pics of my BNO and how I decided to style it for Christmas Eve dinner. Oh and before I forget, MERRY CHRISTMAS BEAUTIFULS!