I MADE THE MISTAKE SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO! How to Flexi Rod 4C Natural Hair

hello darlings welcome back to my channel if you're new here I'm Miriam and I thank you so much for watching so today as you guys seen the title I'm gonna be sharing with you guys all you need to know to get the best ever flexi rod set on your 4c natural here are I mean any four type here for this matter but I know with four see here it's a bit more challenging sometimes to get the popping to get those popping curls when we do our rod set so yeah I made a mistake as you guys have seen this video that I had some challenges getting the curls to look beautiful at the end oh yeah I learned from them and I'm gonna share with you guys what you need to do to get the best set and what you should avoid doing so as you guys see I started out with first a shampoo here and then I went in with this lots of body moisturizer I'll be putting everything in the description box for you guys and then now I took some of this on auto body foam this moves it's not about mousse I use it on my hair and you guys see the big chunky amount that I'm putting on my hair and if you guys noticed my facial expression as I started applying this mousse to my hair I felt it on my hair that it was not gonna turn out good but I kept going so first thing we'll number one that you need to avoid is avoid putting so much mousse on the here it will not do your hair any good trust me [Music] so now I'm going again and I'm making sure that my hair is properly tangled with the brush and then I am just applying some water moisturizer and then I put a little bit of the mousse on my hair and then I start to wrap it around erotic so first thing I want to tell you guys not to do when you're gonna do a flexi what's that like this on your natural here and this is particularly if you do not have a hooded dryer if you won't be going under for the dryer you do not want to do it on extremely wet here as you guys can see my hair was pretty wet and then I started to add more products so this moves that I'm using here it is not a firm hold mousse it's a very soft hold mousse I'm still not too sure how I feel about it so yeah I just put that on my hair with the moisturizer so as you guys can see my hair was taking a lot of what products is everything was just wetting up my hair and if you have four see here it will take some time for it to dry and then you're gonna have a lot of freezing if it's not dry properly so guys avoid putting on too much product on you here that's gonna make your hair extremely white on the rod especially if you do not have a hooded dryer so I left my hair to dry for several hours I had these rods in for maybe 12 hours and then I checked it and it was not perfectly dry I could feel it I wasn't so perfect when I went in my blow-dryer it's a bit just to kind of help speed up the process before I started taking down the rods and as you guys can see here while I'm undoing the rods you can see that my hair is not dry I'm so disappointed right now you know it's like so late in the night because I had these in the entire day 12 hours hadn't I had them in my hair and my curls are still not dry everything is just swelling up and my natural curls are just coming out so that means the flexi rod curls are not able to shine or the shoulder to show their full potential so yeah I'm a bit annoyed right now but anyways I went ahead still to try and detangle them and spruce them and I can see that the curls would have been nice if they were able to properly dry but yeah I don't think I wanted to have any rudder anything in my hair for 12 hours and then still have to sleep in it overnight so I undid them try to tease them as much as I could I couldn't do too much teasing because yeah they were already just too frizzy and too puffy so this is the finished result after using the first method and this is a method that you want to stay away from if you have a 40 here and if you will not be using a dryer but I decided to show you guys still just so you can see the difference you can see what the results are like maybe you're looking for a result like this maybe you want it just a little bit more puffy a little bit more frizzy and maybe you want it to just last you for a day cause yes I will also insert a picture right here show you guys what it looked like the next day so now this is two days later I went back to the drawing board we shampooed my hair we conditioned my hair and I blow dried my hair you don't have to blow-dry your hair you can do whatever you normally do to keep your hair stretched I normally put my hair in some big pads but I really didn't have so much time and I really wanted to start this hairstyle today so I just went ahead and do the tension method to programming here and now I'm starting out again with a smaller section than before and I take a small amount of the moisturizer this time this moisturizer is also very lightweight so it's more has a watery consistency not too much but I have a slight watery consistency so you want to put a lot of baloney here at once because then it will make your hair too damp so I'm taking just a small amount as you guys can see and I'm applying that to the section of my hair without working on the sections too much and for the mousse now this is very important that you take only this amount of moisturizer spray on me and my fingertips so I use less than a pump of mousse earth section this is very very important you do not want your hair to be extremely white or to be soaked when you're putting these moves here say if it feels like I get into white you need to make sure that you stopped it costs on the product off your hands and just put enough to make it not completely dry before you apply it to your hair so now I wrap it around the rod like you guys see that is basic you just wrap it around keep it flat nothing particular nothing special just wrap it around in a flat motion and to seal it onto the rod this step is also very very important because a lot of people will tend to go even more mousse or other products that are wet to put on the end so that it doesn't come off the rod and for this step I am using this trick which is to apply some beeswax so I just use a little bit of easier that you guys see here on my fingertips and I just rub that around the ends of the hair that is on the flexi rod so that it stays in place and it does not move so it will be able to dry perfectly fine now I'm doing another section and show you guys how I do one and I applied some more the moisturizer and then I take this small section off move again and then I just go ahead and I just wrap the hair around the Flexi or like this keeping it flat and smooth the entire time [Music] [Applause] [Music] and I'm taking again a small amount of beeswax and just sealing the ends hold the flexi rod now for that I just bend the end of the flexi rod and secure it at the base of my hair as well [Music] [Music] so now you just want to continue running on the rest of you here just like this so you just take each time not so much of a big section and then you take a little bit of the moisturizer so that way here is not completely dry but you don't want it to be too saturated and then a small amount of the moves to your fingertips I apply that also to you here just to give it some lubrication but without making it wet so I'm showing you guys here how the hair is looking it's not looking to wait they just applied the rod to the base of your hair like I do it right here I put it sort of like in the middle and then I just start to wrap my cure onto one end of it and then seal it at the end with some beeswax I'm just using a very tiny amount of beeswax and is appended to the end of the hair [Music] and this is why it's looking like so far at the back and I'm just gonna continue the same procedure until I'm finished loading up my entire hair [Music] you [Music] now that I put all the rods in my hair it's completely rotted I'm just going ahead with my blow dryer and I'm gonna use it on warm heat for 15 minutes so I'm only using it for about 15 minutes I'm just rotating it from the back to the front to the middle for 15 minutes and I'm also changing the heat temperature so sometimes I'm using the warm heat and sometimes I'm using an uncool heat just apply some direct heir to the here to help speed up the process and it shouldn't take long because you do not have a lot of product on the hair and it's not completely wet so I left these in for about five hours and as you guys can see right now I'm taking out the rods and it looks a lot drier than it did in the first set and I could even feel it from before I started thinking there was that they were dry because when I touch them I could see that some of them were starting to loose from the rod I mean he said I'm starting to lose from the work that kind of shelling away from the body can tell the hair is dry because they start to kind of pull away from the rod naturally without you even touching them this is how the curl is looking so far guys already I'm feeling quite pleased with the results but I'm just gonna continuous you guys can see it for yourself so I'm gonna go over the points again so for the best flex rod set on 40 natural here the first thing you want to pay attention to is not doing it on completely white hair unless you're gonna be sitting under a hooded dryer for at least an hour or hour and a half the next thing you want to do is to make sure you do not use too much product that will make the hair to weigh down are too sticky yeah guys take a look at how it is looking at as you guys can see how they find the curls are so yeah I'm just going ahead right now I'm adding some coconut oil to my fingers and just massaging that into my scalp because yeah my scalp felt a little bit tender after having these rods in so yeah I just went ahead and I applied that to my scalp and then I use it also to separate the curls so I use some oil on my finger to help separate the curls and then I'm just turning them around my fingers to help redefine the curls and even though you want it to be very defined stay away from too much mousse especially if the mousse that you're gonna be using is one like this this one does not have a lot of hold it doesn't matter if you use the entire bottle or use a small amount it doesn't have a lot of fun it's a very soft hold mousse so you will still feel like you didn't really put much on your hair so I would suggest that you only use a tiny amount like less than a palms about half a pump to each section of it here if you're gonna be using section size like mine the next thing I wanna pay attention to is not doing the sections too big you don't I do them too too small but you don't want to meet the sections to be because they'll take longer to dry and that would kind of lead you to put a lot more product on the hair per section and then it takes a lot longer to dry so medium sized sections like these that I have here are perfect depending on the density of your hair and the length oh yeah not too big um the bigger they are you tend to get more volume but you want defined curls first and foremost so do not make them too big so now this is how my curls came out so this is how they're looking and yeah I'm quite pleased with how they came out I was very disappointed about the first set but I really wanted to share my results for both trials with you guys if at first you don't succeed guys brush yourself off try again you know it can be done it just maybe needs a different method not every hair type is gonna really sing to a particular method that's why I thought it was important that I show you guys the set on completely white hair and set on try here so if you do not have a hooded dryer or sweet don't want to be using a lot of heat on here I would recommend this method for the best flexi rod set on natural hair and I really hope you guys enjoy this video I really hope you guys found these tips helpful and if you did please be 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Channel: Mariam Coreen

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Length: 14min 16sec (856 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 09 2019