How to Prevent Contributing to Hair Loss of African Hair Braiding Clients

African Hair Braiders braid differently. Some are heavy handed, and will literally pull your hair follicles out of your head when hair braiding. Within a week, you will start to see some 'small white things' at the stressed site - usually around a braid. These 'small white things' are hair follicles. This tragedy is usually seen around the hairline. If hair follicles are seen uprooted all over the head, this can contribute to a form of allopecia that is related to excessive force used while pulling the hair- in this case, to braid it.

When an African hair braiding client removes such braids, their hair literally gets washed down the drain. Here are some helpful things to do to prevent hair loss, or stop contributing to hair loss of your African hair braiding client(s):

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Hair clips
• Mastery of Royal Knots
• Well greased/ lubricated African hair client
• Wide toothed comb
• Rat tail comb
• Knowledge of how to tie a knot

1. When combing a client's hair, always use a wide toothed comb. Next, the sections into which each microbraid, invisible braid, or single braid will be placed should be cut with a rat tail comb. This ensures clarity of the lines, and provides added beauty: uniformity of the sections. Additionally, the clarity of the lines ensures that hair from unbraided sections don't get mixed up in the hair section that is being braided. When this happens the hair braider should immediately stop and remove the entire braid being worked on. The norm is to gingerly pull the errant hair out of the braid. However, most of the time this causes the hair the tear off, especially if the hair has been chemically processed, as with a perm.

2. To circumvent all of that, use hair clips to secure unbraided hair. Extra clips may be needed for hair over 4 inches long.

3. Securing Human or Synthetic hair to the client's natural hair: a Royal Knot is preferred, especially if the braider knows that she is heavy handed.
   
   What is a Royal Knot? Kaale coined this phrase when several of her customers kept touching their braids and commenting that their own hair and the Human/ Synthetic hair were seamlessly attached. According to the customers, they hated the big bulky knots some braiders use to attach the hair. Kaales hair braiding uses Royal Knots- the hair is seamlessly introduced into clients own hair, and the 'knot' is invisible to the touch, and very slightly visible on sight. If you are a heavy handed braider, or are interested in helping your heavy handed braider to ease up some on your African hair braiding, please read on...
   
   There are other methods of securing the hair that does not pull heavily on the hair, however Master Braiders are generally not heavy handed.
   
   One of the best so far, the Royal Knot, simulates the appearance of braiding cornrows, except there are no rows.

Tips & Warnings

• Try simulating cornrows on your own hair, except use the usual small sections for invisible braids, micro braids, and single braids. For micros, braid past the client's hair, then secure a knot. Twice. If you know how a Royal Knot should look like, your African hair braiding clients will be all the happier!
• As a Master Braider, I offer free consultations, including proposal of African hair braiding in invisibles, micros, and cornrows that strategically camouflage the hair loss area. Any woman can look beautiful. And especially, any hair loss victim can look 10, 15, or even 20 years younger with Kaale's African hair braiding. Our hair braiding techniques give the appearance of hair restoration, without the actual cost. Your hair gets a chance to grow back! Send an e-mail to [e-mail] for your free African hair braiding consultation tonight. We are open 24 hrs, 7 days a week!
• If you are a heavy handed braider, be aware that you will eventually lose clients as more and more of them research online to find a Master Braider without the mastery of inflicting pain.
• Resist the temptation to pull on, and tightly braid client's hair- the braids won't last any longer, but the client will lose her/ his hair!

Resources

• The Best African Hair Braiding Service in NJ, NY, PA

[hairextgain]

on 11/17/2008 This is such a good article, because just like Mamamea said so many women keep microbraids for a long time-they are so pretty anyway. Plus African braid salons are the best hairdressers for braiding micros.

I believe if alot of the braiders knew about the Take Down Removal Cream for Braids, Weaves and Dreadlocks-it would save alot of their clients hair. Alot of the African braiders do braid with a heavy hand-but after your hair has grown out-that doesn't affect the new growth.

It's the knots with build-up of oil,lint or sprays that tangle up and take your hair out. When you get your braids removed at the braid shops they just take out the braid extensions. There is no way to comb out knots in your hair with out using that Take Down Remover. I have tried it. If you don't use the Take Down Cream-you will damage your hair, go bald and lose all the hair around your edges(temple

[Mamamea]

on 7/19/2008 I like this article!
I use to keep my micros up long, and that just isn't the way to go!
Thank You for posting this article, so many women
make these mistakes and their hair comes out,
I have an article similar to this!
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