Maintaining Hair Braids with Scarves

Video Transcript

"Whenever we have a completed hairstyle, especially when it comes to braiding, you definitely want to wrap the hair once you?re done and especially if you're going to keep it more than one day you need to wrap it overnight. What we have here is a silk scarf that is woven and we have a cotton scarf that is woven. This particular style of scarf is really long and it stretches out quite a ways which is neat if you want to wrap it around the head multiple times, if you've got some sort of moisturizer you're working with, to really saturate and hold everything in. I like the silk because it's smooth and it won't cause any friction between your hair and the scarf. Now with the cotton blend, I like cotton ones because they really hold stuff in there. It doesn't, I mean patterns and dyes really don't matter, pretty much any fabric is safe as long as you wash it before you use it and the cotton with the wove is very strong so it will last a very long time and you don't have to worry about any abuse if you need to add a bobby pin or any type of clip in, around or underneath it. So that's why I like the cotton ones because they're just really pretty failsafe. You can use them all the time. You can wrap them around the head, but when it comes to the cotton scarf you really need to make sure it stays very tight because if it gets too loose it will work against you and just be really loose and rubbing against your braids causing them to frizz up and come apart a lot faster."