Tip: Banding Natural Hair To Stretch Out The Curl Pattern : Precious ...
Another great method of stretching out the tight curl pattern of natural hair without using heat is by banding the hair. Banding is simply using small hair elastics or hair bands along a section of hair. The section will be held stretched by the bands, and will thus leave the hair stretched when taking the bands out of the hair. Banding the hair can give roughly the same results as a blow-dry. Here is the end result. The closer the bands are together, the more of a stretch you'll get. You can see that the bands are closer together at the middle of my hair (because my curl pattern is tightest in the middle) and further apart at the front of my hair. Also the smaller the sections you use, the more stretched the hair will be. It is usually necessary to use smaller sections if your hair is very...
