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Pamela Ferrell

Cornrows & Co.

www.cornrowsandco.com  

202-723-1827

Cornrows & Co. was founded in June of 1980 by Pamela Ferrell and Taalib-Din Uqdah. The enterprising husband and wife team started a business that quickly became the country's most well-known hair braiding and natural hair care salon. As the growing trend for healthy hair care evolved, the demand for no extension, chemical-free hair styles inspired Ferrell to create a natural product line and the contemporary twist, lock, and handroll styles that have become a cultural phenomenon.

Cornrows & Co.'s pioneer work has been featured in leading publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Forbes Magazine, Inc. Magazine, USA Today, Essence, Sister 2 Sister, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. Its owners have also appeared on BET, ABC's 20/20, WHMM TV, and WUSA TV in Washington D.C., as well as international television in West Africa, Great Britain, Germany, and Japan.

Cornrows & Co. continues its mission to redefine standards of beauty and education as they relate to African-American hair. In addition to a range of natural hair care salon services, Cornrows & Co.'s thriving mail order business offers books, videos, and its own natural hair and skincare product line.

Hair Twist - Finishing the Hairline and Styling

Hair stylist Pam Ferrell, owner of Cornrows & Co. Natural Hair Care, demonstrates how to do a twist style on natural hair including how to finish the hairline and complete the look.

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Pamela Ferrell: Hi, I am Pamela Ferrell with Cornrows & Co. Natural Hair Care. Today, I am showing you how to do a twist style on natural hair. We've finished the flat twist and we have finished individual twist. Now in this segment, I am going to show you how to do individual twist to finish the hairline.

So again, you see that we've sectioned out a nice thin section. I want to make the twist, kind of, flow to this side. With this, you can either use your finger or you can use a clip, whatever you feel comfortable with. This is going to have a slight, flat twist motion, but it's very slight. Basically, the difference is the individual twist we did inside, they have no base, and this individual twist has base. A base simply means the direction that the twist will flow. I am using my pinky finger to part. With this, we are keeping one hand on the scalp and the other one we are going to just twist, just a few stitches, and then it comes off as an individual twist.

Another reason I would like to section off this front hairline, let's say, after a day or two it feels frizzy to you; and it may not in most cases; but if it does, then you only have about six individual twist that you can freshen up on the hairline. But generally, if you tie the hair at night, then your hair style is not going to frizz and it will really last for a week, from shampoo to shampoo.

So what I've done is I've just taken a nice banana clip and contained it all in together, and then just let those ends really do their thing. I've taken her front, which again we flat twisted just a tat to give it a little bit of movement. As you see, it kind of works into that Mohawk. I like it, I think it's really fresh and organic.

Now what I am going to do is I am going to tame down her Mohawk and we're going to make it a nice conservative go-to-work hair style. So we will loop this and we're going to use another comb, you really don't even have to use hair pins, that's really totally up to you. The trick to really getting this hair to move and lay down is to gently place it, you don't want to force anything, you gently place it, it will work with you. Now I am going to take this comb and I am really going to just put it in, this roll here, just gently push it through and hold it.

Of course, on the front you have a lot of options, you can curl this and make it very curly, you can have some of them hang. What we're going to do today is we're just blend it in, since it has really nice movement. At night, what you can do is take one roller, like this, and just softly take this whole cluster, twist, wrap it on that roller and that will give it a slight curl. So that it will be a little more prominent. That's a nice conservative roll that she can wear to work or you can actually dress this up and this could be a nice evening hair style. There you have it, flat twists on natural hair.

Twist by HairNailsBeautyTips at 06/24/11 08:05AM Flag

I've been natural for a year now and I'm trying to come up with a style for my hair. I came across your videos and I love them! I hope to try your technique soon. Thanks again.

Great Job! by Educator64 at 04/25/11 09:33PM Flag

I love learning new things. Beautiful style!

Yr Twist Video by SLIMWITHABS at 12/29/10 05:50AM Flag

THANKS so much for sharing. I really learned a lot. You R greeattt

love it! by princesskaha at 12/22/10 04:20AM Flag

standing ovation for this style!!! the finished look is great, I wish you went a bit slower with the flat twisting though so i could catch how you did it but thanks so much for putting this up:)

I'm impressed! by Lovely012 at 10/05/10 01:27PM Flag

This hairstyle is really beautiful and simple. Thank you!

Inky09 by Inky09 at 07/17/09 07:17PM Flag

That was perfect. I have 3 daughters whose hair is totally different 2 are mixed and 1 has very coarse hair.Your step by step instructionswere very help simple to do!

century salon by kimyd at 04/13/09 04:19PM Flag

My staff really enjoyed your video. Thank you for sharing your expertise with us!

Video Is Great by Norma at 03/19/09 07:24PM Flag

Pam, just saw your flat twist video and its great!!! Am preparing my SalonVoices Crowned Signature pilot salon pack with "What's In It for Us" info..... Be back with you next week.

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