 Hey curl friends, I'm Bianca Renee and you're watching Bianca Renee Today and today as you can see my curls are still on vacation. This is my Costa Rica hair but it's still going pretty strong. To be completely honest, I was just about to cut them out. This was going to be a takedown video but then I got like dressed up and cute and I was like well, maybe I can push it for like one more week. I just don't want to part with them yet. You know it's like a three hour process and only wear it for like a week ish is just not enough time but although it looks good like this, underneath it's starting to already grow out. My little fine hair is like hanging on and embarrassingly enough I went to a show Cirque de Soleil the other day and as I was putting stuff in the security box like my phone, one piece like fell out and I was like oh my pocket and go through security oh my god. So I think it was like one of these here on the front on this like little hair that just couldn't hold on any longer and it went and just slid right off so I was like okay it's a sign to part ways with them but I mean I can still kind of hide it. I just want to maybe keep it until the end of this week and then I'll take them out. But since I am going to stretch it, I want to do some hairstyles. I didn't get to do a hairstyle video but I am aware that this part you know is getting a little frizzy, it is getting grown out, it's not like you know tied to my scalp like it was when I first got it done. I know this so just pretend that the front of my hair is still neat and compact so we can continue on with this hairstyle video. Deal? Deal. Okay so first of all just know that when I get protective styles for vacation I am not really taking care of my hair. I am not trying to like save and preserve my braids or locks or whatever because I literally got them so I could be carefree. If I wanted to be like stressed about my hair I would just keep it curly but I know I want to go in the ocean, I want to go in the pool, I want to put my hair under water, I don't want to worry about not getting my hair wet. That's literally why I get my hair in braids or something so that I can get it wet and be carefree. So this definitely would have lasted even longer if I would have not been swimming, you know going in the ocean, actually taking care of it every day but I haven't but that's why I get them. And I also know that I can't wear them for a long time because of my channel and I need my curls back to make more videos. So this style is great, it definitely would last at least like two months honestly. I need my curls back in like a week so that's why I didn't take the best care of it. Okay so first things first when you wear your hair like this you could have it in the middle part like so when you take pictures you could have all of your hair up front for like the full like whoa that's a lot of hair or split in half so it's not as like demanding little photo tips as I give you hairstyle tips. Have some in the front, some in the back, one in the front, you could do a single or two just for posing photo sake. But then I also really liked how this looked worn to the side so because this is done in crochet if you guys know what that is watch my install video it's just like all my hair is in a cornrow right here and then she just attached the hair to the braid so I can easily flip my hair into sections depending on where my cornrow is and go like this so it's how it looks to the side. I think I really like the side and now let's kind of just let's just fix this little part just a little bit I'm gonna spray some water and let's just like gel it down look at this simple eco this was in my travel bag it's the smallest cutest little jar of eco-styler gel keep this on you for vacations I shouldn't be using it now but I'm just going to just slick it down the way doesn't look as crazy and then I could even do some baby hair this is my pattern baby hair brushed little crusty does this work for edge control let's find out okay that's better that way it's just a little neater all of this gel has enough hold for my edges yeah it's really staying down I'm gonna grab the kiss edge fixer glued maximum hold pineapple I can't even say this is a favorite of mine because I think it does it kind of flakes eventually I just still haven't found one that I love but it has great hold there we go that's better or into the side okay now let's put it up this is where it's getting getting a little bit more noticeable that my hair is grown out let's do the same thing to this side smooth now let's do a little half up half down situation you really just want to get the front ones and that's why this is so grown out because I had it in this style in Costa Rica a lot because I kept pulling it back so that's why it's totally my fault grabbing some here and just like maybe the front section the front row now as you can see this is a very big ponytail so you're gonna get a very big elastic I like these jumbo scrunchies from goodie and I also like these silk scrunchies from the curl friend collective if you guys follow frizz and frills aka Chloe this is her new brand they're so cute I have black and have this cheetah print let's do cheetah because it's fun and with these I could just go around one time and it's cute and loose look at that love these scrunchies if you want a little less pizzazz you know you can go with the regular elastics as well so some up some down and we can keep out a couple just keep some keep some out now I'm gonna keep this same piece and try to do like a little bun up here I don't know if this is too much hair I definitely want to get the front ones let's try to make it smaller so maybe cut this in half and just get this very center piece oh this piece is falling maybe we'll bring that up just for looks sake oh this is the arm workout catch my breath so I'm going to I wonder if I need to do the scrunchie let's do a scrunchie just to be safe I'm gonna grab my black elastic and do a tight ponytail I'm a very top almost like a pineapple half up half down again but we're gonna do a bun so I'm actually going to twist it and start going around and then just tuck in the curls in the back like so you could shape it where you want I think I want to put a bobby pin got 99 bobby pins and can't find one I just want this little part to stay down what a bobby pin there we go like so okay let's take this down scrunchie and this is where the silk ones are even better because they'll slide off way easier but if you want a tighter hold these are good now I'm gonna go back to my middle part let's do one two three four five six seven about eight of them on this side and I'm going to braid it I'm gonna stop at the curls and do the same thing on the other side so we have our two braids I'm going to just pin them back like so giving you like a braided crown look and I'm going to clip it with this gold moon clip that's from GSQ by Glam Squad from CBS like dainty flower crown vibes you could even add some flowers here if you're going to Coachella like so cute so simple great thing about loxes you can undo it and it's not going to be a hot mess as if you would your curly hair so we can do multiple styles with ease now this next hairstyle actually got inspired by one of my curl friends that came on my Costa Rica trip who also had her hair braided she did this pretty like large one-sided braid so let's take like a good chunk like this much and see how this looks I'm gonna do one section two three let's see how this looks the large braid but like hanging to the side it looked really pretty I think I even liked it better on her like smaller individual braids it wasn't like as chunky but I guess if we go like this we could even make a really large kind of crown let's try it we're experimenting today it's no rules take another large chunk so everyone know how to do a regular braid grab the middle piece this one thing you that one so it's also easier when you don't have rhinestones on your fingers so now that we have our big Queen Abidala braids going on I'm going to connect these two in the back so if you want a big ol' thick crown go like that just add some texture to the look can we do space bonds with these and lastly you could do a little side swoop so we're gonna go to our middle part again bring it over flatten it down grab these pieces grab some here and I mean you can twist this if you want like this or you can keep it flat I'm like you flat grab some of these and then clip it like so now usually I could do a lot more hairstyles but this time I got a lot of hair like this is a lot of bundles this is a total of eight bundles of hair but to be completely honest when I first got to Costa Rica my hair felt so big because I got it done the day before my trip so my hair didn't really get a chance to like you know kind of settle in look a little bit more lived in it was like you know fresh out the pack so kind of my head looked like kind of puffy and I was just like a lot once I got in the pool it felt heavy people think that like this hurts there's actually no tension at all like it feels great on my head it's not as tight as like with braids because it's all crocheted so it's a much more comfortable wear and the hair is actually light but when you get it wet I was like so I actually ended up taking out 25 of them so I had even more hair than is on my head I just kind of grabbed the loop and I just took some out Kamara my stylist really likes to pack it on there for a good reason because now because I took some out you can kind of start to see the braid and that's what you don't want as it grows out so she puts a lot on here so when it grows out you still can't really tell I didn't know how I was gonna have this on my hair and I just kind of didn't care I don't want to wait for it to kind of flatten out to my head so I took it out I messed it up I can admit that but it is easy to put these back on and might you know add some more if there's any little ball patches but because there is so much hair it's too much to put into a ponytail and a braid ponytail is very cute like let me just show you if I tried to put all this in a ponytail it's just it's too much it's just so I can't do bonnie-tony tails I can't put it all up in like a big bun it would look like a giant beehive so that's all I got for you for this amount of hair at this length I do think that when I am gonna go on vacation and do some more swimming I'll probably do an even more simpler style with less hair less braids maybe just do two braids something just super simple if I'm not gonna be able to wear it for a long time and it's strictly for swimming and just vacationing but overall this look has been so much fun I do have a tip for when washing it I put in a trash bag the Fabrice scent is optional but I have been putting all this in a plastic trash bag and I tied it up in a bow worked like a charm so as you can see we are still keeping up with the hairstyle challenge I wasn't just gonna opt out because I got my hair done I did some lock styles for you guys staying on trend I think my next video is going to be my takedown parting is such a sweet sorrow and I'm gonna show you how I take out these locks how I take out the crochet and how I go from this back to Curly's if you want to see that make sure you subscribe hit that little bell so you're notified as soon as my video goes live so you don't miss that video I'll see you guys next time thanks for watching Bianca Renee