 Hello and welcome to my channel House of Hila. Today I'm just showing you how I do my own conrows on my hair as part of my protective styling which I tend to use in autumn and in winter when it's really cold and I'm not too happy to have my hair out because my hair doesn't do really well with a colder weather. I feel like it is quite dry and brittle but having said that it's also because I haven't yet figured out an autumn winter routine regime that keeps my hair super moisturized but I am working on trying to figure that one out. But in the meantime this is what I was doing with my hair. At this point my hair wasn't actually relaxed or text-laxed or anything like that. This was my natural hair that had been dyed about six months before so I dyed it red which I didn't do again so you can see my roots on there and what I did was I had some african threading in my hair to straighten it out so that was kind of like a natural way of straightening it out doing the african threading and then once it was straight I could then do the cornrows by hand. So it's quite uncomfortable to do by hand as I have found so I started off thinking that I was gonna make them incredibly neat and tidy but that didn't quite work out so by the time I finished these I basically decided that I was gonna be wearing them under a wig because they were a bit of a hot mess but at this point my hair is still quite short anyway so it is quite difficult for me to get them done properly. I'm not very good at them but I am quite proud of how they turned out. So I put in some shea butter just some whipped shea butter for it to be moisturized and soft and manageable and I basically tried to you know pass out some lines there and I was doing a three strand cornrow and the one that I ended up with is the one where you can see the braid on the surface of the head and it got really thick by the time I got to the end and I wasn't able to keep this cornrows on for more than four days I think and that's just because I don't think I'm as good at it but you know this is part of my hair journey actually learning how to do these things properly. I was probably a bit too tight on them that's another reason why I couldn't keep them on for longer than four days it felt very tightly bound so I need to work on my tension. I think yeah I think that's something that I need to work on so in knitting there's such a thing as tension which means how tightly you pull the yarn and I have a very high tension when it comes to knitting and when I did this cornrows I actually realized that I also have a high tension which means I pull at my hair too much it's the one that I have so much hair on my head but I'm quite lucky my hair is very very thick but I am learning how to be more gentle and again this is a hair journey and as you can see there those are the cornrows they don't look very neat sadly especially as you get towards the back which is why I decided that I was just gonna put a wig cap on and just wear a wig as a protective style for the autumn winter. Thank you so much for watching my hair journey and for coming along with me please do remember to subscribe and until I see you next time with a hair update take care bye