 today and today I'm gonna try something for the first time which is band two knots. Now band two knots when you do those little spirals on your head then when you take them out it's called a band two knot out and you're supposed to have these beautiful like wavy loose curls. I'm gonna try it today I don't know how it's gonna turn out and I thought I would record it just so I could show you guys the experience of my first time. So maybe we like a beginner's luck thing it'll be amazing or if it's horrible you know we get all just laugh about it it'll boost your self-esteem but we're gonna hope and pray that these turn out beautiful. Now how I started was I first washed my hair so I'm sorry with nice clean fresh hair shampoo conditioner and then I put it in these two little little fizz braids that way I can start to stretch out my hair. So now let's put it into two braids I'm gonna take these out and show you guys my texture. As you can see I have three B curls I've even stretched them out but this is how my hair looks when I get out the shower it's like barely a little like wavy crinkle. Now when it dries it does get into ringlets but this is how I'm starting out the shower. So if your hair does not look like this do not expect the same exact results. I honestly have seen the better results on like 3C hair like something that's a little bit coarser or a little bit tighter curl but we're gonna see how it works on my hair today. Now the first thing I'm gonna do is blow dry my hair so that it's in more of a stretched state. Now if you don't want to apply heat to your hair I know that there's other alternatives where you probably could do some type of style to stretch it out and just let it dry but because this is the first time I'm trying Bantu knots I'm not gonna take any chances by experimenting with other alternatives. I'm just gonna stick to the book and do the blow dryer and then next time if it works I will try some alternatives where I don't have to use any heat. I'm going to start off by sectioning my hair into smaller sections and then I'm gonna grab this Proclaim Glossing Polish which is the color and heat protectant. So I'm gonna add just a little bit of this and then rub it into my hair. Don't just get the top and bottom get all up in between those curls. I'm then grabbing a paddle brush another thing that I never use but just going along with the tutorial that I watched and I'm gonna brush through my hair. Oh look at this beautiful little curl that's just like please. So sad. Grabbing my blow dryer this is a diva dryer by diva curl it has nice little attachment on it and I'm going to blow dry my hair so it's in a much more stretched out state. Again into smaller sections and I'm gonna grab the lower part and grab that in to another half section as well. Then I'm going to get the Olive Oil Smooth and Hold Pudding and you're gonna apply a very very very small amount to that section to start our Bantu knot. Not too much to where our natural curl pattern pops back out but just enough to keep everything nice and smooth. Now to start twisting you're gonna twist in one direction leaving some space towards the top of your head and you're going to curve around creating your first type of loop. Then you're going to keep twisting and your second loop is gonna go right underneath your first loop. That is very important. I started doing it on top and that didn't even make sense and didn't work. But now that I got the hang of it you twist and go right underneath it and you have to move your hand all the way around to make that perfect Bantu knot. Twist just like this and if your ends look a little dry add a little bit more product so that doesn't look all frizzy at the end of the day and then you're gonna keep going around and then tuck that underneath. Some girls just tuck it in but I'm going to use a bobby pin to secure it in place. And tada! There is a Bantu knot. Let's keep going. So look on how to do the Bantu knot in case you're still confused. Now what you need to keep in mind is that you want to keep a little bit of slack at your scalp. You don't want to twist all the way to your scalp because then you leave no room for your Bantu knots to go underneath each other every time you loop. So you just make the first loop and then you go one right underneath the other one but there has to be enough room for all of those layers. The more you do it the better you'll get. Happy dance, happy dance. Alright let's finish these babies. Alright there you have it! I did it! I did the Bantu knots. How they're gonna turn out? Don't really know yet. This is how they look. This is how it looks on the back. I wanted to make them all like this so I could sleep nicely but this one kind of popped up in the middle on accident so that's gonna suck to sleep on. So I have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, fifteen, sixteen, fifteen, fifteen, fourteen. I believe I have nineteen of them- nineteen Bantu. I didn't even mean to do that. I mean I was just on a roll or a twist. Whatever. Now to sleep tonight I'm going to keep my head wrapped in a plastic little shower cap. This is going to add some moisture to my hair while I sleep and while that all sets in just like so and I'm going to add my satin bonnet so now I'm gonna sleep just like this it's going to be extremely uncomfortable and then I'm gonna wake up in the morning we're gonna see if I succeeded or failed miserably one uncomfortable nights later now it's time to do this I almost don't even want to take them out you know I work so hard on them I could just you know rock and look like scary spice for like a day what we're gonna do is we're gonna first take out the bobby pins and then you're gonna unscrew it like a top so you're just gonna twist so I decided to grab just some coconut oil like a little bit just kind of grease up my fingers as I undo these I'm not going to unravel them and add some volume wait can we just admire these unraveled banter not so fast love it okay moving on give it a little bit more volume of my band to not out it really does give you a completely different curl pattern not too bad for my first time if you have your own tips and tricks for band to knots please leave me a comment below and if you also try this hairstyle yourself make sure you tag me on Instagram I'd love to see your results before you go please give this video a thumbs up and subscribe I post new videos every Sunday and you can follow me on Instagram snapchat Twitter and Pinterest all at miss beyond grenade I'll see you guys next week thanks for watching beyond grenade today