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Tips and Tricks: How to Seal High Heat Braiding Hair
Our high heat Festival Braid is made from heat resistant
synthetic fiber that behaves very differently from kanekalon
jumbo braid. It’s best suited for the kind of elaborate braided ponytail and
pigtail styles that are popular at festivals and raves. If you’re willing to
put in some extra work and settle for a looser seal, it can sometimes work for box braids or synthetic dreads as well.
First things first: high heat fibers like our Festival Braid
do not seal easily and do not shrink d
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Mar 4th 2021
Tips and Tricks: Highlight Braid
RastAfri's Highlight Braid is type of kanekalon jumbo braid
that is low heat/hot water set and is multicolored. It’s similar to
products like Afreez’m Braid, Sensationnel Color Braid, Janet Collection Super
Caribe, and pretty much any other low heat, multicolored hair on the market.Color Bleeding
Before products like these came out, the only multicolored
hair you could find was high heat. It took a while for manufacturers to figure
out how to make the hair multicolored without ch
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Dec 2nd 2020
TUTORIAL: How to Make Chain Link Braids
Chain link braids look super complicated, but they're very simple to do! They're actually not braids at all; the chain link look is achieved by twisting two twists together (try saying that five times fast!)
MaterialsSmall snap clips, bobby pins, or barrettes. We used snap clips in the video above. Whatever you prefer to seal the ends of the braids with (boiling water, a lighter, thread, rubber bands, etc). Braiding hair (optional)
Instructions
1. Section off two pieces of
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Jan 15th 2019