Brief Summary
This video provides a beginner's guide to starting waves, focusing on essential tools, hair training, and understanding hair patterns. It emphasizes the importance of choosing the right brush for your hair type, using different do-rags for sleep and fashion, and maintaining a consistent brushing pattern.
- Essential tools: do-rag and brush
- Hair training: regular brushing to develop wave pattern
- Hair pattern: understanding and maintaining your unique hair pattern
Gathering Essential Products
To start creating waves, you need to gather essential products, primarily a do-rag and a brush. The choice of brush depends on your hair texture: soft brushes for low or hard hair, medium brushes for moderate hair, and hard brushes for wolfing hair. For his hair type, which is straight and curly, he uses a soft or medium brush because his hair is low.
Training Your Hair
Training your hair involves regular brushing sessions to encourage wave development. Waves typically start developing in the middle, but individual patterns may vary. Patience is key, and for those with naturally curly hair, waves can form quickly after a haircut because waves are essentially laid-down curls.
Essential Tools and Products
The basic needs for creating waves are a do-rag and a brush. While products aren't essential, shampoo and conditioner are useful when washing and styling. Different types of brushes include medium, soft, and hard. Different do-rags are used for different purposes: satin or silky do-rags for sleeping to lay hair down and velvet do-rags for fashion. Essential oils like rosemary oil can also help train and maintain hair.
Haircut and Pattern
The haircut he gets is a low taper fade with a two guard, depending on personal preference. Every hair texture has a unique pattern that you need to identify and follow. His pattern involves brushing straight and diagonally, curving the head to brush down the sides. Consistency is key, and using a mirror can help with the crown and back of the hair.
Brushing and Do-rag Tying
He will include a clip of him brushing his hair to demonstrate the pattern and how to tie a do-rag, which is very important.
