How I Preserve My Straight Hair & Wrap My Hair Like The Dominicans

I honestly wish y’all would watch me wrap my hair and enjoy it! Lmao I’m a Black woman who watched her mother wrap her hair but also went to the Dominicans for blow outs. My great grandma mother was also Dominican. Wrapping hair is a Black technique. Newsflash, Dominicans are apart of the African Diaspora (more than 40% of slaves went to Latin/South America) therefore, a large sum of Dominicans are of African descent. Open a book, in sure you all can find access to this information. If you have something unnecessary to say please keep it cause IRDAGF😘

Wow it’s so shiny sleek and silky!

No idea why this showed up on my recommended Lol, but u have beautiful hair and nice bone structure. Have a nice day and take care of yourself. Peace

You just gave me the secret! I’ve been parting it in the middle and it is so frustrating because it gets all puffy in the middle and I have to keep re-wrapping it. Thanks for doing this tutorial!

I’m a black girl from Philly and I’ve done this my whole life.

It's a staple in our culture and hair regimen. All black women do this but many have abandoned these techniques.

I'm in cosmetology school and there's a section in the hairstyling chapter explaining hair wrapping but the pictures don't show or explain anything very well so I was so damn confused, this really helped! Thank you and you're freaking gorgeous! Beautiful hair!

South African women grow up doing this. We call it 'swirling' and we use old pantyhose (we call it a stocking but it's the 'panty'part of the pantyhose) to keep it in place. You can even twist it tighter if you like. Some do it without hairpins and just place the stocking on the head after swirling. Twisting the stocking makes the swirl tighter and hokdxevetyyhing together. Normally sleep in the style to keep it sleek.

I love how long and silky your hair is Nia😍😉 you take good care of it very well💯💪🏾🙌🏾💪🏾

I’m a black southern girl, and I’ve had my hair wrapped like this all my life.

I grew up getting silk presses and I’m from Houston ❤️ and my granny kept my hair wrapped all the time ❤️ not just a Dominican thing ❤️💯

Woah! Your shine and retention ARE AMAZING!

Girlllllll your hair had grown sooo much since you cut it . I’m here for it😍

Your hair is beautiful !!! 😍 thank you for the tutorial !! I have longggg hair and didn’t know how to wrap it but thanks to you, now I do ☺️

If you don’t like the pin dents: I usually comb my hair around in a circle and hold it with my hands without any pins. Or ask someone else to hold it but I can manage to do it myself. Then you fold your scarf in a triangle and lay it on your head. Cross cross the pieces in the back once and then spinbthe scarf in a circle motion around your in the direction you combed it so tbat it smoothes it out and compacts the hair then tie the scarf down and you’re good!

Great vid!!! The simple step of parting behind the ear feels like a revelation to me!! I always start with a side part and I struggle every time! The behind the ear part makes way more sense....I’m gonna try it!!

Yaaaaaaassssssss Nia!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾Come thru drippin💧 lol. That shine and body of your hair is everything!!! ♥️♥️♥️♥️

I haven’t wrapped my hair in YEARS. Lawd my hair used to be L A I D T for the GAWDS! Lol

Thank you so much for this! I can finally wrap my hair myself. It has so little texture and can be a huge pain to rap because it falls all over the place, but doing it this way (as opposed to parting the hair to the front and holding my hand in the middle of my head) is so much easier. Thanks again! :)

I love your hair!!! I love wrapping my hair! Keeping that style fresh.