Hairstyle ideas for Type 4 Kinky Curly Hair

Curls curls curls! How hard to domate but how beautiful and unique when you know how to take care of them! African kinky curly hair is a pure blessing when you know how to style it, you’ll never want to try different hairstyles again! 

Well, if you are looking for some easy, efficient and neat ways to style and give a twist to your type 4 kinky curly hair this is the right place to discover three new hairstyles, both on natural hair and hair extensions. We’ll go trough each step to make sure that It’ll be a perfect beginner guide to integrate new ideas in your everyday life. Just scroll through the options and find the perfect match for your uniqueness!

Let’s start by stating that kinky curls aren’t easy to manage, but they aren’t as bad, nappy and coarse as they want us to picture. We have to take in mind that, being very textured in their zigzag locks they’ll need A LOT of moisture to keep their natural bounciness and health and most of all, we will embrace the natural look, so no hairstyle in this list today will ask you to iron your kinky curls or force the locks into something they are not, we will simply enjoy their impulsive state of acting, the secret is just treating kinky curls properly, with a lot of care and, once again, a lot of moisture!!

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THE HAIRBAND

The first style is the most effortless and no skill is required at all, is the look for Monday mornings, when you want people to know they have to back off but you still wanna impress your office crush: the hairband. This hairstyle is perfect for every type of hair length, and for hair extensions as well and it is extremely versatile according to the occasion and to your personal style. You can choose a jeweled statement hairband to make your look standing out or you can just go simple with a thin monochrome hairband for those days you just want to look put together without getting all the attention on you. Simple, beautiful, and elegant!

If you want to bring this hairstyle to the next level try to add as much volume as possible choosing

Kinky hair clip-in extensions to speak out your inner lioness, and why not, choose a ombre one or a lighter/darker color from your natural one to add even more uniqueness.

HAIR EXTENSIONS

Of course, since we mentioned hair extensions why not going deeper into how extensions themselves can become a new hairstyle. On amazing beauty hair the range of possibilities of type 4 kinky curly hair is pretty much infinite, giving you every option you might think of to experiment with your look.

Our suggestion is to try temporary clip-in extensions to get familiar with your new style, they are extremely easy to apply, not invasive at all and most of all available in a variety of forms and shapes, from short to long, from blonde to black from thin to thick. Trying out different hair extensions will guarantee you new looks and new hairstyles everyday, and why not maybe you’ll find out that you are actually a read head inside and you just had to discover it!

BANTU KNOTS

If hair extensions aren’t your thing or you want to have a more fresh look for summer you have to try bantu knots! They are great also if you want to protect your hair, if for example you want it to grow healthy cause you are planning on rocking your natural 4 type kinky curls when they are longer, or if you are going to the seaside and you want to make sure to damage your hair as little as possibile.

Bantu Knots are actually a wide category of hairstyles themselves cause you can choose how many of them you want, how tall, where and so on, but let’s start exploring what they actually are and how to make them! They aren’t real knots, even if looking at them it could actually pass by as the truth, but they are a grandma technique that involves flaunting little buns throughout your mane. There’s not much else to add to describe them, this is how easy they are! One more point we can add to convince you to try them is that you can also use them to “shape” your natural hair underneath”. Flaunting your hair into a certain shape will of course give them a whole new look when untangled. You can keep them twisted during the day and unveil your defined curls or waves for the night, it’s just a great alternative for heartless curls!

You don’t need any capability at all to make them, no salon nor specific products, just sit in front of your mirror and start knotting. The most important thing to always remember is to moisturize! We stated moisturizing was the very first rule of each and every style explored in this list but for this one it’s fundamental not to skip it!

Choose your favorite moisturizer and massage it gently on your scalp to cleanse, nourish and give luminous shine to your hairstyle.

Now it’s time to lock in the moisturizer and you can do it with a leave-in conditioner, choose a light leave-in conditioner in order to not oil your hair too much, otherwise your bantu knots will tend to last less.

This step is the one that can be skipped according to your habits, it is our suggestion to complete the moisturize circle with a hair serum, that will give elasticity and shape out your curls before closing it in the bantu knots. If you feel that your hair is nourished enough and doesn’t need one more oil-based passage you can decide to avoid it and start parting your hair.

Now it’s time to twist! First of all decide the look you want, so how many bantu knots, placed how far from one an other, how thick and so on, once the design is done you can part your hair in the chosen sections and you can start twisting from the roots to ends. Your hair will naturally follow the twisting, making the job as easy as drinking a glass of water, don’t be scared to pull and lock the knots as tight as possible.

Go on following the same method trough out your whole head. Once you’ll have as many mini buns as you wanted you can set it all in place with a couple sprays of shine hairspray and you are ready to go!

According to how carefully you treat your bantu knots they can last up to 3 weeks, and of course you can always choose to untangle and do them again!

This hairstyle can be combined in many different ways as well, for example you can choose to have only two buns in the front and keep your type 4 kinky hair free on the back, or even add hair extensions for a more statement look!