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Don’t start out by twisting too tightly because the twist will be super tight by the time you get to the tips. Once you’ve parted out your first ‘subsection’ begin twisting your hair from the base to the tips.

Begin twisting and then start wrapping.

You can use your favorite leave-in, curl pudding or even gel. Here’s where a lot of the variation comes in–different people use different products to moisturize their hair and set the curls. Whether you’ve just washed your hair or are creating the style dry, you’ll need to add a moisturizer to get the curls to set. Remember, the more knots, the more definition, the less frizz. With your hair parted into four sections, you can either split each section into halves (for a total of eight knots) or fourths (for a total of 16) or even more. If you plan on wearing your bantu knots as a style first, be sure to take your time (and a couple mirrors) and create neat parts.

Make a smaller section for your first bantu knot.

Use hair ties or clips to tuck the sections out of the way. Prep your hair by parting it into four even sections–create a vertical middle part, going from the center of your forehead to the center of your nape and create a horizontal middle part going from ear to ear. For a good bantu knot out with nicely defined curls, expect to do at least 8 bantu knots evenly spread out across your head. The longer your hair is, the fewer you can get away with doing. If your hair is really short, like TWA (teeny weeny afro) short, you’ll have no choice but to do several small knots. Generally, speaking the more bantus the better.

Have a sense of how many bantus you want to create.

This makes it easier to create the knots and it also gives you more clearly defined curls versus frizzy curls. As you’ll see in some of the videos below, many people stretch out their hair before knotting it up. You can do bantu knots or a knot out without washing your hair, but depending on how much products you use, you may want to wash your hair in order to have a clean slate and avoid product buildup. Even though this is the first step, it’s not a critical step.

(Further below are video tutorials by hair texture and length). But across all textures and hair lengths, there are some key steps. Put oil on your hands before you unravelĮveryone has their slight variation on how they do their knot out.In case you don’t want to read all of the instructions that follow, here are three things you absolutely have to do when doing bantu knot outs in order to get the best results… Bantu knot outs on really long hair tend to look more like waves vs curls. Furthermore, the longer your hair is, the more it will hang and the looser your curls will be. As you can see, a bantu knot out on Type 3 hair, generally gives more defined curls, but you can create defined curls with Type 4 hair (second row, second photo from left) with certain products (see tutorial below). I’ve tried to get as many examples of different textures as possible, but Black hair is so diverse, so it wasn’t easy. The photo starts with girls with Type 3 hair (on the first row), mixed Type 3/Type 4 textures in the second row and Type 4 hair on the third row. Before you create this look it’s good to set the right expectations. In addition to being a way to heatlessly curl your hair, the knots themselves have become a frequently worn style, usually seen on the crowns of the fashion-forward coolsters of AfroPunk fest.Ī bantu knot out will look different depending on the texture and how long it is. I want to emphasize here that unlike a braid out or twist out, a bantu knot out gives you a tight curl because it’s rolled up, whereas braid outs and twists out give you stretched out waves. Doing this is called a bantu knot out because you take the knots out. A lot of women let the knots set overnight and unravel them to form tight springy curls.

You create them much in the same way you make a bun–by twisting (or two-strand twisting) a portion of your hair, then rolling the twist up around its base into a knot. What’s a Bantu Knot and What’s a Bantu Knot Out?įor those new to bantus, a bantu knot is both a hairstyle and a way to curl your hair without heat or rollers. Bantu Knot Tutorials by Hair Type and Length.Different Textures, Different Lengths = Slightly Different Outcomes.What’s a Bantu Knot and What’s a Bantu Knot Out?.

That’s because I didn’t realize what a bantu knot out really was. The first time I tried a bantu knot out, I was shocked at how short it made my hair look. Or you’ve tried it and it didn’t quite come out as expected. Bantu knots and bantu knot outs are one of those styles that you hear about a lot and are meaning to try, but aren’t quite sure if it’s worth the effort.