Here Are Seven Unique Ways To Style Your Naturally Hair For Your Wedding

Bantu Knots (Isam)

An African hairstyle where the hair is sectioned off, twisted and wrapped in such a way that the hair stacks upon itself to form a spiraled knot. You can easily pin your veil somewhere atop the hair within one or two of the knots’ roots. That way, one can easily cover the veil and thrown back from the face.

Bun

A natural hair bun (also known as a chignon) is achieved by combing out one’s natural hair and packing it up on the top of your head. The bun holds the veil in place. A lot of styles can be achieved with the natural hair bun, from braiding some parts of your hair from the roots to the bun, or halfway to it, or layering them down with gel to achieve lovely curls.

Braids

You can braid your hair into styles like shuku, cornrows or half corn rows to away from your face, this stretches the skin, removing wrinkles and leaving you fresh-faced (of course with a little dusting of powder to avoid an oily face).

Silk Press

Silk press is a temporary, chemical-free way to straighten natural hair. Natural hair can be silk-pressed once every four months in order to maintain the health of the hair, and retain length without damage. You can silk press your natural hair to either create a smoother natural hair bun

Natural Pony Tail

You can pull your natural hair to the back of your head, to let it fall loosely or hang free there in a ponytail. To achieve a longer ponytail, you can silk-press your hair or thread it, wearing it for hours, before loosing the thread, this stretches the hair to achieve desired effect.

Threading

Though it’s not so popular today, threading used to be the go-to hairstyle during festive occasions for African women, and even dictated status. And

Lowcut/Twa

Of course, we couldn’t end the list here without recognizing those with naturally short- or lowcut hair. Lowcut wearers have several options of either applying activator to help soften and create shiny, wavy coils close to your scalp that gives you a super chic look. For those with twoto-three-inch short hair, the Twa style works. Twa, which stands for ‘Tiny Weeny Afro’ is a twisted/loose-coiled afro hair that is short in length and on the smaller side in terms of volume.

style of a natural pony tail, or leave it to fall silky, straight and coil-less on your shoulders or right below your cheek in a side part. Or you can bull it back with a wedding hair band that serves as a veil holder.

the bigger and flamboyant the threading the better. See lots of African hairstyle photobooks, particularly one published by the Center for Contemporary Arts (CCA), Yaba, Lagos, and some Nigerian music artistes for inspiration.