Once Upon A Natural

The Base Style

There's just some days when our hair decides that it doesn't like us again and refuses to go in any sort of style .

I for one hate to use comb in my hair in these times because my hair will only get 3 times bigger and even harder to handle.

Doing a plat/box braid (without using actually braids) in your hair will present you with base style that will make your hair easier to transition into other style.

The photos above are presentations of what the plat looks like when finished and also when finally taken down.

I'm sorry that I do not have any styles that I converted the base style in but I promise that hair is easy to manipulate considering that its already stretch and detangled.

The plat is also a great protective style and I usually keep it in for a week before I remove it. The plats can be easily pulled in a bun. It will look like when you would do a box braid using braids but a little flatter and natural.
For people with short hair and not all your plats can be pulled in a bun , the solution is simple. Use elastics to secure 2 or more plats from the bottom to a single plat of the row infront of the bottom row moving upwards to the middle of your head. Do this all over your head until completed. Each time you completely secure a bottom row ,the row infront becomes the new bottom row.

My photography skills aren't the best so I must apologize for that too. To give a tutorial on how to do a plat/box braid is kind of hard using words but there is always videos and youtube that can help you out.