304 Stainless Steel Coffee Milk Tea Drink Straws Set
Details
Main Features
• Include 4 bent straws, 4 straight straws and 2 cleaning brushes
• Using food grade 304 stainless steel, healthy, eco-friendly and non-toxic, not soft, can be used repeatedly
• Double-sided encryption pinhole on the spoon surface, clean filter residue, remove the trouble of inhaling filter residue
• High-grade and durable, not hot, not fade, easy to clean, high-temperature sterilization
• Perfect metal straws for drinking cold beverage, sipping the cocktail, coffee, ice tea, cappuccino, etc.Package weight: 0.172 kg
Product size (L x W x H): 26.50 x 0.60 x 0.60 cm / 10.43 x 0.24 x 0.24 inches
Package size (L x W x H): 27.00 x 8.00 x 2.00 cm / 10.63 x 3.15 x 0.79 inchesPackage Contents: 4 x Bent Straw, 4 x Straight Straw, 2 x Cleaning Brush, 1 x Bag
If at first you don’t succeed – whatchu gone do? Try again if it makes sense, right? Well, that is exactly what I did recreating this fake straw set on natural hair. The first one wasn’t a “GOT’EM” because my hair wasn’t completely dry when I took down the rods and it led to a bit of frizz. However, this time we on the money, honey! There are a few things that I switched around to make this…
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So, the last time I did a straw set, it was less than spectacular (read about it here), but I decided to revisit it again yesterday evening because I like the style (when done successfully) and I knew I had to have been missing something. I learned a new rolling technique, which I’ll discuss below, so I was hoping for better results.
What I used:
Products:
- Karen’s Body Beautiful Sweet Ambrosia Leave-In conditioner
- Karen’s Body Beautiful Super Duper Hydrating Hair Cream
- Carol’s Daughter Hair Balm
- Oyin Handmade Boing!
Tools:
- one box of plastic straws (the same box from last time - some of the straws were previously cut)
- Perm rods (the larger white ones)
- Lots and lots of bobbi pins
(Ignore the water spots. My hair was dripping wet when I took this picture, lol!)
I started on wet, freshly washed hair, using the perm rods in the back of my head since the hair there is shorter and I’d planned on doing an updo. I applied the Sweet Ambrosia and Hair Balm on large sections and then applied the Super Duper on each section before I rolled it onto the perm rod. For the front, which is longer, I used the same products in the same order, except I included the Boing! because I want to make sure the front really had enough moisture, hold and definition since we were using the straws.
Now, this time around I used the whole straw (last time I cut them down) for the technique that I saw while watching Jouelzy’s roller set video (check it out here) where the hair is rolled in more of a spiral fashion (last time the hair was rolled too close together, creating coils that looked so womp-womp). I then secured each straw with a bobbi pin.
Periodically I would spray each section with water if it began to dry (you want nice, wet hair for a style like this).
I didn’t count the straws used, but from start to finish, it took me an hour and a half to complete, and then I sat under the dryer for 35 minutes. No way was I sleeping like this.
Once my hair was dry, I removed the rods first and teased out the curls, then removed the straws. The results are in the pic above. MUCH better than the first time. I was pleasantly surprised!
For bedtime, I made a makeshift satin pillowcase by tying one of my satin scarves around a pillow, and during a middle-of-the-night bathroom trip, I noticed that the curls had shrunken a little bit, thanks to the humidity in my apartment at the time (I haven’t turned on the A/C just yet), so I just grabbed chunks of curls from the front on both sides and pinned them to the side to provide a little stretch. This was my hair this morning.
My hope is that this style lasts me about 2-3 days. Next go-round, I’m going to try using less products and just going with a leave-in, oil and gel, and compare. With the days getting hotter, I’m going to need more hold than just the Boing! when doing this style.
