Design Essentials - Summer Styles

Easy, Long Lasting and Chic Summer Styles from Design Essentials® Natural   


Simple styles from Design Essentials® to keep your tresses healthy and stylish as the temperature rises.



It's summer time and July 4th is only a few days away!!  This means there will be many cookouts, summer travel and effortless hair. Design Essentials® Master Educator Deshonica Kerrie shares some of the following step-by-step techniques to help naturalistas either change up a TWA (Teeny Weeny Afro) or make a twist out last even longer on kinky, curly and wavy hair textures.   See her easy tips below!

Photo Credit: Calvin Lionel Photography

Design Essentials® Master Educator Deshonica Kerrie (Center) poses with Design Essentials® Natural hair models styled at the 16th Annual Spring World Natural Hair Show.   

Deshonica's Tips for Achieving Short & Chic TWA Finger Coils 

• Shampoo & condition hair with Design Essentials® Natural Curl Cleanserand Moisturizing Conditioner
• Apply Design Essentials® Natural Daily Moisturizing Lotion
• Create finger coils by using fingers and rolling small sections of hair in a circular motion
• Use a blow dryer on cool heat to add volume to the look
• After blow drying, palm roll (placing coils in hands and rolling in a back-and-forth motion) and go!

Deshonica on Rocking Out with a Bantu Knot Frohawk- An easy way to refresh a twist-out

• Apply Design Essentials® Natural Daily Moisturizing Lotion as a moisturizer first  
• Part hair into big chunks and two-strand twist hair
• Then add Design Essentials® Natural Twist & Set Setting Lotion and create bantu knots (apply bantu knots only on both sides of the head)
• Gather the hair in the middle and draw the hair up using a soft brush to create the frohawk
• Secure hair with bobby pins and crisscross them for a tighter hold
• Use a comb to create volume in the fro and make sure to tease the hair in one direction to avoid tangling

Deshonica on a Round About Twist Out & Updo

• Twist hair with Design Essentials® Natural Twist and Set Setting Lotion, twisting hair in big sections (about 3 different sections for hair that is shoulder length)
• T-shirt blot hair to prevent dripping and frizziness
• Sit  under the dryer for  5 to 10 minutes to let product set
• Separate curls by rubbing a small amount of  Design Essentials® Natural Daily Moisturizing Lotion on hands, then continue to separate hair
• To achieve fullness, take a comb and gently pull through the roots
• Once the twists start to get old, gather the hair to the top of your head and draw the hair up using a soft brush 
• Secure hair with bobby pins crisscrossing them, down, up, down, up to securely position the hair into a neat updo

All of the above mentioned Design Essentials® Natural products may be purchased at your local Sally Beauty Supply, Walgreens, ULTA and select beauty & barber supply stores.  You may also purchase these products from your local salon or online at www.DesignEssentials.com.


For more styling tips or to speak with Design Essentials® Master Educator Deshonica Kerrie, contact Minajiah Scott at 
[email protected]. 

I plan to attempt one of these styles myself over the holiday weekend!  How about you?  Feel free to comment & share!

Until next time....