Kanekolon is a high quality artificial fiber that imitates human hair. It is woven into curls, creating all kinds of braids. This hairstyle looks unusual and bright. Recently, it has become more and more popular with both teenage girls and adult women.
Types of kanekolon, advantages and disadvantages
Synthetic strands have an extensive palette of different shades. In accordance with this, kanekolon is divided into several types according to color.
Traditional option
This is the most common fiber type.
In the standard version, plain strands are used for weaving.
Fluor
Curls begin to shine in a special way from the work of ultraviolet lamps, neon light. They are suitable for visiting a club or a themed holiday.
Chameleon
The shades of the strands change when exposed to sunlight. They are perfect for a party.
The main advantages of hairstyles with kanekolon:
- Natural curls can be increased in length, especially if they are short or medium.
- Synthetic strands are practically not subject to electrification and fluff when styling your hair.
- Man-made fibers are considered safe and hygienic even when braids are worn for a long time.
- There is no need to radically change your hairstyle or the length of your curls.
- Kanekolon allows you to experiment with different shades, shapes almost every day, and thus create unusual attractive original images.
But in addition to the advantages, such curls also have disadvantages:
- When wet, synthetic fibers become quite dense, heavy and strongly pull natural hair downward, which causes significant damage to them.
- Artificial strands are clearly visible among natural curls, even if their shade is as close as possible to the natural tone.
- Such braids will have to be changed often; over time, their color becomes faded.
- Kanekolon should be woven into the hair especially carefully in order to securely fix it. And this method of fixation can injure natural strands while removing artificial braids.
With what and where to wear kanekolon, who suits?
This hairstyle is classified as a free and youthful style. It is worn with any casual wear. It is suitable for a casual walk, a friendly party, a romantic date. However, multi-colored braids are unlikely to fit into a strict office dress code. But they are braided, choosing the shade of artificial curls that is most similar to the color of their hair.
Braids with kanekolon open the face as much as possible, which means they emphasize all its shortcomings, for example: protruding ears, heavy chin, long nose and other imperfect features of appearance.
Therefore, before doing such a hairstyle, you need to make sure that such a model will fit and will look organic on its owner. This hairstyle is best suited for girls with large eyes, high cheekbones, full lips, and an oval or triangular face shape. But the owners of a round oval with small features and chubby cheeks need to carefully choose such a model.
However, some flaws in appearance (acne, age spots, skin color) are successfully masked by professional stylists with competent makeup, and the shape of the face is visually changed by the correct distribution of kanekolon on the head. For example, they braid voluminous braids that stand out on the sides if the oval is oblong, and for chubby girls they form braids from the crown.
Kanekolons look most successful with an open forehead, therefore, it is preferable to remove the existing bangs up and braid them.
Color matching
The selection of the color of artificial strands depends only on individual preferences and mood. Today, saturated neon colors are in vogue, they go well with dark and light curls. Usually blondes choose blue, pink, chocolate shades.
Contrasting colors are suitable for brunettes and brown-haired women, for example: white, red, yellow tones. And also a fuchsia shade. Strands in the gradient or ombre technique look great.
Length and number of braids
Kanekolones should be woven into the hair, taking into account the length of the natural strands, which should be at least 10 cm so that the artificial curls can hold well. In this case, 4 or more braids are braided. The shorter the strands, the more plaits are woven - this is the main rule. But, and the most popular model of 2 spikelets requires the length of the curls below shoulder level.
How to weave artificial strands without the help of a master. Step by step technique
Creating hairstyles with kanekolon is a rather time-consuming process. Of course, it is better to braid braids from professional stylists, but you can try to make them yourself at home. In this case, it is advisable to ask for help from relatives or friends.
Before starting work, you should prepare the necessary materials and tools:
Materials / tools | Appointment |
styling products (gels, mousses, varnishes) | They help fix the hairstyle |
small nude elastic bands | These devices fix the ends of the braids |
hairpins, clips, hairpins | They are necessary for fixing the strands during the weaving process. |
skeletal hairbrush with long handle | With its help, the curls are separated |
kanekolon | Artificial strands that are woven into braids |
mirror | It is placed in a well-lit place to control the work process. |
Simple weaving
This method is the easiest, it is suitable for those who make kanekolon for the first time.
Working process:
- First, wash your hair well using regular shampoo. Balms, conditioners, oils are not used, otherwise the braids will not adhere well to smooth hair.
- Next, the curls are dried with a hairdryer, and then they are carefully combed and styling products are applied over the entire length of the strands.
- After the hair is divided into bunches according to the number of kanekolon. At first, you can try to make 2 braids, if this is the first time such work is done.
- Next, the procedure begins with bangs. It is woven or left loose.
- Then the strands are fixed at the roots using a simple knot with a hairpin. Kanekolon is not fixed. It is added when several rows of their own hair are braided.
- Then weaving is carried out. The braid is braided to the very end. Additional multi-colored curls are attached in the process
- Next, the ear is fixed with a thin elastic band, and it is hidden inside the tail.
- Then the hair is sprayed with varnish.
French voluminous braid
You can weave kanekolon into your hair like a French braid on your own or with your friends. This hairstyle looks magnificent and impressive.
Algorithm of actions:
- To begin with, a tuft of hair is separated in the occipital region. Artificial fibers are placed on it. It turns out 3 strands.
- Then they begin to braid a spikelet: first, the left bundle is placed under the middle strand, and then the right one.
- Next, on the left, they take a curl and wind it under the central bundle. The same action is repeated with the right strand.
- Then the whole braid continues to weave in a similar technique, along the way, the curls are pulled out, forming a volume.
Braids under curls
The hairstyle consists of chic curls, from under which multi-colored braids protrude.
Execution technique:
- First, the bulk of the hair is twisted with a triple curling iron or braids are braided into wet strands, and in the morning they are loosened.
- Then 1 cm of hair is separated from below and fixed so as not to interfere.
- Then they take another 1.5 - 2 cm. Strands on the back of the head, and then they are braided into a spikelet, adding kanekolones.
Tail
This hairstyle looks very impressive, especially if the curls have smooth gradient transitions. The braiding principle is the same as for all hair with artificial braids. But only here they are braided up to the earlobe.
The ends are left loose, and then collected in a high tail, which is wrapped with strands of kanekolon, tied and secured with invisibility.
Little dragon
This hairstyle is considered quite simple. Multi-colored strands are attached at any stage of the work. It all depends on the length of the curls. The "dragon" braid is woven like a French spikelet. To begin with, it is better to master the classic weaving technique.
Working process:
- First of all, part of the hair is separated with the sharp end of the comb at the crown of the head.
- Then the selected hair is divided into 3 bundles, from which a traditional braid is woven. The left curl is thrown up, and then the right bundle is laid in the center.
- Next, braid, constantly adding side strands.
- First, several weaves are carried out, and then the kanekolon is attached.
- Fold the artificial strands in half. Then these fibers are bent to the central bundle. They can be secured with a thin elastic band.
- Then weaving continues, grabbing natural and synthetic curls on both sides.
- Then the end of the braid is fixed with an elastic band, leaving a small tail.
Afrokos
Weaving kanekolon in hair to create afrokos can be done in two ways: from the roots or the middle of the curls. The last option looks especially original due to the gradient color transition. To weave spikelets, you will need 2 types of combs - one with small teeth, the other must have a metal end in order to separate the strands. Thin pigtails are fixed with elastic bands or special glue.
Execution technique:
- First, the hair is washed with shampoo. But no cosmetics are used for care.
- Further, the curls are well dried, and then divided into 2 horizontal zones. Work begins in the occipital region.
- Then, most of the hair is divided into thin curls of equal thickness.
- After the selected strand is combed before weaving.
- Next, a dense braid is braided from it, pulling it tightly along its entire length. The spikelets are given a natural direction. They are lengthened, gradually attaching multi-colored curls.
- Then the braids continue to weave, moving from the back of the head to the temporal zones.
Spikelets
This hairstyle is considered classic, and the multi-colored strands very decorate it and make it unusual.
Working process:
- To begin with, the hair is combed, and then they are divided by vertical parting in the center of the head.
- Then, on the right or left side, they begin to weave a braid. The strands overlap each other to form links.
- Next, the kanekolon is applied to the central curl, and its ends are connected to the side bunches. For reliability, they can be secured with rubber bands.
- Then artificial fibers and curls growing on the sides are gradually interwoven.
- At the end, the end of the spikelet is pulled together with a silicone rubber band.
Hair extension
You can increase the length and volume of hair in various ways, for example, using kanekolon. This technique is also called aphro-enhancement. Synthetic fibers are simply woven into real hair as it is done.
Stages of work:
- First, the head is washed using shampoo, but without using conditioners and balms.
- Further, the curls are well dried, combed and soaked in oil so that they become more pliable when weaving.
- Then, on the back of the head and at the bottom of the temples, the hair is divided into the upper and lower regions, and then they are separated from each other with hairpins.
- After that, small braids up to 1 cm long are braided from the lower strands. Subsequently, artificial fibers are woven into them.
- The attachment points are wrapped with synthetic curls, forming small loops around the braids, and then the protruding ends are cut off.
In addition to the method described above, there is a point method. It involves hair extensions not all over the head, but only in certain places where it is necessary to lengthen the curls.
"Ombre" on the hair with a bright addition
Such a hairstyle is created with the help of artificial strands dyed using the ombre technique, when the gradient on the curls passes from one shade to another. A similar method of coloring can include up to 3 tones.
How to do your hair:
- To begin with, the hair is divided into strands about 2 to 3 cm wide.
- Further, African braids begin to weave from the left or right side of the head.
- Then multi-colored fibers are woven in parallel.
- Each "natural" curl should be no more than 5 - 6 cm.
- Thus, up to 50 colored braids are woven.
Multicolored dulks
A similar hairstyle is easy to create in just 2 - 3 minutes. Woven braids with kanekolon are simply wrapped in bagels on one and the other side of the head.
And then these colored muzzles are fixed with hairpins in a circle.
How long does a braid with kanekolon hold?
Hairstyles with kanekolon retain their original appearance for a certain amount of time.
It all depends on the weaving technique and the specific model:
- Bulky French braids last for about 3 - 7 days, and then they become untidy, fluffy and lose all appearance.
- Small pigtails from 10 pieces braided over the head last about a month.
- Afrokos can be worn for up to about 90 days.
- Kanekolon build-up requires correction after 2 - 3 months.
Correct care
How to care for hairstyles with fake braids:
- The head is washed once every 7 days using a sulfate-free shampoo diluted with water.
- During sleep, use a bandana or hairnet.
- Be sure to avoid direct sunlight on the braids.
- The strands are dried with a towel, the hair dryer is not used, otherwise the fibers will fluff up strongly and ruin the hairstyle.
- When weaving braids, mousses, gels, varnishes and other styling cosmetics are used so that the spikelets retain their shape longer.
- Kanekolons are worn intermittently, re-weaving is permissible after about 1.5 - 2 months.
This is optional.
How much does a hairstyle cost?
In the salon, the cost of the work determines the quantity and quality of synthetic strands, as well as their desired length. The average starting price starts at RUB 1,500.00. Correction of hair and extension of curls costs about the same. They remove the braids for 500.00 - 700.00 rubles. Kanekolones can be woven into hair in a variety of ways. Any of the above hairstyles looks spectacular, stylish and creates unique, memorable images.
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