Ruka Pro: Consumer - protective styling (beginner friendly)

Description:

This course is designed to give you the practical skills you need to care for and style textured hair with a high level of execution. You’ll explore protective styling which will include getting to know our hair attachment styles from our clip ins to ponies. Through a hands on approach, experience the Ruka catalogue and discover textures, techniques and how to bring out the best in every curl and coil. Become proficient in best standard practice, and sought-after expert techniques, to help you navigate even the tightest textures with ease.

Your Educators:

Afope Atoyebi, Ruka Head of Product + Trichologist.

Shannel Watson, Ruka, Trichologist.

Shayna, Braid Bar Ldn.

Course Covers:

• Best practice(s) for manipulating textured hair
• Detangling textured hair
• Braiding, twisting and weaving textured hair
• Ruka attachment installations: ponies, clip ins, maintaining/defining textures
• Blending natural hair with textured extensions

Requirements:

• Notepad, laptop or tablet
• Pens/pencils
• Learning materials required for this course will be provided.

Itinerary:

Best practice(s) for manipulating textured hair

• Recap of textured hair characteristics and needs (from “Textured hair & scalp fundamentals” course)
• Different types of products with slip + selecting the right one
• Different types of detangling tools + selecting the right one
• Detangling methods and techniques (demo + practical)

Braiding, twisting and weaving textured hair

All demos and practicals

• Braiding
  • cornrows (incl. how to feed in extensions)
  • box braids
  • knotless braids
• Twisting
  • two strand rope twists (incl. how to feed in extensions)

Blending natural hair with textured extensions

• Texture matching hair with extensions
• Techniques for blending hair with extensions
  • curl defining (gels, mousses)
  • heat tools (curlers, straighteners, hot combs)
  • heat free curls/coils (twist-outs, braid-outs)