Comb Coils and Comb Twist on Short Hair

As always, you’ll want to begin with freshly cleansed and conditioned hair. While your hair is still wet, you can begin to detangle and comb through all your hair to make sure your coils look smooth.

Starting at the nape of your head, section your hair into no bigger than one inch blocks. Apply leave-in conditioner and use a gel or mousse on the roots to tips of your hair. 

There are different ways you can complete the look. You can create a coil by twisting your hair from your scalp to twists, stretching it as you move down the shaft. Keep the coil in place with a hair clip and repeat the process for the rest of your head. The other method is to use a rat tail comb.

Using a comb, twist your hair from the roots with the comb’s twist and twirl it until your reach the ends. A more advanced method is to use the tail of your comb but this is rather difficult. Using a comb will provide neater and more uniform twists.

Seal all your coils with oil and you can either air dry your coils, set them under a hooded dryer or cover them with a satin bonnet overnight. 

Your roots may want to puff out as your twisting the hair so make sure your hair is heavily saturated with water and a good conditioning or moisturising product. 

To keep your coils looking fresh and new for as long as possible, you need to wrap them every night before bed or wear a satin bonnet. Use a light moisturiser or leave-in conditioner every two to three days to keep your hair looking and feeling soft. You can also use this time to retwist any coils that have gotten frizzy or unravelled. 

Moisturising frequently will also help to prevent any locking in your hair – which will be painful and damaging to remove if left too long.

When you’re reaching the end of your style you can also untwist your coils and wear them as a gorgeous coil out style that will produce defined curls. Make sure to use a moisturiser or hair butter when untwisting your coils, not only for the health and shininess of your hair but to also ensure that you don’t break or pull on your hair too hard.

This style is great for shorter afro lengths and you can keep it simple and beautiful with a side-part.

If you have longer hair, comb coils look great in a relaxed high ponytail like in this style that also features copper highlights. 

If you’re sporting a mohawk, you can still have a super cool hairstyle by comb twisting your hair. The fade haircut is a great addition to the overall style.

Curly bangs are a lovely look to try out with coil twists. You can achieve this straight after doing your comb twists or with a coil-out.

Comb twists add lovely, flippable weight to your hair which looks gorgeous in this style with a side undercut.Long coils in a bun

This gorgeous comb twist has thick bangs at the front to create a lovely bowl-cut bob. 

In order to create this mohawk without snipping any of your locks, you can pin back the hair at the sides of your hair. For maximum hold, using gel will seal those sides down.

Red is a fantastic color in coil twists. You can achieve this gorgeous bob with either the comb or finger methods. 

Comb twists work on all lengths of hair and you can wear them in this stunning high bun with two strands hanging down at the front.

This voluminous coil twist look is absolutely gorgeous and it is styled with a side-bang. This will also work great when you do a coil-out.

If you’d prefer, you can twist your hair much more loosely to get this thick, ringlet like coil style. 

This gorgeous style pushes all of the twists towards the front of the head and features beautiful blonde and brown streaks that really pop thanks to the curl definition.

Black to blonde ombre is a classic and easy to pull off color way. The contrast between the dark and lighter shades really pops off thanks to the curl definition in this coil out.

Coil twists are a fantastic way to highlight a good dye job like this amazing electric blue afro that’s been twisted perfectly.

It’s often hard to find styles for your teeny-weeny afro, especially if it’s at an awkward length. Coil twists are the perfect answer to a great way to switch up your hair that looks gorgeous at any length.

Whether you’re naturally greying or you just enjoy a little silver hair dye fro time to time, coil twists look amazing in the color. 

Another great way to wear your twists is by pushing them back with a headband or pins to really offset the volume.

You don’t have to reserve your hair jewelry for your box braids and twists, cuff beads and even regular beads will work great with your twists which are wrapped tight enough to hold the beads.

Consider making your twists ultra thin, which will not only ensure their tightness but you can sport this gorgeous half-up half-down ponytail look.

Opt to style your twists with feed in flat twists if you’re not feeling like you’d like to coil your entire head.