Piggyback Braids

So I attempted piggy back braids for the first time on NeNe's hair on Sunday. Although they turned out just okay, I was not happy with them or the first attempts at sister twists I did on the back part of her hair. I discovered that the techniques used for type 4 hair, don't always work on my daughter and need to be adapted somewhat. I learned piggyback braids from the styling video on the Keep Me Curly blog at http://www.keepmecurly.com/p/cornrow-twist-videos.html  but again, my daughters hair texture is quite different then the model in the video.  I will try them again but I will work with hair that is wet instead of just damp, use more product, and make slightly larger boxes that extend further back on her head. 3C hair does not like to clump together as well as coarser textures. Despite the fact that I didn't get the results I wanted, I left her hair as it was because it was bedtime. I was quite surprised the piggy back braids did hold up fairly well for the three days we had them in. Here are a few pictures of the process and of the end result. Sorry about the awful lighting. I didn't attempt more because somebody was cranky and wanted to go to bed. We left the style in for three days, though on day 3 I took out the sister twists (not pictured) and did several box braids because she had soccer practice and the twists were getting messy.

I parted ear to ear and put the back end in an elastic to work just with the front of the hair

Here are a few rows done

Piggyback braids done, but not cute, I will get better. Did you see my first cornrows? LOL