The 90-Day Mini Braids Handbook

Your complete guide to caring for your natural hair in mini braids while protecting your strands, retaining length, and building a simple, consistent hair-care routine.

Mini braids can be an amazing low-manipulation style,but only when the hair underneath is properly cared for. This handbook takes you through the entire mini-braids journey, from preparing your hair before installation to maintaining your braids, checking your progress, and rebraiding with care.

Inside the handbook, you'll learn:

✨ How to prepare your hair before installation

Learn how to properly cleanse, condition, deep treat, detangle, trim and prepare your hair for a long-term protective style.

✨ How to install mini braids with less tension

Understand braid sizing, scalp tension, protecting your edges, and sealing your ends properly.

✨ Your simple weekly mini-braids care routine

Know what to do daily, several times a week, weekly, and monthly so your hair doesn't get neglected while it's tucked away.

✨ LCO & LOC moisturizing methods

Learn how to moisturize your mini braids without drowning your hair in heavy products, and understand which method may work better depending on how your hair responds.

✨ How to wash your mini braids

Follow a practical wash routine that focuses on keeping your scalp clean while minimizing frizz and unnecessary manipulation.

✨ How to protect your ends

Learn simple ways to identify, twist and seal loose or frayed ends before they become a bigger problem.

✨ Your nighttime routine

Discover how to protect your mini braids, edges and moisture while you sleep.

✨ How to check your progress every month

Learn how to monitor new growth, your hairline, your ends and your overall progress using consistent comparison photos.

✨ How to rebraid without unnecessary breakage

Get a step-by-step approach to safely taking down and redoing your mini braids, including the importance of working on damp, well-lubricated hair.

✨ What to do when something feels wrong

Troubleshoot common concerns such as dryness, flakes, itching, breakage, thinning and persistent frizz.

This is for you if...

• You want to wear mini braids for several weeks without neglecting your natural hair.
• You want a simple routine instead of constantly buying more products.
• You're focused on length retention, not just chasing hair-growth products.
• You want to learn how to moisturize, wash and maintain your mini braids properly.
• You want to reduce unnecessary manipulation and breakage.
• You want to actually track how your hair responds over 90 days.

Your mini braids don't have to be “set it and forget it.”

Healthy hair in a protective style comes from the small habits you repeat consistently: moisturizing, gentle washing, protecting your hair at night, caring for your ends and being patient during takedown and rebraiding.

Protect. Moisturize. Retain Length. See Growth.

Created by Hair By Ntina

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