I am wearing box braids as my protective style of the month. I am trying to keep my hands out of my hair for a month at a time.from September 15 to October 15 I would be wearing box braids. I did the rubber band method.  (  you put the rubber band on first then attach the  hair ) I in the beginning likes this method less frizzy more neat. Until it began to grow. You have new growth then a rubber band and your har grow straight up so moving it from side to side made the hair pull and then began to hurt. So today I have decided to take them out because im not sure if it a lot of stress on the hair or not. I also think my edges have been pulling out due to the rubber bands. So please if you choose the rubber band method to do any of your braids or twist please be careful.  Its all about finding what works on your own hair. This may work and be fine on someone else's hair but for me NO. So I am six days short of a month. So I think for the next 6 days I will be leaving the rubber bands but the is nothing weighing on them to pull. And I will be doing the GHE (green house effect) to keep it moist and complete the four weeks of doing nothing to my hair.