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Category: Misc.
Braids are beautiful but they do require patience and practice. Once you master a basic braid and French braid, you can move on to pig-tail braids, multiples pinned together, upside down braids.
First off, make sure your hair (or your victim's hair) is at least collar length and has few to no layers cut in it. The layers only make it more difficult to work with and usually there are hairs poking out all along the seam of the braid. It is wise to learn and practice on someone else's hair until you get comfortable with it.
Prepare the hair by dampening it (wet is ok too but it will stay wet all day as long as it's braided) and putting in a bit of hair gel or styling cream. This will allow the hair to be a bit slippery and easier to manipulate.
Remember, a braid is simply 3 of anything woven together. A French braid is these 3 sections woven together and connecting tighter. An English braid is an inside-out French braid.
Anyway, starting with the damp hair, make a part from ear to ear across the top of the head. Gather loosely into a ponytail type section. Split this into 3 even sections and snake each one thru separate fingers ON THE SAME HAND. Now, using your other hand, take an outside section and place it over the middle. Then take the other section and place it over the middle (the section that used to be on the other side) and continue this taking hair from each side and placing it over the middle. You will most likely be switching the entire braid from hand to hand when French or English braiding.
For a French or English braid, after the initial right over middle, left over middle technique, continue with parting off thin horizontal sections of hair and ADDING it to the right side, the left, etc thus making the new middle section just a little bit fatter. Keep your knuckles close to the head and it will be tighter and prettier when done. For an English braid you do the same technique but instead of putting the hair sections over each other, you put them under the each other.
Finish off by adding a ponytail holder (never a rubber band as they damage hair!) and a bit of hairspray. Tuck in any strays with hairpins,not bobby pins. Bobby pins are flat and don't open up. Hairpins are open kinda in a horseshoe shape.
Good Luck! And be patient!
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