How To Box Braid With Extensions (For Beginners)

So now I'm going to show you some steps for box braiding um, cutting the hair separating the hair and stretching the hair, of course. So now I just took out a little piece of hair, and I'm stretching this on my knee I'm doing this so that the ends of my braids aren't so blunt and so that they don't want gravel. This gives them a nice end. Now, I'm going to show you how I separate what you do is basically take one third of the hair, which is a smaller piece. You see and wrap it around the bigger piece, it's very very simple: you can do it any way you want, as long as the hair is wrapped around so once again separate the hair into two pieces make one piece twice as big as the other piece take. The smaller piece or wrap it around the bigger piece, and now you have three strands of hair and then you're just going to keep doing that over and over again until you get it, it's really not hard, but it just takes a little bit of practice and Once you're done with that, you're ready to start interlocking your braid into the natural hair. So what I'm doing right now is ahead of box braids, I've already parted off the natural hair and I'm going to go ahead and show you once more how to separate the hair, basically, the smaller piece again intertwine them to the bigger piece and then all you're Going to do is kind of intertwine that into the natural hair, just as you would do a parade if you are not using an extension, so go ahead and intertwine that into the natural hair, you can put it in any way. You, like you, don't have to use my specific technique, but whatever way works for you, this is specifically the way I like to do my braids, because it ensures that the braids are very neat and also that the braids are very secure to itself now, when you're Doing this, you want to make sure that the braid is firm, but you don't want to pull on the natural hair too much because you don't want to cause any breakage. So once you get the hair locked in, then you can go ahead and flip over the braid and begin planning. Your actual braid, and now I'm just gon na go down and to the thing to ensure that your braid is neat is to make sure that each section is even that's number one and number two that you apply. The same amount of pressure when you're intertwining the braid to each strand, that's, what's going to make your braid look really neat. As you can see, the braid almost looks like corn, like corn, on a cob, very neat each each other. I guess we call corn is very intertwined very tight and also make sure that when you get to the part of the braid, where the natural hair begins to end, you want to apply a little more pressure. Just to minimize the amount of hair. That'S going to come out in your rate and so that your braid looks much more neater and you have a lot less work to do when you're done and I'm a professional grader. So I'm really faceted. So take your time in your breathing and I'm just showing you the finished product um, as you can see, that's the top of the head. Um, that's the side. Now these are the poetic justice braids, but we didn't do them very, very large. You did the more so of a medium large sized just so that they last a little longer and they're, not as heavy they're, not as not heavy at all, actually only used about four packs and we dip the ends in the hot water. That'S how we got there. Thank you so much for watching. Please stay tuned for my next video and don't forget to subscribe. Thank you.