Best Beginner Butterfly Loc Tutorial| 3 Methods Ft Leeven Hair

What you mean you don't know panda she's dope, what you mean, what you mean, what you mean, what you mean, what is poppy youtube welcome back to my channel. It'S your girl, dope, ass panda, and today i am bringing you guys. The best beginner butterfly lock tutorial. If you haven't already seen my first butterfly lock video, i'm gon na go ahead and leak it in the top right section, but that video was sponsored by leave-in hair and today i am doing another collab with them. So i'm super excited, i'm gon na be showing you guys three different techniques that you guys can use to achieve butterfly locks. So today i am styling on a mannequin head, which i know is different, but if you guys haven't already, i told you guys at the beginning of quarantine to cop you guys a doll head to practice technique. So if you haven't done that by now, then you don't listen, but it's not too late. I will make sure that i link this doll head that i'm using down in the description section. The texture of this doll is great and awesome. So, yes, it's great to practice these techniques on, so i am going to be showing you guys. Three different locks, like i said in the beginning, and you guys will notice that i am going to be prepping, my second one in a different way. So this first one i'm going to be doing a regular plait, just braiding my clients, hair from top to bottom. My second one is actually going to be a twist and the reason why i do this is because, for those of you guys who have to take these down yourselves, i know it is super frustrating taking down a head full of braids, especially when you have 4c Hair texture, so a couple of my clients have requested that i um braid at the root and just twist all the way down, and this just allows for an easier take down for a lot of clients. So this is definitely a great alternative to just doing a braid all the way down. Really it only matters if it's super tight at the root. So that's why i started with the braid. The only reason why i wouldn't um do a full twist on my client is just for a fear of the crochet being a little too loose at the root. So you always want to make sure you start that with the braid. So these are the locks that were sent to me by leaving hair. They are 18 inches and very similar to the bobbi boss, nulox hair, which is extremely hard to get so i definitely definitely highly recommend purchasing from this brand. As always, i will leave the links in the description section where you guys can purchase this hair, and i will also pin it at the top of the comments. In addition to this, they sent me passion, twist, hair, which i had used in my first video, where i created butterfly lock. So i'm going to be using that in this video as well so you're going to start by finding the loop at the top of the lock and i'm going to use that to crochet this lock into my client's natural hair. So after i push my needle through i'm going to put that loop through the hook and close it and then i'm going to pull that through next i'm going to take the end of that faux loc and i'm going to do the same thing. I'M going to crochet that through the top of the loop and pull it all the way through and that will make sure that your lock is secure. You can save a bunch of time by not crocheting your braid through the middle of the lock, which is what i have done in my previous faux loc tutorials. But i realized like it just takes too much time and it's not necessary if you're doing a distressed or a butterfly lock. So next i'm going to take two pieces of the passion twist hair and i'm going to start by fluffing them out and the way you do, that is by running your fingers down the entire lock that will fluff it and then it'll make it easier for you To pull them apart next, i'm going to split each of those pieces into two, and you just want to carefully pull them apart. You want to make sure that you're not creating any knots or tangling if you pull too hard and too fast, so i'm going to slowly take my time and pull those apart. You should end up with four pieces of passion twist hair, so i'm going to take two of those pieces and crochet them through the top. One side is going to be significantly longer than the other you're going to take that shorter side and combine it with the lock and the braid. The longer side is going to be the piece that you use to wrap around so you're going to begin wrapping at the root you want this to be fairly tight. This is going to help keep that hair secure at the root the rest of the wrapping. For these locks don't need to be done extremely tight, but you do want to make sure that this hair is secure at that root. So you're going to go around three to four times and make this nice and tight. Once you have that piece on there, nice and secure, you can begin to wrap down and we're going to be using what is called the thumb method. Where you're going to take your thumb and you're going to weave out a little piece of the hair to create a loop, so you guys can see i'm almost in the middle of the hair. And then i'm going to take this long piece and i'm going to wrap it over the top, while i'm holding that hair. In my thumb, you want to do this about two times over the top, because, if not, you can see here that it's really easy to to lose that loop, when you're wrapping so you're gon na stick your thumb in the middle i'm gon na wrap two times Over the top to make sure that my loop is secure and that it's going to stay, and then you can move your thumb and continue wrapping underneath that loop now you're just going to continue doing this all the way down how many loops you want to add In there is totally up to you, if you want a super messy look, then you would do the loops more often. If not, then you can do them more spread out spread apart, but you're just going to continue to do this until you're. Almost out of this passion, twist hair and like i said this, wrapping doesn't need to be super tight and super overlapped or anything because we are doing sort of like a messy distressed look and you still have that faux loc underneath so you're just going to continue. Wrapping and continue doing that thumb method until you're, almost out of hair. So when you get down to your last three to four inches of passion, twist hair, that's when you know it's time to add in your second piece. So, in order to do that, you're going to grab your second piece and again one side is going to be longer than the other, the short side you are going to add in to your faux loc and your braid again and then the longer side you're actually Going to either clip up or just wrap it around the top of your client's, ponytail or whatever. So that way, it's out of your way you're then going to take that hair that you were initially wrapping around and you are going to start to wrap it around again about three to four times and that's going to help to secure that new piece of hair. On once, you do that you're going to tie it in a knot. So, in order to do that, you're going to wrap it around and tie it around itself and pull it and then begin to wrap that piece up where it will meet that new piece of long passion, hair that you added in once it meets where that long Piece starts: i'm going to grab that long piece and just begin to wrap that down together and it will be nice and secure once you've added that piece in you can continue to do your thumb method and move all the way down until you get to the End of your lock once you get to the end of your lock you're, going to go ahead and tie another knot with the passion to his hair and begin to wrap upward. Once you run out of hair you're just going to do a nice palm roll and your lock is done, i will show you guys on another lock how you can better secure the ends of your lock. If you are nervous about it not being secure enough with just the palm rolling, but i've been doing this for a while and it really doesn't unravel especially having that knot, and that is how you create your first method for butterfly locks for our second method. We are going to be prepping all of the hair. The same way, however, instead of using two pieces of passion, twist hair we're actually going to be using three. So once those are pulled apart, you should end up with six pieces of passion, twist hair. So for this method we are going to start off by crocheting four pieces of the passion twist hair through the top. Instead of using the thumb method, we are going to be using a pull method. So remember it's two pieces that we pulled into four and we're gon na put all of those through the same thing is gon na happen. There'S gon na be a shorter side that we combine, with the lock and with the braid or the twist in this case, and i'm going to still wrap around the root three to four times to secure that going down. I'M gon na wrap this loosely and what's gon na happen, is i'm actually going to be pulling out those little butterfly pieces? So this one i'm just wrapping lightly as i go around and occasionally i'm going to pull on the lock and i'm going to create those butterfly looking pieces. So this one, you really want to make sure that you are switching in between wrapping tightly and wrapping loosely. So that you have areas where you can pull those pieces out, but that your lock is still also secure. This method is definitely a quicker option, but it is a little trickier. So if you are someone who is not advanced at doing locks, i definitely would not recommend this method for you when you get towards the bottom you're going to add in that third piece of passion, twist hair and that's going to be the last piece that you Need for your loc you're, going to literally do this the exact same way that we did it the first time, so the shorter side should combine with the faux loc hair, and you want to make sure that you're lining that up, so that it's at least around The same length and that's gon na make sure that you know you don't have too much hair at the end of your loc. So i'm speeding up the bottom of the lock, because literally everything is the exact same you're going to tie it at a knot at the bottom and you're going to continue to wrap back up. But we are going to secure this one differently so to secure this lock, because we have a lot of hair left over i'm going to be taking nail glue and i'm going to be placing that right where the hair. We want the hair to end. I'M going to kind of just pat that in so you don't need a lot of hair glue, just a little bit of drip and then you're just going to cut off the excess hair, and that is how our lock is secured. So you guys can see that these locks do look very similar, but we use two different methods to do them so yeah on to our third lock. For this lock, i'm actually going to be showing you guys how to do an extended faux loc. So, like i said, these locks are 18 inches, but we can make them longer. A lot of locks stop at 18 inches, it's really hard to find them any longer than that. So i'm going to show you guys how you can extend them yourself, so i'm going to start once again by crocheting my first lock through and we're actually going to be using two locks for this method. So for the second lock that i'm adding on once again. I'M going to find that loop at the top of the lock and i'm going to be crocheting the bottom of the first lock through that loop, how high up or down you slide that loop is going to determine how long your lock is going to continue to Be but um, i'm going to show you guys where this is going to hang, so you guys can see it's literally double the length of the locks that we just did if you keep the lock towards the bottom. So once you determine what length you want your lock to be you're, going to take that first, lock and you're going to begin to unravel it and split it into two and take these two pieces you're going to wrap it around the back and you're going to Tie a knot with them and then you're going to pull them around the front and you're going to do the same exact thing: you're going to tie a knot in the front, and that is literally how you secure your lock on there. It should be nice and secured, and you don't have to worry about it coming off. This is not going to look perfect when you do it, but that's: okay, because we're doing a distressed, lock, and so that part is going to be covered or it's going to blend in with the lock anyway, and you guys can see that that added a lot Of length to our locks that we're already doing so, i'm gon na go ahead and wrap those in, and you can use any method to wrap these. I believe, for this length of a lock. You will need about four pieces to six pieces of passion to his hair. Really just depends on what method you use. I believe for this one. I used a total of four pieces to wrap. I'M gon na speed up this wrapping just because i'm not really doing anything too different, um, so yeah i'll speed through this one. So here guys we have our extended lock. These are perfect if you want butt length or you can even make them knee length. Just remember that if you're doing lengths like this, you need to order double the amount of hair that you would for a regular head of hair. So i hope you guys really enjoyed and learned something from seeing these three different methods that i use to create. My locs, i really really highly recommend this hair makes it very easy for you guys to achieve this. Look and, like i said i'll link their information in the description section as well as pin it at the top of my comments. Make sure you guys drop a comment down below. Let me know what method you use and if you guys found this video to be helpful, don't forget to smash that thumbs up button and click the notification bell and subscribe to my channel, so you guys can be notified every single time. I post especially when i go, live because y'all know it's always a lituation and as always, i will catch you guys in my next video. What you mean you don't know panda she's dope. What you mean, what you mean, what you mean, what you mean