I Tried Rubber Band Box Braids | Natural Hair Series Ep.1

Hey guys, it's Destiny Lashae and in today's video I'm going to be starting. My natural hair series, because I big chap not too long ago and I'm gon na show you guys how I attempted to do my own jumbo short box braids. So I started off with freshly washed and deep conditioned hair, I'm going to kind of put in this hair lotion on my hair, it's by Mielle Organics. I think it's called I don't know. I will have everything in the description box that I used in this video um. This is just like a moisturizing lotion so that my hair isn't dry, I'm taking a metal rat tail comb and I'm parting. The back of my hair. I not too long ago had a undercut and my hair is growing out in the back, so it's really really short, so I was really afraid. I wasn't gon na be able to grab the hair back there, but doing the rubberband method for me worked out really good. So I began to part my hair in the back with my comb in small sections. I didn't want the brace to be too small and I didn't want them to be too big, as well as the parts I didn't want it like two mini braids. I also added some Shea Moisture, curling smoothie, as well as this edge booster gel, that I really like I added this, like those combinations are like gel and smoothie to each section, as I went along to make sure that the hair is slick - and I don't know It just looks better when I add these two products on my hair now, so I do that and then I brush up the hair with like a little edge brush because a hair so short back there and I use two rubber bands most of the time. I think there's one right here, but she was better to rubber bands to kind of make a small little tiny ponytail, and this really helps to grip the hair in the back, because it is like the shortest part of my hair right now. So I did that along the entire back portion of my head, so that you know it would just make it easier for me to grip back there, because the hair is so short. And then I went along and used my edge booster gel to add a little bit more. I don't know I was kind of like this lip with my hair and needs it I'm starting to like really learn my natural hair and stuff. So I need that slip when I'm braiding it, and I also need the slickness because I don't know it just makes the braid look a lot better and it makes it look a little bit shinier for me. So that's what I do and I just begin to braid I'm using can canaan Kalan here the regular, cheap dollar. Ninety-Nine here that you get at the hair store and I'm just beginning to braid, and as I get to like the bottom of my natural hair, I start to kind of blend it in with the you know, fake hair. I don't really know how to explain it. If you don't know how to braid, you can't do your own box braids, so you you got ta, know how to braid first and then adding hair is a whole other thing, but once you learn how to braid and everything, I feel like you, never forget how To do it and you can kind of learn different techniques and stuff. So that's how I learned how to do it just like really practicing and stuff but yeah. I just braid halfway down since we're doing short braids and then I take a rubber band and put it around that and then I eventually do cut that piece off. And then I just move on to the next rubber band and I start to braid adding more edge new stur to my natural hair, so that it's a little bit more slick and it will blend in with the hair better. Now we're going on to the next row, I use a mirror in front of me and in back of me, so I can see the back of my head and I also take another metal like comb. I have a lot of these because they part your hair really really good, especially since my hair is all-natural. Now I need all the help I can get with parting, because it's so thick and I just need I need the help. So I'm taking some of this girls smoothie by Shea Moisture, I'm gon na show you guys again how I do it. So I apply this liberally to my hair, because my hair needs the slip and the moisture and all that stuff, and then I apply some edge. Booster and I put that all over that portion as well - and I just use my fingers to kind of slick it down. If I do, I will use the edge brush and then I put the rubber band around it, and I just keep parting and doing that with each sex shit. I couldn't say it so when I'm partying, I don't want my parts to be like the first row. I don't want it to be parallel with the second row, so I like to, I don't know what they call it like window pick them. I don't, I don't think, that's a that's the right term, but I like to make my part so that they don't fall on top of each other. I like the braids to kind of fall on the sides of each other. I don't know if it makes sense, but I don't like my parts even like the rows to be even but anyways I like to make my parts as even as I can so. If you can't get your parts even the first time, you can part it again and add another rubber band to the same section like what I just did here. It just makes it really easy to get those parts, as even as you possibly can get them. I, like that rubber band method - this was my first time ever doing this. I'Ve only done box braids one other time before, and I didn't like the original way with no rubber band and it was really hard just getting the parting right. So if you know how to braid but you've never done box braids before definitely tried the rubber band method before like trying the original one, because I don't know this way just really helps to get your parts as even as possible. So now I'm moving on to the front. I part my hair straight down the middle so that I know where that middle part should be. I want a middle part, so yeah, that's why I put it there and then I part my hair on the side. I believe I had, I have six braids in the front front, first row yeah and then in the middle I kind of just winged it. But the front part was really important to me and I suggest taking out your edges before you braid, because you can't braid them up and then you got no edges out. So I'd like to take my edges out - and I also like to do the front when I'm not tired of braiding, because you want the front to let the best you don't want the back to look the best. You want the front so I have like the best braids you know on your head. So don't do the front of your hair when you're, tired I've done that before and the braids come out. Looking really crazy, like I know my braids aren't perfect, but it you're, tired and you're doing the front of your hair sis just take a break and start over like try another day but right here, I'm just taking my edges out and you know using the same Method and putting rubber bands around each section making sure my part says even as I can get them, they're, not perfect, but you know they looks fine, so yeah, that's what I'm doing and I like to braid and part because I get tired and bored of just Parting and putting rubber bands on I just get bored, so I like to braid and part in between, like, as you can see, I have braids in the back and now I'm parting, like almost my whole head. Once I get tired of parting, I will go in and braid, so it really just depends on how I feel I don't really have a method to this madness. I just kind of do it as I feel if I feel like braiding one section and then parting the next, that's what I'll do or if I feel like parting on everything and then braiding. That'S what I do so you know that's what I'm doing right now. I was just partying everything and it's so cool like ever since I big chopped I'm like seeing my texture and actually feeling my hair for the first time in a really long time. So it's really cool just to see how my hair texture is and stuff. I don't know random thought, but I did cut off some of the hair on the bottom because it was getting in my way and it was itchy and stuff so yeah. What I do for the front is kind of just section it off with a little clip use some of my curl smoothie stuff. I really like this. It helps with frizz a lot and I just apply it to the little puff and then I start braiding again. I also use the edge booster as well. I don't know if I showed the clip, but I just really want to saturate this hair. It was kind of dry at this point because you know I've been doing my hair for a while and I just kind of combed through it to make sure other product is through and it is kind of damper. You know moist. I hate the word moist but whatever then I just start braiding in the front like I said, I'm really trying to grip the hair tight and make the braids as me as I possibly can get them. I do have to add some edge booster to my natural hair so that it looks more slick and sleek to the braiding hair. So that's what I'm doing just adding more booster gel to the braid and I just keep braiding. You know, and sometimes some of my natural hair sticks out of the braid, as you can see right here, some of my hair is sticking out. What I like to do is take that little comb and kind of enter weave, my hair with the the weeping hair. The braiding hair, because sometimes you know natural hair doesn't want to cooperate, but you have to kind of make it so I just kind of press the end of the comb into the hair and it kind of helps itself. You know so, if you ever worked with like Kanekalon hair before you know that, like the ends, get really frizzy and like spiky, so I'm using a lighter just to kind of smooth out the ends of the hair and just kind of also like that. Last little piece that I cut off is really like, frizzy and stuff, so I just have to really burn the ends of the hair per usual, so I've run out of hair. I have to go to the hair store tomorrow. It'S like 2 o'clock in the morning and I have about 9, more puffs left so yeah. So this is a clip from the next day like the following day, I went to the hair store. I had to get more hair, I'm not sure how many packs of hair I used for this. Like hairstyle, I believe I used. I could get like three braids out of one pack of hair, so yeah. I don't know what how many packs that is, but it was a good amount of hair, but the packs are only $ 1.99. So you know it wasn't that bad but yeah. I got about three or four braids out of each pack of hair. I would say more like three, because some braids were a little bit bigger than others and a couple days after I actually finished this style. I went back in and redid some braids because after like looking at I'm like okay, I could have did that braids a lot better and all of that, and also I forgot to mention in the back of my head, I like to make the braids smaller, where I have less hair because if you make the braids way too big and you have a small amount of hair on the back of the like on the back of your head, what happens is the big braids will fall out? So you don't want any of your braids like falling out and leaving the party when they weren't supposed to so make your braids, especially in the back like the nape of your head, smaller than the braids at the top, because actually nobody really will notice the back. Braids, like the nape braids, you just want them to kind of be there, but they don't have to be the same size as the ones on the top, because I've noticed they don't stay in because the hair you don't have as much hair back there. Well, I don't so yeah, so this was the last official braid. I think, and I'm just really braiding this. I was actually really tired of braids in at this point and it wasn't even that many braids and it was you know, separated into two days, but still I'm like man. I am tired. This is a whole job right here, a whole job but yeah. This is the last official braid ok, so these are how the braids looked officially like completed. I like how this looks with no nothing on it, but I wanted to be extra and add some jewels and some string, so I got some beads and string from the hair store and I just started to add them. I like to add them in the spots where I think I messed up at and where the braids could have been a lot better in that area, where I got lazy. All of that. So that's why I put the beads and then I go in and add some string. You can get this from the beauty supply store as well. I start from the back of the braid and then just kind of create an X towards the front and repeat that down the whole like part of the braid and then at the end, I kind of just twist the string around the end of the braid and Then I knot the string a couple of times and then it stays in place now. I'M gon na use my edge booster gel and my little edge brush and I'm going to go in and kind of swoop my edges a little bit so that they, I don't know, look like something you feel me. So I'm just scooping those over natural edges are a whole nother thing that I'm trying to tackle and if you guys have a good edge control, there's like a bajillion edge controls at the hair store. I like this one, a lot, especially if I tie it down. It really lays my hair down really nicely, but if there's something better, let me know leave me a suggestion down below. I would love to hear it, but yeah guys. This is the end. I have a little bit of makeup on my braids, but this is basically what my hair looks like now. It'S very cute. I love the jewels and everything and I love the shortness of the braids as well so yeah. If you guys liked this video, give me a thumbs up, subscribe, show some love, and I will see you in the next video