Cornrows X Box Braids: Fun Vacation Hairstyle

Hey guys, it's me Tommy and I'm back again with another video in this video I'll, be showing you this beautiful cornrows and box braids hairstyle. That'S why I this style is not for beginners it's a little advanced, but I'm still gon na show you guys how to do it. So, let's just jump right into it, so the gap that I'm gon na be using is this synthetic canker line. Here you can get at your local beauty supply store, but the number one question I always get when I do my braiding video is: how many packs did you use? So I just inserted the clip, so you guys can see. I use seven packs in here. You see it right there, okay, so first things. First, let's just start with freshly washed hair, because you can't have dirty here when you're doing a beautiful hairstyle. So my hair is freshly washed deep conditioned. I'M gon na use my seamless comb that I purchased from hot combs net fYI. This video is 100 %, not sponsored and all of these products I purchased out of my own pockets. So I'm gon na section my hair into four sections, because I want to moisturize my hair, the technique of moisturizing. My hair is going to be the loc method, which is a liquid oil cream, so we're gon na start off with our liquid. I'M sorry not liquid and I leave in so my leaving is going to be my cancel. Leave-In conditioner, I'm gon na use the tray hands to massage that in, and I'm also going to use that, as I am grow here only reason I'm using it because I'm running out so now for my oil, it's my own special concoction of my mixture of my Oil salt put those ingredients below, so you guys can see it because I am clipping through this video like crazy. So it's not too long. Let'S use the pray hands, massage that in and then for my cream. I'M gon na be using my African shea butter that I purchased from my local beauty supply store. I love the shea butter because you can use it for everything, so I'm gon na put that in my hand I'm gon na rub it together. So it's nice and melted and then what do you think I'm gon na? Do I'm gon na use those pray hands guys? Yes, I'm gon na use the free hand digits massage that in and then for my scalp I've been using this hair fertilizer I'll link it below that I purchased from Amazon and then found out that it was in my local beauty supply store. But this has definitely definitely the growth of my hair, guys. I'Ve been using it for the past. Maybe three four months now and I've definitely seen a difference in the thickness of my hair fYI. It stinks really bad. So I'm gon na go ahead and use my Denman brush to detangle my hair, starting from the ends or working my way to the top and then Swit it away and because of my boil subbies, you guys have been with me since I big trap. So I'm just gon na show you guys a little length check show you yeah. The shrinkage was real. Look at that boom fYI. I will be straightening my hair next month, so stay tuned for that now, let's go ahead and Meister eyes the rest of my hair and I love using that hair fertilizer with my edges, because everyone listen, the edges is your life. So definitely do that. Another thing you guys always ask me is how I'm able to make clean parts in the back and the secret. Is I use two mirrors guys? That'S just all I do granted. I have been braiding my hair since I was 9 years old and I'm now 34, but still I always use a mirror to see the back of my hair, so just showing you a clip of that. As you can see, my shirt change because a girl like me did go to sleep because I recorded that late at night. So what sleep realized and changed my shirt. So here we go so now, I'm going to show you guys how I am doing my box. Braids, what I do is, I add, some edge control to the base of my hair to make it nice and smooth that's the edge control, but I'm using data from Sally's gon na frame both edges so that it could be easier. And so when you fray the edges, it just makes it easier from the hair to not travel. So that's what I'm doing and I'm just using the basic method of braiding box braids. So I'm not using the the cross, tiny method, I'm just using my own grip technique to do my box braids. The only difference that I'm doing with this is I'm making sure that each section is. Even so, since I have the synthetic hair kind of divide it into two and my natural hair in the middle as the third part for the braid. What I do is I try to gather synthetic hair as I'm traveling down the braid, just to make sure that while I'm traveling along that's the braid is even I do have previous video. So you guys can see what I'm talking about. As far as the grip method - and then I also have one, if you guys don't know how to grip your hair, how to do bas braids with a rubber band method. So I will link all of that in this video in below. So the back is done. Took me about three hours to do, but let's just jump right into the front, so the front you're basically going to cornrow your here, I'm just freestyling it. It was just a style that came to my mind, I'm like why don't I just do it that no part, because I'm a big forehead and it helps take away the illusion of my big forehead, so I'm gon na start with the first braid I've written it At an angle, now for the parting of my hair, you guys want to know how do you know how much here to put when you're doing the cornrows just take the regular amount of hair? You would do for your box braids use that as your cornrow and then separate it into little pieces, because we're going to do the feeding method so make sure the thinnest piece is going to be towards the front. And then the bigger piece is towards the back and as you braid along once, you get to the end of your braid it'll, be evened out like the rest of your box braids. So hopefully that makes them to you so here what I did it. That adds an edge control to my roots and to the front this edge control does leave you here a little bit white but, as you can see once at another video that it's not gon na be white forever, it does melted here. So don't worry. So, in order for you to do the Braden method, which I've showed you guys and a lot of my videos, I can show you doing it on someone else's here. First is doing it on my own. So when I do it on my own, I like to take one part and put it in my mouth, so I can hold that piece down right, a little bit down and then take the other part and bring it into my hair. I personally think this is a great way to do it if you're doing the feeding method yourself. It'S very simple to do just pay attention to the length of the tank line here so that it goes as long as the rest of your braids. So the braids that I have I didn't cut in half. I left it the way it was in the patch, so it has its own language to it. So when I do the feeding method, I want to make sure that I'm consistent with that length. So if once I'm done with the end of the braid at land, where the rest of the boxspring clinics, so hopefully that makes sense because I'm used to doing this method, I didn't really mad you right. So I would say to measure it before putting that piece in your mouth and started to do the FINA message, so it's gon na take some time guys. This is not a two three hour hairstyle. This just takes time and patience. I don't know if you guys paid attention to my watch when I was doing my box braids in the back and I was demonstrating it. My watch did turn on a little bit insta ten o'clock and now I'm doing the front and it says 2:30. So this is this hairstyle does take time and patience, but it's a really pretty hairstyle. It can last you about two to three weeks. If you need to refresh it up, you can always take the form roast out in front. We braid it in a different hairstyle and the bounce rates in the back don't really get infected cuz they kind of get blocked by the braids in the front. So that's why I love this. Look so far. I'Ve recorded this last week so far is it's still. Holding up, I do need to wash my hair, but I'm just going to be lazy and not do it, because I really like the way that style looks and I don't feel like me braiding it. So enough of me, rambling about that. As I'm doing my feeding braids so when I do my next section this time, I did it by my ear, because I wanted a special angle with my braids. So, as you see, I put the edge control the front and to the roots of my hair, we're gon na braid a little bit of my hair. But this time I got a little bit confused with the feed-in message, since my husband was talking to me who actually watching a show when I was doing this, so I did it on the opposite end. So you see me look confused here like wait. What am I supposed to do so? I look at a little confused so instead of me doing the feeding on the top part I'm doing on the bottom part, but it's the same thing you just braid put the cake lining it here, bring a little bit down. Put the other people looking funny in here: that's basically it so I'm just gon na work, my way to the top, until I am done with this section of my hair, so you guys can just see me with it and do that in fast motion. Alright. So this side is now complete. I'M loving the way it looks so it's time to do the other side of my hair, so the other side decided to do the opposite on a separate angle. So, instead of it going to your left on your left side, this one's gon na be going to my right right side, I'm gon na start with the corner. First by my ear, then I'm gon na work my way all the way up to the top. Now that I'm done all the way in the back, I'm just like hmm, maybe I shouldn't go to another way. So I did two of raids going towards the left. Did the feeder method on that side and then, when I was done with those two braids and I decided okay, so let me go ahead and do two more braids on the right and I prayed that going back and that's basically how I did the front. So I love this hair stuff because you can just create any look that you want with it and then the last step, because I feel like I never showed this in my box. Braid videos is to seal the ends. Basically, what I did is, I just put some warm water put it in a bowl put in the microwave for two minutes, I'm and then just dip your hair in it just make sure you're very, very careful because it's really hot water and you need it really. Hot to seal those ends, so just be very careful, especially if you're doing it for a client. You don't want to burn them, so try to keep a towel around them to definitely keep a towel nearby. So you just dip those ends. Let it soak in there and that definitely will seal the end for the time that you're gon na have this hairstyle. These braids are long. I'M 5/7, these braids I'm hitting my booty and that's basically, it guys umm to me as a simple hairstyle. So if you know how to braid you'll love it it just takes a lot of time. I just think it's a beautiful hairstyle, very tropical, especially if you guys are going away for spring break, which is probably only for you guys, but it's very simple hairstyle to do and towards the end, I'm gon na show you guys the clip of the road band Method, so definitely take a look at that video. If your grip grain grip game, it's not strong and he'll, see you guys in the next video bye, guys