How To: Box Braids [No Extensions] | Protective Style For Natural Hair Growth

Oh, hey guys, it's Zuko welcome back to my channel um. I don't know if you can tell, but today we are doing a hair video. Hence this crazy huge blown out hair. So I wanted to get a little bit. Oh, I wanted to get a little bit outside of my comfort zone with this one and I'm trying something really I mean not difficult, but I'm trying something it's something big. So I'm gon na be trying to give myself box braids. So I've only had box braids one other time in my life and I loved them. I was obsessed like I wish. I got box rates more often, so I'm gon na try giving them to myself. So if you want to see how this goes, if you want to see the process, if you want to learn how to give yourself box braids on your own natural hair, no extensions added just keep on watching. Oh, my god. This is such a like daunting process. Like the idea of me braiding, all of this right now is very stressful, but we got this. I have confidence and we can totally do it. So where do I even start? Okay, I I just washed my hair. I blow dried it. I actually considered doing this on, like my naturally curly hair, but I thought it would be easier to do on blow-dried hair for the first time so start with blow-dried hair um. I have nothing in my hair right now, like no heat protectant. No, nothing! I just deep conditioned and then blow-dried right after and the only product that I'm really planning on using today is this Nature's blessings like hair pomade, conditioner stuff? Oh, I love this product. I can't tell you enough good things about this. This is amazing. It'S the ingredients. Are so natural? It'S like I like the pomade consistency. It works really well for my hair type, so you, if you have similar like a similar hair texture to me, you'll, have to try this like this is so good. I put it in my hair whenever I feel like it needs a little moisture. Sometimes I use it in my like wash day routine to seal like this is such a good product. You can use it for everything and the best part it smells so good. It smells like nature and like fairies and flowers - and I don't know this scent - reminds me of my childhood - like know what correlation there is, but this takes me back okay, so let me stop talking with some rambling. Let'S get started right now, right here, right now, um and step one we need to part so party, I think, will be a very difficult part of this process. I'Ve been watching different YouTube videos on how to Brock's bait box braid your own hair, I'm gon na link some of the good ones I found below. So you can totally check those out we're giving me the how-to on this. It'S really important to part before you braid, like as you go, so that you have me braids. I think I want to start with a middle part like I think I want my braids to be in a middle part. I'M just gon na keep the one. I have this is good enough, like we don't want it to look too too, like sharp with the parts, but we definitely do want some definition already tired. How clip I'm planning on doing three braids at the bottom and then I think, I'm going to start building up the amount based on how much I need going up my head. So let's start with the first three. I think those will be easy, but but yeah I'm just gon na start, I'm gon na stop talking. This is gon na, be a fast-forward. Let'S go if you're following along with me, knowing how to braid definitely requirement hey. We have our first three braids done. I'M gon na part again another section across my head right here and then I'm gon na do three on each side, so it's gon na be three and three so guys. This is my little brother for all of you who don't know him. Oh my gosh she's! So hyper say: hi: okay, as you can see, I'm about halfway done and I'm doing the brick style of party. So, let's keep going and remember that the hair that frames your face is always a little bit thinner than the rest of your hair, so make the parts towards the front of your head a little bit bigger than you normally would just so. You have enough hair to make a good sized braid you. This is kind of funny to rewatch, but is really going through it. I just dropped the entire bottle of cam 2 over face down Thanks, so I'm just gon na take all that extra product that I have all over my hands and put it into this braid and I'll just have one curly braid in the mix. Okay, guys, hey! I'M back it's the next day I pretty much did 3/4 of my head and now I well and then I went to sleep because it was getting late. I was tired, but I'm back, I'm gon na finish this really quick and then we'll see the results and after dropping that whole thing of can to last night. I realized that my hair likes it in the braids so as needed. I just put it in the end of my braids if you are enjoying this video thus far, please give it a thumbs up or a thumbs down. I like the feedback but hit that like button - and I am all done Wow that took me about three and a half hours to finish and yeah. I love it. This is such a cute protective hairstyle. Oh, I wish I would have done this when I was younger. It would have saved me so many bad hair days. So as always, thank you guys so so much for watching. If you liked please subscribe - and I will see you next week with a new video