Box Braids On Yourself

Hey guys, so, two months ago i had a tutorial where i taught you guys how to perfect your box braids using a finger technique that i came up with, and i showed the difference between when you apply the technique versus when you don't, as you can see, And you guys requested that i do a tutorial teaching the box by perfecting technique on yourself to get your box breaks, to look nice and neat and even and equal and all of that good stuff. So today, i'm going to be showing you how to do the box braid technique the finger technique on yourself so before we get started. The hair that i'm using today for this demonstration is the pre-stretch braiding hair. As you can see, it's a little rough right now and i'm doing this demo in my bathroom, so i'm just going to place the braiding hair on my towel rack, okay, so i'm using blue magic grease! This helps me to basically texturize the braiding hair and make the braiding hair nice and smooth you're going to see the difference by the time i brush the braiding hair okay. So i'm going to take my brush and i'm going to brush through the strands of the braiding, hair and you're, going to literally see all of the flyaways disappear and the braiding hair is going to look nice and smooth like this, almost like a weave. So, yes, i love using the blue magic grease. It helps to smoothen the braiding hair that i use every time i braid. So someone had left a question on how to get your backspace sizes to look all equal, and so i'm going to demonstrate that so to get the sizes to look equal, i use a finger filling technique. So so today, i'm going to show you how to do medium right, medium size right so now i am basically um sectioning the hair into medium size, as you can see so now, i'm going to use my fingers basically filling the thickness of the hair like so I'M just rubbing my fingers my hand through it just feeling the thickness. So i could remember how thick the first strand is. Okay, if it's not thick enough i'll, add more. If it's too thick, then i'll take out some, but the finger feeling technique really helps me to know how thick the first strand of hair is okay, so you could use a braiding rack and you measure the first hair and you put it away and you're going To use the first hair as your guide for the second hair, the third hair and have to keep going so i don't have a rack right here, so i just put it in my towel rack as you can see, and then i'm sectioning, the second strand of Hair and i'm just going to think, fill it with my fingers again and i'm going to take the first strand to basically measure it with my eyes just to see that both strands are equal like so, and i'm going to finger fill both of them again. Like so so now, i know both okay, okay, both of them feels nice and equal in thickness. So that's how to get those um the size of your bracelet equal. You just place all of them in your braiding rack like so just to make um make it easy for you to continue to braid so hope that helps with getting the size all the sides of the braids still look equal. Okay, let's start so, i'm not going to show how to do my full head, i'm only going to demonstrate to the few braids, because i don't intend to wear box braids right now. So after you know distributing the hair into three equal strands. The first step is to pre-knot the braiding hair, like so pre-knot the braiding hair. On your power hand, your power hand is your right hand if you're, right-handed or your left hand if you're left-handed, okay, so the pre-knotted brady hair should be on your power hand. Okay. So i'm right-handed and the pre-knotted braiding hair is, on my right hand, so that's step one step. Two, my left hand is my ankle hand, basically the hand. That'S guiding me and my left hand is what's going to do most of the job to hold the knot in place. So after doing step, one pre-knotting step, two, i'm holding my hair with my left hand, tom and index, on my left hand like so i'm using my thumb and index to hold my hair. That'S step two step. Three, i'm going to place the pre-knotted hair over my hair, like so, while opening my thumb and index on my right and letting go of my left hand step four, i'm going to take the extra hanging piece using my tombow knee that's on my left and i'm Going to place my middle finger on the knot like so and i'm going to separate the hair, using my left hand, tom and index finger like so next, i'm going to take the extra hanging hair separating my hair with my right hands, thumb and index finger like So and i'm going to to the left side so once i'm on the left side place my middle finger on the knots like so holding the hair, with my thumb and index and braiding like so so i'm only placing the top uh my middle finger on the Knot like twice just to hold the knot in place and then after that i just continue to use my tom and my index finger to continue to braid like so so i will repeat all of this step again just keep on watching. So once i'm done with the base and the knot, so now i'm just going to under braid and try to basically um tuck in my hair. So basically my i'm trying to braid my hair in such a way that my natural hair is underneath the braiding hair. So the way my finger is holding the hair right now is like i am under braiding on the braid. Basically, so i'm trying to make sure that my hair is underneath the braiding hair. So it's not hanging over the braiding hair and looking rough. So i'm just going to do this under braiding until i pass my natural hair and then after that, i'm going to over braid so basically flipping the the braid um upside down, like so um, but yeah. I'M just going to continue on the braiding like this. Until i pass my hair okay, so it's really not easy doing the technique on yourself um! That'S why the first tutorial was basically geared towards people who do other people's hair, and i mostly just go to to my stylist to do my hair. I'M a stylist myself, but i go. I prefer someone else to do my hair um, because i don't have the energy to do this so now. Another technique that i taught in the first tutorial was how to basically um braid away from the braid, so that that way the braid doesn't have the lumps and bumps and if you're doing it on yourself, what helps is to use clip the braiding hair. So that way, you could have more room to extend your hand, so you don't overlap the braid if that makes sense, so i just use the butterfly clip to kind of clip the braid to my hair, while i'm continuing to do this under braiding method like so So, as you can see, i'm really trying my best to get my hair to be under the braiding hair and not over the braiding hair. Okay. So if you're doing very long length, you can continue to clip the braid with your butterfly clips. You know just to reduce the length, and so that way the braid does not um. So that way, your hand does not um overlap the braid, if that makes sense, but yeah this does help to braid away from the braid. So that way the braid to still stay flat and stay smooth and to avoid lumps so now i have passed my hair and, as you can see, i'm just i kind of flipped, the braid now and so my hand is i'm braiding it i'm over. I don't know how to explain it, but i flip the brace so that way i am um over braiding did i say that right instead of under braiding, i am over braiding, so i'm braiding regularly. Basically, i'm braiding in a regular way instead of braiding under i'm braiding over, but it's hard for you guys. You may not tell what i'm doing because the angle may not look right, but i hope you get what i mean, but i'm just moving. My fingers like i would do a regular braid. So if you want to see how i braid regularly other people's hair, please watch the first tutorial, i'm going to leave that in the description and i'm just really trying my best to um basically hold extend the braid and extend my hand. So that way, the braid can stay straight and stay flat and it doesn't look um lumpy or bumpy okay, so i just braid braid braid until i reach almost the end and i'm just going to twist the rest of the hair okay, so i prefer to twist The ends, instead of braiding all the way to the end, because it's really not necessary by the time you dip the braids in hot water um when you twist the hair all the way to the ends. It'S just going to look nice and neat. If that makes sense, and so yeah once you're done twisting, that's all it is okay, so i will repeat this whole step again, but i do hope you guys understood what i just demonstrated but yeah. If you want to see more details, um you can watch the first tutorial and, as you can see, both strands look equal and i did my best to make sure they are not lumpy and bumpy, and it's just nice and smooth like so so. Let'S do this again so um to flip the hair and put it equal strands. You take one strand of the braiding hair that is smaller and you place it over and make it into three strands. So i'm trying to make sure that all three strands are equal because that's very important. Okay, so once i feel the hair that all three strands are equal after crossing it over, then i will proceed to do the first step, which is pre knots after pre-knotting. The next step hold my hair, with my left hand and place the pre-knotted hair over my hair, like so let go of my left hand. Next, take the extra strand that is hanging with my tongue and index of my left hand like so and then put my middle finger of my left hand on the knot like so now. Separate the hair with, using my left hand, index finger and tom and gradually let go of my right hand. Okay, now my right hand is going to take the extra hair like so and separate my hair with the braiding hair like so. As you can see, my middle finger is still on the knot. It has to be there, so the knot can stay in place and then the next step, i'm going to braid to the left side gradually let go of my left hand and once i'm on the left side. I take the hanging hair on the left side, like so with my thumb and index and then place my middle finger of my left hand on the knot again, okay, so middle finger on the knot, the second time, while tom and index holds the extra hair. That'S all you have to remember middle finger on your left side on the knot. Always now, i'm just going to use my tommen index to do the work of the braiding every time i get to the right side. I use my thumb and index to braid and when i get to the left side, i use my thumb and index the braid and the middle finger on the knot. So tom and index does the job of braiding. While my middle finger of my left hand, is on the knot, so those are the three fingers did. I just say three fingers but yeah the same time and index on the left side and then the right side. And then the extra finger is your middle finger. That'S going to be on the knot and you just continue to braid okay, so i can't really see what i'm doing and the parting is not so neat, i'm not using a mirror to guide me. I really just wanted to show you guys the finger technique, but if you really want to take your time with this, you could use a mirror to make sure the part is equal and make sure the amount of your hair is equal to the braiding hair. Because that's very important, but i'm doing this when i'm doing this on someone else, it's much easier for me and it's much much neater, but this is the best i could do to show you guys. So, as you can see, i am under braiding. So that's how my finger is going as you can see. I am just trying to make sure that my hair is at the bottom of the braiding hair. This is the best way that i could tuck it doing it on myself. It'S the best way. I could tuck my hair like so and then once i get past my hair, then i am going to flip the braid and start braiding over. So i braid under until i get past my hair. So what's really braiding is mostly my thumb and index finger. That'S just moving and grading and braiding and grading, so it feels it doesn't feel um bumpy at all. It feels flat and once now i'm past my hair and as you see i'm gon na flip it so it looks like the braid is upside down. It looks like the braid is upside down, but i'm actually braiding over. So the braid, the front of the braid is, is facing me and the back is facing you, but i'm actually braiding over okay and i'm just going to um extend my hand to avoid the braid like overlapping each other. That'S the best way. I could step away from the braid to avoid the lumps and bumps i'm gon na braid all the way until i reach the ends and i'm gon na twist it. So that's really the technique you guys. All you have to remember is to use your tom and your index finger and your middle finger on your left hand or, on your right hand, if you're right-handed and that's basically, all you need and to try as much as you can to step away. So i hope this tutorial helps you please give this video a thumbs up if you enjoyed it. Let me know if you have any questions the comment section i'll see you guys next time,