How To: Goddess Braids For Beginners! (Step By Step)

Hey, ladies, this is Brianna from howtoblackhair.com, and I want to show you for beginners exactly how to do the goddess. Braids hairstyle please thumbs up this video and click the subscribe button, because I really love showing you guys how to do these styles in yourself for free, and I want to continue self as many women as I possibly can to begin. These are the materials you will need to do your goddess, braids, starting off. We will be using one pack of super jumbo braiding hair. As you begin, you want to make sure that you go ahead and remove the rubber band from the hair, so that you can begin paper in the end. Now, when tightening is what I like to do is actually lean the hair to one side and then, when I do that kind of like a fan, I then grab the hair in the direction is going so that way, I can shake the rest of the hair Down the way, so I'm creating slightly different layers within the hair. So now you just want to make sure that the hair is thoroughly detangled before you begin braiding, so that it's not snagging or causing you any issues. So I'm literally just running my fingers through the hair, making sure that it's not bunched up together. You want the ends to have a tapered feel so that your braids do not come at one blunt in because it makes it hard for the braids to stay intact. That'S why you want your braids to gradually get thinner so that it creates that effect. So now, this is how your hair should look before you begin brain. So now, of course, because this is for beginners, I'm going to be using red hair. Show you how to do it. You want to divide it into two sections: pinch off 1/3 from the rest, so that you have one smaller section and with that smaller section, you wrap it around the bigger section so that you can create 3 equal legs for your braids. It'S very important that when you're doing the style, all legs of your braid is very equal. So now, with my very last section, I'm going to show you exactly how to do the goddess braid so to start off, remove the clip from your hair and use a wide tooth comb to thoroughly detangled in smooth, through your section now, taking some edge control you're Going to put a little bit in the front section for your braids, so that it adds a very sleek look and it's optional. You can also do the same thing to the back of your section as well. Now just divide a very small section in the front. The smaller your section, the close to the gray, will be to your hairline. Here we are with our red section of hair and, as you can see here, the hair - that's in my hand, was at third smaller section. That'S the section you place right behind your party, so you just want to make sure you get it right, tight up against behind your section of hair and then you want to grab your section of hair. To put it into that leg. Remember the leg I'm holding is that third, smallest leg that turned into one leg so now make sure that you have the hair very flat and very tight in that section, because you're preparing to actually break so, with my dominant hand, I'm holding down that third section And I'm getting ready to hook my index finger with the hair. That was to my right so now you're going to pinch off a little bit of hair. That'S behind that loose leg! You see to the left. Every time you have a loose leg of hair. You always want to pinch hair that goes in that direction. So now you're going to grab that section, we just pinched off to add to that leg and you're, going to rotate your dominant hand going counterclockwise so that you can use your index finger to hook. That outer leg it's the same thing as doing a regular braid, but all the motions are in Reverse may be a little tricky, but what I want to do is walk you step-by-step and explain. Every time I grab a section exactly what you're doing so now that we have a loose leg on the right side, you're, repeating the same process and every time you pinch off a piece of hair, always pinch going inwards towards the middle. So that way as you're braiding, the braid doesn't lean too far to the left or right so always pinch from the side where the loose leg is at. As you can see now, the mook leg is going to be on the left side, so I'm pushing that hair over and out the way and I'm making sure to pinch going from the middle to the side. So that way, my braid naturally begins forming directly in the middle of my part, that's why the hair is being pinched and going outwards towards the left. Now, as you grab that firmly into your hand, you're going to rotate your right hand going counterclockwise, so you can hook the index finger around that outer leg. Now you have a loose leg to the right and I'm going to continue to re-explain these steps so that you can really understand as a beginner exactly how to do the style once you get it down, you're going to ace it every single time now pinch off A piece of hair from the side where your loose leg is that, as you can see, my loop leg is to the left, so you won't hair to be pinched out and going towards. The left, once, if I want to keep in mind, is whatever hand has two sections of hair always push it over your head, so it doesn't get mixed up in that third leg you're, creating also when you pinch hair, to serve for hair. To add to your legs, your braids always pinch hair from the side where the leg is free and available. So what that means is, as you can see here, with this leg, what you did was you added hair to it. So that way, you can rotate your other hand and continue the same process. But once again, I'm going to re explain how to do it. So now that these two legs is, in this hand over your head and then use your fingers to part from the middle out to the side where the loose leg of your braid is always directly pull hair from the middle of the section out to the side. Either the left or right side, depending on where the loose leg of your braid is that well mount just want to continue to explain, because it really helps to understand as you're, seeing it pinch from the outside towards the middle for new section holding it finally rotate That left hand clockwise to grab the outer leg of that section. Now, with these two moon sections. In your right hand, you place those over your head so that you can go ahead. Pinch off hair from the left to go into that left, leg, rotate the right hand counterclockwise so hook with your index and thumb finger to new sections into your hand. You just want to continue repeating the process until you work your way all the way down and make sure to keep in mind that if you want your braids to always stay in a very center of your parting, to always pinch hair off from the middle to The left, or from the middle to the right, depending on where your loop leg is, and what I'm my loose leg, is that one standalone leg of hair that doesn't have a hand holding it. So, every time you're pushing those two sections over your head, you're, always holding two legs of your braid in that hand, so that way you can hook it with your other hand, to keep transferring those legs back and forth. If your braid is looking a little bit funny, I suggest that you rewind go back to the beginning until you protect it, because once you perfect those couple of turns at the top, the rest of the way will be a piece of cake. If you keep consuming the process so now, even at the very bottom, you want to continue doing the same thing by pinching off and adding to that leg until you run out of here, you want to make sure that you part your parts a little smaller near The back because it prevents the back of the braid from actually being lifted from your head if you pitch off smaller pieces to feed into each leg of the braid. So now we're fully finished braiding on a scalp. Now that we're off the scalp you're just going to continue overlapping one piece of leg over the other piece of leg. So what I mean by that is always grab the other leg, to bring it to the center and then do the same thing on the left and right side, because that's exactly how you form an individual braid, one tip to make sure it reaches the end. It'S a pinch off a little bit of hair from the longest legs to add to that smaller section. So that way, you don't have to worry about putting rubber bands on the bottom or burning it, or anything like that. You can get the braid to reach all the way down to the very bottom, by sharing legs from one side, that's a little bit longer than another leg so that all the legs can actually come at one point at the very bottom as a tapered. Look to your brain so now that our braid is done. This is exactly how your grade should look, and I hope this red color really helped it's a pop, so you can see exactly the steps you got to do to achieve in your guide astray. So now, after rewriting my section of hair all black, this is how your hair should look when you're finished, but, as you can see, some braids actually stop a little shorter okay. I got a way to fix that for you. So now what you want to do is grab the two closest braids is the indication of how long and thick it needs to be, and then you're going to add a little bit of braiding hair to it. So I'm pinching off a little bit of my braiding hair that I had left from one pack and I'm cutting you in half because really only needs to add about half the length of what the original braiding hair was. But I need to make sure I add some thickness, so that's a braids match so, as you can see here, just like I did in the beginning, I'm tapering the hair, so that the end is not in very sharply. You want the ends of your hair. To always gradually come to a point, because that's going to make it look very paper tonight so now I'm just putting it into position to see exactly where I want to fold that braid in here, so that it reaches the bottom. And now what you see me doing is I'm just unraveling, my brain, you don't have to unravel your braid. All the way up. All you got to do is unravel exactly where it stops at the back of your head or at the desired thickness. Where you see the braid at so that you can actually begin adding hair exactly at that spot so now to add: hair you're going to hook the hair in your index. Finger of your left hand. If you are left hand down, man I'm right hand dominant, but I'm just showing you I'm just starting with my left hand. So now you're going to just continue. Braiding rotating me, hair one after the other and then once you free your right hand. You'Re going to add the hair into the leg. Now, if you start it with your right hand, you just do the opposite. You add the hair. In with your right hand, you rotate your wrist about two times so that your left hand is free to add the hair. This helps you to conceal, where you actually added the hair into your brain. If you make sure to grab the second leg, with the other hand, instead of the same hand, so if you notice that you have a ring of hair sitting on the top of your braid, that's because you added it with the same hand and not the opposite Hand, so I hope you understood exactly how to do that process, because it's extremely simple and it's not feel free to re-watch this tutorial, because you're definitely going to pick up so many tips on exactly how to ace this style. So now that we're all done look at how beautiful the braids are looking so thick and luscious and juicy so now that our braids is done. It'S time for a little bit of styling for Sally I'm using some hairspray and edge control and I'm using the back of my rat tail comb to add my edge control to my hair line. Of course you can dip your fingers and your edge control and add it with your fingers if you want, but this just helps me to have a little bit more better control, as you see as I'm styling my edges now, for this look, you can make it Look as creative as you want to be I've seen Styles, where people have left out their entire hairline curled up their hairline with some actual hair curlers and just styled it and swooped it up making it look. So so it just depends on the look you're going for all of its beautiful. What you see me doing here is I'm just adding a touch of edge control to the very front of my hairline just add a little foolish action to the front. You know I'm Stan just a little slippage, so I'm just combing my hair to smooth it further into my braids, and what I really like about being able to do the style is that it's actually really really fast. It'S because the bigger your braids are the faster it is going to actually do this. Look. I have five braids in my head. You can actually have a lot more if you wanted to it pulls off a total different effect. That'S extremely beautiful as well, but for that traditional goddess, braids look. I know you, ladies, like it chunky. So that's exactly what I'm doing and one trick that I always do with my edges. Is I spray hairspray on top? That is a secret trick. Having your edges, like all date, is having some edge control on top so that it doesn't revert back so now, I'm just spraying all of my hair, so that I can flatten down any tiny little flyaways. I may have just to make it look more sleek and smooth along the tops of my braids, as you can see, with just a little bit of styling. It added such a subtle glam effect to the super gorgeous hairstyle, with just five big chunky, goddess braids. It'S such a breeze being able to do this look and it's a very good break from having to wear wigs in box braids. 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