Half Cornrows || Half Box Braids

Hey guys welcome back to my channel so for this tutorial, I'm gon na be showing you guys how to do this: half box, braids and half cornrows. Look I like to refer to this as the tribal quarrels or the tribal braids, or the African breeze and bees either or just has that very you know a first-century vibe to it. It'S a really really cute hairstyle, especially during the summer time. This was very, very popular and I'm guessing it's gon na come right back again during next summer. So for the back, I'm doing the BRICS formation, or I like to call the Box Party, as you can see, I'm creating the boxes in between the braids at the bottom, just so that it falls right in between the layers. I mean the roll at the bottom. So that's that's the gist of the Box party, so I'm gon na be leaving this tutorial in regular speed. So that way you guys can see exactly what I'm doing in real time. So for the hair that I chose to use, I decided to use. I believe this hair was by expression. It'S like they're, pre-stretch, hair. It is the blend of the color 27 and the color 1b. The first half of the hair is the mix of the 27 and 1b and in the bottom, is just straight 27. So it's kind of like a mix and an ombre. It'S really really cute. If you have dark hair and you want wanted to have color, but you don't want it to look too loud. This is a really really great alternative to kind of go for, but yeah. So but the box braids part, I always apply products just to make it easier for me to braid I like to apart, applied some of the products at the base of the braids, and then I apply a little bit as I go along just to kind of Make sure that the texture of the braids itself looks very smooth and there are no stray hairs sticking out, so the the less stray hairs you have when you're braiding the easier it's gon na be for you when you are done and you don't have to cut So much tray here by the time, you're done. So that's why I always like to add, like I always have a product and back of my hand, so that we as I'm braiding and I just dab just a little bit of that product and apply it to the blade braids that I'm doing and just smooth It you know as I go so that way, I don't have to do so much work later on yeah, that's pretty much suggest I'll, try and put a link to a box braids tutorial, a very detailed tutorial for anyone. That'S interested I'll, put a link in my description, so make sure you kind of check it out. I also put links to the product and the hair product link where you can get them in my description as well, so make sure you guys are checking the description. Information, if you have any questions before you axe just kind of check my description nine times out of ten, I probably already answered it or I am sort of Jordan or video, so just kind of pay attention. I guess but yeah yeah, Mr gist, but when I get to the end, I like to tie like a nice little knot. This is the first step of securing and it's for me after tied in knots. I also dip it in hot water, which is also the second step of securing it. So that way I know for sure my braids are not gon na unravel so yeah. So, to start my braids I like to do the crisscross method, so I take part of the braids split it in half, not in equal parts, but like kind of like one part, is bigger than the other and then crisscross it to create equal parts. And then, when I place it onto the hair split her natural hair into three to match the three strand braids of the extensions and then I begin to criss cross before I twist my hand around so that way, I'm not braiding downwards, I'm kind of like you Know twisting my hands back around to braid the way that I normally would braid. You don't have to worry so much about tucking with this hair. It'S because the expression here that we using has a blend of one be into the color 27. So her hair is gon na play naturally into this braiding hair. So you don't have to worry about tucking. So that's the beauty about this type of hair. Sometimes you have clients that want to that, like that loud color, that they don't want to mix up the 1b. They just want it to be straight 27. You can use that as well, but you have to make sure you tuck her natural hair inside of the braiding hair. So just keep that in mind. It'S more work, but that's why I like this hair cuz. It just makes everything Blaine to get. It looks good. It'S not too sharp in the eyes, but you still stand out it's perfect so for the top I'm gon na be doing some quarrels, like I mentioned before, as you can see, I've parted the front into two, whereas I also have like a middle section of the Braid and I'm gon na have from the point over like the mid section of her hair, pretty much you can measure it from the bridge of her nose to the I guess, the back of the box braids right now, I'm just adding some product. I always use shining Jam. You guys know I'm loyal to that they're, not sponsoring me by the way I just have a product to works really well, especially for braiding, so yeah, I'm gon na be doing the ghana technique got our braiding technique because she does have natural hair and this method Will let her keep the hair on for longer i'm? So i like to start braiding with her natural hair and then I adhere as I go, and the difference between the ghana technique and the feeling technique is how you place the hair. So, hair placement is really the difference so with the with the ghana technique, you're covering her natural hair underneath of the expression hair. So, as i added the hair, i just continue to braid. As usual. I don't leave the hair out. I don't braid before adding the hair in, I just literally add the hair and just continue to braid, like I didn't even add the hair, but that makes sense so you only adding it to the the Strand on the left, the far left and the Strand on The far right and then you just continue to braid regularly so, as you add, the hair you're gon na gradually increase in size. You don't want the increase to be too obvious. If you don't want it to be, I mean sometimes it just depends on the size. The brace you're going for, but if you want it to be seamless, do not don't make the you know the size of the hair that you're adding, don't make it too obvious. You know you kind of want it to be very, very seamless. That'S gon na give you that perfect graduation from like skinny cornrows to like thick cornrows, if that makes sense so like I was saying about the gutter technique. The beauty about this is that you can hide your clients, natural hair, underneath the cornrows. So let's say the braiding here I was using was red and my clients, hair, is obviously black and I wanted to do a Quora style without showing her black hair onto the Kouros. Well, the good thing about gonner technique is that what the way we placed the hair you're able to cover your clients, natural hair, color under the braids, so her natural hair color will not be peeking through in the quarrels. Um it'll just be the color of the expression or braiding hair Kanekalon hair that you're braiding with. So that's why I love the Gunnar technique, because it just gives you more tools under your belt as a stylist to be able to give your clients whatever they want. Even if it seems impossible and they're gon na be like hey, do you think you can do the chorus to make you look like this? You know I don't know if it's possible, but then when you tell them it's actually it's actually possible and it's not looking at you like, oh she's, good, but yeah. It'S just one of those things. If you don't know how to do it, just learn it. It'S pretty easy. I promise you just have to trick your mind and then just remember that you're placing the hair certain way like I promised you so now. If I decide we're, not gon na be doing the two braids coming to the front, we're just gon na be doing the two of the braids all the way back so for the first three corners, I'm gon na be doing on the side. It'S they're gon na be straight parts to the back straight parts: nothing special, no fancy anything but yeah just straight to the back and then, when you finish those three lines of corn rows, then you're gon na start curving your parts, okay, so back to the corn, Rows, like I mentioned earlier, we always start with her natural hair, and then we gradually out here as we go, you want to make sure you don't add hair. That is too thick, especially on the hairline, because that a cause breakage, and you also want to make sure you don't start with braiding hair, because that'll also cause breakage. So you want to start off with her natural hair and then you gradually increase in size by adding braiding hair to it. So that way the hair isn't pulling it's not. You know it's just. It makes sense to braid the natural hair first and then you add hair trust me because you don't want to stress out the hairline too much so that kind of helps manage it a little bit. Oh, Oh, Oh! Oh, Oh! So right now, I'm just licking off her baby hair. So that way we do not break them. You want to keep away. You want to keep the break the baby hair out of the way as much as you can and then for the partying at the top. As you see I'm starting to slant the parts, I'm not doing it straight back, so we wanted to kind of have, like a 45 degree degree angle. So that way you can kind of complement that straight back part. We have in the center so kind of keep that man, but if you have clients that want a straight back to you, that's cool just I guess it depends on what your client is requesting. So that's what you would do, obviously so, but for this one we're doing the first three rows straight back and then after that, we're just gon na kind of angle there, the other parts! Oh, Oh! Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, okay! So now that you're completely done this is what your hair is looking like. Isn'T this like super cute, like look at the precision of the ghana braiding like color, it looks really really good. So what we're gon na do right now is just ring up the excess hair. You see those little stray hairs hanging at the back, we're just gon na take a pair of scissors and trim it out of the way. I'M gon na tell you that as a quick little trick that I like to do because naturally you're not gon na get off all those things like every single stray hairs. You can't it's because you'll be, though they click hair, but I'm gon na tell you guys a trick. There are two different ways: people like to do these. Some people like to burn it off and other people like me. We like to use steam. I caught water steam to lay it down. Okay, so after you cut it off with you know as much as you can, with your pair of scissors, you're gon na take a towel and I'll show you guys in a little bit, you're gon na take a towel. You'Re gon na dip it in your tub of hot water, you're gon na dab off every access excess. What am I saying? You'Re gon na dab off the excess water? That'S probably dripping off and then you're gon na take that towel. You'Re gon na running through the clients, hair you're gon na you know kind of kind of let it kind of stay there for like two seconds and then you run it down. Let it sit for two seconds and then run it down, and then you carry your mousse apply some of that on it. Actually, you apply the most on it before you run your hot towel over it just so the most kind of helps with the steam and it just works together, no so moisturize, and so here at the same time and adds shine. So that's a really really good tip just a little FYI for anyone. That'S trying to do that kind of figure out how to get off as much training hairs as you possibly can other than trimming so yeah. You could try that out, but just make sure you're careful with the hot water and stuff like that. I don't recommend the burning method. I don't go in how I've seen people do. The burning method is in Africa. That'S when I used to get my hair braided. They would just take like a little candle and burn it off the stray hairs, so yeah that's kind of dangerous. I don't play with fire, so we're not gon na be doing that. We'Re gon na be doing this theme method. It works just as much just as well burning method, yeah, just a little tip many ways, so don't forget to lay your baby hair. Don'T forget to leave your baby. You want to make sure your hair is laid. I like to do this for my clients, because it just makes them want to just up and go straight from the chair to whatever you know, event or place that they have. You know schedule for the rest of their day, so they don't have to go home and then go figure out where to get it's controlled and lay their hair. It can literally just up and go from your seat, so make sure you form a habit of doing the baby hairs, because it's really really gon na add a little bit of that oomph to your service and make your clients feel like you know. You really took time it's all about details just taking time making sure that everything looks good, so don't skip this part literally just do it and recommend some products for them or you can sell some educational products for them. At this stage, I don't say it's control, but you know if you did, this would be a great way to kind of sell it for them. So yeah just take your time, do the edge control. Lately I've been kind of going back and forth with the combs. In the toothbrush, I think I like the comb I mean. I think I like the toothbrush more. I used to use a toothbrush way back in the day, but I stopped because I wanted to kind of step it up and start using the comb, but I started going back to using a toothbrush. I think I like it way better and then I started playing with the spoolie. You guys assume you use a spoolie to do it just before, and I also think I like that. A lot too, I don't know not as much as a toothbrush, but it's dude. That'S a job okay by the way, so I'm just dipping her hair, not water, as you can see, she's nicely draped and I also have a towel to kind of aid me. So that way, I don't burn myself or burn a client, so make sure you guys are both protecting yourselves during this product Joon's process. If you don't feel comfortable doing this part make sure you get help or find somebody that can do that part for you. So yeah, I hope you guys enjoyed this tutorial, make sure you give it a thumbs up, make sure you like share subscribe. If you haven't already, and I will catch you guys on my next video - have a meeting and God bless. Oh you