3 Braided Hair Styles With @Kayleymelissa | Sephora

So, as you guys know, I love braids and lucky. For me they are trending right now and especially with festival season coming up, they are trendier than ever. So I wanted to show you three of my favorite hairstyles for festival season, but also just for spring. Let'S start off with the texture, I'm starting off with the way hair oil, and this adds shine. It adds smoothness and it helps to add a little bit of heat protection as well. So I'm just gon na run that through my hands and then over my hair brush it through and then my hair is ready to be curled. You could also do this step after curling your hair, to make sure that your ends. Look nice and polished. Now I'm gon na take about two inch sections of hair and curl them, and I'm just running through my iron, just like you normally would, but at the ends I'm kind of pulling my iron over the ends and that way they're not as tight and ring liddie, Which gives you a cooler more effortless looking wave, so I curled the first couple pieces away from my face, but then I'm gon na start alternating between curling toward my face and away from my face that way you get a really nice natural everyday. Looking wave. It looks really cool and modern and I'm using a 1 inch barrel for this. This is the GHD classic curl iron, and I like this iron because it has technology that makes your curls last extra long, which I can definitely use, because I have fine hair once you've curled. All the hair is ready to be texturized. So first I'm gon na run my hand through my curls to kind of break them up and then I'm adding in the way texturizing hairspray. It'S like a dry shampoo and a hairspray mix together. So it gives you a lot of fullness and it holds your hairstyle in place if you have fine hair, adding in texture like that is so important, because it really helps just bring your braids to life. And now we're on to our first hairstyle, which you can do no matter how good or bad you are at braiding you're, just going to separate the top half of your hair and start putting that into a hair elastic on your very last loop of the hair. Elastic only pull part of your hair through so that you have a little bun forming and leave those ends out. I, like the messiness that adds to the hairstyle now just grab a section of hair on one side of the bun and begin braiding that, just with the normal braid all the way down and secure the end with an elastic. It'S that easy. If you want to get a little bit more complicated, you could maybe do a fishtail, braid or any other kind of rate. You want to do here to finish it off, just grab a little piece from your ends and wrap that around the elastic really loosely and messily. This does not have to be perfect and then pin that in place and you're done. I really like how relaxed this hairstyle is, and I think that it's perfect for any level of hairstyling, even if you don't feel like you're, very good at braids. If you can just do a basic braid, you can do this hairstyle. So now, let's move on to what you can do, if you want to kind of up your braid game, I'm gon na sweep my hair straight back and then make a small rectangle right on top of my head, we're doing three raids on top. So this is going to be for our first braid you're, just going to take a small section right at the top of that rectangle split it into three and begin braiding. Once you've got your braid underway, you can start adding in hair, so I'm gon na pick up a little bit of hair. Add it into my braiding section and braid it in then I'm going to do the same thing on the other side and you're gon na keep doing that until you've gone about three to four inches back then you're just going to braid the rest of the hair. Normally, and once you get to the end, you can go ahead and secure it with an elastic. Then I'm adding in some more of that texturizing spray over my braid and I'm going to pull a massage on the braid to get it as big and voluminous as possible and once that's done. You'Re gon na do the same thing on either side of the braids. To pick up another rectangular section and start braiding that about three to four inches and then braid the rest. Normally it's the French braiding or inverted French braiding gets confusing for you. You can just take a rectangular section and braid the whole thing. Normally, you don't have to do the French braid stuff. If that seems really complicated, it will still look really good if you just take a rectangular section and braid the whole thing. Normally, the French braiding is really just an interesting way to get your braid started and it is a little bit similar to a cornrow technique, but I think because we're pulling it apart so much it ends up looking really different towards the end and a little bit More like biking ish so anyway, once you've pulled everything apart, you're ready to go ahead and pull it up and into a ponytail, and then we're going to tie it into a knot to create the bun. So I'm literally tying my hair in a knot and then all these kind of ends are going to jump out so you're just gon na go ahead and pin some of them down or you can leave some of them out. I think the messiness definitely works for this if you're going to a music festival, you're going to want some hold, so I'm using the living proof like shaping Spray - and this is a really lightweight flexible finish, so that you can touch your hair throughout the day. You can dance and it's gon na feel great, totally natural, but it's gon na stay in place, and that is it for this hairstyle. I think it's totally unique, really cool and it's a great way to kind of up your braiding game. And finally, I had to do a braid crown, so what you're gon na do is you're gon na split your hair in half and clip one half out of the way and we're going to basically do a lace braid all the way around your head, which means You'Re gon na flip, the first half of your hair, all the way forward, split your hair in three and begin braiding, I'm braiding over the middle section. This time you can do whatever is easiest for you, so I'm gon na braid a couple of times see if my braids started and then, when I'm ready, I'm gon na start, adding in hair from the side closest to my face. So you can see. There'S some hair hanging right there, I'm picking it up, putting it with my braid section and braiding it in and then I'm going to braid the other side normally without adding in any hair and then again. Next to my face, I'm picking up hair and I'm braiding. It in and then on the other side, I'm just braiding, normally and you're gon na keep doing that until all the hair from this half is in your braid and it's kind of nice, because gravity is working with you all. The hair that you need is literally sitting right there next to your hand, so it's a little bit easier than a normal French braid, where you have to like pick up hair from all over your head. It'S right there ready for you! So once you get all this done, this is actually the hardest part of the braid. Once you get that done, it is easy you just let the rest of your hair down and keep braiding until you reach back at your starting point. Once you're there, you can go ahead and braid the rest of the hair normally and then secure it with an elastic. Then I'm going to lightly pull and massage on the braid just to give it a little bit more texture and kind of let the braid breathe. But it doesn't have to be super voluminous, then I'm going to take the end of the braid and tuck it underneath our French braid and pin that in place then to let this hairstyle breathe. Just a little bit more, I decided to let go some little pieces of hair around my face so that I would have all these little wispies and I think that helps this braid look a little bit more trendy and cool, so you definitely feel free to kind Of destroy the braid a little bit and then I decided to add in some little flowers that I had laying around. I just took some clippings of fresh flowers and put them in hair to create kind of a flower crown crown braid hybrid, and it was too much for me. I loved it so much. I literally wore it while I was cooking dinner after I finished filming because I just thought it was too pretty. So that's it. My final uber Bohemian Princess hairstyle, I just loved it. It made me smile so much and I kind of hope you guys loved it too, and that's it for my festival braids. Thank you to Sephora for partnering with me on this video and, if you guys try out any of these braids share them with me on social media with hashtag braids and hashtag trending at Sephora. I would love to see your recreations. That'S it for now I'll see you in my next video muah, bye,