How To Braid Blunts Cut Ends

Hey, hey, hey guys, welcome back to my channel today we are live, but we are going to do some blunt cut ends and we're doing two braids today. So it's going to be a little bit of a quicker style than yesterday we'll go ahead and just turn the camera, so you guys can see and you can see that her hair is blonde. So i'm just gon na get started braiding you guys can come on in. If you have any questions, as always, be sure to ask your questions, but i'm just gon na go ahead and get the braid started actually already got the parting done. So again, it's just two braids, but we are going to tuck. These blunt cut ends if you're a braider. You know how difficult, sometimes that can be so we'll just go over a couple of steps of how to do that. Happy friday. It'S so funny because, like even though i've been braiding for like every now and then when it's friday, i still get that excitement, even though i have to still be here tomorrow, not like your job or it's like hey it's friday, along for the weekend. It'S like i'm, like everybody's, like i'll, have a great weekend. Yeah, i'm still gon na, be here yeah, oh yeah, but i still have that. I still have that mindset. You know it's crazy. Okay. So, let's see i'm gon na try my best to watch the comments. Guys the way my phone's set up, i can't really see the comments at the same time. So just give me a little bit, i will do my best okay, so let me just turn her smidge so that you guys can see a little bit how we're about to get this braid started a little bit towards me. I have like so many exciting things going on here. My first client she was going to aruba, oh yeah, you're she's, going to arrow, but you're going into labor, but you're going in style. I love it six weeks because this guy is a chunker, no he's already. Six pounds: oh wow, it's like wow, but it's exciting though so, if you guys were on yesterday yesterday we did two braids with like those curly ponytails and oh my gosh. It was just crazy. I did not think i was gon na make it through the style, because those ponytails were just giving me such a hard time. That was just like. Oh my gosh. This cannot be happening right now, but thankfully we worked through it. We got it done so i was very happy at the end because it was kind of like this, but we did some braids like on the side and then we did like these curly like weave ponytails at the bottom, and it was just like, oh my gosh. So i wanted to do that, but then i have to go back to work on monday and i'm like. Oh then i don't have to wear a hairnet yeah and i was like oh just wait. It'S like only yeah, it was cute it just. I didn't know what was gon na what was gon na happen so guys. The reason why i've been going live a little bit more lately is because i want you to see that when you have, you know braid clients you're going to get so many different textures of hair, and so it's just good to get familiar or try to get Familiar with braiding different textures so - and i just i just like to showcase different textures on my channel, because not every person has the same hair texture or the same hair, color or anything like that. You know everybody kind of is different and i love blonde braids. I really do so. Today'S challenge is to tuck the ends. That'S today's challenge, because, anytime, you have blunt cut ends. They have a tendency to like stick out of the braid, so we want to make sure that they are nicely tucked and now she doesn't have to worry about those ends popping out and one of the ways i do. That is, i kind of just try to start talking early even up in this part of the braid. I start trying my best to start tucking, the hair. Let'S see, does anybody have any questions so far? If this is your first time on, one of the lives go ahead and comment so that i can say hello and all that good stuff, and if you were on yesterday's live, oh my gosh leave a heart. If you were on yesterday's life, it was so funny. I was like, oh my gosh. This is crazy. I was trying to like wrap the ponytail like the top of it, and the hair was like so silky that they had that it was like it. Just kind of didn't really want to stay, so it was just nerve-wracking and do you have your phone on you that chance? I do, but it's my first. Oh it's in your okay. Oh, let's see what products are your favorite? Oh? That was the other thing. We talked about yesterday too, so yesterday we went over like all of the different shiny jams because they have just came out with like the orange one, and so i wanted to like test that out and see like you know, how is it just? How does it really work and everything like that and um? You know i. I still have mixed feelings about it, so i would have to say right now. My favorite one is still the yellow one um, because i haven't used the other ones enough to say whether or not you know they're my favorite. So i would have to say the yellow one, because that's the one that i've worked with the most. But i am going to be like using the red one and um. I know like the green one is for edges and stuff like that, so i'm definitely going to uh be using those more as well, because i feel like you, can't use something one time and make a true determination. So but i've used the orange one twice so far, and i don't know i like it. I just think that if i had to choose between the orange and the yellow, i'm probably going with the yellow okay, our way towards the bottom of the first braid. It'S gon na be looking good for your baby. Shower. Oh yeah, i mean having braids is like that's. I love the last time i i came. We went to kalahari, oh yeah, oh, i was so happy. You just got up all right. Let'S go right right! Well sometimes like the thing with braids is like man once you have them in it's like. I don't know how to explain it. It'S not that you don't have to do anything, but it just makes such a big difference such a big difference yeah. So now we're getting towards the end here you can see my hand is turned and i am going to start kind of thickening up the pieces. I know someone asked me yesterday: do i add the same size pieces and it's not that i don't add the same size pieces, because i i do for the most part, but sometimes when i get to the bottom, especially at the nape, i don't thicken it up Too much, but if i know that i have a lot of hair to cover, this is the time where i may start adding some bigger pieces so that i can start to tuck them now. Here'S the important part here guys you see this piece of her hair. That'S here you have to take some of the braiding here and kind of come over the top to cover it, and once you have that secured, then you can go on with your braid and then you just want to do the same thing on the other side And i even like to comb it in and gel just so that it helps the hair adhere to each other and it causes an even better blend. I know a lot of breeders like struggle with this part. So that's why i just wanted to get on real, quick and just talk about it a little bit, because sometimes it's not an easy thing to figure out, but then once you get it, it becomes a little bit easier to figure it out. It just takes a little bit of coordination, of getting your hands and things in the right place, yep, so we're still tucking, i'm still combing, i'm still placing like. Sometimes i think that like when you just see these pictures and stuff on instagram or other social media platforms, i talked about this a little bit yesterday. We don't realize the work that's going in, and so i just want to that. There'S a lot of work and technique that goes into the braids that you see, even though they just look pretty, and you just think. Oh you know those two braids. They were probably just done in a couple minutes like there's a lot of thought. There'S a lot of movement there's a lot of coordination that has to take place in order to really get that nice finish result and we're still going ahead and tucking. You can see i'm just catching those hairs and now here's the part two because, like especially with this texture, you don't want to do it too tight, because these baby hairs in the back they can, if pulled the wrong way or snagged the wrong way, they can Get like irritated so, while you're trying to make sure that everything is tough and smooth, and you know all of that - you still have to be careful as well. I see you hold on. Let me see here, okay, does your hands? Does your hands ever cramp um? No, they don't. Actually they actually don't. You know what sometimes will bother me guys if it rains or something like sometimes my wrist will get a little sore, but other than that. No, not really so guys. At this point, i'll start, even when i'm trying to tuck and make sure that those pieces are in there i'll even add on both sides of the braid. If i have to okay, i think we're doing a pretty good job here, i'm making sure and guys you know, i'm not perfect. I still sometimes will have a little piece or two. You know it does happen, but for the most part you just want to have a nice clean, full braid and that's the other thing we have to take into consideration as well, because and i'll move the camera back just a little bit, as you can see here, Her hair is rather short in comparison to the braid. So when we have our hair added in, we have to make sure that it's full enough. Okay, so because we don't want the braid to look too skinny now that it's dropping down and we're getting we're braiding down further and further, we still want the braid to look nice and full. Does that make sense? I see you pull from the hair, that's what i do yes, so i normally would um like set it out on the rack, but i'm trying to learn how to just pull from the hair because it does save in some prep time. But sometimes i don't like to pull from the hair because then, if it gets like, if you miss miss your pool one time the hair gets like caught on itself and then you end up making a mess and wasting hair. So i'm trying to find that nice balance right now guys between pulling from the hair. I mean i'm just experimenting with a bunch of stuff yeah. It does save time. It does definitely save time um. So i've just been experimenting with a lot of different things, guys to be honest, i've been experimenting with different products. Hi, i'm denisha. I always have difficulty braiding in two okay yeah. Well, thank you, um denisha, because you know what a lot of times people just think. Oh well, it's only two braids and i'm thinking like two. It'S only two braids people don't realize that while two braids is probably the simplest style, it is one of the most complex styles that you can do, because you are gathering all of that person's hair into the two braids so guys. I'M gon na turn her real quick just so that you can get a little bit of a side view of what that braid just came out like so that's the braid we just did together guys. You can see that it is nice and consistent all the way through, and let me just show you the end here. Okay, so you can see okay, how that breed comes down okay. So let's do the other side. Let me just check the comments, real quick. Yes, that's true, you have to pull down yes, yes and denisha. What what? What would you say is your biggest struggle when it comes to two braids? Let me get the water on guys, because we're gon na be done soon guys. This is a short live yesterday. We were on live for probably like two and a half hours long yeah yesterday was like it was a little bit more intricate too, and things like that. So you know, and that happens so, let's see my one, i call them like my brave sisters, um. She said you did a good job. I was struggling. I do the braid neat, but it's the client's hair that never seems to be pulled in properly. Okay, okay. Well then, keep watching okay, because now that we're on the other side, i didn't really talk through the braid that much because i don't want to kind of keep going over the same things. If, if somebody's not like asking for it, you know, but since you're asking for it, we can go over this side a little bit more in depth. Okay, how's that so i'm gon na actually move. I'M gon na move the camera a little bit here so that you guys can see. My biggest struggle is my part is start off straight and then, when i start breeding, it's not straight. Oh that's a good one! That'S a good one! Okay! So, let's talk about that too, really, quick guys. So what happens is is that people's scalps are flexible. Okay, i learned about this in cosmetology school people's scalps tend to be flexible and especially those who don't hold a lot of tension in their scalp. So i notice a lot of times that when i do men's hair, that's when i notice those parting struggles, because you know well, of course they don't stress the way that we do but a lot of times men don't hold that same tension in their head. The way that women do so like for them, i noticed that and it's not every guy, so it's not every guy but like i was saying i do notice that when i go to do a guy's hair sometimes i can go to part it straight and then, When i start braiding, it gets crooked. So what i like to do - and something for the most part it helps - is that i part the hair with already some tension on the hair. Okay, does that make sense? So what i'm saying is, if i go to part of guys here, what i'll do sometimes is. I might already put both sides into a clip because that kind of adds some tension to the hair, not too much tension, because i don't want to pull it, but it just gives me an idea of okay. Let me see where his hair is going to go once i put some tension to it. So if i start off that way, i give myself a better start of parting and i give myself a better chance of getting it straight because i parted it with tension versus without tension. So if you need me to explain that again, just let me know but yeah, so, okay, so we're gon na get started on this side. The first thing that i do is i go ahead and i start using my gel to work through the client's hair. I think that sometimes i know when i started braiding one of my. My mistakes was that i wasn't using enough product right and it was actually my husband that was like you know, babe. Why don't you try to use a little bit more product and i'm like nate, please. You know because my husband's one of those guys that, like just knows like random, like random information - and so sometimes i like nudge him off, but like 85 percent of the time 90 of the time he's right, yes makes sense. I tried that even pre-part and braided. Yes and that's the other thing is you can pre-part your style too, and that also helps to make sure that your braids are going to be in the right spot. I like to do that, especially with box braids and sometimes even my straight backs. I will make sure that i pre-part it first so again, guys first thing: for this side, we are going to make sure that we're molding our section, okay, that's important for two braids so and even when you're doing your mold, like it's okay, to do like a Following method, where you're kind of taking your comb with the product and then taking your hand with the product as well and following the comb? Okay, because i know that sometimes people have a hard time getting their braids even on both sides. But if you just take the little bit of time to mold it, i think get too much of your baby hairs. But i think that that helps because you have to remember you are the one who's in control of the braid. So you are actually the one who's placing that braid where it's going to go and even where you stand is important. So it's good to make sure that you're in the right position to start the braid okay. So that's the first thing we're going to do is we're going to kind of mold that down any questions about molding nope? Okay, i don't think we have any questions yet about molding. Let me just grab this other part of the hair right, oh, and let me show you too so i use. Let me show you the hair that i use okay, so i used the sensational 2x pre-stretch braiding, hair 48 inches okay, and so, if it's saying 48 inches, that is the hair like this way, like you know from end to end, we really just about maybe 24 Inches so this is the hair that i use. Let'S see, i have this same problem parting, oh really. Okay, so yeah try those try, some of those tips that we just talked about and then let me see. Okay. Another question i noticed my braid will begin to flip. If your braid is flipping, it could be because you're, maybe you're not starting off with three equal sections, and maybe you might be trying to think what causes the braid to flip. I think what causes a braid to flip is is the lack of rhythm, so i always try to explain that there is a rhythm to brain, and so, if you're off rhythm, it can cause the brain to turn. You have to kind of make sure that you are. You know i can really really important okay, so i'm just getting some more hair, ready, guys and here's another thing with two braids the front be perfect. I noticed it starts to flip towards the middle yeah. Okay, so maybe as maybe as you're getting towards the middle, maybe you're losing your grip, some, and maybe that's that could be. That could be what's happening. I would just keep practicing just keep on practicing, even if you have to get a mannequin head just keep practicing, because i understand what you're saying like. Let me turn you around for one second love. So are you saying like in this area here because this would be like the middle part, but that's where okay, so i'm gon na give you guys a little cosmetology lesson i feel like. I am so boring because i'm just a nerd when it comes to this stuff, but it matters. It really does matter. So this part of the head guys from like this area above the ear across this whole back here to the other part of the ear. So you have this area down here, which is like your nape area. But then, when you come up in here you have this area here, then you have your crown and then you have what's called the apex which your apex is like the highest part of the head. Okay, so that's up here, but when you're working around here this is called the parietal ridge. This parietal ridge area is the widest part of the head, so it makes sense that if somebody starts to struggle with two braids, if they start to struggle in this area, that's probably because that's where the most hair is because this is the widest part - hey honey. Just coming over to have your snack, yeah, okay, we're live on youtube, yeah, just trying to go for it all right trying to comb through my hair. That'S the other thing too, like before we put the hair up since i'm pulling it. I have to really make sure that the hair is combed through because i don't want it to tangle. So let me just grab the brush here, guys real, quick, nice and clean okay. So this is the brush. I use. Okay, it's just one of those like detangling brushes. I didn't get it from anybody specifically. I think i found it at like a beauty supply store out of town somewhere, so it works really good with combing the hair out. Oh you guys. Thank you and the other thing too. Here'S when i separate the hair like this, because i'm not the best at pulling it down. I like to separate it in two so that this way, if i kind of mess up one side, i have another side to work from okay and then here's the other thing guys when you are doing two, i pre-part i use product if you're, if you've done All of what we're saying, then, at that point, is really just a matter of practice. Okay and trust me, it's taken me a long time to get down the art of two braids and i'm still not perfect at it like there's times where i still don't get it the exact way that i want it to come out. You know what i mean, but i have to keep on doing it because it's not gon na get better, if i don't keep doing it. So one of the tricks that i've learned for two braids is when i'm on this side, i'm gon na pull from the right of me when i come on this side on the left side, i'm gon na try my best to pull from the left of me. So i'm going to take my my wrap and i'm going to move it on the other side. The reason why i do that is because now, while her hair is the same color, it may not have mattered, but if you have, if you were braiding black hair and you were adding blonde hair, when you were on the right side, the blonde is going to Build on the right side and then, if you come over here and you start adding with the right side now that blonde is going to build on the inside and now your two braids are not gon na. Look like the same color, okay, so i'm gon na go ahead and move my hair. Hopefully i can pull with my left hand, lord, oh my gosh. Sometimes let me see if i can get this sorry come on. Okay, so there and i'm gon na try to pull from this side. So let me move this a little bit guys. I could get my hair okay, okay, perfect, okay, then you're going to turn your client somewhat at an angle, and you want to be standing where that angle is like in front of you. Okay, if you're trying to braid up here, don't stand too far to the right or don't come too far to the left, because your braid is going to go in the direction of whatever you are. It'S almost like, you're steering, okay. So since i want it to be right here, i'm gon na stand almost right in front of where i want that braid to be all right. Now i need my table to be hated because y'all know my table will fall okay, so i'm gon na bend her head just a little bit back. I'M gon na use the right side as a guide and i'm going to take out that same amount of hair. So i can see i kind of started like right about there, i'm going to take that same amount of hair and i'm going to use that to start the braid okay. So i'm going to start my braid and i'm going to pull my first piece in okay. I'M gon na pull my second piece in, so i'm just going to continue to repeat that the whole way i'm okay. So now again, i'm just going gon na start pulling my pieces in. If you have to comb through the hair a little bit comb through the hair a little bit the more control i've noticed, let me put it this way. I'Ve noticed that the more control you have, the better the braids gon na come out. So it's not about how fast you can get through the braid. So now i'm going to add a piece of the hair. It'S going to be a smaller piece, because i'm still at the small section. I want this piece of the hair that i'm adding. I want it to be, if not the same exact size of the hair, i'm going to put it under if not the same, exact size a little bit smaller. So i'm going to add that in just one leg of it and i'm going to pull that leg in and i i kind of call that the follow the leader. But it's like a modified version and if you guys want to see that video you can go on my channel and it's called five grades. Five ways with one result and i'll show you like different ways of how to add in hair for feed and breed. Okay use my comb to smooth the hair a little bit and i'm gon na just guide my piece in take a piece of hair and add that in okay, guys, i'm basically going to repeat that same thing, all the way down. Okay, i feed all my hair in from the left. You are the best teacher. Thank you so much. Oh you're welcome. Okay, so you feed all your hair in from the left. Okay, are you left-handed see? I find it hard to do it with my left, but i know that it does make my braid on the left side come out, looking more closer to the one on the right, so i just try to be diligent about it, but it's not my favorite thing To do y'all, okay and then still, like, i said, use your gel make sure that the hair you're adding is starting to cover the hair that it's going over face. Can you pull that for me? Thank you. I'M getting stuck in this area. Oh you're, right-handed! Okay, are you falling asleep on me? I am, i am so relaxed. Well, that's a good sign guys. I am so like. No, that's a good sign. That'S so funny my clients fall asleep. It feels so relaxing, oh good, when somebody gives us something. My hair is like right right. If i start snoring, i apologize girl wake up. Well, that's proof guys. You know don't braid too tight. You know you want your clients to be comfortable. I don't know when the last time i like had my hair done like from somebody else. You know it's hard, especially when you do hair, so i'm still adding in my pieces guys and i'm gon na just turn on just a smidge. Okay, we're almost done guys. This is like i said this live today is not going to be like yesterday, so maybe yesterday on the live, why? I almost couldn't finish this, like i thought i wasn't going to be able to finish this time. The style because i ran into like this issue with the hair that i had to add like the the curly. It was like the curly ponytail part of the hair, and i just i couldn't get it to stay. And thankfully, like everybody in the comments, was like. Oh try some glue do this. Do that, so they were giving me all these suggestions and i was like oh, but we got it. I have found some got to be glue because i thought i was out it ain't, the other thing. No, no! No! No! No! Not the gorilla glue, no, no, not the gorilla glue. I have found out for that. No, no! I have found this other the yellow, like the freeze spray one and that's what we needed, so it ended up coming together, but man i was like. Oh my gosh not on the live, but it was real though you know, so i was kind of happy that it happened, because i just wanted to show that, like it gets real, it happens to the best of us like it is what it is, especially when You'Re using stuff that you've never used before you're using a brand that you never used before, has that ever happened to you guys like have you ever been doing a style and just ran into like you know like a hiccup or some kind of trouble that you're Just like, oh man, how am i gon na work my way out of this yeah and it's nerve-racking too like it's like you know, it's very nerve-wracking, especially for me because, like part of like i won't say that i'm a perfectionist, but i mean i do try. You know to get it as good as i can i mean i don't ever want to feel like i didn't give it my all. Okay, i'm still trying to check the comments guys. So just give me one second, and you know what love yesterday i opened up my ipad, but for some reason i couldn't see the comments from my ipad. Okay guys so i'm gon na grab this last piece here like right here and then i'm probably going to flip my hands, because that that helps me to tuck better. So after this i'm gon na pull in this piece here - and sometimes i still have to use the gel guys so like the gel - is helping me do some of the smoothing before i bring my part in or the section should i say: okay now, i'm gon Na flip my hands and start pulling in this way, because now that my hands are kind of this way, i have more control over how i'm going to cover her hair. Some people don't have to do that, but it's just something that i find easier for me to do so. Just kind of keep combing it together and making sure that all the pieces as much as i can get, are all kind of staying together and that the hair that i'm adding is on top of her hair. Do you guys feel, like you have a side? That'S easier to do than the other side with two braids. I always wondered that because i always feel like. Sometimes the right side is a little easier for me, but then again i don't know. Sometimes the left side feels easier. So i guess it just depends. Oh, your appointment is here. Oh see like this is one reason like if you guys saw this hair the right side, at least for me yeah. No, it's for it's! It'S real like do me. A favor hold your finger like right. There yeah see. This is where, when the hair starts getting tangled up guys, this is where i'm like, i'm done with it. This is why i like to have my pieces ready, because if your hair gets messed up, my hands are in it like my hands are in your head, so i can't it's not that much. I can do it and i'm at a part where it's like. I can't let it go. You know, yeah hold it right there for me yep! That'S why i pull thank you, okay and then again guys, i'm gon na start. I'M gon na use the whole thing um, but again, i'm just going to kind of start doubling up a little bit, because i want to start building this braid here. Okay, all right now, i'm gon na have you hold it again. Yeah just hold it right. There see that works. Teamwork makes the dream work so guys if you have to have your client just kind of press down on the hair a little bit while you hold it or while you pull it like. Let me get it up over that and then you just hold that part perfect. That works, so that's no better than your client like holding the hair the whole time, but just remember guys, you're gon na have to improvise. Sometimes you know like, like i said, braiding is just like one of those things that while you have a lot of control, there's gon na be things where you may have to um. I guess you could say like just work on the fly with like you got to just keep going. You know you just figure out solutions and keep going. Thank you, okay and i'm still just covering up her hair how's that looking guys, i can't really see from the side. Yet, what's your job title, i just hold the hair down on the wrap, so it doesn't fall off, but that's hey! That'S an important job. Okay! So yep guys and you can see like you - can barely even see any of her hair at all, looks good to me. Thank you. Thank you. Somebody said perfect, okay guys, i wish you could see the little system that we have going on right now. Okay, but don't be afraid to pay attention to those little details, guys. That'S how to me. That'S how you know you really up your game and that's how you really separate yourself um braiding, is, is really big right now and there's a lot of braiders out there, and i think that all braiders are good, because we have a unique skill and just because We might not be able to braid, like somebody else doesn't make us not good, because we can still grade better than the person who can't at all. You know so just remember that you know you're you're um what you call it. Your skill is still a skill and don't be down on yourself, just because, oh my braids, don't look like so-and-so's, always remember that comparison is the thief of joy, okay, and i have to teach myself that now see look. This is what i'm talking about. You see that little hair sticking out now we got to go back and get that um. But comparison like i said, is the thief of joy and basically, what's that, what that means is, if you're so busy, comparing yourself to other people's work. You'Re gon na miss the you're gon na miss out on the joy that you could have on just making progress, and i really had to learn that there we go. I really had to learn that um in my braiding. You know experience because in the beginning i was so down. You know, because i was comparing myself to people that the people who were seeing me didn't even know about. So it's like when i would say like. Oh well, my grades aren't like so-and-so's the people. I would say that to would be like well, who is that they don't? You know the people that you're doing their hair and stuff nine out of ten times they're, not integrating the way that you are so they might not even know these bigger name braiders that you're holding yourself up against. So then i had to reroute my thinking to say you know what i'm not trying to be better than you know this person, i'm not trying to be better than let me use the whole thing, i'm not trying to be better than this person, i'm not trying To be better than that, i'm trying to be better than me i'm trying to be better than the style i did yesterday, i'm trying to be better than the style i did a year ago, um, you know, and things like that, then i was able to really Enjoy the process and the improvement that god was allowing for me to experience, so that's a great way to look at it. I appreciate that a great deal you're welcome, you're welcome um, and it really is the truth like. I just want to be transparent guys because i've been like back braiding since like 2017, and i can't sit here and tell you that every single day was a dream you know or that every single day i slayed every style, and you know all that stuff like It it takes time and it takes being willing to continue to learn. I think i said that yesterday, like don't ever get to a place where you feel like you can't learn, because the day that you stop learning is the day that you might as well. Consider yourself not even alive, because you have no room to grow. You have no room to be anything else for anybody else like you have to be in a constant state of you know what okay i want to improve this. I want to improve that, like i'm still at a place where i'm still going to take classes for stitch braiding, do i know how to stitch braid? Yes, but can i improve? Yes, you know and that's just like with anything in life. It doesn't have to be about you know just grading and stuff like that, but just appreciate your journey appreciate how far that god has brought. You appreciate how just you know you may have started here. Like i tell one, i tell people sometimes like they'll, be like. Oh, i'm, you know i'm trying to get more clients, i'm trying to get more clients, i'm trying to get more clients, and it's like. That'S all good, don't get me wrong, but you do have to somewhat be grateful. Even if you only have five clients, you got to be grateful for those five, because at some point you had zero. You know, and if and and maybe you have 10 and maybe you're looking for 20 - well be grateful for the 10 and the more that you're grateful for where you're at and what you have. I feel like. That'S when sometimes you just get blessed with more and more because you're grateful for just a little. You know, and i noticed that that helps me too. You know when i'm like striving like i got to get this. I got to do this. I got to get this, i you know i'm always trying to push. I got to put this much out there for content. I got ta, you know, then. I have to start reminding myself. You know what nick look from where you came from. Look, you have to look back. Sometimes you know you're doing a lot more than what you used to be able to do and produce. So that's my little like spiel for today. I don't know i've just really been in like a grateful kind of like gratitude-esque. Well, you saw what i was listening to when you came in like so i think that's kind of just got in my head today, but i'm glad because sometimes we get so caught up in the hustle and bustle of trying to be this thing. You know what i mean and we're so pressured by social media and all this stuff that like oh, this does look good. Let me let me stop talking for a second to look at these comments, because i'm just going on and on here um, you have a very nurturing spirit, which is why i enjoy watching your content. That'S a rare in this business! Thank you and i appreciate that. I i really like i'm telling you guys, i'm only telling you because i myself have fell victim to this, of trying to meet this social media like norm and trying to you know, do this and do that and it's like you know what i'm really just working On letting go of the perfection letting go of the worry of oh, my gosh, how do i look? How do i this? How do i that not that we don't care about ourselves, but we have to remember what's real and what's not real and a lot of the times? What we see on social media is not real. It'S not like you have to remember, you are getting think of it like this, when you see a picture of somebody's grades on on social media, and i will use myself as an example, because i don't talk about nobody but out of the 20 pictures i took, Which picture you think, i'm posting on social media the best one, the best well-lit one, the best one that the filter just made. It look so good, like i'm, not gon na post, the worst one. So then, when you come on social media - and you see this thing and you see this line of people's work, where you see 10 pictures, they probably took 50 pictures to get those 10 pictures on their thing or whatever the case may be. If i post a picture of myself, which one do you think you're going to get you're going to get the best one where that filter was hidden just right like oh, thank you, lord for these filters. Okay, you know you're not going to get the worst one, where maybe i had an extra neck roll or or you know what i'm saying i was just looking a little extra chubby that day or you know whatever you want to call it. Maybe my hair was sticking up in a certain spot. I didn't want it to stick like that's. Not the picture. You'Re gon na get you're gon na get the best of the whatever pictures that i took. So i just want for those people who i don't want to say follow me, but for those people who really like my content and really like gravitate to to what i try to put out, i just want you guys to understand that i'm gon na try to Be transparent in any way possible that i can because people are so discouraged off of false things, and i know that because i was one of them in the beginning of my journey. I was so discouraged thinking that, like these people were so much better than me, but it's like no, it's not that they're better than me. It'S just that they might have been in their journey longer and you don't know what they have to go through to get to where they're at so just appreciate your journey, appreciate where you're at appreciate, where your skill is at and just keep declaring that i'm gon Na get better, i'm gon na get better. I'M gon na do better, i'm gon na you know whatever the case may be and just be hungry for it, because that's when you'll start really seeing - and i don't know why this is in my spirit so heavy today, like all day, that's been in my spirit. I'Ve been posting on instagram, i came out here, live like i, don't know what it is, because i really feel like there's braiders that are out there really like struggling big time, because they don't have enough belief in themselves, and i saw this thing on instagram one Time and it just sat with me like there are people who are less qualified than you doing more than you just simply because they believed in themselves. So you see people out here with big channels and and big social media, followings and stuff like that and to me sometimes their work, don't even be all that, but it doesn't matter because they believe in themselves other people believe in them too. So that's for me. That'S what i had to start getting that big energy too, like i'm, not in the back, i'm right in the front too, and i would tell my husband like he and he could tell you he could come over here and tell y'all cause. We were next door to each other. There would be times where i'd be like in tears. Crying to him, like you know, babe, i just want to see at the table. I just want to see it at the table. That was like one of my best like favorite things. I guess you can say that i would tell him and his response to me would be like babe. You are the table, so you don't have to have a seat at the table. You be the table and you create seats for other people. You know and stuff like that, so it's like when i had to start thinking about it like that, i'm like wow, you know i'm not saying that i walk around arrogantly, but you do have to have some kind of belief in yourself when you're trying to like Step out and that's in everything it is it's not just breeding, it could be mothering, it could be being a wife, it could be if you're an employee, even you know or whatever, wherever you are at that at that space and time. You know in your life like just i guess. My whole thing is just don't be blinded by social media, guys don't be blinded by the glitz, don't be blinded by the glam i mean you know i post pictures that have the little sparkly filters on it. Every other day, you know what i'm saying, but that doesn't show the behind the scenes where i'm back here like man, i'm sweating, i'm hot, i'm tired. My back. My feet is burning, like nobody talks about all that. You know what i mean and that's why i just want to again. I just want to be real. I don't know why i keep going on these tangents today, but for whatever god put that in my spirit today, and i really just hope that even one person can just be helped and realize that you are enough, you are blessed, you can do it you. You know with practice and with different things like you, don't know where you could be a year from now or even six months from now with just some like head down consistency with that narrow path and thought and drive to say you know what setting goals for Yourself and actually completing those goals, like those are the things that really will build character and will build your clientele and will build your business and all of that stuff. Because half the time trust me, your clients are not following the same people that you're following like they don't know like. I could probably name like five braiders to her right now and she'd, be like what i don't know, not one of them. You know so, like i said guys just be encouraged, but let me go ahead and get on with the style so that my client can get home has a she has a baby shower tomorrow, yeah, so we had to get her right, real quick! So i'm gon na go ahead and use this shiny jam guys. This is the mousse that i use. I will say i am crazy about this mousse crazy about it. Ever since i started using it, i haven't used any other mousse, so i highly suggest it and i think the one reason why i like it is that um it's the application, it doesn't take a lot. It really doesn't take a lot at all and i like the um, the way that it can be distributed. So there's some of this um shining, not shining jam, tropical roots and other other mooses, and things like that, where you have to like pump it and to me, especially if you braided like a whole head or you did some like medium knotless or something like that. I mean i don't know how other braiders feel, but the last thing that i want to do is sit there and pump that mousse trying to pump pump. I want to be able to squeeze and just it come out and it might be. Like lazy of me, i don't know, but i just feel like. Sometimes my hands are a little tired after those bigger styles. So to me, i just like the distribution of this and i and i like the way that it works too. I really think that it holds the flyaways down and you know i really could do some extra steps guys and i could put like a do-rag over the top or i can put even um like those strips. But i don't have any right now and to be honest, uh, it's not really that needed. I think it's an extra step, don't get me wrong and it does and can help. But it's not it's not really needed, but i am going to start doing it again, especially once i get a blow dryer that my clients can sit under um. That'S gon na be a step that i definitely incorporate, and so then this last part guys is um. I'M just going to go ahead and dip her in so does anybody have any questions before? Oh, let me read this here. Everything happens for a reason and because the industry is getting oversaturated, you need to hear feedback oops hold on. Let you get that back. You need to hear feedback like this, so thank you for being so sincere, oh james, you're welcome. Thank you for joining us on the live today. Um i've just been going live randomly guys. I don't have a schedule, or you know anything like that. I just kind of like i said, i'm really just working on just letting go of this perfection thing, and so it's very um you can um, but yeah. I'M just really really trying to work on this. Not you know having to be so perfect and one thing for me just being honest: it's very challenging to go live because i don't know what type of things i'm going to encounter. So if i'm live, i mean you guys just get to see it firsthand, and so i i am learning to embrace that. So what do you guys do to dip your ends? Do you guys use an electric tea kettle? Do you guys um use like a a cup? Do you guys pour the water in? What do you guys do? I use an electric tea kettle, we're doing good too, because we were supposed to be done at 3 45 and it's 4 o'clock. So i mean with all the extra that we have to do to get ready so and with the live i mean because sometimes going live adds a little time to the style, because i'm trying to do the hair and answer questions and stuff like that. So it's pretty good! So for those of you, if you guys just joined, we did two braids today and the main focus of this live was to tuck the ends. So her ends were pretty blunt cut, but you can tell, by the thumbnail that her ends are pretty straight across her hair length is roughly like right about here, so we just talked about how to tuck and how to get this. Like nice, smooth, um, seamless, braid here, so that's what our live was about today and if there are no other questions, i am probably just going to go ahead and end the live. If we don't have any other questions, i don't want to not give anybody an opportunity, but if you did not get an opportunity to comment on this live or have your question answered or whatever the case may be, you can go ahead and follow me at nik. Underscore lynn, i don't know how to comment on here, but you guys can follow me at nick underscore lynn on instagram. If you guys want to join the facebook group, which is growing very nicely. I am so happy about that for real, because that group is where i spend a lot of time at a lot of time talking to other braiders. We just crossed the like 500 member mark, so i'm just very excited about that, because it's just full of just wonderful braiders and they have really become my sisters. I swear to you like. I just love these girls, so much um. If you want to join the group, you can join on facebook at hair, hustle, hope, collective, and, if you want to follow me on instagram, i can be followed at nik underscore lynn, so guys. Thank you so much for joining our live today. All like i said all i'm doing is going to dip the ends here, so i'm going to end the live, but i really appreciate the conversation that we had. I hope you feel encouraged and i hope you feel like it was meant for you to be on today's live so guys. Thank you so much and i will talk to you in the next video bye