Feed-In Braids With Kanekalon Hair

Hey guys, what's up it's a girl, Kirsty Petrie, welcome back to my channel today, I am showing you guys how to feed in cornrows with some regular kanekalon braiding hair, I'm starting on freshly washed and blow-dried hair. This is my hair in a blow-dried condition. I did put oil on it, so that's why it's a little bit really and stringy like that, but let's get right into it. So first things: first, you want to map out your foundation when you're doing any cornrows. I was gon na. Do some straight backs, as you can see, but last minute I decided to change it up just because I didn't really feel like struggling with the middle braid. So I went with like slanted cornrows, so I'm gon na be using a regular kanekalon. Braiding hair is not pretty stretch or anything like that. I chose a little ombre color, so I'm gon na show you guys how I prepped my bringing hair. I take super small pieces and I gradually let those pieces get bigger by the tenth piece. You'Ll see how big it is for each feeding cornrow I use about 10 pieces, sometimes I'll, add about 13. If they're, you know if it looks a little bit shorter, but the idea is when you're doing, feeding cornrows your first 3 pieces need to be really small pieces of braiding hair. They don't need to be chunky or chunky. This doesn't need to start to wealth. Your fifth piece, and that's because nobody's hair - is that fake in the front, just not so continue watching to see how I actually install the cornrows. So I just wanted to jump right back in to let you guys know that this wooden thing, it's called a thread. Rack I get this message on a constant daily basis. I link it every time in my description box. If you guys want to purchase it, I put it inside my Amazon store, you guys can purchase it there. It is a thread rack. I call it a braid rag, it comes in handy is chilly for feet in braids and box rate. Okay. So in this next clip I am braiding my real hair, I decided to add one of those little baby braids and that's just because my hair is a little bit thinner like in this side area. So I decided that I didn't want to have a whole bunch of space, so I decided a little baby braid, what kind of fill out that space - and I didn't add any hair to this. I just use my regular hair now moving on to the actual cornrow. I'M taking some gel, you could use any stronghold thick Jill, not a watery loose gel. You could also use beeswax. You apply it to both sides of your part, then you're gon na take a comb and you're going to take the comb and, like you know, distribute the gel through your hair, and this is just gon na help. You keep a neat braid, a less frizzy braid and when you're using your comb, you want to comb it in the direction that you're gon na braid. So I'm braiding it upwards. Because my when I grab my hair, I want to be able to grab it with ease. I don't want it to be, laying down in the opposite direction, so to start defeating the cornrow you're, going to start with your real hair. Just the tiniest amount of your real hair, so you would start it like. You start any French braid or it's Dutch braid. Whatever people call it, I call it a cornrow you're gon na start with three little pieces like so, and you're gon na make five movements. One two three and you're grabbing some of your hair, four and five after this, its movement right here, you're gon na kind of make sure all of your hair is positioned correctly then grab your first piece of Kanekalon, hair, okay, and you want to go ahead and Slide it through your pointer finger and your thumb, making sure that that braiding hair is matching with your hair. So once you go big, you see that you're taking it and then seven you're, also taking that other piece and then I'm just gon na braid a little bit with my hair right here. Just to make sure that piece of braiding hair I added, is installed and then now I'm gon na add in my second piece you do not have to add an additional piece of braiding hair after every two movements. The key is to look at your hair. Look at how its forming and you can tell like. Oh this looks lumpy. This looks like totally different size from what it should be. This looks good, usually it's supposed to be skinnier in the beginning and then get it gradually bigger, so don't be turned off by that. Remember: you're, just you're, starting with skinny and then getting too big all right. So, let's show it another clip again I'm going to take that braiding here you see I'm holding it. I hold it in one hand very tight, and that way, that's so that way I could slip it right in between my thumb and my finger, and you see I'm constantly using my ring finger, so you hold down my braid, that's sometimes when you're braiding, your braid Likes to move and shift so holding it down, sometimes when you're moving and just checking how things are looking helps a ton. So I'm just gon na go ahead and keep adding it in. You guys keep watching these clips and I'll show you guys another angle really soon. Here is the second angle: I've already molded my hair, I'm starting with my natural hair. This is there we go and three I'm actually gon na do six movements. This is four and the reason I did six was just because I'm at a thinner part of my hair for this particular cornrow and I didn't feel secure enough for me. So here is where I'll add in my first piece of hair. So I'm going to pause once I do add in and as you can see, I've added it between my pointer finger and thumb, and that is the exact spot. You want to add in that braiding hair every single time now remember. You do not have to add that braiding hair each time like after every second braid movement, you can skip once and then add it in like every other time. So it's a really natural gradient. Remember that cornrows are supposed to start skinny feet and corners are supposed to start skinny and natural they're not supposed to have a knot, so the smaller, the braiding hair that you start with the more natural that it's going to look and, like I said I added About 10 pieces for each cornrow, once I got to the end I did add maybe two or three more pieces which equal loss of 13 and I ended up, adding that. So that way, all my braids were around the same length. Okay, so I'm gon na go ahead and let my clip just keep rolling so that way you guys can see the entire process leave a comment down below. If you do know how to do feet in cornrows, do you follow any of these types of methods that I use? What methods do you like to use? That'S easier for you? If you guys remember earlier on in the year, I actually used to add in my hair at another way, but this looks so much neater and it was kind of easier. So I prefer this method so go ahead and keep watching okay guys. So we are at the end of this cornrow. Remember you keep adding hair all the way to the end of the cornrow, and then you just keep braiding down. I used gel all the way throughout. So don't forget that, step to make sure your braid is smooth once you actually complete your cornrow and braid your hair, all the way to the end, you're gon na go ahead and dip. The ends of your braids do not forget to trim with scissors, because that is gon na get all those little frizzy flyaways and it doesn't look good. It disappears once you dip it, but once it dries and it's in the daylight, you can see all of it. So if you enjoyed this video for these feet and braids with Kanekalon hair, give it a thumbs up and don't forget to subscribe, bye, y'all stay channeling. The beauty with inside of you