Side Dutch Braid Protective Style With Kanekalon Hair

You, okay, so I'm starting off with my hair, stretched it's better to start off with stretched hair just because it makes it a lot easier to deal with. I have a video on how I stretch my hair, so that'll be linked in the icons above in the description box below so the first thing I'm gon na do is make a part in my hair. I'M gon na start about the arch of my eyebrow and go back about three inches or so and try to make my part as neat as possible because it will be showing so from the part I'm going to make like a diagonal part. All the way down to the bottom of my other ear, this part - I don't really try to make straight, but you can, if you want to me and care that much I focus more on the part in the front and then here I'm just going to kind Of lightly finger detangle, since my hair is already stretched, it's already pretty much detangle, but I'm gon na really just go in and make sure there's no major tangles. Then I am going to spray my edges with water just because I'm about to slick them down and put some gel on it, so it makes a lot easier to do so. This is the hair that I'm gon na be using a braid honestly. This is my first time using this braided hair and I did not like it it tangled a lot, but I did use it for this hairstyle. So before I add any hair to my hair, I like to cleanse it and condition it so here I am putting it in a diluted, Bing of shampoo, and I'm also going to do the same thing with conditioner just so that I can kind of wash off Some of those chemicals that are in the braided hair, then I am going to use my gel and slick my edges down. I am using the true, but not the true, that inspired by my beautiful curly temple balm, I didn't show it on camera just because on my jar, the packaging is rubbing off. So there was no point. You wouldn't be able to see it anyways, but it is the inspired by my beautiful curly temple balm and I will have a link in the description box below then I'm just going to use my fingers and really just lick it back. I kind of do it like I'm doing like a slicked bun, just like it slicked that whole front, and also I am going to sleek the back part of my hair, just so that when I braid my hair, it looks a lot smoother and neater. When you use gel, it just looks a lot neater and I last a lot longer and it eliminates flyaways. So I didn't have my brush on hand. So I had to kind of use my hands to really just smooth the gel through my hair and make sure that my hair is all nice and smooth, like I said just so that this hairstyle comes out a lot flatter need and last a lot longer. If you have a brush, this is when he would use a brush, but, like I said, I didn't have my brush on hand. So I just had to use my hands so then I'm gon na take a little section in the front, and this is going to be the section that I'm gon na start braiding. This is a little section in the corner of that first section and we're gon na start braiding our hair, some of this hair. I realized this section was a little too big, so I did split that section into 1/2, so I didn't use that full section on the first. Try first thing I like to do is to just braid my real hair a little bit again. This is not a tutorial. This is not going to show you how to braid, there's plenty of other videos on YouTube to show you how to braid, I'm just showing you guys how I did this hairstyle as a whole, I'm not really showing you guys how to braid or how to braid. With adding in hair, so that's another video in another tutorial, so let us say I add it in here like I said this is half of the section that I just showed you before. This is not that full section of hair, I split it in half and I added hair and I started braiding. My hair, like I just said, I'm not really gon na, go into depth on how I braid it and how I added in hair, there's other youth videos on YouTube to help. You do that. This is just to show you guys how I do this hairstyle, like I said as a whole, so I'm just going to braid in the braided hair, and I am just going to keep writing. I didn't count how many times I braided my hair in between adding hair honestly, I kind of just winged it. I would just look at my mirror every few, every few braids to see if I wanted to add hair at that point, like I said I really just winged it and just looked at to see where I wanted to add hair, so I braid my hair again To blend the hair and I'm just really focusing on smoothing out my real real hair so that it blends in the braided hair and then right now, I'm going to add that second half of hair into my real hair and then continue cornrowing it and just braiding. It like normal, the tip when you add hair, is just to braid it in, like you normally cornrow like don't do anything special, just add the hair and and continue braiding, and it makes it look a lot more seamless and a lot more natural-looking than like wrapping. The britta'd hair around reveal here and then braiding it in just braided it, and so I'm gon na braid in and then I'm just gon na continue. Braiding like I said, I didn't really count how many times I braided my hair in between adding hair. If I had to guess it was probably about four times four to five times, probably not more than five times and then as I'm doing this, I really wanted to take my hair because, as you can see, this hair got really really really tangled yo. That'S the reason why I said I probably will not use his hair again and then I'm gon na add hair again. So, as you guys can see here, I've added here three times at this point, and I am at the middle B in between the middle of my forehead in the arch of my eyebrow. I have added hair three times so if that gives you an idea of how much space I added how much space I braided before I added hair that can kind of give you an idea, but, like I said, it's been I've added hair three times and I'm In the middle of my forehead and eyebrow, so I'm gon na keep adding hair and just really smoothing it out and also, like I said, detangling my hair and making sure that ends I'll get tangled. Even though, as you guys can see here, I was wrestling with this hair and then I'm just going to continue braiding it down. You guys, can kind of see how it is gon na go. So I'm just gon na let y'all watch so now. I have gotten to the end of that cornrow and I'm just gon na cornrow it down until I added all the hair left in that section, and now I have done that, so I'm just kind of gon na freely braid a few notches or a few braids. I'M just to hold it in place before I start my other braid, I'm just gon na, but I said braid it down a few more just to hold it in place before I add this on to my other section that I have to braid and I'm going To start on the next section I am literally going to do the exact same thing, but imma walk you through it again. I am going to spray my hair with water before I apply my gel so that it goes on a lot smoother. I'M gon na use. My toothbrush, with some of the inspired by made beautiful curly temple balm to smooth down my hair. I like to do it. I'M pretending, like I'm doing my hair in a slicked bun just so that I can get gel throughout the whole front of my hair. Just because that is the part that is going to be braided, so it makes it look more nicer and neater and helps it blend in with the braided hair. So, like I said, I'm using my toothbrush to smooth that down and once I feel like that, has gotten pretty smooth or as smooth as I would like it to be, then I am going to also start braiding. I also am going to use gel on the back side of it, of my hair, the front and the back, so that both sides of my braids are nice and smooth, and look nice and neat really just ensuring that there is gel everywhere. Just to make this hairstyle that I said, look a lot better then, once I feel like I have gotten all my gel throughout my hair, I am going to again start braiding, I'm starting off with my real hair, just because it makes it look a lot more Natural makes the braid look a lot more natural and I'm gon na braid, my hair, probably about four times on this section. I got a little carried away and I braided my real hair longer than I should have, but it's okay still ended up looking nice. So it worked. So I recommend braiding your hair, probably about four times before you add in your extra braiding hair and I am going to add in hair and I am going to braid exactly I did with the other section. I really don't feel like. I need to re-explain myself. So again you guys can just watch so now. I have gotten to the point where I am going to join both braids together. I literally just join them together, like I just add, both hair together and I just start braiding individually, I'm here I take more time on this section just because it ends up being a lot of hair and it's actually really hard to braid all this hair at Once so, I take my time to really try to make sure that this hair is neat but, like I said I just braid like a regular, regular, three strand braid and then after I go down about right here-ish. I actually end up adding a little bit of hair just because I feel like the braid starts to thin out, and this is a really long braid. This goes all the way down past my bellybutton, so I didn't want it to thin out just yet. So I just added a piece of hair in here, as you guys can see, and I just braid it in like. I just add it in and treat it like one of the three sections and I just braid it in so that it just camouflages in as i braid and at this point I just braid all the way down, and then it will start to like naturally thin Out but I didn't want it to start thinning out around my shoulder area because, like I said I made this braid longer than my bellybutton a little. I made this braid up a fall about two to three inches below my belly button. Um. It'S almost like right at my butt crack like that's how long this braid was so this is the finished look. This braid was so stressful to do, but I really like how it turned out. I added in some of these little like jewels here, just because I feel like he made the braid. Look so much better like this, but this is the finished look y'all and then again I said I took a black rubber band and just tied the end and as you guys, this is a little close-up and this is like I said the finished look of this Braid then I just like my edges a little bit, even though you really can't tell I needed to touch them up again, but that is the finished look and, like I said, that's the end and now you might like cysts but like. How do I sleep at night, so I'm gon na show you that now so I got ta do like I'm doing a milk right and I take the braids and I like wrap it around the front of my hair and to keep it in place. I take a few bobby pins and just kind of bobby pin the braid to my head and then I just do about two to three bobby pins around my head, just to really pin it in place and then once it's all like in place and stuff. I take my scarf and um make sure everything's still together and I just wrap it around my head, and I just tie it just like that, like it makes it so simple. This is also how I work out, of course, to scarf. I tie it around the front of my head, like that and I go work out and this is how I sleep. So this is the finished look. I hope you guys enjoyed this video and I will see you guys in my next