First Time Small Box Braids | X-Pression Kanekalon Braiding Hair..With A Newborn

Ain'T, no time to sleep, know alrighty. So i'm about to prepare for these box braids. I wanted to get them done in time for my birthday um, but the way i wanted to do it, it's no telling how long it's going to take me. So i'd rather get started two weeks two weeks prior just so i can have time to i mean i'll have time, because i'm about to start school tuesday, i still am a mom three. I still have a household to take care of, so we're gon na get her done, and you know i like to start with the crown just in case um. Well, not the crown like the edges or whatever just in case i have to like go somewhere um. I don't know i mean there's scarves for that, but i got that also so anyway. So before i get started um i just took. I had two braids two little cornrows and i just took that out. I'M gon na be using. I have some cantu shea butter daily oil moisturizer and a wide tooth comb that i got from your local. Well, my local beauty supply store. I got the home for about no more than three dollars and then this daily moisturizer. I don't think this was more than five dollars, maybe so anyways, so i'm gon na get started with this. As you can see this little baby here is not sleep yet um, but she likes to be close to me. So she gon na be right here for a living, so yeah, i'm just doing doing it like this, because, as i section my hair i'll most likely be i'm applying like oil and more moisturizer so because this is gon na be this is gon na. Take me some time um. I am going to prepare you now. Okay, some fell down by the school. So, just if you just need something to watch or listen to why you could clean um what else you do if you just happen to stumble across this video or, if you're doing your own hair. Let'S do our hair together girl um. So i just like to comb it out um. This is not the state of my hair when it's freshly washed, i washed it a few days ago and two days ago i actually straightened my hair, and this is the result after um, like i guess after the shower some showers, because i don't care to wrap My hair, i just wanted to straighten so i could manage it more. I don't straighten my hair all the time i don't like to put heat on my hair, i'm not! I don't. I don't too much care for that because i, like my natural hair, it took me a while to like it um. I stopped getting perms actually at 17., so i did that and i've been trying to think about how i'm going to section it. I am going to start in the back um i'll, probably do that off camera and then um come back as i get towards like middle or the front just so it can kill some time, i'm about to see what's new on netflix and cheers alrighty. So i was able to start in the back um. I did section off my front what this is uh. I split it in three. So this is the first part. Second and third call me pippy, no long, stacking, okay, no, that was lame. Okay, but hey, who let me turn around, so i started on the back at night. Um just got done doing these. I decided that um to not braid it all the way down. Just yet, i'm a way to do it. Um, like whatever i get done in a day's work, i'm uh, you know, leave it like this, so i braid the majority down, but i made sure that i braided at least past my uh, my natural hair, just a little bit and then i stopped so i Can move on to another because i can always braid these down before they get dipped, but i just figured finish braiding it all the way down like before i go to bed like when i'm finished like when i'm finished for the day. Um. That way, i can have time to keep going because i still have kids to take care of. I still have a household to say: yeah, i'm busy, okay, so yeah. That will help me to keep going right now. I'M watching a netflix movie um, i'm gon na attack this. So i just pretty much came in here. How i did the back, was i pretty much just um part it down? That'S how i did the back and i might want to do it this this way. Also so so yeah, so i did that to the back, so i did not. I just parted. You know i didn't park too far back because i may want to change up the pattern in the middle i'll, see um, but for now i'm going to start with this side and i'm going to do a straight back part. That way, it's just easy for me to you know, keep going and i'm i don't sit in front of a mirror because i don't have time for that and the mirror that i did have broke um and i got that mirror from walmart for, like it's usually Like seven dollars, but it was on sale for three and um. I just have this little, it's not really like. Well, it is a rat tail comb, but it's it's a bit. You know more wide tooth or whatever, so i need some miracle drops kaleidoscope hit me up, not just plain i'm about my own. I just let me get these braids in first so or something i need somebody drops but uh, so yeah. So not at that section. I usually have like duck clips or something, but since i can't find it, i don't care. I have like a whole row of bobby pins, so they are just as useful um now, since this is already sectioned like this, i don't use a comb only because, like i said i don't use a mirror, i can't see it anyways um. I use my fingers see i have these are my nails right here, so i'm usually able to just part it i'm looking at a mirror now, because i'm in front of the mirror, but when i'm not. I just use my finger to part it. How i want so this would be my first one i do start from um top to top to back or whatever um. I am all of these whole part, i'm very, very, very like careful with. Not only is it the edges, but i want to make sure that it's looking neat and that it'll last as long as i used to at least last a month, sometimes it doesn't make it to a month. Sometimes it can um. But let me see i do want these to last. Oh, my goodness, if i can get these to last through, like until spring break like that would be awesome, but i have i have problems like i don't like seeing the same hairstyle for too long like it's. It'S really sad y'all, like i didn't help: okay, no! I don't but um yeah. So i just line this up and i'm gon na get a bobby, pin and pin that back this way and then i'll have this. So let me go get my hair and bobby. Pin because i didn't bring it in here so one second: okay, 48 inches, it's already pre-stretched, it's uh expression, 48 inches. It came in two little bundles or whatever the color is sm. I don't know if you can see that, so it is an ombre um. I took it out of the pack, so i'll show you also pretty long um. I did not cut it in half um, so it's actually perfect because i wanted it wrong, but of course my life is booty length long. So let me stand up, so i can show you how long the 42 made to 48 inches is so you can have an idea. So this is what it looks like out of the bag. Up close, it kind of looks purple, though let me see it kind of looks purple or like a fuchsia or something i like to do this with hair. I do have bad hands, but whatever i don't care so just trying to feel get a feel. So it cannot be as even as it is in the back um. So this seems about right, okay, so yeah. What are you guys doing today see this? Is my hair i'm taking this braid? I mean this piece of hair around my hair, but i split my hair into um, like i said i'll, get a better, better, detailed video, but so i split my hair into i'm also going to split down a piece of hair like a piece of the braided Hair and get it kind of even or whatever so now before i even braid. I have three one two three, this piece right here does not have my natural hair in it. My natural hair will split between this piece and you can see the natural hair right here and then it will split also with this one right here. This is my natural hair. Here, okay and i - and these two were were split. You know i started dropping the two. This one hasn't been touched, this one split in two okay and i'll: try to have a better video. I actually start like this. I braid overhand, which is which is all right, but i actually like the finished product of underhanded. Braids, i think it looks so cool. There is a big difference. Okay, so i just did that for a bit but uh. Then i just go down like this. Let me try to go fast. It'S telling me i'm gon na have to clear some memories. So all right, so i haven't been able to finish off that piece i started with, but i showed you about this area here and um. I already said that i'm uh, when i finish with all of the braids that i do for tonight - i'm definitely gon na you know break them all the way down. So right now, they're not braided all the way down just but this is this section and um. This is what it looks like when you keep the parts um straight back. Sometimes i like to make the parts on my diagonal like to where it'll look like a triangle, but this time i'm just keeping it simple, and i only uh parted it like this, because in the back i it'll still be in a straight line. But i'm going to like off-center it a bit, so you want to see when i get to the middle part this right here. I just wanted to do the crown. So this is that part, the first section from the front that i did oh yeah. So this is my problem: okay, so sometimes i'll stop like midway through and just like play with my hair, like oh my gosh when you get finished, this is what i'm gon na. Do i'm gon na get so excited? Okay, i don't know so yeah. Oh, please address me as rwanda. Yes, hmm! This is the second pack. Okay, the first pack got all of this, except for so this all of this and the back was in the first this. So this is the first bundle. This is how much was in that. First bundle: this is the second bundle and so far i've only used it for these right here, eyeballing it. You know i'm saying getting to get it there, i'm not about to say how many strands i don't do that i just don't think do and then i just went a little bit uh further. Just just escaped finish off the bottom part, all right so anyway, um. If you don't know that song, that was, i think it's called still in love by beyonce yeah somebody's going to call me crazia, okay, before like like excited because i'm finally finally finally finished. Actually, it didn't take too long in the front. I think that took me, like maybe a whole day, keep in mind like exactly what i'm doing now. This little girl is on me sleeping and almost two-month-old that loves movement. So, every time i will put her down she wakes up and i'm like girl. I see you looking at me why you i just laid you down. Your eyes was closed. I couldn't even turn my back for a second and she was looking at me like what you doing. Did i tell you that i was ready to be put down. No, so yeah got most of my work done like this. It works like a charm, um, so yeah, i wasn't in a rush. I just knew that i wanted to do it before my birthday. I did it. I did it in some days. I started saturday night, we're gon na say three and a half days, because i only i don't even want to count today as a full day, because i only added like five braids and that's just because last night i stopped around midnight and i was tired. I did it though i did it and i tried to stay consistent with the size. This is my first time braiding my hair, this size and i'm really really excited and it looks fuchsia, but it's cool. It'S cool, it's cool, because it's not like this color. All the way through um i do have to i'm not completely done, but all of the braids are in. This is my first time doing it doing my braids this size um, i don't i mean i have hair left over sometimes, but never have. I ever only had to purchase two bags. I only bought two bags remember i said it was buy one get one free, so i got two packs of pre-stretched hair for 7.99 period: okay, not including tax, like total, not period, total, okay and um. I was like, let me just i'm not going to buy any more bags because i want to see if i can. I want to see how much i like how like i wanted to see how far the two packs of hair would take me. So this is what's left from those two packs remember. It was two two bundles per pack pre-stretched pretty decent length, and i'm just, but you know what i thought about the fact that this is my first time doing it this size, and i guess you know the more hair that you have to add the more bags You'Re gon na have to buy so it's like duh, but still like. I was not expecting only two bags like i wasn't. I was not. I was not expecting that all right story time is over hair is done semi-done. I still did all of my parts. Even the ones in the front, i still did it with my fingernails um. I did not use the comb at all. I only made it. I only used the comb to make the straight parts but to make the vertical parts. So all of the vertical parts that you see um and if, if it's not really vertical, just just comment, silently and say horizon, because i think it's vertical okay, i said horizon hold on me horizontal. Let me go get some work done. Clearly. I need to further my education right, but all of the vertical parts were used with the comb. All the horizontal parts were done with my um fingernails and if you hear any noise that sound like rubling, don't be scared, don't be alarmed. That'S my stomach telling me girl, you need to go, eat them wings! That'S in right there, not in here, but it's sitting right out there in the kitchen. Okay, so i'm gon na go eat on my wings and some mashed potatoes. While i get some school work done uh, this is the first week and you know what i'm just a politician on a mission. I'M just you know, trying to find a balance in life as a daughter hold on i'm just trying to find a balance as a child of god. Yes, lord, as a wife, mother, daughter, college student, late college student at that okay, i graduated i'm just gon na say years ago, because i'm not telling y'all my age, a lady never tells and um yeah man i got a so. This is how i balance you still got to get work done. Uh the hours still roll by. We all have the same hours in a day, and it's all about what you do in those minutes and hours that matters most. If you like kids, i clearly understand, but you got to keep doing things for you, make sure that you are taking care of yourself finding some time for yourself, because one day those kids are going to get grown and they're gon na get about your house and Then what you don't put all your time into raising them: knucklehead, kids, that can't even pick up the phone to call you to check and see if you okay, to see if you need something to eat, to see if they need to bring you something to drink. I don't care if it's a dr pepper or wow. I thought i got ta do it like that. I don't know, but i am finally up out of here. That is done. I am done ranting okay, i am in love with this hair and it ain't even finished yet. But don't forget to like comment and subscribe to your girl. It'S pals world baby. What'S up come come see how to how to politician on the on a mission. I might edit that hot i may keep a boat because i'm still working on it, don't worry about it. It ain't nothing to a playoff help, hey party people. I just want to remind you that, whatever you have planned for your day, if it doesn't go in the exact order, as you hoped, it would be just keep going with the flow and make sure that you get around to it. If that means, you have to sacrifice taking out some time from a certain area just to fill in for the time like pretty much making up right, get it done or try to wake up, maybe a bit earlier 30 minutes an hour two hours. I know it's trying i'm having a hard time doing that myself um, but i'm realizing now that i'm now that the new semester i started, i'm realizing that i might have to really get on it, because not only do i have to push back work, sometimes work And school work, but also working out so i'll, be tired, though i i'll be tired, i'll be like i'm gon na go back to sleep and i'd snooze my alarm and then things like today happen. So i didn't get any school work done earlier. It'S like 6 p.m. I'M in my bed i'm doing school work now know that might be like weird. Like the angle, i just had it, but i got my computer in front of me. I have my book right here um and although my lesson is fairly simple, it's just the point that i don't like doing last minute work. I don't like doing last minute school work, so it's due next week, but i want it done by friday, so i'm determined. I know i could do it and it's not about russian, but it's about peace of mind. You know what i mean, because things can come up and um like today i mean you just got ta i'm trying to balance everything. Huh