The Brick Lay Braid "No Rubber Bands" Technique For Beginner Braiders, Diy How To Apply An

Welcome you guys to aphro knee braids and wheeze. This is our very first hair tutorial on youtube, i'm so happy! You know we finally decided to you know, give you two a try and i can bring some of the things that i've learned throughout the 35 years of me, braiding hair. Now i'm braiding my daughter's hair right here as y'all. You guys can see this kid. Has a lot of hair, and what am i using on her hair is um. Like i said in the first video, i'm using liv summit live on her hair and i keep her hair oiled um a lot because, where we stay at, we stay in the high deserts and the climate is very, very drying out here. So when i braid my clients hair, i put lots of oil in their hair to make sure that you know their hair does does not dry out when they um get their hair braided. You know when they're wearing their hair unless and they wash their hair. You know or swim, you know. That'S when you know oil gon na need to be reapplied to the braid or to the to their scalp again um, i'm also, you know, as i braid i'm going towards the end of her hair, i'm applying the so real edge control to keep her hair encased Into the braid um i started using this about three years ago. You know and uh to keep her hair to keep my clients hair encased into the braid. I'Ve been using so real for about three years now and you know in the past i only used oil, but i find that the so real really works, really good and keeping that very tip ends. Even if the hair is bluntly cut, it keeps it in encased into the braid, and i really really um. I really like that. Yeah i'm braiding her hair and everything and i'm showing you guys the bricklay technique, um and um, laying your braids uh. We at the nape of her hair, so i call that mid-ear section of her um hair. So when i go to the very top it's going to be to the top of her ear and i'm gon na make the next roll parting at the very top of her ear, so we're braiding along here. Yes, i i think these braids kind of hit her a little bit um below her behind, so we um definitely um. She likes them long. You know yeah, so we're about to um start. Our second parting right here so in a nape area, is going to be three three braids in the nape area, so i'm starting on my um third braid. My second braid i mean i'm sorry, correction, and i want you guys to watch how i weave the hair through her hair and that's the reason why you don't need rubber bands if you probably know how to weave their hair through the hair. You won't need rubber bands at all to braid large block partings there. I go weaving the extension through her hair and it look looks more or less like i'm french braiding, her hair, but i'm really not i'm just taking from the top the side and the other side like three sections of the hit, the her hair and i'm braiding. It through which lays that extension right onto her scalp and once again as i braid down, i add a little bit more oil and i will add the edge control at the very ends of her hair. I don't really um like adding it all the way through the hair, because sometimes it get it makes the hair stick together and it makes the hair feel like it. You know it's stuck where you can't braid through it or real stiff to the point that you can't break through it. So that's why i only like to put it like towards the ends of the hair, now braiding, all the way down to the very tip end. I'M sorry you guys that i couldn't give you guys that part. Because of the way i had the camera set up and the way i was positioned and she was positioned. It was kind of hard to show you all the way down to the very end, but towards the end of the video i will show you. The full length of the braids do now still braiding along because this is that braid is really long. Okay, just completed those two braids, as you can see now, i'm about to start on the third braid. This particular part. I kind of slowed this part down, so you guys can see exactly what i'm doing i didn't want to um. You know speed this part up. So that's so be um, be um. Thank you for being patient. You know, especially with this part, i'm getting another piece of hair. You know some braiders, you know they already have their hair already pre um done, but you know i've been doing it. The way i've been doing it for you know over 35 plus years, so i really just keep how i do things you know going along. You know, because for me it's much easier that way. You know only time i separate the hair is really is when i'm doing um, feeder, braids and then i'll separate the hair. Then, but you know braids large braids like this in individuals. I really don't. I don't separate the hair as we are braiding along all the way down and then, when i get to the tip ends of her hair, i'm going to apply some more oil and then, when i get to the very end, then i'm going to put the um. So real edge control in it to keep her hair sealed into the braid. I mean this style was very durable for her um. She kept this style in um for a very, very long time sometime. We um we'll stretch it to four months and now what i would do is read through her edge line again and then what i um we'll do is put more oil, keep oiling her scalp and everything. So these can last. These were wonderful, especially during covet. You know didn't have to wrestle with her hair, because her hair is extremely thick and i mean it's hard to wash it's hard to detangle it's hard to. You know press, i really don't flat iron, her hair, because i i flat on her hair one time and then i looked at her ends and she had split ends at her end, so i vowed never to flat iron her hair. Again, i keep her hair. Very simple like if um she's wearing her hair down for a period of time, i'll wash it and i'll braid it up, really really tight with her natural hair operate her natural hair really really tight, and i just let her wear it wavy and it's such a Um cute style uh when she wear hair way because she wear a wavy, ponytail or she'll, wear it down wavy and um it and it lasts. You know because, like i say again, we live in a very very dry climate and um. I really have to protect her hair. Okay, you guys um, i'm about to start the um second row and, on my part, upper ear to the tip of her ear. That'S where the parting next parting is gon na start trying to get through all that hair. She has a lot of hair. She was born with a lot of hair. The nurse told me she was like all i feel is hair. Now i'm applying the lid to her hair and now you see, i use a generous amount of lip when i apply it to her hair and i do all my clients that way too generous amount and that way i can part the hair straight. You see, i'm not using any comb, i'm partner, hair straight with a clip and not a comb. She'S really tender headed, so she was being a little jumpy. When i was doing her hair, i was like you can't do all that. Jumping i'm filming you on camera. Okay, i'm applying to live again, i'm saturating her hair with the lid okay right here. I'M gon na do four partings um to show you guys how i inlay the braids in between the braids you're gon na see me do that um! Now! Yes, three braids, i'm showing you now watch me as i part i part in between that first braid, like half between that very first braid. That'S how you do your inlay for the bricklay. Back in the day, we used to call these um block braids instead of box braids, that's what we used to call them back in the day: block braids, but now they're called box braids, like i tell everybody, there's nothing new under the sun, now see how i Have those pieces of hair they inlay in between each parting, so i made four four braids see how they lay in four braids. They lay into the three braids. So that's how you do the bricklay pattern, so i'm also gon na show you once i get up to the top like right. There i'm showing you how um the mid ear to upper ear is going to be your mid ear is going to be your first nape parting upper ear is going to be your second row parting. Once again, i'm showing you how the braids and lay in between each other by her hair being so thick her sometimes her knots, don't lay super flat but um uh. I get them in there. I'M about to start her third row and you see. I took a larger parting section because i want these braids to be big. I'M not trying to do those kind of small braids in her hair now um by her ear. That'S where the first braid her upper part of her ear, where her ears start. That'S where i'm gon na lay the first braid and with larger braids to the ear there's the larger braids of b2. And then, when you go medium is three. Then, when you go small, it's four, so i'm going to show you guys that um real soon, hopefully um within the next couple of months. I can show you how to do the bricklay on um medium and then small, smaller braids, i'm weaving the hair through her hair. This way she do not need rubber bands on her hair at all. I tell my clients, you know let the hair you know settle in and give it about two to three weeks before you pull it up in a high ponytail. I never really put her hair up in ponytails. We only bring the braids back off her face. Maybe the first roller braids we'll take it and we'll pull it back and then we'll put a tie scrunchie around it she's doing a lot of grimacing here, but it's not hurting her at all she's just making those facial expressions. I told her watch your face because i'm going to put you on camera little girl so right here, i'm gon na do four braids, because um i'm gon na um next time angle, the camera much better, where you guys can really see all the way around her Head so um, this is my very first um braid tutorial, so you know i'm still uh a work in progress, trying to learn how to maneuver the camera. I wish i could have got all the way to the end, so you guys could have really seen how long her braids are. Okay, i'm about to start the second braid, so the second braid is going to be inlay. You see how i do that now. Normally, like i said when i do like medium-sized individuals um, the partings are smaller, but it's three rows. It'S three braids from the ear and then the smaller braids is four braids into the ear. That'S how i inlay the um bricklay, which you know like i say again, i'm i'm going to show you guys that very very, very soon, once again you see how i pick up the hair. I pick up the hair sturdy and then i apply the extension. I don't use a lot of i use tension, but i don't use so much tension until the point that is um hurting the client at all. My clients are used to the way i pray. Some of them fall asleep when i braid their hair. So i know you know beyond the shadow of a doubt i um you know, i don't pull the hair tight too tight, but just enough tension to get that braid through the hair and once again i brighten her hair down and once i get to the very End of her hair, i'm going to apply the so real and just a little bit extra oil and then the surreal. And once again, like i say, you don't need rubber bands because, like my daughter, hair is thick to the extreme and i don't put rubber bands on her hair at all. I don't put rubber bands on really none of my clients, hair when i do their goddess. Braids, okay, now for the inlay, the third braid into those two braids at the bottom, see how much her hair is like her hair. It gets even thicker in the mid to the crown her crown - oh my god, that's so much hair in her crown. So, that's why i do that jumbo goddess braids on her hair, because this is easier than the hair. You know blends in you know with her hair now also, the hair that i use on her i'm using on her hair is the roster free hair, because it look it's more coarse and it looks exactly how pressed hair look, how her hair looks now and before You know i i say something else um i was showing you how i hold the hair and how i split it in three um i've been doing it that way. For years. I just split the hair in three and apply the extension i'm making sure her hair um is completely encased in the braid. I didn't want to speed this up too fast. I didn't want to rush it at all, because i want you guys to see exactly what i'm doing here. I never really um thought to try to do the um, the knotless braids on her hair, because her hair is um, coarse and those knotless braids. I don't think of my child here, it's gon na last, so i rather do it this way, but one day i might try um, you know to do the knotless on her hair to see how it comes out to see if i like it on her hair, But um i really like um, because everybody that you know we when we go out is so funny caucasian people come up to her and actually think that's her hair and i'll just laugh. But to say this it damn near is because her hair length is so long. It'S like i braid her hair. I say her hair length down to the end of the braid, maybe three to four inches left at the end of the braid, that is, extension hair. So when they see her, they um come up to me say: oh wow, i love her hair and i was like oh thank you because it looks so natural. I never really like using really really straight extension here. I really don't like the extension here that that's that three in one you know like when my clients bring me, i will braid it in their hair, but my preference is raster free. My preference is rusted free that comes in the yellow and green or the more coarser frost, roster free that comes in the purple and yellow packages. I must most rather um those those that hair. You know to um braid with once again i'm applying a little extra oil to her hair and the braids. The these two braids are just a tad bit larger than all the rest of the braid. Well, the top portion of her hair hair. The mid portion is going to be a little bit thick because her this kid's hair - oh my goodness, is so thick and, like i said i don't part the uh her hair in small partings at all. I make them really big because i can imagine doing her. Hair in smaller braids and, like i say you know this style pretty much lasts. You know two months before i start really um looking bad, but sometimes we're just stuck in the house because she's homeschooled and we stuck in a house. I don't have too many places to go. She'Ll keep it in a little bit longer than that, i'm just showing you the inlay, now we're about to start on her, which would be her fourth row and around the edge line. I often um make the braids just a hair smaller than um, when i'm braiding like, like around the whole edge line from the nape, all the way around um her edge line. I make those braids just a hair, smaller and it all blends in. You can't tell the difference, you know it all blends in once. It'S done, because those are the braids that we normally we will pull those back her whole front part. Her edge line will pull it. You know back and then to her um mid crown and put a scrunchie on it loosely of course yeah. I wanted you guys to see exactly how i braid and how i apply the extension um. The next tutorial um. I believe i'm gon na try either the um twist braids, because there is a different way. I twist, you know i learned how to twist uh root to end years ago. Um i've been twisting root to end. Ever since i say back in 19, 1993 i've been doing twist, braids, cornrow twists and all of the above i'll. Do it all, but i um taught myself how to do it in a way to where um the twist are more fuller in the hair, because with twists you know um, since they're they fold it in you can't kind of see the scalp. So i created a way where you cannot see the scalp i twist a totally different way, so that video um, i'm gon na show you guys um that video soon i might just wait till i get my subscribership up and then show that um particular video, because I taught myself that you know that's the tricks of the trade of being a hair stylist. Sometimes you get in there you, you discover new things, you do new things and you create new things. Now you see how the bricklay is um. Laying i love this technique because the braids lay flat they're, not real big and but you know, they're not bulky, they lay they're, smooth and flat and they lay into the partings. I love that one of my clients told me she was like. I love my hair. So much because people when they go in it, they be like it looks full, but it doesn't um feel full and i'm like yeah, that's because of the bricklay how it lays into the parting. Now i also do the piece by piece individuals when i take scoop pieces of the hair and braid it. I do that. Also that's um. You know a long time. You know um, but i can pretty much get through that within um seven hours full head smaller size, i'm going to show you guys that i learned that technique a long time ago when i was raiding in a shop in um la young lady. That'S the only way she wanted us to um braid, her client's hair was the piece by piece technique, and you can also do the piece by piece technique with larger braids too, and i also like how that lays too. I really like how that lays too. Not so much with the larger braids, but more or less with the um smaller braids it. I love the way that lays it just take a minute to do like um the whole total time it took me to do. My baby's hair was um two hours and we were done now go again, weaving the hair into the braid, or, i should say into her hair correction, and another thing i want to speak about is um finger pressure. Now, i'm not going to give my age but, like i said, i've been braiding for 35 plus years and my longevity in not getting carpal tunnel is how i um use my fingers as instruments, and i know how to use my finger pressure. Even though that braid looks super tight, i'm braiding lightly, i'm braiding her hair lightly. I'M not braiding it! Now. When i start in the beginning, i apply the pressure to make sure the extension is weaved through her hair. But as i go further down, i'm lightening up. My pressure a lot because that's how you get carpal tunnel trying to braid too fast, braiding too tight and not lightening up your finger pressure when you braid hair. Please understand that your fingers are instruments. You know people that type. That'S on the computer all the time and do they get careful tunnel, you know and so you're doing repetitive motion for hours sometime, so you got ta, take care of your hands. Well, how i do it sometime, you know um if i'm really busy one month i'll. Take a whole week off to rest. You know sometime i'll, take two weeks off just depending on how much um you know revenue i bring in for that month. I will. I will take two weeks off because believe it or not. I love making money, but your health is very important because i used to braid, sometimes like three and four heads in a day which you know like i said my fingers can go forever. You know i never had an issue with you know my fingers. The only thing i had an issue with is my back and i have double sciatica for standing and braiding hair for so many years, but my fingers can keep going forever, but i take care of my hands. I make sure i take my my down time. I make sure i take it and i don't try to braid um now that i'm older, i don't try to do no more than two heads in a day now, if it's simple styles like cornrows or whatever i'll pack, three sometimes four in there, but for the Most part, if there's individuals, i will do two two heads a day now in the span of individuals, you know: there's um, you know the synthetic individuals or the canklin individuals and then there's the human hair individuals also and those you know um human hair takes. You know longer because the hair fiber is much more slipperier, they say it's human hair, but it really isn't it's a synthetic blend mixed with animal hair and when i told a client she was bragging about how she paid 150 on a human hair. I'M like honey, that is not human, real human hair, because the real human hair goes into the thousands huh. I will say hundreds to the thousands, because out here we have extensions plus um they've been around for years. I don't know if they still there. We have giovanni's and we have um his and her now giovanni and um extension plus been around for decades all the celebrities especially go to um extensions plus in la so um. You know that hair. You know i used to um. I had this white client and she used to love me putting extensions in her hair and i would put extensions in her hair and everything and one roll of her extensions was 350 for just one row and it was custom to her head. So you know real human hair really cost and i'm gon na do you know a vlog about that? The different hair and everything and educate you guys on hair. I'M so excited about doing this, because you know it's been in my spirit for about three years. You know my very first youtube video was nine years ago and i never did really pick it up because i'm so busy in doing hair, so i never really picked it up, but now that i'm slowing down some and i'm about to go into retirement, i was Like let me start putting the things that i know how to do onto youtube to bless others, especially like i say again, you beginner raiders. You know you starting off and you want to learn different techniques to grow your business, and i am here for you. You subscribe, you hit that like button and you put a comment down there. Just let me know what you want me to teach about what you want me to chat about or reveal to you guys about um braiding hair, and i would definitely be there for you guys, but i've been braiding hair for, like i say, 35 plus years, and I worked in like um three salons image of africa braised by sabrina, and then i worked at another um salon on crenshaw years ago. I can't quite remember its name, but it was right on crenshaw right next to cooley's um. I think that was jamaican food. I used to work there years ago and i'll tell you the story about that too, how i ended um up down there brayden here down there uh from the antelope valley, yeah, i'm putting them braids in this little girl's hair. We almost done that is the um. Almost the um second to the last row. Once again, i want you guys to see how i weave that hair. I have total control of the base of her of her head. My hair is right at the base of that braid. I have control over the hair. As i braid it down now the difference between the um roster free that comes in the purple pack um, it is more coarser. So i like to braid that into my child's hair, because it's more, of course, it'll more or less look like her hair. It'S a straight coarse, look, then. The roster friday comes in a yellow and green package, it's more straight, it's more silky, but it still has a texture to it, because back in the day, black and gold used to sell hair that came in a silver package, silver and gold package, and that hair Was so slick straight, i used to hate when my clients bought me their hair, because i would be looking at them like this is not the texture of your hair? Why do you want to buy braids that super slick straight like this? They say hate that hair. So i um tell my clients to get the um raster free brand. I also you know with the um braids. You know that three in one braid hair is it's cheap. It'S cheap, hair, everybody! Oh i like it! That hair is cheap hair, you know, but they marked up the price on that hair to like um, damn near almost 8.99 for a pack of that um hair. But it's it's really cheap hair like when i braid it all the way down to the end. It unravels, but when i braid roster free down to the end it doesn't unravel it stays still. It stays in place. Now i've made a decision to bring that particular braid to the back, because the top row i'm going to inlay three braids in the top row. So the very first braid in the top row is going to be inlaid into the um parting of um. The very i would say the first two braids in her the front of her um hair and it all going to neatly fall in together, like when she put on her scarf tonight and she tie her hair down. Her hair will stay laid in that pattern. That'S why i braid her hair in that pattern and like when i'm i'm done with her hair. I don't dip her hair all the way up to her. You know, hair. I only dip the tip ends of the hair, like the like the three to four inches that i've left at the end, because her hair is so long. Her hair is um almost um waist length, so i don't um dip her hair all the way, because her hair will frizz at the end and once again, as i braid down, i'm adding the so real edge control to keep her in sealed into the braid and, Like i said, this only took me between two to two and a half hours to um, complete, regular individuals. Take me between four to six hours. Sometimes seven of the person hair is thick. Human hair individuals take between um six to sometimes eight to ten hours, depending on how small the client wants um their braids and we're about to do the last very last row. Now you see how i'm parting it yeah, i'm pouring it in between the braid like get that hair on my face, see how long the braids are. This is our very last row and i'm putting um edge control and the summit live into her hair saturating it into her hair. I hate you know guys. You know that i showed y'all only one side of her head, but that's how that camera you know allowed me to you, know angle it you know i apologize for that. I'M gon na try to find new ways of how to angle the camera to wear or use two cameras so where you can get both sides, but it's the same on the other side. I just have a part on the other side and it's most heaviest to the right side and once again, i'm using oil and then at the very end of her hair. I'M gon na use the surreal to encase her hair in there and now, as you see this braid, i am braiding this braid along her edge line. So this braid is just a hair smaller than the other braids. The top of her hair is just to the mid part. Her hair is just extinct to the extreme she making all the faces yeah. I am braiding it all the way down to the end. The summit live it um. It disappears in the hair, it doesn't stay. White for long it disappeared. Now you see how that braid is going to go in i'm going to lay in between those two braids. I wanted to show you guys that, even if you kind of go off the brigley um pattern by the third row, being brick laid perfectly, if you go to the top, those braids are gon na fall in the parting's. Perfect. So don't worry if you lose your um, you know your um partings or whatever you um. They kind of don't match up. They'Ll be okay because they they're gon na lay in. I promise you that, because everybody head is different, you know some people hair. You know. I can do this um bricklay on and it regulates perfect other people. It might be off a little bit, but that's okay. As long as you get the gist of this you'll have it down pack, it just takes um time and practice. That'S how i end up becoming such a good braider, because you know i'll just practice a lot, because i have like six sisters, and so i would do all of their hair. So a lot of styles that i would do and come out with. I would do it on their hair first and then you know give it to the public, especially my sister, that um i was talking about jayma. I used to braid her hair and so many different things you know we used to do. Hair shows too, and people used to be amazed at the things and some of those pictures i'm gon na see if i can find them, so i can um show them on youtube. We used to have a ball. I used to make the hat the braided hats and everything so um, i'm gon na see. If i can upload those pictures to show you guys, we almost done. We only got one more braid left and once again i love this because you know she's not sitting in a chair all day, long two and a half two hours to two and a half hours. That'S it from the point of the braiding. It me kind of clipping the little frizzies at the tail end in her hair and dipping it two and a half hours, she's she's out the chair. That'S why i would never. I don't think i would ever put her hair in smaller braids ever the goddess. Braids will forever be her braid style. If the braid styles ever change, she will forever be wearing goddess braids last break in the next video. I'M gon na show you guys correctly how i um do the hair in three, because some people take the hair, pull it apart and then put lay the hair over it to make the third um. You know the third section, but i don't. I just do the hair in three and as you braid, it balances itself out, because that's how, when you see people braids that come out crooked is because the hair is off balance. They need to balance, and sometimes with your fingertips, you can feel the hair being off balance and there's another trick to the tray too, that i have, even if my braid came off balance. What i do is lighten up on my finger pressure and it comes out all the same, but that's something that you have to learn over time being in somebody's head to know how to do all of that, because it's definitely an art to braiding hair. Definitely art yay the last break. She'S almost done and, like i say again, you guys i'm definitely going to show you how to do the bricklay on smaller braids foreign, i'm applying so real again to keep her hair encased in to the extension. I don't put it on her actual brace, because i really don't like the way um like i say again how it dries down and how it kind of looked ashy in the hair. I just apply it to the ends and the edge line, because i put so much oil in it. The ashiness, you know, see it, but if i did each of her braids partings with that um so reel in it, i don't i just don't like the way it it looks. It makes her hair look old before it's time because they have the ashy gray. Look to it, but it's perfect, for you know the ends. You know and like i say you know when i put it around her edge line. I incorporate the summit, live with it, so it won't be so ashy looking and we are done yay and i know she's saying the same thing: i'm trying to get her to turn her face into the camera. She'S got a little attitude. She just turned 13 and oh that attitude. Yes, you guys and we're done so that is the bricklay technique. You see the part on the opposite side on the left side of her head. She has a part and there's the finished product. You guys, thanks for watching and i'm gon na, bring you some good content um on hair um. Definitely next time, i'm gon na show you how to um do the blocks and um the smaller braids kind of lost. My train of thought there you guys i'm sorry and there she goes done it's done. I don't have to worry about her hair for at least a good two months. Thanks so much you guys for watching like comment and subscribe, see you next time bye, bye,