Crochet Method Box Braids

Hello, my lovelies, if that grip game is as weak as mine, please don't judge me, keep watching to see how i achieve this crochet method, box, braids installation look on myself for the first time, and please forgive me for how this section turned out. I now realize that i did have the camera set up the wrong way so stay tuned. So it's your girl, tony and i'm coming at you today with um. You can see a quick tutorial of how i do my crochet method of my box braids. So i always have people um ask me: what do you mean by the crochet method? How do you do your crochet individual method, this that at there, and sometimes you know some people are, you can say, visual type, people uh, you know me just explaining to them. How i do it sometimes doesn't quite work out in my favor, because people still say i don't get it and you know what you can't blame them for that some people are vigilant. So, as you can see, i had already started on the back half of my hair. I did that off camera, so i'm gon na do a few of the braids to let you know with a few of braiding, my hair to let you see how i actually go about doing my individual crochet method. For me, i like this better method than you fresh, braiding or cornrowing, whatever you want to call it. I like this better than doing the french braid method, because it looks less bulky. It looks more neat to me so without further ado um, i'm actually gon na see me turning a lot, because my mirror is literally right here: um, i'm in my bedroom. So, as you can see, i'm in my bedroom and my mirror is literally like to the side of me. So i'm going to be using my mirror so you're going to see me turn around a lot. You know back and forth looking at the mirror and looking back at the camera, so um yeah, let's just go ahead, and let's just get into this so so my hair is stretched out. My stretch out method is just me simply putting like seven to eight french braids in my head in order for my hair to be stretched out without any heat. So in this process i do want to have a side part on the side of my head, which is more like to the right. So i will be putting that side, part on the right side of my head as you're, going to see right here. I'M putting the side part right there because that's about like i said i want the part to be right there on that side. Now, to help define your parts, you can either use the african pry braid and lock gel as i'm going to quickly show that to you right in a few moments, and then you can also either use the murray's edge. Wax that i use so one or two of those products, you can also use um. You can also go in and all depends upon your hair. You can go in with some jam. You can use some gorilla snot. You can use any edge control that you possibly use for your hair, so it just depends on what you want to use for your hair. For me, specifically in this video, i did use the mary's edge wax to not only define my parts but to also help blend my hair in so as you're, going to see that you're going to see me put that nervous edge, wax right on my part and You'Re going to see me part my hair, a little bit more and then you're also going to see me using in the in between my parts and then also what i do, ladies just to be a rule of thumb, fyi, whatever you doing parts in your head, Especially when you get to the perimeter of your head, we want to save our edges. We don't want to rip those bad boys out. We don't want to come down the line six seven months online and we don't have a perimeter because we poured our edges. So you want to be careful of how small you do parts in your head once again, it all depends upon your hair. As for me, specifically, i'm very careful with the way. I part my hair right in the beginning around the perimeter and then also as far as this method right here, i only braid the hair down, probably about a fourth of the way down, as you can see, because of the simple fact that the rest of the Hair will be blended in with the braid here, and i will also use the murray's edge wax to do that as well too. So you will see that later on in the video hmm. Yes, it is day two of me doing my hair, so my hair is tied up with a scarf because underneath it i do have my foundation tied together, and that was just to keep my hair from poofing up. So, as you can see, i have my hair tied together, braided together and to install the box braids with the braiding hair. I will be using a crochet hook, as you will see, come up and i will also be using to help keep my hair separated and to also help keep it more organized. I will be using a threading spoolie that i found off amazon for 25. Now i did find a hair rack separator to hold the hair, but that bad boy was like dollars in i'll, be a monkey's uncle. If i pay 225 for something that i can give away less cheaper, so yeah, i found that threading spoolie holder off amazon for 25 dollars that i actually use to hold my hair while i'm getting ready to do my hair. So, as you can see, i have my side, part which you can see at the top and yeah just pretty much getting to get into installing the box braids. In my hair, which i would do off camera, i'm just going to show you guys the type of hair that i do use. So when i get ready to um, do my braids to help my hair blend a little bit, i'm going to go ahead and i'm going to use the. What i showed you guys before this is the african pride braid and lock twist gel. So i'm going to use this to help blend my hair into the hair and this type of hair that i can use with the three times jumbo silky bracelet. It comes with three individual pieces inside of it, and i like to say first because it's already pre-stretched out um it's easier on my hands. So as far as my fingers are my fingers, don't get they don't hurt as quickly as where they. It is less straight. On my fingers and push it that way, so it's less strain on my fingers. No, i can actually go outside hair like this, so i'm just moving the hair right now so yeah. So that's the hair that that i use whenever i do my box braids or whatever i do my daughter's box braids so like i said, i'm just getting the hair out the way. Now you can see how small these parts are um. Whenever i do box braids on other people, it depends on the feel that i get for their hair will help me determine how big the parts the texture of my hair. I actually do my parts kind of small, because i, like my hair to be kind of full and i'll put one right here and then nothing grab everything that was on this side. Yeah. These braids are tight, so i know somewhere down line, i'm going to regret. Doing these braids tomorrow, she will be four months tomorrow. So, yes, this is my little piper a little bad girl who likes to give us everything, say: hi, we're not gon na eat here today, okay, we're not going to eat here. This is your debut say: hello. People sometimes see you on facebook when i catch you sleeping now that you're up you're wreaking havoc and get that paying attention to the camera over grab him, and this is yeah. So those are my two babies so yeah. Let me go ahead and starting to set this hair up on my little hair. Thank you and, like i said, i'm going to do the back off camera and when i come back, i'm going to show you how to do the size. So i actually forgot to record the back end of my hair to show you guys how it looks so, as you can see, i only have the top part of my head to finish so with this other section of the head that i need to finish. I'M going to show you guys how i put the hair in so i do need to braid the hair all the way down to the tip all the way down to the tip to the tip of the hair. So i can hot water seal that but the little section that you see right here, i'm going to actually show you guys how i do the installation of the box braids. Basically so we're going to slow this part of the video down for you guys. So you can see how it actually goes so with the latch hook. Once again, i'm going to place it underneath the braid of the hair with the latch hook already open. So you want to put it underneath the braid and then once you put it underneath the braid, then you want to take a piece of the braiding hair and then you want to go in and you want to put it all the way to the end. You want to loop it around your finger and then you want to put in the latching and you want to close the hook and then, as you pull it through, you want to grab the end of the hair, so you can even it out to make sure It'S even on both ends, and so that's what you see that i'm doing right now making sure that it's even on both ends and separated two pieces. So i won't get confused and then once again what you're going to do is you want to put another piece of hair? So you want to make the braid to your thickening to your liking. So therefore, then you i take the hair. I loop around my finger as you can see right here, which it must have got tangled right up in there and then i turn around and i put the latch hook underneath the braid and also underneath the hair. And then i put the hair in the latch hook and then i close the hook up and i put it through which in this instance i may have miscalculated where to put the latch hook at so. I must have missed that. While i put the latch hook, so i'm just going to go ahead and put that hook right back in there. Sometimes you know people mess up it's okay, so you put the hair through and then as you're putting it through. You want to grab the hair to make sure that you don't get it tangled with the other hair and then, of course, you want to separate it now. For some strange reason. This piece of hair wants to act like a jerk. I don't know why it was like a jerk it just did. It was uncooperative, so that is basically how you go about putting the braid hair in your head for the latch hook for the crochet method and, like i said this, hair didn't want to that piece. Did not want to act right for some strange, peculiar reason, so i'm going to go ahead, separate the hair, make sure that everything is out the way and then, of course, i'm gon na go in with a third part, which i think, one the cats. At this point in time was getting it away in the hair and more likely was probably piper more likely. So therefore, i'm going to take another piece of hair which, if i ever decide to grab this hair, so i'm going to take the latch up and i'm going to put it underneath the braid and underneath the hair. So, as you can see, i'm going to put it through and then i'm going to tilt my head to the side. So therefore it can stay so it won't move and then i'm going to take the hair and i'm going to loop around my finger. Put it in the latch hook close up the hook and as i'm putting the hair through i'm grabbing the hair. So it won't get tangled or won't get confused with the other hair that i'm going through, and i'm just going to go ahead and repeat this process. Until i get the braid or to get the hair as thick as i want to get the hair, so yes, this is the finished. Look. It literally took me probably about four days to do this. Yes, uh. Four four days, yes, like i said before, anyone who knows me knows that i take forever to do my hair because i'm not gon na wear um right from home, so i don't have to be in a rush to do my hair for a monday to come Around so i can be ready for work so yeah. It took me four days to do this um. If you really want to talk about real time of how long it took me to just go through the process of prepping, my hair and everything like that um. I took my hair down. I had some passion twists in my hair for my birthday july 26th, my new video there we go. Yes, i am um. I took my hair down, probably like the last week of august yeah, because my hair was down for labor day. Of course, um. My hair was in my um braid love style for me to get ready to stretch my hair out. So i took my hair down like the last week of august braided it up and then before i did off this, i did have to cut like about an inch of my ends, because my ends really really needed to be clipped. So i probably put like a half an inch to probably like a half inch or maybe an inch to a half an inch and then i still had color at the top of my head on my roots on me on my tips. So i basically cut the color of the tips of my hair off so from that process to the ending process of me. Actually, hot water sealing my tips of my hair that took about four days. It took me to do this um so yeah. So this is the finished look um. I will leave, of course, in the comm in the links in the um description below i will leave. You know the hair that i use the products that i use to make sure that none of my real hair is sticking out. So you don't see any of my real hair sticking out because i use the edge wax product to help blend my hair with the braiding hair. So i will put in the description below the hair that i use the edge wax and then, if you are interested in this orange, look that i have on my eyes, which is from javea's place. There is a video in my videos where i actually reviewed my first time ever getting javea's place, so this orange look that i have going on is from javaya's place, and i love my eyebrows. So just like hello, so, yes, this is the ending result. These braids are kind of long as you can see, they are too long as you can see so yeah. So this is the end results of my first time ever in 36 years is my first time wearing box braids no bull, i did micros, i did locks. I did passion twists: i've never done box braids i've, always strayed away from box braids because i always felt as though box braids just didn't look right on me. So yeah, first time ever doing box braids. So i'm gon na go here and in this video right here this four day process. It was so long but yeah my fingers were hurting, does not hurt anymore because yeah i'm done so yeah. So thank you for watching my video of me doing the crochet method of box braids for me, the crochet method on any hairstyle. For me, it's easy for my roots, because i can literally put these up in a ponytail like literally right now. If i want to, i can put them up in a ponytail and they're not pulling like something, maybe like this little gray. Right here is put in just a little bit, so i'm going to let this loosen up a little bit. I was really anxious to finish this because i really wanted to oil. My scalp, which i did use the hollywood hair bar um growth serum. So i'm definitely anxious to see how that really really truly works on my hair um. So i'm really glad that i do have this style in my head, so i can actually track the process of me using that for you. So i probably will do a video for that as well too um just real time. Recording the process of me actually doing and using that oil so yeah, so this is the end results. Thank you for coming on this journey with me and until next time.