Watch Me Work: Medium Sized Box Braids

Hi everybody welcome back to my channel if you're new then welcome to the crew purr. So today's video is gon na be a bit different. As you can see, i am working on a client's hair perv. If you guys didn't know, i do here, i do braids locks twists things of that nature. Um i'll put my information in the description box. You guys can follow my instagram currently in dallas texas. If you want to book her, so she wanted some medium-sized box braids and so first i'm just gon na start off by gently detangling, her hair as gently as possible and um. Her hair, i would say, was stretched out, but it wasn't like completely blow-dried straight and when you're braiding, hair or working with anyone's hair, i feel like it's best, or at least for me, i like to work with the hair whenever it's completely blow-dried straight. I just feel like that's what works best and it um hurts their head less just the way her hair is now. It just seems, like you know how natural hair is especially like the type 4 hair you blow dry, your hair, then you go outside and it's humid and then it shrinks up and that's just like kind of the state hair was in right now. So that's why i'm just detangling just a little bit and then i'm going to start with the blow drying process. So when i blow dry, i like to suction off the hair in different sections, as you can see over here. This is me working on the last section. Okay, so i spray the hair with water, and then this just helps to make the hair softer um, as i start to detangle it from ends to the roots, and so after i do that, i detangle as thoroughly as i can and then i hold the ends. I just kind of pull the hair down. I hold it at the end and i pass the blow dryer up and down like the length of the hair. If i had um a blow dryer with a comb attachment, then this would be make it way easier. But i just do this first and then i go in with um a brush and i start to blow dry the ends. First, focusing the head of the blow dryer right there at the ends of the hair, and then i go back up to the like length of the hair and also if they have thick hair. I would recommend like splitting the section in half just working in small sections. Just so you don't, like you, know, pull out all their hair. So this is her hair fully blow dried, very thick, very full, very luxurious, very much giving what it was supposed to been had gave. It was super healthy, super soft, which i love like very easy to work with so perv so right when i'm done blow drying. I start to section off the hair and i section off the hair the same way whenever i'm doing um, braids locks twists and stuff like that, i always do it the same way, except if someone asks me to do it a specific way. But yes, i always do it the same way. I put a picture over here on the side for you guys to see as reference um. I don't want to explain too much because i feel like it might be confusing. So that's why i put the picture and also showed what i'm doing i feel like. It makes sense this way, but this helps to like get the even box parting, all around the entire head, and it helps with the brick layer pattern as well, so to really make my parts very crisp and clean. I like to use shine and jam um. More specifically, i like to use the red one, and then i put it on my little hair, magnet wristwatch thingy i'll leave the link to it as well, along with the combs and the clips. I got them all from amazon by the way, but i used that - and i really like this shiny gem because it um it has very good hold and it doesn't like melt immediately when you put it on the scalp, because you know their their head. Their scalp is like radiating heat, so if you put like a gel that doesn't have good hold, the gel is just going to melt and then it's not going to get the job done, but the shining gem works really well and it helps to like get the Parts very very crisp and clean, so i do this and i part off one row into the boxes and then i start braiding, each braid, myself palm trees. So to be courteous i always do one braid and then afterwards i let them go. Look at it if they want to go, look at it in the mirror or whatever, and then let me know if the size is good and what not have myself a little dance party while they're gone, because who would i be without doing that per and once She told me that it was cool. I continued to work on um. This is a disclaimer. This video is not meant to be a tutorial. It'S just me showing you guys how i work in my methods like i said this is my first time recording a video like this. So, depending on how this turns out, i will most likely do a tutorial in a later video, and even as the video goes on i'll, try to go more in depth about the way i braid and whatnot, as you can already see from this first braid, i, Like to braid um overhand and not underhand - and i know a lot of people braid underhand and i'm still trying to learn how to braid underhand, but i braid overhand because underhand is like a completely different language to me, but yes moving forward so by 12 22. I have finished that lower back section. I think that's about three, maybe four rows, but i think probably three we started at our set time was nine am but um i started braiding at 10 am because i had to blow dry her hair and then setting up the hair. Rack too took some time. So i started braiding at um 10 a.m and now it's almost 12 30 and i finished that little back section right there. So i'm just going to continue working on the back section when i was doing your hair. I'Ll be honest, i was doing something different. I don't usually work this way, usually i um kind of go row by row all around the entire head, but i decided to do something different, so i did the entire back section from the crown of her head back and then i did the sides last. So this is me trying to show you guys a close-up of how i start the braid, so i take this section of their natural hair. I split that into two and then i have my hair, my extension hair looped around here, and so i hold it together. In three pieces, so i attach the hair to the two pieces of her natural hair and then i just begin to braid. If i really hope you guys can see what i'm doing, but basically the there's there's you know when you braid hair, there's three pieces. There'S two pieces that have both the extension and her natural hair and there's one piece: that's just the expression here and basically that's just how i braid i just kind of attach it and then i braid i'm sorry. If i'm not saying this in a way that makes sense, but i hope you guys can understand it from watching and also i will show another point of view of how i do this as well, and also to get that brick layer pattern that i've been talking About i always start braiding in the middle, and then i work my way out to the opposite ends. So the braid, you guys see me working on right now. It'S gon na sit right in the middle of the two braids that are beneath it. So this is what helps you get that brick layer, staircase type pattern. I'M gon na put a picture over here on the screen, so you guys can see what i'm talking about once you separate the hair or like once, you like, pull the braids apart. You'Ll see the exact like distinction in the parts, and that is perfection okay. So this is another point of view of me starting the braid um. I gently ask them to tilt their head back because, i'm short and again i start overhand and once i get to the top of the head, like i got ta start standing on my tippy toes and stuff like that so um. The reason why i start overhand is because my grip is just way better when i do it overhand, i'm again, i'm trying to learn how to do it underhand, so i don't have to like make them bend their head and stand on my tippy toes and stuff. Like that, but for now this is just what works for me once again split the nature into two three pieces of the extension here and then i start i begin to braid. I attach their natural hair, the two piece of the natural hair to two pieces of the extension here, and then i just continue to braid and make sure you are gripping tightly so that the hair does not come loose. Okay, if you need to, if you're like me, and you need to redo the same braid ten times until you get it right, then do so. Okay, because, especially if you are charging someone for this, then you got ta. Make sure that you do this stuff right. Okay, me me me me, okay, so right when i was finished braiding i went in with um finishing touches: uh there were some braids that, like kind of unraveled or like i didn't braid them down all the way, so i braided those down and then i went In and i um trimmed each braid for flyaways and then my camera unfortunately died when i was dipping your hair in hot water, but that's pretty much self-explanatory. So i took her hair in hot water to seal the ends. I put some mousse and then this was the finishing product. I really love how it turned out. Um yeah, i feel like i did a lot of braids because i tried to make her hair full because she got a lot of hair so yeah. I hope you guys enjoyed this video, please like comment and subscribe. I want to do more videos like this, so please give me some feedback. Let me know what you guys think and i'll see you on the next video bye, everybody uh