How To: Dutch Braids With Clip In Extensions

Hi everyone welcome back to the channel today, I'm going to show you how to create these gorgeous Dutch braids using your clip and extensions. This is a question that I get asked quite often, so I thought I would share this with you today and let you into a few secrets of how to create this. Look. As always, you want your hair to be tangle free, so you can do this by using your foxy locks brush and I've already styled my hair into a middle parting, ready for the braids to get really clean lines. I like to use a pintail comb, so if you start at the top of your head, where your middle parting finishes and slowly go down the back of your head right down to the nape of your neck and separate the two sections, one of the most important Parts of this tutorial is the hair oil. Now you need this to make the braid nice and sleek and keep all those flyaway hairs at bay and at the same time, it's really really good for your hair, so I'm actually treating my hair while I'm wearing the spray. That'S an added bonus now, don't be afraid to use quite a bit of product. You will find that this will help you do the braze. It will look really sleek and plus. It smells amazing once you're happy, you have enough hair oil in you can separate this section and clip it out of the way. Then we're going to come back to our pin tail comb and we're going to start making a section where your clip and extensions will go. As you can see, I've started halfway up that side section and I'm basically making it a nice neat line in a diagonal way down to the nape of my neck. So some of you may have noticed that my hair is a little bit more whiter and a shear this time around and that's because I have toned it with purple. Shampoo I've also toned my latte extensions with the shampoo and you'll see them, and it's quite a lot, a sheer and slightly purple. So normally we would clip in our extensions against your head like this, but this time we're going to do it upside down, because the hair will actually be coming from the bottom and pulling upwards into your braid. This is the 3 clip weft that I'm using here now. This will feel a little bit strange as opposed to the way you normally clip in your extensions, but you do need to do this because, obviously, as you pull up the hair into the braid, you don't want that clip pulling against your hair. This way it will lie flat to the way your hair is going to go and now we're going to make another section at the top of the hair. This is going to be for the two clip weft. You want to make sure that you don't put the clip in too close to the front of the hair or too close to the back, where the parting is. As the clips will show, this one is going to lay flat to your hair, like you would put in a normal extension once they are nice and secure. You can let down the rest of your hair and start to work on the other side, perfect. Okay! So now we have both our sections in and my hair is nice and long ready for the braids. I'M just going to clip the first section out of the way, so it doesn't interfere with the braids okay. So now we're ready to start the first braid and what you want to do is take a small section at the front of your hair and split that into three sections. And what you're going to do is take the first section underneath and pull that nice and tight and then take the front section underneath again now. The key to this is to keep going under I'm sure if you've learned how to do French braid you'll be able to do this quite simple, but you have to remember to take the sections underneath. You also need to make sure that you keep a really tight tension on this, as otherwise the sections will start to fall out, and it won't look as sleek as you would like it to look another point to make. Is that your top hand stays nice and high? This is going to be the direction that your braid will go in, so the higher your hand, the higher your braid will lie against your head, so keep pulling it nice and tightly, and you will get the hang of this of where to put your fingers and Which ones are grabbing which sections, but it does take a bit of practice and you will get our make, but you will get through it and you'll. Look amazing at the end, so keep pulling these sections in from the front there and making sure it's nice and tight and add in sections as you go. And then you just want to work down the rest of the hair. And if you can remember where we put the clip in extensions you'll see that I am following that line, that diagonal line that we first made for the three clip. And this is just covering those clip and extensions where the main bulk of the braid is going to sit. You want to make sure that all the parts of the hair are in here, including the back where the parting is just make sure you get all the little bits in there and add it into your braid. So mine taught me how to do front braids when I was about 5 on my favorite Barbie doll, so I do have to say a massive thank you to her for teaching me how to do this and being able to create this tutorial for you today. So thanks nan now we are at the end of the braid and we're just going to tie that off with a clear hair elastic, and then we will start to move on to the other side. Moving on to the other side, you take another section at the front of your hair and slip this into three then you're going to take the outside section under the middle section and then take the other outside section again under the middle section, and as you remember, Just keep the tension and keep that direction going to the back of your head. I'M just going to work down this length of the hair, and then you should have something that looks like this now. As you can see, the hair oil makes your hair, nice and shiny, and it gives that really sleek effect and it does make it a lot easier to pull through the sections when it's nice and soft. So I want to make this last today, so I'm going to finish it off with a nice extra firm holding spray. This will just make sure all those tiny little flyaway hairs or if you've got any baby hairs at the front, are just going to stay put for the rest of the day and it will just make it feel a bit more secure. And once all that's done, you will have your finished look which is like this. So as you can see, the clip and extensions are not too visible, but I've added in so much more length to my natural hair. I really hope you've enjoyed this video. If you do like it, then please like below and comment a love reading your comments, I'll try to get back to all of you, and I will see you soon in my next video bye, bye,