French, Dutch & Fishtail Braid Virtual Lesson | By Professional Hair Stylist Faye Smith

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All right, so i figured i would demo each of the braids on her hair first, just to show you how each of go, and then i admit to you all that i'm extremely lazy and impatient with my own hair. But i can do a french braid on my hair if i'm very patient, so i figured at the end. We could do that and i can show you how to actually do it on yourself, because it is a hell of a lot more challenging to do it. On yourself than on someone else, so, let's start first of all with the french braid, which i'll just pull it up on that ad, that we all saw one that we're gon na do. First, is the french braid, the one in the middle, where all of the pieces of hair like tuck in to themselves? Okay, so i'll just show you we'll attach it to her head. Actually, i'm going to start at the top of the head with a horizontal piece of hair and we're going to divide it into three sections. So it's important to brush the hair through as you go along, so it doesn't end up lumpy, so we're going to split it into three, even sections here perfect and we're going to go over the top. So the right piece is going to go over the top of the middle piece and the middle piece is going to become the right piece now, our outside piece on the opposite side is going to come over the top of the middle piece, and that's now the Middle piece right side over the top of the middle piece and it becomes the middle piece. So your outside piece basically always goes over the top of the center piece and it becomes the middle piece, okay, so to attach it to the hair. We do the exact same thing, but we're taking it from the sides, we're taking it from the scalp rather than the pieces of hair in our hands. So i'll just show you again here and this time we'll attach it to the head. So we've got our three pieces, one two three even size pieces, that's going to give you an even braid and we're taking our right piece here, popping it over the top of the middle piece, and that is becoming the center piece now and the piece on the Left is going to come over the top of the middle piece and that's going to become our centerpiece now now that we want to attach it to the head, we're actually going to take some of the hair from the head and have that join our outside piece. So i've now got one big chunk middle chunk and then the left chunk and now our giant chunk is going to come over the top and become the middle piece and we'll do the same thing. On the other side, we're taking hair actually from the head now and the hair that we've just taken from the head is going to join with our outside piece. So we've got a bigger outside piece now and it's going to come over the top of the middle piece and it's going to become the middle piece. Okay, taking hair from the outside of the head and that extra hair is now going to join with the big giant chunk. We'Ve got here, that's going to go over the top of the middle piece and it's going to become our middle piece. That'S now our middle piece right there taking hair from the head having it join our left piece. Our left piece is now coming over the top of the middle one and it's becoming our middle piece and you just keep going easier said than done and as you work your way down, the head you'll find, if you're trying to do this in one big ponytail You'Ll find that it gets um kind of like loose around the edges, so you actually have to make sure to brush it in tight. So now i've got my big giant piece that i've just kind of brushed in nice and tight and that's coming over the top of the middle piece. And it's going to become our middle piece here. Okay - and it is just repetition - and it will ache your arms, but when you get good you'll get faster, so we've taken hair from the outside. It'S now joining this, it's going over the top of the middle piece and it's becoming the middle piece. So this is probably this is probably the easiest one and the one that everybody knows. The most i'll show you the dutch version, which is exactly the same, but it's in reverse, so in french, the hair actually tucks inside and with dutch that the braid actually sits on the top. So it's a little bit more of a to me. It looks a little bit more like like um kitty, so i find this one is good for for, like me, 30 plus, and so as you travel down the head so now i'm getting to about here. I'Ve got hair in the front, i'm just going to grab that hair from the front and again you kind of got ta like brush it in really tight and it's exactly the same again taking your outside piece from the right. It goes over. The top of your middle piece and then that now becomes your middle piece and when you get, if you have really thick hair, it just becomes a matter of how can i keep this much hair in my hands without it all falling out um? So it's like figuring out how to position your hands. So it's basically, i just use my hands like a little claw and my fingers are kind of like the separator pieces. So i've got my little claw claws here separating my pieces over the top of the middle one and right to the other side. There was supposed to be one more person in here, but i don't know what happened to them. So then i'll have to watch the replay. I always record the sessions you guys. Oh so we get to see the replay if we didn't get this right. Okay, i'll, send you because you're gon na have to be there for ages, just trying to figure this out. It'S it's very frustrating to do on yourself over the top of the middle and to the other side we're taking more hair here now my judy head doesn't have ears, so the hair just tends to hold floppy here, but with us we have ears, so it actually Will hold the hair back like that? So now we've got tons of hair here, it's going over the top and to the other side, and eventually you'll just have took all the hair from the scalp and you'll just uh braid it, as i showed you in the first place, not taking care from from The scalp right, but now i've got to the point where i've collected all my hair, and i literally just now. I'Ve got my three pieces. My right piece can go over the top of my middle piece. My left piece over the top of the middle piece and you just keep going do either of you know how to do any kind of braid right now, just like a regular braid. I think i do that one, but i do it the backwards way. I think i go underneath yeah is how i usually it's like once you know one particular braid: it's really hard to learn another kind i find walking to myself. It literally helps so i'll just go right piece over the top into the middle left piece over the top into the middle, and i just talked to myself and as a professional doing this for 12 years. I literally just talked to myself and if someone speaks to me, while i'm doing this, i lose it and i have to start again. Okay i'll show you the other way around which jaina. I think this is the one that you you already know. Let'S do dutch, which is the exact same: we've got the three pieces, one piece going over the top and two to the other, but we're going to go underneath this time, rather than the pieces going on top we're going to go underneath this time. Okay, so we're going to do the one on the right side now, okay, so same thing again, we're starting at the top we're using um a horizontal piece brush it through get it nice and tight in your hands again we're going to do the three pieces. All the same size and this time, rather than last time, our right piece was going over the top. This time it's going to go underneath the middle piece and become the middle okay. So i've just took that right piece and i just tucked it underneath the middle piece, and it's now inside here and again i kind of use my hands like a little claw. It'S like my little separators okay, so i'm taking hair from the head and i'm having it join. My left piece and my left piece is now going to go underneath so now my left piece has gone into the middle now: okay, taking hair from the head and, first of all, just collecting it with that piece on the right and having that go underneath and Into the middle, it's tough, but i would just say it aches your arms, but i would just say if you take your time to do each piece. It will end up nicer in the end, so i've just joined my extra hair. It'S into the other side. Here now and it's going underneath and it's becoming my middle piece and honestly, i don't know if you guys have anyone in isolation with you that has long hair or have a barbie doll, but practicing on somebody else. First, just kind of helps: you get the rhythm yeah okay, so i've got the hair from the head joining my outside piece and then that is going underneath and it's becoming my middle piece now taking hair from the outside, smoothing it in take the time to smooth It in and get it nice and tight that way it will not be lumpy, and now this chunk here is going underneath and it's becoming my middle piece there just like that. You know, but i honestly like it would probably take me a while to do this on myself, just because i think it really does require patience. So if you're, a patient person, you can break yeah, definitely underneath one. I i find a little bit more challenging. I think the over top one seems a little bit better yeah. Absolutely. I agree the the over top feels more natural, whereas yeah yeah at first like i was like. Oh maybe it's not, but then it's like nope. I could totally agree like the one that i did before this feels more natural yeah. I think so yeah and that's the one like i can do that one on my my head fairly easily but um yeah. It'S definitely you've got kind of got to change. The positioning of your hands and figuring out the positioning - this is the hardest part. So i'll just show you what this one looks like and then fishtail braid is definitely one. That'S become extremely popular over the last number of years. So it's fun just to know how to do it and then i'll i'll. Do it on my own head and show you guys some pointers of how you can hold your hands and whatnot? Okay, okay, so that one's our more like caterpillar looking one yeah yeah, it looks cool. I like that, one because it looks it does look really cool. But to me it looks more like something that you'd maybe see on like a little girl or something you fun things like if you have long hair and you've just decided to do this. Let'S say you go into a special occasion and you need to make something. Look fancy we're talking about in the future here when we have an occasion to go to, but you can do things like take. Take your brain and just pop a hair tie over the top and now got yourself a really cool. You know really really easy to transform a simple braid into something that could be worn just pop a hair tie over the top, and it will hold that right there. It'S a neat little trick. If we end up going to any balls in the future, you know go to a fancy. Do okay, let's do the fishtail braids see. Where did i put my brush? Oh here, it is on the floor. Of course, where else would it be okay, so fishtail braid is actually really really easy um, but it looks really intricate and really complicated and it's very modern and fun. So this one actually just begins with two pieces, but it's gon na kind of be two and it's gon na kind of be four i'll. Just show you by itself, first, what it does so we're dividing it into two pieces, taking a tiny, tiny little piece on the outside and that's going to go over the top and become a part of the right side, just taking a tiny, tiny little piece. It goes over the top and it just joins the left side. Now, if you want to attach it to the head, you do the same thing, but rather than taking from the two pieces in your hands, you just take from the head and this time you don't need to worry about having it join a piece. It literally just you take that tiny little piece from the head. You pass it through the middle of your two big pieces and it joins the other side and, to begin with, it doesn't really look like much, but as it comes together, it will form a really cool braid. So just tiny, tiny little piece, that's over the top and joins the other side, tiny little piece over the top, and it joins the other side, a little piece over the top, and it joins the other side. And this one it does. It is a little bit more tedious because it does take quite a long time for it to um to form but um, but yeah. It'S a it's a really cool hairstyle and it's very modern, tiny, tiny little piece. I'Ve got my two pieces and i'm kind of using my fingers just as like little little. Clamps almost take that little piece over the top through the middle and it joins the other side. Tiny little piece over the top, the other side and so demoing on myself is going to be quite hilarious because normally i have nail extensions and nail extensions kind of act like a little comb for me. But my nails look like like this. Oh no, it's um! Yeah, it's gon na be different, because i don't i usually use that as a comb wait a second, you have nails on one side and not on the other. I have three left two missing and on the other hand, i have one and the rest are missing. Those gel ones that you can't just get off, they normally ask oh yeah, that's yeah bad news, yeah, i'm not getting them done again. I swear no again for me a little one over the top to the other side, another little tiny little piece over the top and, as you can see, this one takes quite some time for me to get to the bottom. It'S going to take a little bit of time here, but just start to speed up a little bit just so i don't bore you guys too much with this, because it's very repetitive, it's beautiful, but i don't think when you made it sound like it was really Easy, i actually feel like it's the hardest of all. I feel like that's hard because it's yeah you're just two pieces and right, it's just a tiny little piece that you just have you're, literally just passing it from side to side the hand motion is quite a lot easier, but doing it on yourself to identify a Small, a small piece in your hand: that's right! That'S difficult right, okay, whereas with the other one, it's just they're even pieces. If they're slightly matter - and i would definitely just say one thing to note - um - the direction that your hands are in is the direction that the braid will naturally go um. So if you have a tendency to like lean to one side or something your braid is going to end up diagonal, also keeping your hands straight is a bit of a challenge too braiding your own hair is not easy, no honestly, very really challenging all right. So i'll go a little faster just to show you guys what this one looks like at the end and of course you don't have to braid the whole head of hair like if you just wanted to braid the top bit um, you know and then and then Just continue on with you know, i could stop right here and i want to have the rest of my hair down and i could just continue on a little bit and with something like this. If you get bored, you just tie it off and it looks cool but yeah you just if you, if you want to leave some of the hair down and attach it to the head you take from the head here and then i've got to the bit where I want the rest of my hair down here so now, i'm just taking little pieces from the outside of this piece, that's actually in my hands and passing it through to the other side. So that's a really pretty hairstyle too, because sometimes like the top of your hair is a little bit greasy and you don't have time to wash it. But it's like day three and the rest of your hair looks fine or maybe you're, going to a special event. I'Ll just keep going a little bit further with this and then we'll have a little bit of a giggle trying to do it on ourselves. Okay, i think we're both trying as you did. It'S like my arms are sore. It'S like an arm workout, you don't need to go to the gym, don't need to lift weights just braid your hair, everyday. Yes, so you know you can keep going and then you end up having this really cool, uh, braid and also like with the fishtail braid. Sometimes because it is so tedious if you get bored part way through and you just want to finish it off, you can actually just then separate this into three pieces here and finish it off like a normal braid like a three strand braid, you can just you Know not wanting to spend an hour on my hair today, but i want it to look cool and switch the type of braid part way through, but that's cool, that's a little advanced, but sometimes i get bored. So i do that um and to tie it off i'll just show you guys to tie it up and then we'll practice on ourselves soon, the little you can get these little uh bands from even like the dollar store super cheap, um see-through or in a color. Those are totally fine to use, and you know for like yourself every day who cares if the hair tie is showing um in my world, you can't have the hair ties showing so i'll. Just show you a fun little trick just to show you a little r type moment um, you can take the top of the band pop your thumb on the inside. There take a little piece of the hair and wrap it around wrap it around, wrap it around and then pull that little piece through the rubber band, and it just like naturally hides it like that. Oh, that's cool, so yeah it is cool if you just want to be like you know that little bit of extra you know you do that. Okay, let's, let's try on ourselves now! Okay, it's like this is one i did earlier. This is how much effort i made earlier. It'S like it's hard doing it on yourself and i honestly, like i'm very happy to style other people's hair for hours and hours on end but styling, my hair. I just yeah your arms get achy and you get kind of bored but cool thing about braiding too. If you braided it like this, while it was a little bit damp, you could wear it like that for a day and then take it out the next day and your hair will be beautiful and wavy. So there's other advantages to this tip, so obviously brush through your hair. First, we don't want any knots, no nuts, no nuts and basically, what you want to do if we're starting we're doing the whole of the head. Let'S say it's all going to go back. We are going to start here and we're going to just section off a piece of hair like that. It doesn't matter if it's neat, it's all going to be hidden, get into the three sections here and we'll do the french bread, because it is the easiest to learn. If you can get the rhythm of this, then you can move on to trying another one. But i feel like getting this one first is the most important, so we've got our three pieces and we're gon na go right piece over the top of the middle piece and joins the other side, take hair from the left piece and goes over the top of The middle piece joins the other side right piece over the top and to the other side and you're kind of like brushing it up like that combing it joining the right piece and then have that right piece go over the top and taking care from the left. You should now have your left piece free, so my left piece is kind of like here, and i've got the other two in my hands here it's hard to to tell and it's going to go over the top and it's joining the middle there. I'M like. I don't know which angle to get at to show you, okay, taking another little piece here and i would say smaller pieces are, are easier to handle in your hands, but you see how we don't want it to get floppy. So we really want to make sure that we're actually brushing that piece of hair to join the other piece. So now i've got my right piece. My two pieces are in my hands: it's going to go over the top joining the other side. Take a piece of hair here, and can you see yeah? Yes, perfect? Thank you helpful. Okay, so yeah like it's tough to see, so it is a lot of guesswork, um and just like feeling it out. I guess but uh, and then you just get to the point where you just finish it off nice and yeah. I i honestly don't normally do this to my hair, but this is the best that i can probably do without having to practice 1000 times when it gets to the point where you can't reach anymore. Just pull pull the hair to the side here and just unravel it a little bit to see where you're at and then and then finish it off. Oh smart, i like that when your hair is a little bit longer like that, makes it easier yeah yeah then yeah, like i mean like i have this like ridiculous. Like kitty, looking hair tie, you can be a little. Oh, there are my hair ties so yeah. I have no idea what that looks like back there but um there you go on me. It is possible, it's just yeah practice makes perfect and then we'll look like lara croft, yeah and um and yeah like you, can totally pull out some like little loose pieces here. If it's looking all lumpy just you know like tweak it a little bit by just kind of like picking at it and making like that's the thing the hairstyles these days, they're supposed to be not perfect, so you just look good to know. That'S good! That'S my type of hairstyle and then yeah. If you were, if you were doing that bun, you literally just just wrap it around and then pop a little hair tie over the top and you've got yourself a little. A little bunny in the back. You'Ve got yourself a special occasion; there you have it. I challenge you guys to give it a go with one of the other types of braid, either the fishtail or the dutch i'll, send you the replay. So you can see the hand, motions and let me know if you managed to achieve it, and i will do the same thing thanks faye. Thank you so much. This is awesome very much for tuning in with me and having fun with braves. You

Linds Rosso: I never knew how to do a fishtail braid. Thanks!

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