#12. Short Braided Bob On Long Hair Rubber Band Method Hairstyle Learn From My Mistakes

Hey guys, thanks for joining me on chocolatepitney today, i'm gon na be showing you how i achieved this short braided bob on longer hair, so her natural hair is longer than the bob she's flaunted. I'M gon na show you all the mistakes. I'Ve made all the each all the glitches and everything in between to achieve this look so stick and stay with me. The first thing i'm going to be doing is sectioning the hair. I actually section the entire head and tied the hair with rubber bands. Before i started applying the braids, so what i'm doing now, i'm creating some triangular partitions or triangular sections, whatever you call it. The first part was a section from the top of the ear one ears across the back of the head onto the other ear. So i did my first triangular part and um. I'M gon na use the rubber bands to tie it. I actually had to double the rubber band, because i got a brand new pack of rotten rubber bands, i doubled and tripled and they were still packing. But i just prayed with the hope that they would stay intact until i was done or until she was ready to pull out the hair okay. So what i'm, using now on the back of my hand, is edge control, because i have seen from other videos that using edge control allows you to have cleaner parts, apparently that ain't working for me, because my parts are not so clean. However, i must agree with others that edge control really help you to achieve cleaner parts. That'S the only good thing about this edge control because um, it left white residue on the hair and it was not as thick and it didn't hold the hair as much as the other edge contour that i had used before mind you. I am not fond of edge control because the first time i ever use edge control, it controlled my edges and my hair. It means slippery level type of control, so much that it led my hair into depression and all of my edges left along with some of my hair. I didn't only use it on my edges. I also used it to catch my hair together because it did not cause my hair to be stiff and dry. When i used it, so i used it to catch my hair in a ponytail, but i after a week or two i could see breakage rapid breakage - and this was this. This was like, as i said, before, slavery. This was this kind of control only happened in slavery, so i i'm going to tell you to be mindful of the products you use in your hair, especially edge control, because it can damage your hair, real bad and that's what caused my hair to be. I don't even know what word to use for my hair, but my hair is in a charm right now because of edge control, so i stopped using that edge control all together and decided to try some others. So this is just one of them that i am trying. Hopefully it will not do any more harm than the right residue. That'S happening right now with her here. So back to the hairstyle. I started out the triangle sections bigger at the back, but i realized it would have been better to make smaller triangles at the top, because i didn't want a scanty bob. You know the bigger you, the sections, the less breathe, the less braids i'd have in the hair, so i started making making the triangles smaller to have more fluff or more breeze um in this style. I have fast forward this to save time. So now i am on to the braiding section: i'm braiding her natural hair in order to achieve a shorter length. Remember that the bob is going to be shorter than her natural hair, so i have to get rid of some of the length from her hair. So what i did was braid her natural hair and then use the crochet needle to loop it beneath her hair. So what i did was put the crochet needle beneath the rubber band hook, the end of her hair and then pull it through. I am grateful for fiona for those who don't know this is fiona my sister, who is my guinea pig and will allow me to try just about anything on her here other than two minutes off. So i'm grateful for her all of my trial and error. Hairstyles are done on fiona and on my children so back to the hairstyle remember this is my first time doing this hair stuff. I don't do flat braids, so i'm learning and i hope that you can learn from all my mistakes, so i want them to be trunky. I want the hairs, the the plaits, the finger braids to be chunky, so i used a fat chunk of hair to braid. This was quite challenging. It might not appear to be challenging watching the video, but it was challenging because i had her thick hair and i had to cover it with just one section of the one strand of the three strand remember when you're braiding. Here it is a three strand process and one of her her plaque was actually one of the strand along with the braided hair, so that was really thick. So, as you can see, this braid is really crooked and uneven. But, as i said, this is my guinea pig. This is a learning process and you can learn from what, from all of my mistakes, let's go to the other one. As i moved along and went up doing the hair, it became easier because i learned from the last one it became easier to do because i learned from the the latter at this point. You can see that they gel in the hair. The edge control is white. It'S getting whiter, but this hairstyle wasn't going anywhere. It was just for trial and error. Oh i jumped the second one, i'm sorry, but it's the same process as the first. I applied the hair, i'm trying to cover her naturals here with the piece of braids. So, each time i had to put the braid over it the extension over it in order for her natural hair not to pop out it's still crooked, but i thought this was going to be at the bottom, so it really doesn't have to work. This is not a customer or client. This is my little guinea pig that i'm trying um the hairstyle on, as mentioned before, her natural hair is longer than where i want the bob to stop. So i'm going to do the shortening process. However, this time around, i decided to twist the hair, because when the hair is twisted, it is softer and more flexible. I also decided to do it in two strands instead of one, so i would share the hair when braiding it rather than having one strand really thick. I decided to put it in two strands, so i would have two of the three strands: um fake. If you get what i mean, instead of one full strand being really really thick so now, i'm looping them through to make them shorter, with the hope that this will work so much better than the first three that i did hi autumn. That'S my princess there. Her name is autumn and it's meat um back to the hairstyle. Now i'm going to apply the extension and now still struggling to grip. When your group game is not as good as as your great game, then you need to practice and practice and practice. I tell you from experience so i'm braiding the hair and i'm trying to talk away her natural hair beneath the extension. So each time i do a plaque, i cover her natural hair with the extension. This is what we call talk or wrap in the breed world. Now, for this one, what i can see here is where her natural hair ends. You it's quite obvious. Her natural hair is quiet, it's quite obvious where her natural hair ends. However, the braid is so much more beautiful than the first three, so it is improving. This rubber band did not make the these rubber bands. They did not make the job easier, because i bought a brand new pack of rubber bands and they were rotten. So i had to be doubling up tripling up um in order to to to tie the hair ends. Okay, we're on to the next braid and what i decided to do was do three strands instead of two, so i would just um share it evenly when i'm braiding now it's time to leave the natural hair shorter. So again, i am looping them through the root of her hair in order to make them shorter. Now it's time to apply the extension. This should be easier. I thought because now i'm using three strands, which is what we use for braiding here for flat braids. So this should be easier. My grip game is getting better, i'm still talking, i'm still rolling and talking trying to hide her natural hair beneath the extensions and it is working. I was so proud of myself for being able to do that braid so much better than the other four that i had already done. It'S still crooked, but better than the other four, so growth i can see growth. Both of us can see you can't you see those okay. Another thing i learned when doing this hairstyle is that the tighter the plaques are, the more the hair will bend under or if you are using straight hair. You would have said this sweep or whatever you people call it, but i'm saying the bend. The tie to the the hair is braided. Is the there's no such word as bendier, but that just came to mind it's the side that the tighter the hair is breathing. The plaque is done is the more it will bend so because i was doing the hair tightly in order to hide her natural hair. I had to do it really touched took away very naturally here beneath the extension her hair had this hell of a bend at the end, which i would not have wanted. I would have preferred if it was a little loose um, but that's how it turned out. So, as i said before, that's a learning process for me. I fast forwarded um to this point, because i was doing the same thing for all of them until i reached the top, when i really didn't have to place her here anymore, because the end of the breath, the end of the extension would have been longer than Her natural hair at the top - so i didn't - have to do any individual twist or any individual plot on her natural hair prior to braiding it. So, as you can see, i just applied the extension, as is. I also went ahead and used the scissors to cut beneath the rubber bands and add those strands. I was anxious to see what would what it would turn out to be. Usually um hairdressers would cut the entire head and then do their cutting and add whatever hair charms they have. But i was anxious to see what was what it would look like. So i went ahead and i started um cutting the ends along the way and applying my golden chance here charms. Another thing. Another lesson i learned from this is how to do the hair, cut the hair evenly or add the rubber bands evenly. I was trying my best to make them even, but it depends on where you're standing and where you want the hair to fall. That makes them most even my apology for the poor lighting um. I started this hairstyle in the afternoon and it got lit by the time i was finished, so my natural lighting took away itself and i was left with just light from the bulb. Nonetheless, i still learn. I still continue to learn after the natural light left. So i'm just saying back in the days we only had black and white, and now we have colored. So even if the color is not high quality, i'm still appreciative of the colors all right. So back to the braiding. I am doing my best with the top of her hair, very, very gently because she has tender spots in the top middle of her hair, so um i had to take my own little time to braid it and i was falling in love with the braids, the Ones at the top that i really didn't have to plat um her natural hair to tuck away. They came out really smooth and you know the flow was nice, so i was liking it. They also hit the ones at the bottom or at the back that were located, so this hairstyle for the first time actually um k mode better than i had expected. Another thing to take in consideration when doing this. Hairstyle is the strength of your rubber bands. I got a brand new pack of rubber bands from the hair supply store and they were rotten, so it was challenging at first. I had to double them and then i saw that one would pop and i'm like. Okay, probably the other one would pop two. So i'm gon na double them and triple them and over them again. So that's what i had to do um in order to secure these braids. So what you should do is try your rubber bands prior to starting your brace to ensure that you have strong enough rubber bands um to secure your braids. So i'm just going to repeat the same process and finish this braid and skip a few, so you're going to see the end product. This is the end product for you and i thought she should be dolled up in order for me to do this. So here goes as you can see, the back is very spacey because they are big. They are way bigger than the ones at the top, because i thought that i wanted some big box braids, so i need to part them back. That'S wrong. If i had done them smaller to match the top arm sections, then it would have been full and beautiful. Nonetheless, this is my first time, so i am proud of what i did now. Here'S an error at this side. Another mistake when i was cutting that flat that short flat - i had put it towards the back, so i had cut it towards not the back, but behind her ears for it to fall over there right, where i'm putting it now, it was supposed to be somewhere Around there, but that's what i did wrong. I should have asked where she wanted it to fall and measure it among or against the other others next to her cheek and then it would have fallen away belong but that i didn't do so. That'S another mistake. You should learn from um. In a nutshell, i learned a lot doing this hairstyle. I learned to do my first bob. I learned how to shorten your long hair to have a short bob. I learned that you should not put big braids at the back, because it will be very scanty. I learned that i should cut the hair um evenly and place them where i want them to be before cutting um, and i also learned that this is not as easy as i see on youtube from the other ladies doing here. So i want you to tell me how much you would give me out of 10 and please don't say zero, don't no! Let me die. Let me know how much you'd give me out of 10.. You can see my other videos if you wish you can watch some other tutorials and learn with me as i go to become a better hairdresser thanks for watching. I am grateful you stopped by please like and subscribe if you have not done so yet.