Jumbo Sleek Braided Ponytail On 4C Hair *Beginner Friendly*

What'S up beautiful people, it's your girl, janae alia, and welcome back to my channel. So today we are going to be installing a beautiful braided ponytail on my beautiful 4c here and so just to get started as y'all can see. I'M going to start off by doing a little detangling honey and listen first off, don't judge my appearance cause. I just got out of bed and that's okay, but y'all. When i tell y'all this detangling was literally the worst part of my day. It was the most terrible part, but you know what it was necessary. We had to do it, and so i'm gon na go ahead and let y'all finish watching my detangle process and we're gon na go from there. Okay, so boom as y'all can see right here. I'M gon na separate my edges because i wanted to do something a little different with my edges today and i don't want to get too much gel over them. But so now i'm just going to go ahead and with my flat irons and straighten my hair, and i'm doing this because i don't feel like my blow. Dryer got my hair as straight as i wanted it to be for this ponytail. So it's definitely up to you what type of heat you want to use in your hair. I really don't straighten my hair regularly, so i'm not really phased by. You know any heat damage or anything, but if you don't like using flat irons, don't use flat irons. The blow dryer will be okay. If you can get your hair, a nice silk blow dry. Okay, it's all about the ends. It'S all about the ends. Okay, so when we're flat ironing we're literally just doing run, run y'all. We are not trying to do a whole silk press here and so basically, i'm literally running flat irons across my entire head, because i'm trying to get this ponytail as sleek and flat as i possibly can, and so that's all we're going to do for right now. If your blow dryer gets you straight, then you good we'll meet you at the next step, but for now, let's finish this flat ironing the kind of girl that you could do: okay, y'all, so we have finally finished flat ironing, and so now i'm basically going to Go ahead and try to comb my hair up into the most sleek ponytail possible. I did go ahead and add a little bit of gel on there, especially in the back, because i didn't really want any flyaways or anything and, like i said i just wanted to get it sleek, okay, but i used my gel not like the water-based gel, because If i use the water-based gel, it's basically going to curl my hair back up so use something like edge booster, even one of those type of gel hicks, something like that, but not eco styler, okay y'all, like my ponytail, so i was already running a little behind And i went to the gym and that's what my ponytail turned into, but you know what it's okay, it just needs a little reshaping to the salon. So don't be asking me while i make the faces i make but anyways. So i just went ahead and basically ran the flat iron down my ponytail again, honestly, i did this so that way i could literally blend my natural hair with the kanekalon hair as smooth as possible. I didn't really - i redid my ponytail, of course, because it did frizz up and everything at the gym and it was raining outside. So let's just talk about that, and so after this let's go ahead and get into this braid period. I look amazing. So first things. First, i'm going to get the pack of the hair always by the three packs, but for this braid we're just going to use one just one, and so this ponytail did not come with a little rubber band on the hair pack already. So i just got my hair tie wrapped it around, and now i'm wrapping that around my ponytail and i didn't do my actual ponytail that tight only because i knew i was going to go back through with a second ponytail holder. So first things. First, i went ahead and segmented a piece of the hair and put it into my mouth. That'S going to be the piece that we wrap around, so we can get this invisible braid and so then, once i did that i separate the hair into three different sections, and so that's going to be for our three strands and i did the same with my Real hair - and so i basically just continued to braid as if i was in a regular prac, and so while i'm doing that, i'm going into my little gel, whatever gel i'm using and just literally adding that onto the end of my hair. So that way my hair can blend and, as y'all can see, i was literally messing up the back of my actual ponytail, but we'll fix that later on: okay, but right now literally simple, braid fundamentals, okay and so boom, as we can see, i'm braiding down to The end of the braid, just for the sake of neatness right now and the braid, don't look all that good, but that's fine! So basically, i'm just doing this, so i can go ahead and wrap around and create my little invisible part for the braid, and so it looks a little short but don't worry, honey. We gon na bring the length okay. So i got my got to be spray, and i just wrapped okay and when you wrap make sure you kind of spread it out with your index finger and your thumb to make sure it's smooth, but that got to be sprayed. That'S literally all you're gon na need for this wrap, okay, so spray and wrap spray and wrap okay, okay, and so i just finished that look up by spraying, a little bit mo got to be spray and then wrapping my finger around it to secure it in And so i went ahead and opened up my next pack, and so this next pack is going to be primarily for adding length and thickness to this braid, and so basically, i'm just grabbing some reasonably sized pieces, and so i'm going to feed those into the braid. I basically unraveled the braid up to about where my hair ended, because i didn't i want to re-blend honey and so yeah, so basically, i'm just adding those pieces in and for mine. I wanted my braid to kind of stop like hip butt length, not too long, but pretty long, and so i basically just added in until the braid reached that point now, depending on where you want your braid to stop that's how many pieces you can add in So it's up to you, wherever you decide to stop. If you want to stop at the ankles, go for it, sis go for it, okay, so boom we get into the end of this braid and listen y'all little braided life hack from when y'all doing long breads. I'M sorry i used what god gave me so, yes, i will put that braid in between my lips. No, i can't taste the braid my tongue, ain't, touching it or nothing, okay, but look at it. It move wow, okay and so now it's time to style. The edges, and so specifically for this style. I left my edges out. I know they was looking a little funny, but it's so we can flat iron them and i promise y'all on the video. It literally looks like i'm gripping all of nothing, but i promise it's there it's there and when you flat on your edges, it makes it so much easier to style like do you ever wonder how these girls y'all be seeing on pinterest and instagram? Being all these kooky little circles and spirals and stuff on their edges and on their wigs, this is how okay y'all. This is how these little skinny mini flat, irons, and so literally i did i i did it y'all. I did it. I ain't gon na lie. I burned my forehead a couple times, but it was worth it okay and so last but not least, edges success, but i have to complete this look by doing a little. You know makeup, you know beating the face just a little bit, but i had this video already kind of long, so i ain't gon na even do y'all like that. Alright, but hopefully this helped y'all out and bye all right y'all. So here's