Diy Rubberband Method Box Braids On Short Hair. Mistakes I Made + How To Fix Them And Tips To Help!

Oh hi guys welcome to my channel. My name is rao aka love, glam, and if this is your first time on, my channel welcome don't forget to subscribe. Please join the family, sis we're waiting for you and also don't forget to click the bell notification so that you will know when i upload new videos and if you're already subscribed. Thank you so much for supporting me. I appreciate you very dearly. So, let's jump right into it, so i'm sure you're here, because you're trying to braid your own hair, using the rubber band method or even trying to break your own hair period, because i do have some tips that don't necessarily apply to just the rubber band method. I'M going to walk you guys through tips and tricks, basically from prepping the hair, the process of braiding, the hair, maintaining and caring for the hair, basically from what you guys saw from the beginning, the hair looks gorgeous. It turned out really nice, but sis. I made a fair share of mistakes trying to braid this hair myself. So i want to walk you guys through it. So you guys don't make the same mistakes. So, let's jump into the prep and phase so you're ready to braid your own hair. You are pumped you're like i got this and you want to obviously stretch the braiding hair because you want it to be feathered at the end like this. What i would suggest is stretching the hair the day or night before, because this i try to do it on the same day, and it took me like a whole four hours to stretch like three packs of hair, and i was not having that. So take your time stretch it detangle it and whatnot um, and that way the next morning you wake up you're, fresh you're, rejuvenated and you're ready to start braiding your hair, because the braids alone already take forever. So you don't want to add more hours to that, and the second thing i want to speak on is the itch: it will itch the living blood deep jesus out of you. So to avoid that, although i didn't do it like, i said these are mistakes that i made that i don't want you to make. So i'm telling you i'm giving you tips, soak it in apple, cider, vinegar, so wash it with apple cider, vinegar. So that way, when you put it on your actual natural hair, it's not going to dry out and itch your scalp. Essentially, what itches you when you get braids is because the synthetic fibers too dry, so it dries out your actual natural hair and then the scalp is on fire and you just want to rip off your entire head, because that was me, like my braids are a Week, old now and all week, i wanted to rip off my scalp. So when you stretch it, you soak it for a little bit like maybe like 30 minutes, and then you bring it out and then you let it air dry for the next day. Trust me that goes a very long way and i will definitely be doing that. The next time i braid my own hair tip number three, if you're using the rubber band method, this applies to you. If not, it does not apply to you. So before you start coming out your hair parting, it and all that stuff bring a little jar and put all of your rubber bands in there and then it's ideal to soak it in olive oil or coconut oil. When i was doing my own braids, i had argan oil, so i soaked it in argan oil, so essentially, whatever oil you have will do, but generally it's advisable to soak it in coconut or olive oil. Put it in the jar and i squirted some argan oil on it, and i just let it be so by time i figured out how i wanted to part my hair and everything it had already gotten a head start on soaking. So when you do that, the elastic is not going to dry out and snap on you when you're trying to twist it and then also it's not going to dry your roots or your natural hair. Don'T just go from the pack and try to do it. Girl you're gon na suffer so don't do that. Don'T do that to yourself girl, okay! So now we're going to move to the process of actually bringing the hair. So let go! Do you see me quarantine has me all the way messed up, hair, looking like whoa anything is better than this matted ish right now, because i look like a crazy woman, so i'm gon na go wash this hair. This is what it looks like now. After it's been washed and treated, and all that good stuff, i'm gon na go stretch it in five. Oh three, two one: okay, it's all stretched out. The back is way shorter than the front um, so we're gon na get right into it, but before we actually get to that phase, make sure you have a lot of patience girl because it's gon na take a really long time. It will take a really long time. This took me 18 hours, but then that will also include a stretch in the hair, so without the stretch maybe like 14 to 15 hours, so make sure you have enough time. So that being said, let's move on to the braided face things you're going to need: braiding, hair, beeswax, um. I can really hopefully i'll see that some clips obviously and then a crochet for anchoring the braid hair into your short hair. I'M going to show you guys how you will need rubber band, of course, because this is a rubber band method and you want to soak it in oil, so basically olive oil would be best or coconut oil. I have argan oil, so i'm gon na use argan oil. This is just to hydrate the rubber band um and make sure it doesn't break as well as it doesn't break your hair. So i'm just squirting a whole bunch of oil in here. So as i go, i'm just gon na go in here and pick out the bands so right now they're just squirreling in there, so we're gon na. Let that sit you'll need your comb rat tail comb is ideal. I can't find my right tail comb for the left of me, so i'm going to be using this. I try to sharpen the bottom to be sharp, so bear with me. Okay, so good morning, guys by the time i was done, stretching the hair. It was way too late for me to start braiding, so i went to bed now it's bright and early before we get into it. I just wanted to mention for extensions um or rather braiding hair. If you can buy pre-stretch pre-layered. That would be ideal because these ones took me forever to stretch out, but what i did was for the back, basically from the nape of my neck, all the way to maybe about my ear. I will be using the shorter version, because i wanted it to layer. So what i did was for the back part. I cut the brayden hair expression into three equal parts and then i stretched it. This took forever not even gon na lie and then for the front. What i did was cut the braiding hair just into two, and i also stretched it. So when we get to the front you'll see it will be a bit longer than this. So that way it layers and falls nicely, i'm not a hairstylist or hair guru. So we're really just doing this together. Okay, so let's get started. I have my mirror over there. Hopefully that will help me, okay. So another mistake that i made was parting, my hair too chunky, because my hair is very short. So if your hair is longer, you can afford to part it on the chunkier side, because by time you use the beeswax, you can thin it out and then it will blend beautifully. But because my hair is pretty short, it was really difficult. So don't part your hair super thick if your hair is as short as mine. One thing i also want to add in there is: don't worry too much about the neatness, especially for the back. You have all the time in the world to make it neater. When you come to the front and they're like box braids, so you end up covering the parting at the back anyway, so don't sweat it don't sleep over it. Okay! So now i'm parting, the hair and i used a lot of beeswax to tame my hair, so make sure you use a lot of beeswax to make sure that the parting stays in place and i wrapped the rubber band about five to six times around. My hair. Now the mistake i made because i couldn't see the back was grabbing the hair too low, as you guys could see so moving forward. I try to center my grab um so make sure you center your grab, don't grab it too low. You see how low that is, so don't do that. Okay center it. So here i tried to anchor the braid, so i took a little piece of hair and i crocheted into my hair and then i was going to do the um crisscross method for the braiding hair in order to grip and braid. But i experienced so much difficulty. So this is me crisscrossing it and you will see how much difficulty i experienced so moving forward. What i did after i noticed that gripping was not a thing for me was i went back and i thickened the anchor braid, so i kind of made it one leg of the crisscross. If that makes sense so now all i had to do was use one strand and just anchor that um in my root and basically use that to braid my hair, and i found this method to be more effective and easier for me, especially for gripping and stating The fact that i'm not a professional braider - and i cannot see the back of my head, so hopefully you guys do this, and hopefully you find this a lot easier than actually anchoring. So after i succeeded with this technique, um i went back and i took off all the little mini anchor braids crocheted in. So you guys will see me take those off eventually so basically braid in the hair and as you can see, because i parted the hair too thick, it did not quite blend, but the more we move forward. You will see that we got better with the blending. So here i took away all the little pieces of anchor and i just continued the new method. That was a lot easier for me, so you crochet in the braid, make sure it's equal. You take one piece: you don't cross it and you basically anchor it right at the root and then use that anchored braid in into the your real hair as the third leg of the braid, and you begin to braid um so again, because this was parted too Thick, i had issues blending my real hair into the braid hair. When i started parting, my hair, a lot thinner than this. It was a little easier to blend my natural hair in okay. So here you guys can see. I parted the hair, a lot more thinner and i also centered my grab instead of pulling it down so now, my blending of my natural hair was a lot better again, i'm not a professional braider, i'm just telling you guys. If you see this braid you'll see that my natural hair is no longer peeking out like the rest of the braids. So honestly you live and you learn so here's a progress. It looks much better than how we began for sure. So for the front of the hair, i sectioned it in a! U part, because i wanted a straight down center part, so once i centered it um the rest of the braids um that were remaining, i basically braided it in that u-shaped pattern. Until i covered everything and got to the middle part, as you can see, so the rest don't worry too much about being clean with the parting. So again, i crocheted in the thick um hair piece made sure that it was equal and soaked it in beeswax. This is one thing that helped a lot basically put in a lot more beeswax to blend my natural hair in and then i took a piece of hair just like that, and i braided it in, and that was pretty much it like. The technique was a lot easier, very time, consuming braiding your hair in general, but a lot easier than the first time that i tried the crisscross method and also make sure, when you're twisting your hair to grab it close to you that you twist it in the Right direction, i kind of serve it a little bit with that, so i ended up changing the shape of the braids, but that's okay just twist it to grab it in the right direction. So this right here is me, showing you guys really quickly how to attach extra braiding hair to get the length to match. If you cut it wrongly, because this i did cut my wrong glam not go lie. I basically did the back. I cut it um in three and then i did the middle. I cut it in three as well and i wanted to do the front just two cuts, but what i should have done is cut the back in three like i did once i got to the quarter, section cut it in two and then complete the rest of The head, so i found that by the time i was in the quarter section slash almost in the middle um. I was running out of hair and it was a little shorter compared to the back. So if you make a mistake, don't fret use this method. To add more hair to the braiding hair, so that way you meet the length target that you're aiming for, and here you use some beeswax to blend the ends and that's pretty much it so now we're going to move on to styling it and soaking it in Hot water, as you can see, the front is a lot cleaner and that's all that matters to me to be honest and you can see the different pattern of the braids, because i twisted it weirdly so now we're pretty much done the braiding part. Let'S move on to the styling part, usually when you get your braids done professionally, they trim off any of the um layouts or any of the hair that is peeping through what they don't tell you when you're braiding your own hair is that is very difficult to Do to do that, so i didn't do that. I tried to like sniff snip snip on in the front and on top and wherever else i could see, but i was very scared to start um, snipping snip and trying to trim it if i just spent 15 hours on it and next thing you know, i'm Gon na snip a braid in half and then now i have to start over. So do yourself a favor and just know that you're gon na be okay with not trimming it. But that's where the mousse comes in, because the mousse will help kind of like calm. It down like trim it as much as you can, of course, don't go completely untrimmed, but just know that you're not going to be able to trim it to the satisfaction that you want or the professional satisfaction, but that's okay too, with soaking it in hot water. I sectioned it out in four different parts, so two parts on each side and i went in and i soaked it with hot water and for each section i soaked it twice. So i basically did the whole shebang like this and then i took the towel and i made sure that when i'm drying it out, i'm stretching it in order to straighten the braids and make it straighter instead of curvy from when you were braiding it. So i did the same thing to all four sections. Then i went back then i redid it again the second time, so each section was dipped in hot water twice and then again, drying it out and you're stretching out the braids in order to straighten it. So that way, it's not curvy at the bottom, like i said, and for the top of your head, because obviously you can't put water on your scalp. What i did was because the towel was essentially hot. I didn't show this on camera, but i just placed a towel on the actual top of my head and i just pressed it down in order to flatten the braids on the top of my head as well, and then i go in with mousse and basically the Mousse helped set and um put in place all of the flyaways that i was not able to trim, because i told you guys it's not easy to trim your own braids, so this i would recommend tying it up tying it down. I didn't tie mine down, so i went in with oil and i just finished the styling so tie it down after the mousse before you put the oil. That'S what i would recommend and that's pretty much it the braid's done girl 15 hours later we did it. We did it. Congratulations you braided, your hair. Your hair is popping. You should be very proud of yourself, because this i was very proud of myself when i finished now when it comes to maintenance, maintain your hair, maintain your braids. Okay. Mine, like i said, is a week old and in the past week i have not worn a bonnet with it. I have not tied it up. Um, it's not good. That'S not good! Don'T do that, don't don't make that mistake. Tie up your hair at the end of the night and if it's too thick to all wrap up at least tie the top part of it that way, it doesn't get frizzy on you and then the hair doesn't come out. So i didn't tie mine for a week, so when i was about to start filming this part of the video i had to sniff snip snip again and what i did was. I put some beeswax over some of the braids and then i put the mousse and then i tied it down. So it calmed it down a little bit and it made it look neat again. So if you're like me and you forget to tie it up, i didn't figure it out, just lazy, but if you don't tie it up, that's also a way to kind of revamp your braids and make it look fresh again. But please just tie up the front part if anything and another thing that i would suggest for maintenance is oiling your scalp um. I got my boyfriend to oil, my scalp like two days ago because, like i said it was so itchy that i wanted to rip off my scalp and i think that's pretty much it all the mistakes i made um. I made sure to let you guys know how to fix them, and you guys saw the progress and how i started off very questionably and how it turned out very well and i'm very proud and very satisfied with how it turned out. Considering that this is basically my second time braiding, my hair, my entire life, like i said, i'm not a professional braider but yeah. This was just to protect my natural hair in this quarantine season. So if you guys enjoyed this video leave a comment below and if you're going to braid your own hair leave a comment below as well. Let me know if there are any other things that i missed and we can all help each other down below. Good luck. Go slay them braids girl, because i have faith in you. You got this okay, please don't forget to subscribe to my channel. Join the family says: i'm waiting, wait enjoy them now, um until next time have a happy sunday bye, guys