Easy Dutch Braiding 101 For Short Hair | Halo Braid Tutorial

Hello, everybody. Today, I'm going to be showing you guys how to do the Dutch braid - and this is essentially an inverted French braid. It'S really easy to do. I do it all the time I use this hairstyle in a lot of my 60 second Instagram videos and I speed through it, and I always get people asking you know slow. It down show us how to do that. So I decided to dedicate this video to the Dutch braid. I mean there's a bunch of hairstyles that you can do with a Dutch braid. Today, I'm going to be doing sort of a halo braid with my short hair, it's kind of hard to reach the very back so going all the way around and doing a halo is a bit more difficult. So I'm actually going to start here and I'm going to braid all the way down to the back and then do the other same thing on the other side. And so this part kind of looks like it connects in the back that way, kind of like a short-haired version of a halo, braid braiding is always easier when you kind of have like textured hair. So when you just come out of the shower of your hair, like silky, smooth and clean, it isn't the best hair to like. Have your braid stick and looks like because you'll see like those little flyaway there? Sometimes your hair, so silky. I don't have that problem, but fun as it is, and it just doesn't work as well, so use like a texture spray or like L'Oreal even has like this braid milk stuff. I use sometimes - and it just gives you that texture - that grip for your brain, also using like a like a dry shampoo like this one by mica, even using something like this. This is the way texturizing hairspray and even using this kind of throughout your hair. First, before you braid is a good idea as well just to give it something to stick to or just use, not your natural crease. You know because this is a great day to day 3 um, hair hairstyle and for me, it's about day to maybe day 3, not day for no day 2 or 3. I shouldn't this, but I don't want to say: there's a bunch of hair, striking texturizing, hairspray and everything in my hair right now. So it's perfect. I am going to part it first, so I'm just gon na part it in the middle and go all the way back. So I session this side off, I just parted it right down the middle all the way to the back and tied this side up. So I'm not gon na grab any hairs from the section, yet we're just gon na slowly focus on this side. Okay, taking my first piece right in the front here, I'm going to separate this into three sections. So got this. The first section separated in three parts and with a typical French braid, you actually braid with the strands going over each other, but with a Dutch braid you're, actually going underneath each braid. I want to take my left strand. I want to place this one underneath my middle strand like so now my middle strand becomes my left strand. Then I'm going to take my right strand and I'm gon na place it underneath the middle strand. Now my right strand becomes my middle strand. Now I want to do it one more time I'm going to take my left strand, I'm gon na place it underneath the middle strand once more. Now we're gon na start grabbing hair and adding it to the strands. So now I'm gon na grab this right strand. I'M going to grab some hair to that strand, and I want to take that - and I want to put all this underneath the middle strand once again like so now with this left strand, I want to grab more hair and I want to place this underneath the Middle strand, now we take the right piece: I'm gon na grab more hair once more place, it underneath the middle strand, and that is all we do. We just grab more hair and place it underneath the middle strand grab more hair and place it underneath the middle strand grabbing more hair on the right side and place it underneath the middle strand on the left side grabbing more hair once again, underneath the middle side And I feel like once you get comfortable with grabbing the hair and separating the strands and placing it over. You get that movement that groove you can just like really whip through it. That'S all it is just grabbing more hair, placing it underneath the middle strand. You just keep moving towards the back of your head once I reach the very back. I want to try and continue my hair's really short, but I'm going to try and continue braiding as much as I can and then at the very end, it's a little tiny braid at the very end, I'm just going to take an elastic and tie that up There you go now we're going to do the exact same thing on the other side, so I've braided this side all the way down. I parade this side all the way down. I have some pieces of hair coming out my hair. So short, so I mean it's going to come out, but we're gon na all secure that with bobby pins. So you won't be able to tell as much I'm going to take these two little braids, I'm going to overlap them one or the other. I'M gon na. Take this one, because it's a bit more messy, I want to take a buy, pin, I'm just gon na start, pinning them back into my head. Now, I'm going to take this one kind of hiding the elastic sort of placing it underneath the other braid. I want to secure and such one and it's really hard to have like that perfect halo, braid with short hair, you kind of have to just bobby, pin pieces into place and don't be so worried about perfection and pieces coming out. The look that I'm going for is gon na be kind of more of a messy braid. Look I'm going to be pulling it apart, making it really PC cut this side down this side, dad it's all secured in the back, I'm going to start pulling the braid apart, starting on this side, I guess I'm going to just pull apart little sections slowly. I like holding down the braid, so it doesn't move too much, not that it's going anywhere, but just so I don't pull any other parts that you don't want pulled and I will just like kind of slowly pull out the sections I'll pull some at the bottom. I'Ll just go along the braid and just slowly pull out it. Okay, we'll do the same thing on the other side very carefully, so it doesn't actually fall out because I do have short hair. So we don't want any of those pieces coming out or else I'll. Just look messy and I'll probably have to redo the whole braid. Now you could leave it like this, but I'm gon na make you more PC, so I'm gon na start pulling out a little sideburns over here. Take all its hair out, I'm going to start pulling hair in the front and then actually what I'm going to do as they want two little pieces in the front, and you could totally just leave them out before you braid them in. It probably is easier, but I didn't do that someone's going to take them out now to pull up these front pieces here, there's already like a little crimp to them, so I might have to go in and kind of give them a curl with my straightener I'll. Take this side out next, so I'm actually gon na go in here and gon na. Take some back pieces out to taking my straightener I'm going to kind of curl these pieces of it, make them look less straggly and make sure you curl away from the face. Like that kind of brush, through them of it, okay, when you've got it, how you like it hairspray the crap out of it okay, so I'm taking my red can hairspray and this is maximum hold. So I'm gon na put this on my braids. Only don't want these going anywhere. Okay, so there you have it of the Dutch braids into this kind of, like halo, really pretty milkmaid hairstyle so hope that was an easier tutorial for you guys to follow, and I'm really excited to hear what you guys think. Please try it out. Tell me if it works for you and let me know what other videos we want me to do for me to break down any any other hairstyles. Any other braids leave a message comment whatever and let me know bye guys.