Same Technique, 2 Years Later!!! Braiding Pattern For Seamless Versatile Sewin (Step By Step)

Hey guys welcome to the look and learn class for braid pattern. I am chanting marie, and this is my model so right now, i'm just showing you how thick her hair is and she does have long, hair. Okay, i did show a silk press on her. It will be on my youtube channel under i am chante marie. So what you want to do for starters, is you want to go ahead and drape your client just in case she has bad dandruff, and this is also um really good for you just in case. You want to take photos because you want to see all those little particles on their clothing all right and then i'm just going to go ahead and section out her hair thoroughly. Um just check her scalp make sure everything is good and ensure that i am able to service her. So if you see her scalp, if you see any like cuts and bruises and if there's any there's bleeding, then you can definitely tell your client hey. Let'S wait until this heals before i go ahead and do that you also as a stylist, want to make sure that you wear gloves if necessary. I don't wear gloves. I used to wear gloves, but i felt, like my clients, felt really weird and awkward, and i didn't want them to think that you know i felt like they were dirty or anything like that. So i stopped wearing gloves but again gloves do protect us. Ladies okay. So what you want to start off is with the products that you need or the supplies that you need. I am using braiding hair. I will be using scissors or blade if you have either or okay. You want to make sure you have a rat tail comb and a wide tooth comb, any duck bills clips to section off the hair and clip that hair away, and then you also want to make sure that you have some type of oil. If i'm not using. My slinged organics oil - i am using regular oil all right. What you want to do is start off by detangling your client's hair. She has a lot of hair, so we're definitely going to use this to section out her hair and part it and push it away. If you do not detangle, you will be assisting with breakage for the client's hair. Also, if you do not detangle, it will take the braiding process to be a little bit longer. So, typically, when i bring down my clients um depending on the the pattern, it should take you anywhere from 30 minutes to 45 minutes, but in this case she has long thick hair. So it can take me up to 55 minutes. Well, let's just push for an hour, so when you're detangling you want to start from the ends and work your way up to your roots. Sometimes i like to finger comb while i'm combing the hair. So after i go from the ends and then hit that roots, then i'll go ahead and finger comb and ensure that i'm getting all the kinks out. So my fingers act like there. It'S a bigger comb and then you have that wide tooth comb. If that makes any sense, okay go ahead and do that all throughout her hair and as you'll see she um, she does need a trim. Yes, all that thickness ciao honey, it's so funny, because i have myself come in and say girl, i'm so sorry. I have so much time like no that's the whole point. That'S what we want for you to have hair. We want healthy, long, natural hair. We want to grow. Your hair, extend your trusses like do not apologize for that. Oh i got a big head girl. No, you don't you just have a head full of hair. I try to make my clients feel as comfortable and as possible. So if you see someone with a lot of hair, please don't discourage them or be discouraged that just adds to your revenue to your um, to increase your your income. Okay, all right there, you have it! That'S the back part and it's looking way fuller than before ain't it. Oh jesus, please pray for me. So there you go just showing you how her hairline looks it's full and thick. If you um, went ahead and purchased my online class for the install of the versatile sew-in, i did use a model that was opposite of her meaning she has thin hair and also, while you're doing your client's hair, just make sure you're paying attention to her um. Facial expressions i do like to verbally ask them if they're okay, but i like to look as well, because clients are like i'm good girl and then you don't pay attention and then at the end, they're like crying like, oh i'm like well. I could ask you all right so go ahead and find your rat tail comb and we're going to go ahead and start the parting process for her leave out and, if you're doing a leave up for a middle part. That means less hair is left out and that way more extensions are put or installed inside your client's hand. So that way, this the style will then look a little bit fuller because you can go ahead and play with the amount of hair that you want to add to your client's hair. So right now we're doing the rat tail comb test. As i stated at the beginning and what you want to do, is you want to section off the amount of hair that you think you should leave out and go ahead and place it over the comb and once you see the comb disappear or it's not visible Anymore, that's the amount of hair that you want to leave out and the rat tail comb acts as a replacement for the extensions of where the extensions will be um, seamless on your client's hair. If you're a professional, you can go ahead and still do this test, but you wouldn't have to leave uh as much as leave out as i'm doing right now. You could leave out even an inch if you know how to seamlessly install decline's hair as a sew-in. Okay, so you can go ahead and use a duckbill clip to section and part away her hair. But again i like to use rubber bands to keep the flyaways as well out of the way for, while i'm braiding her hair. The only reason why i don't use a duckbill clip is because it tends to slip out, and it's just taking away from the time while i'm braiding her hair, because i'm distracted and i have to go ahead and adjust it or whatever. The case may be. So again, this is for versatile, sew-in and versatile sew-in is basically a sew-in that adds um. That allows your client to have a middle or side part or both, and also for those who want to put their hair into a ponytail. So you're just going to continue the rat tail comb test throughout the whole perimeter of her hair for her leave out and as you notice when i get by her ears because of the way how her her head is shaped, you want to go ahead and work With the shape of her head, so instead of going straight down, as you see here, you're going to go ahead and correct it and make it round so that it mimics the shape of her ears. If that makes any sense, i'm just going ahead and see how much hair i would have to leave out and i'm correcting my parting, that's hunty so time for that nape area. So when you get to the back part of your client's head, just be mindful that this is again for a leave out for a ponytail install. So as you can see, she has a lot of short pieces in the back. So i'm just taking a little bit of her longer hair, just in case she wants to do like a ponytail midway of her head and if she wants to bring it up just a little bit that some type of hair can go into that scrunchie all right. So now we're working with the top part, which is for center part and her hair is, is really thick and um yeah. I could leave less hair out than that, but again we want to make sure that her tracks are covered, because this is not just to follow natural gravity and it's not only for a middle part. I have to make sure that enough hair is left out. So, just in case she wants to go ahead and comb that hair backwards, that her tracks are still being covered. So in this part, i'm just leaving an inch out for both parts and for the back you can square it off or you can round it off. I'M going to go ahead and round it off. We are now sectioning off the last part of her leave out and i want to say it roughly took me about five to ten minutes. Okay, shouldn't be that long, but if you are including the rat tail fast column, just say 10 minutes so first part is you're. Gon na go ahead and start with the top part. You want to make sure your tracks is nice and flat. Your partings will not be thick okay, and that is key. So why do i have braiding hair? I have braiding hair because at the starting of the braid you want to make sure that the hair is not too thin. So when you go to install a track there, you have some type of support which would be the braid also ensures that there's no breakage. I stayed in place until i crossed those hair strands over about four to five times and then i went ahead and traveled. I'M not adding a lot of space in between each strand, that's folding over i'm staying in place, but still gliding down just to make sure that it's not too tight, because if you're just gliding with the hair, then you're you're pulling the hair. At that point - and we do not want to add any stress or tension to the client's head, especially before you're installing tracks, because installing tracks, after a breakdown that increases the the tension and all the reason why i'm not starting the foundation, the braid foundation. Here it is because i want the perimeter, the first two perimeter braids to be as flat as possible, so these will be connector, braids or braids that are that are loose all right, i'm going to go ahead and start the other braid and again. This is braid number one for the perimeter braids. You want to take as little bit of hair as possible, so half of a half of a half of a half of an inch. If you will again, this is just to ensure that her first set of braids are as small as or as tiniest as possible. You do not have to use extensions, it is optional, but i am using extensions because it's better for her perimeter, depending on how long the client leaves their hair they're installed in for the hair can tend to get matted or the case may be. So it's easier for you to distinguish that braid in order to remove it. So again, once you install the first part of that braid, you want to stay in place for about four to five um overlaps of each hair strand, and then you want to go ahead and start going down with the braid. Do not pull or tug on her hair and also while you're braiding say hey. Am i pulling your hair too much or um? Listen, sarah or whoever your client is going to be at the time. Let me know: hey you're pulling out or whatever the case may be. It may be annoying if they say it often, but at least you'll know that you should you, you are heavy-handed, you don't want heavy handers, okay, we we do um at the end of the day. Ultimately, the health of their hair is what counts. Yes, we want a flawless install, but also we want our comfortable our clients to be as comfortable as possible. Those first two braided rows are crucial to your install okay. That is what's going to determine whether your uh, your install, is going to be flat or not. So, as you can see, i did unravel the braid, so i can continue with um braiding her hair down because i don't want it to be loose and then it'll show like a disconnection if that makes any sense. So i'm rounding her braids off and then i'm working um around her ear area. As you can see, it's curved it's not straight again. That is just to work with the shape of her head. So at this point, i'm just traveling with the braid and i'm still um being mindful that i do not want to tug or grip her hair more than i need to don't be afraid to move your client's head, not in a rough manner, just to make sure That your body's position is okay and you're, not adding too much stress on your body. I find that my back when i first started to do braids like this, that my back was killing me. But again you want to go ahead and adjust the styling chair as needed. Make sure that your arms are positioned well and you are moving the client's head and just an fyi if you are um going to go ahead and use a client or a model with thinner hair than the one that's in the chair now, please um. Take note that you can do the same sectionings or products that i am doing now um, but that's if you're going to use braiding hair to substitute for the thinness of the hair, so say the hair. Is that thin and you still want to fill it in. You can use braiding hair or if you want to go ahead and save some time, you can use bigger partings because their hair is thin already and you don't have to incorporate braiding hair. You can only incorporate braiding hair around the first perimeter and the first two top braids that i showed you at the beginning, all right so once i cross over the second loose braid instead of starting a new braid, i'm just going to go ahead and use that One and start the second row for her perimeter braids make sure that you're as close as possible to the first row of braids and once you hit the corners, make sure you're pushing downwards on the braid right versus pulling the braid or pulling the hair so that It can be tight, as you can see that first corner right there again don't be scared to move your client's head so that you can make sure that you're braiding her hair properly. Okay, this point: you can see how i'm pushing the hair downwards and slowly turning without pulling the hair stay stationary. One two three turn stay stationary again, so that that corner is intact and it's not pulling there. You go nice and flat. If you didn't want to go ahead and do that, you could have did the way how i did the first set of braids, which was on the top. You could have did two more rows to make it three. If you feel like your corners will not be as flat and sitting nicely as it is for this model right now, if you feel like you're heavy-handed, go ahead and advise your clients and take a painkiller before she comes and gets serviced by you. So, as you can see, that first was sprayed from the back, it was incorporated to start the second braided row and then for the second loose braid from the first braided row will be um just clipped away as i braid around in a circle, and it will Just be tucked away, and so i can then add it to the um the whole foundation. So, just like the one loose braid, that's at the back, all the other braids are going to go over those braids as well, and so i can then incorporate it into the middle part of her foundation and add it to the braids. If that does not make any sense, please keep on watching all right. So, as you can see from the top view, those two braids they're not in the way i'm still covering the braids and my foundation, is still uniform. So on this side, the only difference is we're braiding downwards versus upwards. Okay, if you feel like you need assistance, you can use a clip to clip the section off and hold it into place around the corners and continue. But in this case i don't need to again take note that her braid, her braids are getting fatter and that's only because of the density and the thickness of her natural hair. So at this point you do not want to use braiding hair honeyboo. It'S definitely not needed. You can continue working with the um amount of hair that you were sectioning off prior to but again because you're getting so close to the center and her hair is super thick. I'M just gon na go ahead and smudge that out just a little bit and make it a little bit smaller. What i'm gon na do is bring that loose hair up, as you can see, it's still flat and it's under those two other braids and just clipped away, and only reason again, while i'm not adding it is because it's so thick. So if i was to add it now incorporate it into that set of braids um it'll make the braid the thickness of the braid way fatter than it needs to be, and at that point you're going to be throwing off your foundation all right. So there you go you're just going to break braid regular once you reach to the braid part, the other braid, that's going to be underneath just go ahead and grip, the hair a little bit tighter and then you can loosen up after you pass that braid. As you can see, all the braids are uniform, even if it's going a little bit bigger in size. It does not matter because it's just taking up space all right and it'll be a little bit trickier here, um trying to hit her corners. But once again you can use a clip to hold the corner down, but don't forget to stay stationary and make sure that you're overlapping each hair, strand um three to four times, if needed, but two to three times minimum, just to make sure that that corner is Sitting pretty improper the trick to these corners once you get more to the center part of her head, is you don't want to pick up way too much hair than me you're, picking up small chunks of hair that has to be braided down and that's how you're Going to be able to make sure that that hair stays down and it's still stuck or kissing the previous braided row and as you can see here again, i'm using that um clip to make sure that the hair is down and it's not pulling so that there Leaves any um gaps between that um that previous braided row and the one that you're currently working on and please um don't be uh terrified or scared about the corners? You can always tack that down. If you feel like you, didn't um you weren't able to braid it down properly. Okay, as you can see, i still have those two loose braids out. I did not incorporate them as of yet but remember what i stated at the beginning. Once you get to the center, it does not matter because that doesn't determine whether determine whether her um install is, is flat or not. Remember i said it's the first two braided rows. I did tuck away um one of the loose ends from the first set of braids that we did, that was on top and the other one is going to be incorporated into this braid. Why shantae? Why can't i do it now, because, if we're in the center, the center doesn't really matter? Yes, you still want it to be flat, but again we have to tuck. We have to braid everything up so again, it's not going to disrupt this braid that we're doing now, but it will add a little bit of thickness to it, but not as noticeable. If i was to do it previously because her ends are weights are way thinner than her um roots, if that makes sense, so you know how, when you first start your braid um, like if you're doing a single braid, it's fatter at the top, and then once You get to the end, it's a little thinner, we're filling in the space and her braids are still uniform and sitting together, use nylon thread. This is the longest needle you can find at your local beauty, supply store. It cuts down on time because it's long so you're able to grip the needle way better than a short, and you want to start off with hacking down the braid that you feel is sticking out. My braids are intact, but i'm just doing this. For the sake of this video, you can sew on her hair directly, but i like to use a mesh so that i can free freelance, with wherever i'm stitching, meaning i can go wherever i choose to go, and also that way. Her hair is more um flat and uniform, and she can make sure that her hair lasts longer with the um, the application of a mesh and when she goes to wash her hair out. Her hair is going to stay together because you have it the mesh sewn down. Also it acts as a barrier. So say your client doesn't come to you and she wants to take her hair out or you doesn't really matter, but um that'll stop her from actually cutting her own hair because some people, when they take they're, cutting their tracks out, they tend to cut their hair. So i feel, like the the net, helps with that with preventing that okay, so final step is you want to cut the excess thread off and please don't forget to moisturize your client scalp before the breakdown or after it does not matter, and there you have it. Thank you so much, ladies for tuning in i appreciate you, you