How To: Half Up, Half Down Quickweave W. No Leave Out | Cute & Fun Natural Hairstyle

What'S up guys welcome back to my channel um? Thank you so much as always for clicking on another one of my videos and if you are new here, welcome sis. Thank you so much as well for clicking on my video. So let's just get right into it! Today'S video is going to be a half up, half down quick weave um, as you can tell by the thumbnail, but we're gon na add a little twist on it um i added some. I don't even know what you call these like like box, designs, they're, not twists, but girl. I don't know so. Let'S just jump right into it. So right here i am just parting. The um part that's going to be up in the ponytail and the part. That'S going to be down, and this was actually believe it or not a little bit difficult for me to get this part right. I don't know why, but um. This is honestly only my second time doing a half up half down, so maybe i'm just like not as familiar with it. Maybe that's why it's a little bit difficult, but um. The part really didn't have to be like perfect, because you're really not going to be able to see it anyway, but i wanted to get it pretty close to perfect um, and so that's all we're doing here is just creating our part for the ponytail and then The part that's going to be down so for this part, all i'm gon na do is just cornrow, my hair straight to the back um. It'S actually helpful that my hair is a lot shorter now, because i don't really have to worry too much about the part. That'S going to be hanging in the end, i did tuck the ends of the braids, like underneath the cap um, but it's really helpful like when your hair is a lot shorter. If your hair is longer, then i suggest that you kind of take the ends of each braid and sew it down in between the braids. The way that i do in my other quick bleed videos, if you're, not sure of what i'm talking about. You can watch one of my recent quick weave videos, because that's the way that i've been doing it lately i'll just take the ends and kind of sew them down. But again, since my hair is really short um, i just tuck it underneath the cap after i'm done placing the tracks like on that part. If that makes sense, so so now we're going to take our bond protectant and apply this onto our braids. I still get asked so many questions about what this stuff is, and it basically creates a barrier between your natural hair and the glue so that, when you apply the tracks um on top of the cap, like no glue will like seep onto your natural hair. When you take it out, it'll, basically just kind of like slide right out and you won't have any left over glue residue on your natural hair. So that's what we're doing here and then, as i've mentioned before in other quickly, videos you want to make sure the bond protected is completely dry before moving on. So in addition to adding the bond protector on my natural hair, i also like to add it. On top of the cap - and this part was actually slightly difficult, trying to figure out like how far up to bring it um, and so i just kind of used my hands to feel for the part that i created. But i've seen other quick weave videos where they'll use like some sort of marker or something to kind of create like a white line or a visible line. That way you know for sure, exactly where to stop um. I was just kind of winging it because that's what i do a lot of times when it comes to my hair, but i do recommend that you kind of like draw some visual line to be able to see exactly where you need to stop with this stuff. So for hair, i'm using hair from my hair collection line uh. This is our virgin deep wave collection and i use 24 inch. So i'm going to use two full bundles for the back part and, depending on like how big you want the style to come out, you probably can get away with just like a bundle and a half. I feel like it was kind of too much hair. But then again you can also kind of wet it and add conditioner so that it's not as fluffy, but i did use two full bundles for the back part and then i'll just go ahead and tell y'all for the ponytail. I just used one full bundle but yeah, that's the hair that i'm using again it's the virgin brazilian deep wave that will all be in the description below for the information and the inch that i used was 24 inch. I used 24 inch for all three bundles. Do so because i can't really see my part i'm going to go ahead and cut my cap, so i can get a better idea of where i need to stop laying the tracks. So i cut each cap, one by one started with the first one and then cut the second one um, and i did a pretty good job of laying the bond protectant like right. Underneath the part - and you can kind of see where i'm cutting the cap - like it's not completely covering the back part, but that's okay, because i still have the bond protector all over. So my natural hair will still be protected from the glue. So when doing a half up, half down the key to not having to leave any of your natural hair out to cover the back part is when you apply the tracks in the back. You kind of want to apply the ends in like an upward angle, and that way, when you glue them down the track, will kind of fall over the tracks underneath so that you can't see like the ends of each weft. If that makes sense, you can see right here, like i'm kind of going in an upward angle, on each side, um and again that just helps to cover like the actual weft of the track. So i got this hairstyle idea. I actually saw a picture of um ariana fletcher. I guess it was a hairstyle that arrogant tay did on her um and it was done the same way. So i wanted to try it. I figured it would be just a cute and fun hairstyle to try um. If you have like longer curly hair, it's also something you can try on your natural hair. You don't necessarily have to like do a quick weave for this um, but here i'm just like kind of starting the parts um for the uh and somebody. If you know the name of like these like box parts, please let me know in the comments, because i have no idea what to call it like it's not twist but and it's funny, because i've actually done this style on my little sister before so. I felt slightly like i was back in high school, but i think it was a really cute style overall, so um yeah anyways girl. Let me stop rambling, so y'all can actually pay attention to what i'm doing here and i'm actually so sorry that i didn't show you all that first box that i created. I don't know what happened. I don't know if i wasn't recording then or what but um i'm using uh the the jam stuff. You know the stuff that a lot of braiders use when they're doing braids i'll link that in the description box below, but that's what i'm using to kind of like make each box sleek. So after you create your box and sorry for my dandruff y'all, my hair was freshly washed. I'Ve always like had a dandruff problem um. I don't really know why. Maybe it's because i don't like to use a ton of conditioner, but i'm just taking my jam and applying it on the box parts, so you're just going to take the ends of each box that you've created and connect it with the one behind it. So you see how i'm taking that first, one and putting it together with the second one and then tying them both together with a rubber band um. I feel like i am explaining this horribly, so i hope this makes sense, but that's all there really is to it and then for each row. I only did like two boxes. You could do three if you want to, but um i don't know literally, don't know why. I only did two i felt like it was good enough, so you'll be able to see like from the start with this part that i'm doing, and then the key to this is making sure that all of your parts are aligned and you'll see what i'm talking About in a second after i get that part together. So when i create the part for the first box, i want it to be in line with the part that i've created for the section that i just finished. If that makes sense - and so you can see right here - how i am trying to align this part with the part from the box from the left - that's what i was just trying to explain. You just want your parts to be aligned for all of your squares. Basically so girl again, i apologize. I don't know why my camera didn't film me doing the third part of boxes um, but this is after i finished all three sections. So now i'm just going in with my got to be gel, and i do not recommend that you use this show please find another gel that has like a pretty strong hold. Now i don't use got to be free spray because i don't like how like super hard, it makes my hair, but i need like something that's going to give it a good hold, but like not too much of a hold um. But the reason why i said i don't like this got to be gel is because it flakes up like literally the next day my hair was so flaky and white like it was horrible, so do not use this gel. I would recommend that you find another stronghold gel to help you mold, your ponytail do do wow, okay! So let's talk about this part for a second, so i don't recommend that you do it the way, your ponytail, that is, that you do your ponytail. The way that i'm about to do it now, if you have shorter hair, then it'll work, but if your hair is longer do not do it this way, because you see how i'm taking my hair and i'm kind of wrapping it around um in a really small Bun now, if you have thicker and longer hair, your bun is going to be way too big and it's going to show through your ponytail. Basically, there is another way that you can do your ponytail, and i did it that way. On my first half up half down quickly video i'll link that below so you can see exactly which way i'm talking about um, but i really didn't feel like doing it. That way. So i wanted to try it with just wrapping my natural hair around in a bun. I felt like my hair was short enough, but i don't know i felt like you could slightly see the ball a little bit. Well, not really, maybe i'm just being like too hard on myself, but yeah. I recommend doing the other method um. So the other method is basically where you braid your natural hair. The same way that i just did um but then you're going to take - and i don't even know what you call like the you know. The paper that, like stylus, will wrap around your edges to kind of like lay them down. You'Ll take that and you'll wrap. It around your braid and then you'll basically glue the bundle around your braid and you'll kind of start from the bottom of your braid and like work, your way up, um again i'll i'll. Try that method! In my last half up half down video so i'll link that in the description below so you can see exactly what i'm talking about um but yeah. So i didn't try it that way. That'S okay! I took one full bundle to wrap it around the bun and then, as i was going around, i took bobby pins to just kind of secure the bundle and make sure it was good and in place and then now you're just going to take a little piece Of your ponytail smooth it out and then just kind of wrap it around your ponytail. So that way you can conceal your tracks and then, when i got to the end of wrapping this around, i just use a bobby pin again to secure it in place and here's the finished product so um. I felt slightly self-conscious about the ball, but honestly you really can't see it. It just looks like a normal ponytail. I just felt like i could see it, maybe not girl, i don't know um, but overall i think the style came out really cute um. This is a lot of hair for me. So again, if this is too much hair for you, all you really have to do is just wet it to reduce the fullness of. It then also make sure you add some kind of like leave-in conditioner so that when it dries, it doesn't like just kind of get back to this point um this fluffiness, i guess but overall, like i said i feel like it came out really cute um. It'S giving fun flirty it's giving. I am young again um, i don't know. Let me know what you guys think about this style i enjoyed doing it. It was just a fun style to try something fun to wear on the weekends. I guess i also wanted to try taking the ponytail and wrapping up wrapping it around in a bun to see what that would look like. So that's all i'm doing here just wrapping it around and then securing it with a scrunchie to hold the bun in place. I think this way was really cute too. I think it's just i feel like i play it safe, a lot when it comes to hairstyles, like i don't really try like fun styles like this, so it's like slightly out of my comfort zone, but it's a really cute style, like i think it's super cute Um, let me know what you guys think in the comments and i enjoyed making this video for you guys. I hope you guys enjoyed watching and if this is your first time watching. One of my videos - and you are satisfied - please make sure you hit subscribe, assist as always. Thank you guys so much for tuning in and i'll catch. You in my next video