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Summary: Keep combing hair to make sure it stays separated for braiding. Learn how to make a part for the second braid in multilevel hair braiding with techniques from this free hair styling video.
"Ok what we're getting ready to do now is part for the second braid. This one is pretty thin which I like to do right around the edge, but I'm going to thick it up just a little bit towards the middle just to keep a nice consistent size going. So what we're going to do is we're going to try to straighten it out since we have this curve. We'll go ahead and take that little bit, but I'm really going to draw a straight line right here on the second part just so we've got nice straight lines going across the back of the head. Try to start right here. And you can see we've got a little bit of cross hairs going. I'm just going to take this rat tail up there and just pull it apart. Remember to always keep combing this to the side to really separate so we can see where our line is, and we're almost there. This, the top part is pretty much done we've just got to get it all the way to the bottom, and there we go. We've got our second part for our second braid that's really close to the same size, but we really thickened up the top so that we can straighten it out for the rest of the way."
eHow Article: Multilevel Hair Braiding: Parting for the Second Braid