Hair Braiding: In French Braids

Video Transcript

"Ok, what I'm getting ready to show you now is a basic French braid. Whenever there's just one or two French braids, it's generally done in the in style, so that's what we're going to show you right now. And when you're doing a French braid, or any type of scalp braid, when you have straighter hair that hangs like this, it's a good idea to rub some gel in there. Just to give you some consistency and so it doesn't slide through your hands so much. Make sure you get underneath here because we're going to be working with all of this because we're going to be right on the scalp. So, this is where we need it to hold on. And just go ahead and kind of run it down. Have your wide tooth comb to comb it through. OK. Now, when we start, take your comb and grab the first piece, comb the rest of this down, and, just like a braid, you're going to split it into three sections. Try to get them about the same size. And, just as we did with the in-braid, what we're going to do is we're going to cross it over the middle to get it started and you'll do the other side as well. And you'll see the makings of the braid starting to happen. Now, to add to it, you just grab a small section of hair from the side and you add these two together and you're going to cross it over this middle section. And you're going to do the exact same on the opposite side, just add a little bit of hair to your pieces and cross over the middle. And you'll start to see our braid happening right there. This is how you start every type of braid. It doesn't matter what kind of design you're going for. You start out with your three pieces and then you continually add as you work down the head. Just cross over the middle and you'll see that the little braided pieces are going down towards the middle, just like the hanging in-braid. So, we just grab a little section of hair and add it to that side and cross over. Whenever you have a larger braid, you have a little bit more free range in how much hair you add at a time. So, it's OK to grab a big chunk and just wrap it right on over that middle piece."