Doing an Inside-Out French Braid

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Lauren and on behalf of Expert Village, I'm here to show you how to achieve various styles through using regular braids. After you've mastered the regular French braid that lies flat against the head. You can then go to into the inside out French braid. You would begin it the same way that you would start the French braid. Manipulations with your fingers is going to be slightly different but not too bad. Some people find it easier. I happen to find it a little bit more difficult because of the motions that your hands go thru. You are going to have your separation. Again, you are going to use your P sign. Split that until you have three even pieces. Now your regular French braid you are laying your hair down and you are overlaying. To do an inside out French braid, you go underneath. What that?s going to do is its going to lift the braid and cause a three dimensional look. So it's more of a flip of the wrist I guess you'd say for the inside out. You are going to go under and rather than over, you're going to still section the hair, grab your sections as you go, and this time you're going to go under as you go with it. So you're literally going to bringing that hair underneath and connecting it with the piece that's already going. Now I'm bringing this piece around, grabbing my other section, connecting it with the middle one. Now as you can see it?s a little different from the other braid that we did, because it?s almost kind of popping up. It's a little bit more three dimensional. The more hair that you get in and the farther along that you go, the more noticeable it's going to be that your hair is kind of lying on top of your head. By going under you are lifting that braid. So, you keep continuing with your sections working your way all the way down. You can use your fingers in order to smooth; you can also use a brush or a comb. Sometimes adding some of the extra tools into it, especially when you begin, may make it a little too much for you to handle. It may be too many things having your hands work at one thing once. So if you use different ones, you may want to work at it with your hands and get that smoothing going. Too many tools may complicate. But you will use that brush in the beginning in order to try and create the initial smoothness. So you can see it has the same effect, but now this braid is raised off of her head, a little bit more noticeable and it just pops out just that much more."