Hi, my name is Lauren and in behalf of Expert Village I'm here to show you how to achieve various styles through using regular braids. As you continue to learn more about the French braid you will find that you can use it for a lot of different things. What I'm going to show you now is actually the French braid headband, which is a good way to keep your hair off of your face. It's a little bit more challenging because your positioning of your arms is going to be a little bit more awkward while you are doing it. I definitely recommend that you practice doing your French braid just on its own going straight back before you move up to the headband. In order to start the headband what you are going to do is you're actually going to section your hair out. You are going to use your tail comb. You are going to go straight down but this time you're going to swerve a little bit behind the ear. You want your parting to almost around the scalp. So you are going to bring it slightly behind the ear and as you can see, it kind of slightly U's following the shape of the head. You can then move this section out of the way, push that forward. You are going to do the same exact thing with that other side, with that U. What I suggest then is the hair that is not going to be used within the braid, just get rid of it. Put it in a jaw clip, use a ponytail holder, use something in order to get that hair out of your way so you are not grabbing that hair and that way your part stays. Now, in order to start this, you are going to bring your hair all the way over to the side in order to get that smoothness. Smooth it down. You may want to put a little bit of product in it, so that way it's easier. It's a little bit more awkward because your hair isn't used to going from one side to the other. Put your little product in. When you're doing this yourself you're going to kind of want to tilt your head and even when someone else does it. You are going to tilt your head over. You are going to grab the beginning section, separate that out. Use your P sign, go in and start your braiding. You see that you get that triangular sensation on this side which is good, because as you work your way around, what's its going to enable you to do is to hide the rest of that braid and let it rest underneath your hair. Again, you are going to grab your sections. The one good thing about this is that your sections are going to be smaller so it?s going to be a little bit easier to use. You're not going to have to pull as long; the smoothness is going to be there a little bit easier. Grab your other section. Now also, since this is a bit of a smaller braid, you're going to want to grab smaller sections in diameter. Otherwise you are going to run out of hair to pick up by the time you make it to the other side. Just section that out. This is where your complications come, because your hair is not going to want to lay on that side. Combine them, bring that over, take your small section, and combine it. Continue to do this from one side of your scalp all the way to the other. What it's going to do is just create that headband look, and keep your hair away from your face, buts? it's going to be something a little bit more stylish and little bit trendier. As you can see yourself the actual braid itself is a lot smaller. The sections aren't going to be as big. This is one of those scenarios that it will pay off to use one of those smaller rubber bands that we discussed earlier, so that it holds the braid nicely and it doesn't fall out. Connect the pieces. You can also use the upside down French braid, which we just learned. Once you kind of master that which will give it a little bit more flair if you want for that front section. Now if you do find that some of your hairs over here are being a little unruly, what you can do is take little bobby pins and kind of actually push them in. Spray will also work. Because you do have your hairline hair here which is also smaller, you may want to just as you go, spray that hairline really kind of mat it down a little bit. It will give you that softer and sleeker look in the front. And that is how you do the French braid headband.
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