Doing the Fishbone Hair Braid

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Lauren and on behalf of Expert Village, I'm here to show you how achieve various styles through using regular braids. The reason why a fishbone braid is called a fishbone braid is because it literally looks like a fishbone as you finish it. It comes in and it has that crisscross pattern that a fishbone would have. How you're going to start your braid is you're going to section your hair. After you get those sections in, you're going to hold one in each hand. You are then going to work from the outside of your parting and you are going to grab a piece of hair, bring it in, still holding this section. Really with the fishbone braid, you really want to be able to keep holding those sections on the tighter side. You are then going to bring that piece over, connect it and combine it with the other large parting, then bring the next one over, connect that one. Really the tension that you put on this braid is very important. If you just ask Ashley, I'm sure that I'm probably putting a bit much tension on her. Bring that section; you can see how the fishbone starts to connect. As you pull, you are going to want to pull the pieces tighter and tighter in order for it to really kind of come together. Otherwise your two ponytails are going to remain two ponytails. Keep pulling, the next side. Still again, you are working with partings coming from the outside and bringing them in. It's a little bit harder to manipulate your hands when you?re doing this, but the outcome is a little bit more intricate and little bit prettier than what a French Braid can even be. It's just something to jazz up your everyday look. Keep bringing them over. You can see or envision how this may be a little bit more difficult doing this on your own hair. Keep taking your sections grabbing from the outside going over. You are going to try and smooth them without letting go of them in order to get them in. As you can see how the braid looks, it almost has that fishboney effect to it. How it kind of stripes in the middle and it has that bit of a weave pattern. That is what you are looking to get. As you can see, the one section right here, this is what happens if you don't have that tension in there, how it?s kind of hanging out. With the fishbone it?s very important to get that tension, so you really get that pattern of that fishbone effect."