Preparing Hair For Braiding

Series Summary

Hairstyles, for thousands of years, have been used to signify many things including economic status, social hierarchy, power, war, and beauty. Over the twentieth century many different actresses and performers including Audry Hepburn, Melanie Griffith, Madonna, and Jennifer Aniston have popularized different hairstyles. Today there are a vast array of hairstyles many communicating a certain idea. Some styles include French braids, flip, high updo, split hair, twist bun, and the pony tail. Until the twentieth century women would never be seen in public with a pony tail; today women wear the pony tail commonly in public places, work, and when competing in sporting events as it is a practical means to keeping hair out of the face. The French braid is a more elaborate hairstyle that is created by braiding the hair from the crown of the head down the back of the head.

In this free video series you will be introduced to the braid. There are several types of braids and in these clips our expert will cover the most popular ones, the basic braid, the French braid and the Dutch braid. These styles among others are perfect for young girls and can be learned and fashioned at home or almost anywhere you may be.

Video Transcript

" Hi! I’m Kerri Hernandez I’m here today on expertvillage.com, here at Cynergy Dance Studio where you can find us at www.cynergydance.com, I’m here to talk to you today about hair braiding different types, do's and don’ts and the ways to do that. Start with a beautiful pallet her hair is clean and dried and nicely hot rollered so that the braid would stick, if the hair is too straight and the hair is too soft the braid is going to slip out and you’ll find that it’s a lot harder to work with. I’m going to apply some hairspray and I’m going to show you how to do that and aerosol works the best I’m using Tony and Guys Hard Head mini spray. What I’m going to do is I’m going to lift the hair up and just spray a fine mist you don’t want too much or the hair will be too hard to work with cause you’ll have too much in there, just spray it throughout the hair. Things you might want to have before you start are a fine tooth comb this and with a wide tooth on the other side this is going to help you separate the hair and this is going to help you smooth it over. Another thing for braiding to make it stay in place are to use rubber bands elastic rubber bands are great as long as they have a coating so the hair doesn’t pull and break these are great for that and also there’s plastic rubber bands which work great sometimes they don’t hold that well and they tend to break so then when your work is all finished you’re going to start over, so a lot of times you want use two or three of these. I’m a licensed hairstylist in the state of Texas and Michigan I do hair in San Antonio and if you would like more information on where you can get your hair done with me you can go to www.cynergydance.com and click on my name through the dance studio or you can go to bellydancer523@yahoo.com."