How to Start Cornrows

Video Transcript

"Okay, so I have the three sections that I just showed you guys with Ashley's hair and I'm holding onto it now. Two are larger and they've got the actual hair and then the tuft of hair, and then the one there that doesn't have any of the extension hair with it. But you got to hold on to the air tight, make sure you've got it attached. Remember the secrets that I told you, or the tools I told you to make sure that you're careful of that person's scalp. Okay, I just took another section. Here I've got... I'm going to be switching the hair from hand to hand. Here I go again with my hand comb, grabbing some more hair and adding it to the rest of the hair. Then I bring it under. Okay, bring that under. Now I'm going to grab some more hair. Just a little bit at a time, and add it. Again, I'm going to use my hand again as a comb. Grab it and give it to the rest of that hair that you just grabbed. Again, switch hands, then you take the hair and you're going to be adding some more hair. And when I say hair I mean her actual hair. We've already put the extension in. Okay, and so you've got this one here it's going to under, and what am I going to do? I'm going to grab some more hair, add it to it, switch hands, grab some hair, switch hands. Now when I'm switching hands, I'm actually holding it with my thumb and my pointer finger, and then underneath my pointer finger I have my middle finger which is going to hold the third strand right here. Now, what to do... you've got that third strand here that's go no artificial hair. It's got no extension. So how do you add the extension in? Okay, now's a good point, okay, now we're going to do that. I've got to look to see the extension here. I want to add some of the extension hair to this piece because as you see it's a lot shorter. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to hold on to this and I'm going to sneak some of that hair over. You can take this piece too, sneak it over. And now you have three tufts, or three strands of hair here, that have almost an equal amount of hair, and so you just keep going with your cornrow."